What do you consider world class for any event?

[UncleFrank]

Top 1% most of the time, sometimes 5% depending how competitive the rankings are.

Edit: just realised my mistake, i meant 0.1 and 0.5

Percentage is always the easiest to say, but it's entirely dependent on which event you choose.
For 3x3, 0.1% is 211 people.
For 5x5 it's 32 people.
For 7x7 it's 11.
4bld is 2.
5bld is 1.

 

[JDAW6]

5bld is 1.

Well it’s not wrong

 

[Deleted member 36445]

Sub10 on 3x3 is world class

 

[ProStar]

Sub10 on 3x3 is world class

Disagree. Really good? Absolutely. But there are way too many people who are sub-10 for it to be truly world class. Imo, world class means being one of the best in the whole world, and being ranked 4600 just doesn’t qualify as that for me

 

[OtaMota]

Imo, world class means being one of the best in the whole world

Not only is it your opinion, it is apparently the definition of world class (source Oxford)
"(of a person, thing, or activity) of or among the best in the world."

So ditto Prostar, Sub-10 is not best of the world.

 

[baseballjello67]

Sub10 on 3x3 is world class

As someone who is proudly sub-10, heck no.

 

[Americancuber232]

Yea, I agree I think world class would be more like sub6 or 5

As someone who is proudly sub-10, heck no.

 

[Deleted member 36445]

Sub10 on 3x3 is world class

I have to agree with myself on this one.

Last time i checked, sub10 is definitely world class

 

[FenTheGoat]

Top 50 for NxN, OH, and Pyra, top 25 for side events, top 10 for BLD events and Mega

 

[Silky]

That was my inspiration for asking on here lol

Lol ! Glad it's worthy of discussion

 

[Cuber2s]

For 3x3, a 6.5 average is probably world class. Maybe that's a little strict, but I feel that being in the top .1-.2 percent should be considered world class.

 

[1x1 wr holder!]

As someone who is world class themselves, I'd say that world class means having an average (or mean) in the given event that is top 143. Why 143 you ask? It's because within the WCA, 143 individual countries are represented meaning that if you make it to top 143, You are ranked on the world scale. The "world scale" provides that there is room for the best person from each country to have a place, but because this is a competitive activity, countries within the world scale can still bump each other out by having more than one world class cuber.

 

[1x1 wr holder!]

oh no, I have confused someone...

 

[OtaMota]

As someone who is world class themselves, I'd say that world class means having an average (or mean) in the given event that is top 143. Why 143 you ask? It's because within the WCA, 143 individual countries are represented meaning that if you make it to top 143, You are ranked on the world scale. The "world scale" provides that there is room for the best person from each country to have a place, but because this is a competitive activity, countries within the world scale can still bump each other out by having more than one world class cuber.

This is an interesting take.

 

[baseballjello67]

This is an interesting take.

In a good way

 

[SkewbIsTheBestEvent]

Would you consider it to be top n? Within a certain percentage of the WR? Some other definition?

I would say being Top Player (Top 25). Being top player means you have a chance at winning that event (For BigBLD and Big cubes that gets tricky because for those events #1 and #25 are very apart from each other).

 

[ruffleduck]

For 3x3, yiheng is the sole world class speedsolver, I don't see any chance any other solver takes a 3x3 WR anytime soon.

 

[ProStar]

For 3x3, yiheng is the sole world class speedsolver, I don't see any chance any other solver takes a 3x3 WR anytime soon.

*doesn’t hold both WRs*

 

[ruffleduck]

*doesn’t hold both WRs*

I don't see any chance any other solver takes a 3x3 WR anytime soon.

 

[Clock_Enthusiast]

As someone who is world class themselves, I'd say that world class means having an average (or mean) in the given event that is top 143. Why 143 you ask? It's because within the WCA, 143 individual countries are represented meaning that if you make it to top 143, You are ranked on the world scale. The "world scale" provides that there is room for the best person from each country to have a place, but because this is a competitive activity, countries within the world scale can still bump each other out by having more than one world class cuber.

I don't think the quanitity of regions recognized by the WCA is applicable in considering what makes an individual "world class". The primary argument is that there are a disproportionate number of cubers in certain countries. For example, getting top 10 NR in USA or China is going to be FAR more difficult than breaking top 10 NR in Bhutan or St. Lucia. The populations are not only higher, but competitions are more frequent and therefore, more accessible to a greater number of cubers. If you look at any top 100 on the WCA rankings, you'll see that a handful of countries comprise the majority of any given list.