Methods Vs. Solve Times (Project!)

[abr71310]

EDIT: You should add a question for an estimate of practice a day/week.
Also, I was wondering why we don't have a Male/Female thing on here (for the people thewant to, obviously)

Man I feel stupid for not adding this before... thanks, mate!

 

[Lord Voldemort]

I can't find mine from before...

Name: Nitin Prasad
Nationality: Indian, live in the US
Age: 15
Gender: Male)
Speedcubing Method: Fridrich - 22 seconds, ZZ - 30 seconds, Petrus, 60 seconds
Best/Worst Solve Time: 14.77/ bad is anything about 24
Best Average (of 5): 19.74
Best OFFICIAL average (of 5): 25.12
Method used in official: Fridrich
Time cubing (how long, when did you begin...?): 7 months
Progression:
Beginners method
Added Algs
Started learning 4LLL
Fridrich F2l
3LLL
Learn ZZ
Winter Variation

 

[pdilla]

Probably too late but here goes....

Name: Justin-Anthony Roberts
Nationality: Mixed (mostly Japanese/Irish)
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Speedcubing Method: 2look OLL, Full PLL, and Intuitive F2L
Best/Worst Solve Time: Best: 20.52 Worst: Bad times normally around 30-36 sec.....
Best Ave of 5: 23:57
Time cubing: First solve, Feb 22, 2008 and never really cared about getting fast until Feb 12, 2009. So been cubing for over a year, but been SPEEDCUBING for about 2 months now.
Progression: First solve wasn't timed. First timed solve was around 12 minutes. Now I average in the low 20 sec. Not too shabby....
Favourite Speedsolving event: 3x3x3 2H
Speedcube: Cube4you Type A (3rd gen)
Your projected "potential"?: Right now?? Getting sub 20!!! SO IRRITATING!!!

 

[That70sShowDude]

Name: That70sShowDude
Nationality: White
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Speedcubing Method: Fridrich Method
Best Solve Time: 16.65 (2 look oll, pll skip), 20.53 non lucky
Best Average (of 5): 25.64, could be better, not sure
Time cubing: started speedcubing around september 1, 2008 ... although was able to solve a cube in about 1:30 a couple years ago, stopped solving for a while ... havent been cubing the whole time since sept 1st, had a couple months of no cube time
Progression: mid 50 second best times in mid sept 2008, 40 secs sept/oct, 30 secs oct/nov/dec, late 20 secs dec/beginning of jan, stopped cubing for a couple months ... march had 20sec best, 29 avg, now in april with 16.65 best, 19.82 second best, 20.53 non lucky, 27.34 avg of 10

1) beginners' LBL
2) started fridrich
3) 4LLL
4) f2l
5) finger tricks
6) regular PLL
7) regular OLL (have all memorized but i gotta think a little for some during a speed solve)

How long you practice per day/ per month/per week (in hours): Probably less than an hour around the beginning, now about an hour per day, sometimes not at all on a day, sometimes over an hour
Favorite Speedsolve event (I'm going to focus on 3x3x3, but this is good for "extra" data): regular 3x3
Speedcube: (OH, speedsolve, BLD, whatever, list them all if you like!) DIY type A for OH, speedsolve, BLD, everything, its my only non-store bought 3x3 standard cube
Your projected "potential"?: (Random, eh?) to average sub 20, maybe better
Fun Fact: I just found out last week that I went to the same high school as Dan Cohen and Jon Choi ... they are 1 and 2 years ahead of me, im a senior now

 

[Hakan]

Name: Hakan Deniz
Nationality: The Netherlands
Age: 16
Speedcubing Method: Fridrich Method
Best/Worst Solve Time: 11.09/over 3 days
Best Average of 5: 15.55
Officals times: 14.78/18.80
Time cubing: A year and one month
Progression: Was stuck too long at crappy LBL method, switched to Fridrich a little too late. Learning my last 10 OLLs to complete Fridrich.
Favourite Speedsolve event: 3x3x3
Speedcube: Type F DIY.
Your projected "potential"?: To be sub 15 by World Championships 2009
Any other useful information!: I love v-cubes! I have had 11 at one point in time. I've sold three of them.

