Age of speedcubing participants?

Cubing knows no age. Unlike football or basketball, cubing is something that can be equal between people who are aged 6 to wtv. In football people who are 6 can't compete with people who are 21. It's just not the same case.
 
I'm going to say 3 or 4. At that age your fingers are simply too small to do efficient fingertricks and turn a normal-sized cube quickly. I'm sure you've seen the 6 year old girl, she's sub20 on 3x3 speed, if she can do it anyone her age or older can (with lots of practice). And maybe with the 4.5cm mini speedcube I found (which I can sub-20 easily) even younger children will be able to speedcube.

Having age records for speedcubing is IMO completely stupid and that's why we don't do it. Age is not a factor because you don't need a highly developed brain or muscles, you just need a bit of finger speed and enough intelligence to memorize a solution and learn to look ahead (all of which can be gotten in less than a year's worth of practice). There is absolutely nothing at all in cubing which requires the user to be a certain age to master it, especially such a huge age as 16 or 18 years! Having a record for under-16 or under-18 people would be pointless since there really is absolutely no difference between a 13-year-old cubing master and a 20-year-old one.
 
Robert-Y said:
Why does age matter? There is a point where you're too young to become really good at speedcubing but nearly all of us have passed that age already.
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I wish I could totally agree with you...
I started cubing WAY too late to become any good at cubing (3x3x3, since I started the day after TOF 2008 happened); my PB I don't think will change from where it's at now (27.xx seconds, 21.xx seconds single), since despite knowing all of the PLLs, intuitive (and somewhat fast) F2L and 2-look OLL, I still can't break a sub-25 average or a sub-18 single.
 
Yes said:
Me too, but I wonder, why there is no age in the WCA profile :(
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I am 48 , and of 45+ the fastest of the World ...but I see no point for me to ask for an age category, since there is no competition, or it must be 40+ , in that case Ron will win

If speedcubing grows and , I would love to see a category <12 Years
12 until 50 and 50 +

Why, cubers between 12 until 50 can still compete on the highest level

Year after year I become faster, so I see no reason why I can not do a 16 sec average one day in competition


Btw I would love to see an fun statistic like fastest time div age , I did a 13.28 when I was 47 , so I would score 0,2825 , the less the better
 
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Ton said:
If speedcubing grows and , I would love to see a category <12 Years
12 until 50 and 50 +

Why, cubers between 12 until 50 can still compete on the highest level
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12 seems a bit arbitrary to me. (Not that 50 isn't also arbitrary - I'm just stating specifically that 12 is.) After all, can you imagine how fast Yu Da-Hyun will be when she's 11, if she keeps cubing between now and then?

Of course, that's probably just due to the pink pajamas; maybe we should instead have categories of "with pink pajamas" and "without pink pajamas" - it might make more sense than age categories. :)
 
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