because Yiheng is color neutral and 1-looks F2L?
Because he's from China. If he was from California or Poland and smiled during comps, people would lift him up instead of trashing him. There's also some resentment because he doesn't use a super-advanced method.Cubing is at a good spot right now. Does anyone understand why people say cubing is
I wonder if there's anything in Chinese culture that teaches kids to be super competitive and dominate in everything they take interest in. If so, that's why he's super good and thinks of it as a career.
I imagine the communication barrier with the community in terms of language and lack of platforms like Discord play a bit into it as well.
Absolutely. Given China's internet censorship, there are very few ways for the Chinese cubers to communicate with the outside world. English is also one of the most difficult languages to learn as well and let's face it, the kid's under 10 years old.
I though he was 10 tho.
He is
Who says he's not enjoying it or calm? Maybe he's just competitive but can turn it off when not competing.
I thinking more of calming down when engaging in other cultures. In his own culture he's fine, since I think he sees everyone as like a coach/friend. However, when being around like Tymon and Max, he's pressured to do good since they are like superiors to him. Being around that much competition at such a young/inexperienced age can make anyone break down, as he cried after finals I believe. I'm using inexperienced as he's probably spent a lot of time with people around his culture and not enough time with other cultures. From what I can see in the map of comps in his WCA, he hasn't been to a competition outside the US, and only in Asia.
I do not like the condescending and elitist attitude from the cubing community nowadays.
Yeah bro if the cuber is Chinese Then the attitude is quite rudetbh.
I do not like this at all.
I agreed, until I realized I made it fun (for me at least) by doing an average of 5, with 5 different methods
True. Too fast to be world class, too slow to use tons of lookahead, and too popular to make your mark in it.
At the same time if you make your mark in 3x3 it’s way more impressive than a not very developed event. (Not saying that getting good in not-greatly developed events is a bad thing).
I see it like this
