[Member Intro] Picking up cubing after 8 years

[espeed]

Hi,

I startet cubing in 2010 with the age of 16 and dropped it for university in 2014. You all know what cubing era that was.
Now I'm a teacher and did a cubing related project with my students. It was so much fun I picked it up again (around July)

I need to say that im impressed by how much cubing changed.

• ZBLL is much more common, algorithm sets in genereal seem to be more optimized.
• Cubing hardware! I got a Moyu WR M 2021 MagLev and a new 4x4x4 and 5x5x5
• speedcubedb is nice also
• Tymon, Max, Matty, Leo...world records...
• 4x4?! sub 1 6x6??! What. I think cubing hardware is important here.
• The quality of YouTube content also improved
• Much more registered WCA competitiors, 3000 people officially sub10. Cubing seems to keep booming.

I have the impression cubing changed alot during the corona pandemic. You can see a transition from low 4s being special to becoming normal for top cubers.
I'm just sad that I don't have as much practice time as with 16. I'll try what I can accomplish nevertheless.

Happy Sunday!

 

[abunickabhi]

Hi there and welcome back to cubing!

You are right, hardware has improved tremendously in these years.

 

[Noob's Cubes]

Welcome to the forum. I got the impression that during the covid lockdowns, not only did a lot of new people (including myself) start cubing, but the top cubers (Max, Tymon, Ruihang, etc.) had a lot more time to practice.

Yes but the competitor growth mostly happened pre pandemic. There are now about 157000 competitors registered

There are about 171730 competitors at ten competitors per page.

 

[espeed]

Wow, thank you for the in depth insight into the development of cubing in the past years.

I would agree that more people mainly Tymon Feliks and maybe Leo have been using it but it’s honestly not groundbreaking. Algs now are often longer and have more wide/ slice turns. This is especially true for OLL.

That's interesting! Since I need to relearn a good chunk of OLL I will make sure to look into new algs. Also I realized I need to switch some of my standard algs cause they are bad.

 

[Thom S.]

You as a teacher surely know that those still in school didn't particularly follow all the distance learning rules they should have(that's not me dunking on schoolchildren, that's just being honest).
So there was a lot of time to cube now.

 

[Noob's Cubes]

Welcome to the forum. I got the impression that during the covid lockdowns, not only did a lot of new people (including myself) start cubing, but the top cubers (Max, Tymon, Ruihang, etc.) had a lot more time to practice.


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There are about 171730 competitors at ten competitors per page.

Although by the end of the weekend there will probably be more like 172500 competitors.

 

[Megaminx lover]

Welcome!
Good that we share 3x3 mains

 

[Noob's Cubes]

I may be switching over to the RS3 M 2020.

Edit: I guess nobody really asked me.

 

[Abram Grimsley]

I may be switching over to the RS3 M 2020.

Edit: I guess nobody really asked me.

I'm switching to the RS3 m 2021 maglev. Used it in comp earlier this week.

 

[tom0989123]

WELCOME BACK!

 

[tom0989123]

Whats your sub?

 

[espeed]

Thanks! I used to be low 13ish back in 2014. In July this year I was at 20 now I'm high 14 again.

 

[tom0989123]

ok

 

[tom0989123]

my fastest time ever is 13.26somthing seconds and my sub is 29to 32 seconds any tips on getting faster?

 

[espeed]

practice

 

[tom0989123]

ok

 

[tom0989123]

I seem to do that almost to much

 

[tom0989123]

every one says practise.

 

[Abram Grimsley]

I seem to do that almost to much

No such thing as too much practice.

 

[tom0989123]

well there is for me my fingers get very saw and thats only after two and a half hours of practise