Yiheng Wang Stops Timers Early?

[An Animating Cuber]

So I found this video on Youtube showing Yiheng likely stopping his timer early in 2x2.

Thoughts?

 

[J41]

I think the title of the video is extremely disingenuous and unfair.

 

[artless1der]

that video doesnt appear to show anything like what you indicated...
much less "likely" ¯⁠\⁠(⁠°⁠_⁠o⁠)⁠/⁠¯

it also appears to have perhaps been doctored as the time-speed seems to have been messed with (?)

 

[abunickabhi]

I do not see any pre-mature timer stops here.

 

[An Animating Cuber]

Just to be clear I don't think Yiheng is a cheater, I'm sure the early timer stops where accidental.

I do not see any pre-mature timer stops here.

Also did you watch the video, the creator frame-counted the two solves with early stops.

 

[caleb_g]

people are just jealous that's all. meanwhile, they're probably sitting at home, not counting their +2's.

 

[Bingus Ringus McDingus]

I can't believe people are this salty about a 7 year old destroying the WR and smashing their times. Grow up, people.

 

[An Animating Cuber]

I can't believe people are this salty about a 7 year old destroying the WR and smashing their times. Grow up, people.

This video was posted before his WR, and I'm going to say this again I'm sure the early stops were accidental.

 

[Bingus Ringus McDingus]

This video was posted before his WR, and I'm going to say this again I'm sure the early stops were accidental.

But still, this is just people trying to get attention.

 

[baseballjello67]

But still, this is just people trying to get attention.

I can't believe people are this salty about a 7 year old destroying the WR and smashing their times. Grow up, people.

people are just jealous that's all. meanwhile, they're probably sitting at home, not counting their +2's.

No one is actually doing this for attention, nor are most people salty/jealous of Yiheng.

Already, multiple people I know (Antonio Kam, WRC Leader, and multiple WRC members) are working on this case.

They aren't doing this for attention, they're doing it because it's their job to investigate it, accidental or not.

You're the ones who need to grow up.

I can't believe people are this salty about a 7 year old destroying the WR and smashing their times. Grow up, people.

He's 9.

 

[caleb_g]

I'm not doing this for attention, nor am I salty/jealous of Yiheng.

Already, multiple people I know (Antonio Kam, WRC Leader, and multiple WRC members) are working on this case.

They aren't doing this for attention, they're doing it because it's their job to investigate it, accidental or not.

You're the ones who need to grow up.

yeah i guess that's true, but the title of that video still sounds harsh imo

 

[baseballjello67]

yeah i guess that's true, but the title of that video still sounds harsh imo

Okay, so the title of the video seems harsh. But was anything in the video untruthful? No.

 

[ruffleduck]

Okay, so the title of the video seems harsh. But was anything in the video untruthful? No.

The framecounts in the video are incorrect.

 

[baseballjello67]

The framecounts in the video are incorrect.

They aren't.

 

[ruffleduck]

They aren't.

Including pickup and stops: For the 0.99 solve, I counted 28 frames = 0.933s; for the 1.26, 37 frames = 1.233s
I have a (unfortunate) considerable amount of experience with framecounting.

 

[An Animating Cuber]

Including pickup and stops: For the 0.99 solve, I counted 28 frames = 0.933s; for the 1.26, 37 frames = 1.233s
I have a (unfortunate) considerable amount of experience with framecounting.

I'm not very confident with my frame-counting ability's but I counted more frames in the two solves than the video estimated plus usually the timer display is a few milliseconds behind the actual time but when he stops the timer it immediately stops instead of catching up.

 

[turtwig]

This specific case aside, is there any way to detect this if someone did do it maliciously? Yiheng's hands are quite close to the timer - I can imagine doing something like this to intentionally get faster times. A less experienced judge (or maybe even an experience judge) would probably not pick up on it in the moment, and if you didn't film the solve (which is allowed), there would be no way of knowing what happened after the fact. Even if someone saw and reported it, it would just be one man's word against another's.

 

[ruffleduck]

I'm not very confident with my frame-counting ability's but I counted more frames in the two solves than the video estimated plus usually the timer display is a few milliseconds behind the actual time but when he stops the timer it immediately stops instead of catching up.

You are framecounting incorrectly, almost certainly. It's likely that your error is something like counting every single time you input "." which doesn't always update the frame on YT, for some reason. You have to count the frames.

 

[baseballjello67]

You are framecounting incorrectly, almost certainly. It's likely that your error is something like counting every single time you input "." which doesn't always update the frame on YT, for some reason. You have to count the frames.

When counting frames, for the 0.99 I counted 33 frames, and for the 1.26 I counted 39 frames.

33 frames = 33/30 = 1.10

39 frames= 39/30 = 1.30

 

[An Animating Cuber]

I counted the frames for both solve's:
1: I got 32 frames which is about 1.06 seconds so probably an early timer stop
2: I got 36 frames which is about 1.20 seconds so he probably didn't stop the timer early here