 

[Lord Voldemort]

Name: That70sShowDude
Nationality: White

Just so you know, white isn't a nationality...
He means the country here.

 

[yukiwerts]

Are you done with this project yet? if not, I'll get a bunch of other people to give you their info!

 

[Aeonstorm]

If you're still going...

Name: Frank Jiang
Nationality: Australian
Age: 14
Gender: Male
Speedcubing Method:
LBL ~ 1:10
3LLL Fridrich (Full PLL) ~ 40 seconds
Best/Worst Solve Time: 32.20 seconds/My consistent worst solves are around 1 minute when I screw up some part of the F2L
Best Average (of 5): 38.74
Time cubing (how long, when did you begin...?): I began about a month ago at the end of March.
Progression: I solved my cube for the first time a month ago, spent about a week and a half getting my LBL method down to 1:30 - 1:45, and then have been learning and perfecting Fridrich since. I now can F2L intuitively for the basic cases and with algorithms for the complex ones, two-look OLL, and full PLL.
1.Beginner's LBL
2.Intermediate LBL
3.Started learning F2L
4.Learnt full PLL (using inefficient 2-look OLL which required using sune multiple times)
5.Learnt proper 2-look OLL
6.Perfected basic F2L
7.Learnt bunch of neat algorithms and finger tricks for special F2L cases

How long you practice per day/ per month/per week (in hours): It's been the school holidays, so I've practiced as much as 4-5 hours a day, but mostly 1-2 hours a day.
Speedcube: speedsolve with a store-bought cube, though learning OH
Your projected "potential"?: Sub-5 World Record!

 

[envy253]

Name: Rick
Nationality: Australia
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Speedcubing Method: Fridrich
Best/Worst Solve Time: 8.56/?
Best Average (of 5): 13.41
Time cubing: 3yrs? (guess)
Progression:
1) beginners' LBL
2)keyhole
3)fridrich f2l
4)2 look oll/pll
5)pll
6)oll
How long you practice per day/ per month/per week (in hours) 1hr/day
Favourite Speedsolve event:3x3
Speedcube: c4y

 

[abr71310]

Alright guys, my presentation is in four days, and I want to be ready!!!!
I gotta program something atm that lets me extract data directly from the Web / Text files so I can make some statistical analyses (via graphs) of speedcubers in general (by country, by method, by number of competitions, etc)

Does anybody know where I can get the # of people who compete in a specific competition by year?? I want to show an upwards progression of people that cube over the years...

Or can anybody get in touch with Ron or Tyson that can help me get some data that has to do with the #s of people at a competition or whatnot? It'd be really helpful, and I'd appreciate it sooo much if I could get some "extra assistance" (all I really have to do is an 8-10 minute presentation and a two page handout... but I want to make this the BEST it can possibly be).

 

[Logan]

I don't know if your still taking "entries" for this but I'm doing it anyway cause I thought it would be fun.



Name: Logan Kelly

Nationality: Caucasian

Age: 13

Gender: Male

Speedcubing Method: Mix of keyhole, beginner, and Fridrich PLL: ~35-40 sec. | Fridrich f2l and PLL, and beginners OLL: ~1:25

Best/Worst Solve Time: 30.xx/2:xx.xx

Best Average (of 5): ~35.xx

Best OFFICIAL average (of 5): 1:24.95 (haven't been to a competition in forever AND had a broken finger that time)

Method used in official: Beginner

Time cubing: ~2 years (give or take 6 months )

Progression: How long did it take you to get where you are now? What were your times like? What did you change? What around you changed? What around you changed?
~1 year | ~1:30.xx | My method and the way I practiced. | Nothing

How long you practice per day/ per month/per week:
.75 hours on week days 1-2 hours on a weekend/ ~36 hours (WOW I'm obsesed) / ~8-9 hours

Favorite Speedsolve event: 3x3 duh

Speedcube: Speedsolve

Your projected "potential"?: ~20 seconds by the end of the summer.

Any other useful information!: I like to mod/build puzzles.

 

[Sin-H]

Name: Stefan Huber

Nationality: Austrian

Age: 16

Gender: Male

Speedcubing Method: Fridrich with intuitive F2L and some F2L tricks.

