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Uncommon Method Competition | Payout and an Apology

Do you want to compete in the competition


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Nice. I like this because pretty much nobody else can use ZBroux hahaha. Is ZBroux really not considered a variant of Roux?

I guess I can probably get a 9.5 avg5 and 10.5 avg12. Do I have any competition? I literally can't think of anyone who's at this speed for other non-big4 variant methods.
I think @shadowslice e is pretty fast at 42, and @Zubin Park said he was only 2 seconds slower with LEOR and he is sub 8 CFOP
(Sorry for mentions)
 
Nice. I like this because pretty much nobody else can use ZBroux hahaha. Is ZBroux really not considered a variant of Roux?

I guess I can probably get a 9.5 avg5 and 10.5 avg12. Do I have any competition? I literally can't think of anyone who's at this speed for other non-big4 variant methods.
Look at you talk big game ! Fine then, no you can't use ZBRoux ! No ZB either ! You have to you a method you haven't used before since you're so cocky and clearly need a challenge. Put your money where your mouth is big guy.
 
How should I submit my results, and how many solves should I do?
Submit to this thread your fastest average of 5 and or average of 12 using an uncommon method. It's on rolling basis so you can update as you get faster times but edit your original submission instead of clogging the thread with tons of videos.
 
lol I wrote my post that way because I figured the fastest way to find out who my competitors are is to claim that none exist.

You have to you a method you haven't used before since you're so cocky and clearly need a challenge.

Your takeaway really should have been that I'm lazy and would rather use a method that I know already and would take at most one hour to record the required results. If winning this competition will require work, you can count me out :P

You better believe I'll be back to gloat though if you guys can't beat my ZBroux times. Maybe you can use that for motivation.
 
lol I wrote my post that way because I figured the fastest way to find out who my competitors are is to claim that none exist.



Your takeaway really should have been that I'm lazy and would rather use a method that I know already and would take at most one hour to record the required results. If winning this competition will require work, you can count me out

You better believe I'll be back to gloat though if you guys can't beat my ZBroux times. Maybe you can use that for motivation.
You're no fun, mate ! If you end up taping some ZBRoux make sure to post it here. If you don't compete you don't get bragging rights, just means you're a copout :p
 
I had a concern about this:

Some quirky methods are novel only in-part, while some are completely novel.
Heise for example shares no steps with the big-4;
Tripod starts off like petrus upto 2x2x3, then deviates quite a bit;
Something like 42 is very close to Roux except instead of LS+CMLL+EO, you do corner+c-CMLL+EOedge

So if someone who has done lots of Roux does 42, s/he's going to get close to their Roux times with little practice because they already have FB, SB-square, and LSE down, and know CMLL algs. But no matter which of the big four you main, you'll have considerable trouble getting close to your times with Heise because you're doing something completely new on all steps. Tripod falls somewhere in the middle.
So going by solve-times alone is probably not a fair way to compare entires.

If there was a way to factor in the novelty of the method compared to big-4, like "somehow" separating the methods into 2-3 catagories depending on how similar they are to a big-4 variant, or some other way, it would be considerably more fair and the results could potentially even be useful.
Not sure how practical this is though.
 
I had a concern about this:

Some quirky methods are novel only in-part, while some are completely novel.
Heise for example shares no steps with the big-4;
Tripod starts off like petrus upto 2x2x3, then deviates quite a bit;
Something like 42 is very close to Roux except instead of LS+CMLL+EO, you do corner+c-CMLL+EOedge

So if someone who has done lots of Roux does 42, s/he's going to get close to their Roux times with little practice because they already have FB, SB-square, and LSE down, and know CMLL algs. But no matter which of the big four you main, you'll have considerable trouble getting close to your times with Heise because you're doing something completely new on all steps. Tripod falls somewhere in the middle.
So going by solve-times alone is probably not a fair way to compare entires.

If there was a way to factor in the novelty of the method compared to big-4, like "somehow" separating the methods into 2-3 catagories depending on how similar they are to a big-4 variant, or some other way, it would be considerably more fair and the results could potentially even be useful.
Not sure how practical this is though.
What if I did 42 but my main method is CFOP?
 
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