Best/Worst Solve Time: 6.9x/hm... ever? then it'd be 5:xx:xx; this year it's 35.xx

Best Average (of 5):10.00

Best OFFICIAL average (of 5): 12.56
Method used in official: Fridrich

Time cubing: 2 years and 1 month.

Progression: How long did it take you to get where you are now? What were your times like? What did you change? What around you changed? What around you changed?
about 1 year. little progress made since then, but still progress. Just some algs exchanged some times.

How long you practice per day/ per month/per week:
if I practice at all, it's 1-2 hours per day.

Favorite Speedsolve event: 3x3

Speedcube: type a

Your projected "potential"?: Staying even more consistently in the 11s, maybe official 11.xx avg and doing some more Sub11 avgs at home.

 

[Haste_cube]

Name: Fendy
Nationality: Indonesian
Age: 14
Gender: Male
Speedcubing Method: Roux and Heise(sometime)
Best/Worst Solve Time: 15.09(Heise), 31.18(Roux)/45.xx
Best Average (of 5): 34.43
Time cubing: 1 month
Progression: faster block build, CMLL
How long you practice per day/ per month/per week (in hours): 1.5 hours
Favourite Speedsolve event: 3x3
Speedcube: Rubiks DIY
Your projected "potential"? : break WR with heise

 

[dulac]

Name: Stefan

Nationality: Switzerland

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Speedcubing Method: F2L: Intuitive F2L with a few tricks; Oll: 2 Look Oll with some easy 1 step algoriths; PLL: Full Pll

Best/Worst Solve Time: Best lucky 30 seconds, worst: no idea, maybe something about 3 minutes at beginning

Best Average (of 5):55.40

Time cubing: 1 month and 2 weeks

Progression: How long did it take you to get where you are now? What were your times like? What did you change? What around you changed? What around you changed?
3 weeks. My times then around 3 weeks, I changed to cfop from beginners method and trainer a lot more
How long you practice per day/ per month/per week:
I practice often in the train so its about 1-2 hours a day
Speedcube: cube4you speedcube (black)

Your projected "potential"?: getting sub 40 times in the near future and the decrease the time over time

 

[alifiantoadinugroho]

Name: Alifianto Adi
Nationality: Indonesian
Age: 14
Gender: Male
Speedcubing Method: Full Fridrich with some variation
Best/Worst Solve Time: 12.xy
Best Average (of 5): 17.68
Time cubing: 3 Months
How long you practice per day/ per month/per week (in hours): all day long
Favourite Speedsolve event: 3x3, 4x4, 3x3 OH
Speedcube: Rubiks DIY, DIY type D 2nd gen

 

[Marvolo]

Name: Andrzej Kastelik
Nationality: Poland
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Speedcubing Method: Full Fridrich with F2L in left hand
Best/Worst Solve Time: 7.29LC/9.48full worst: ive no idea
Best Average (of 5): 13.9x
Time cubing: 18 months
How long you practice per day/ per month/per week (in hours): 1-2 hours
Favourite Speedsolve event: 7x7, 5x5
Speedcube: DIY (A first model)

 

[enigmahack]

Again, don't know if you require more data, however I'll put my info in too because I like filling out surveys LOL

Name: David Champagne (Yes, that's my actual name)
Nationality: Canadian
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Speedcubing Method: Fredrich as primary, Petrus as secondary.
Best/Worst Solve Time: Best single: 14.89 seconds, Worst solve time: Anything over 30 seconds.
Best Average (of 5): 19.86
Best OFFICIAL average (of 5): none yet, I'll tell you after tomorrow's competition.
Method used in official: Fredrich
Time cubing (how long, when did you begin...?): I started cubing in 1999, but seriously speedsolving in 2007, so about 2 years or so.
Progression: It took me 2 years to get where I am now, however I didn't practice as consistently as I could have. I only recently got to sub-20, but basically for the last year I was a very solid sub-30. To get faster, I got slower ;-)
Basically I started a LONG time ago doing a corners first approach. Then I progressed to LBL. I jumped straight to full PLL, and 2L-OLL, and within the past year I learned full OLL as well as some COLL.

How long you practice per day/ per month/per week. Per week on average, I'll get in about 10 hours of speedcubing time roughly.
Favourite Speedsolve event (I'm going to focus on 3x3x3, but this is good for "extra" data): Well, 3x3x3 is obvious, but I LOVE bigcubes. I'm not great at them, but I do very much enjoy them.

Speedcube: Speedsolve, OH, but not BLD yet. I've not learned the patience to do this. I KNOW I can do it, I just haven't developed a method quite yet. I'll get into it eventually when I have more time.

Your projected "potential"?: Well, with practice, I think I could get to sub 14, but I can't see myself consistently getting sub 10 or anything like that. And heck, anything below sub-15 I think I'd be happy with. I just got sub-20 so sub-15 is still quite a ways away...

Any other useful information!: Nothing special to report here.

My cubes are as follows:
Type A DIY for my main speedcube
Rubik's DIY for all other cubes 3x3
ES 2x2, 4x4.
V-cubes 5-7 x2 (White set, and black set)
2 4x4's, I think they're Mefferts clones, but I'm not 100%
Bunch of other puzzles like China megaminx, etc.

 

[krazedkat]

Name: Keith Petro
Nationality: Canadian
Age:15
Gender:Male
Speedcubing Method:Roux~19.23seconds, Fridrich~25.01seconds, My own custom one (Petro Method)~19.53seconds
Best/Worst Solve Time: 15.02/1:53 (when I began)
Best Average (of 5):20.04
Best OFFICIAL average (of 5):22.31
Method used in official:Roux
Time cubing (how long, when did you begin...?):Cubing since the beginning of last summer (almost a full year).
Progression:It took me about 9 months to get here. Beginners->4look LL->Full Frid->Roux
Cube used:Regular store boughts (modded occasionally and lubed)
Type:3x3

 

[Lt-UnReaL]

Name: John-Michael Clay

Nationality: English/German (Live in USA)

Age: 19

Gender: Male

Speedcubing Method: Fridrich 14-15 sec

Best/Worst Solve Time: Best - 8.81 sec, Worst? Why would you want to know that? Um, I guess when I first solved it, 3 days?

Best Average (of 5): 13.xy

Best OFFICIAL average (of 5): 14.86

Method used in official: Fridrich

Time cubing (how long, when did you begin...?): ~2.5 years

Progression: I got to ~18 sec in about a year. After that I only slowly improved over 1.5 years to 14-15 sec.
1) Beginner LBL (1st month)
2) Learned PLLs (2nd month)
3) Learned ~30 OLLs (2-4 months)
4) Started F2L (4th month)
5) Finished the rest of the OLLs (6th month)

How long you practice per day/ per month/per week (in hours): On average, around 1-2 hours per day. I haven't cubed in the last 4 days, though (Pretty rare for me).

Favourite Speedsolve event: 3x3 speedsolve

Speedcube: Red C4Y core/screws/springs with type A cubies.

Your projected "potential"?: Um, I don't turn fast...So maybe 12.5 seconds average as my lowest I can go.

 

[JTW2007]

Name: Jackson Warley
Nationality: American
Age: 14
Gender: Male
Speedcubing Method: Fridrich: 15.06 Roux: 27.92 Beginner: 1:02.34
Best/Worst Solve Time: Best: 15.06 Worst: No Idea
Best Average (of 5): 17.87
Best OFFICIAL average (of 5): 23.98
Method used in official: Fridrich
Time cubing: Cubing since December 2007
Progression:

Beginner's 7-Step LBL-Over-60
Keyhole-30's
Beginner's F2L with 2LOLL and 2LPLL-25 to 30
Basic Intuitive F2L with 2LOLL and 2LPLL-20 to 25
Advanced F2L with 2LOLL and 2LPLL-15 to 20
Cross on bottom with advanced F2L and 2LOLL and PLL (learned it yesterday) -15 to 20

How long you practice per day/ per month/per week (in hours): About eight hours a day
Favourite Speedsolve event (I'm going to focus on 3x3x3, but this is good for "extra" data): 3x3 or 5x5
Speedcube: Black Type C for 2H, White Type C for OH
Your projected "potential"?: Hmm... Astronomical!
Any other useful information!: Nope.