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Older cubers discussions

Dan the Beginner said:
Sorry, if this is not the place to raise this, but I think it would be nice if consideration could be given to this - splitting this thread to have competition related posts separated from general matters that older cuber are concerned about. I am 80, not competing but genuinely interested in cubing, and I find it hard to weed through pages of competition results each time I come here to try to find out about other things that are interesting to me or older cuber, e.g. how to teach very young kids to solve, resources, or cubes suitable for older cuber to deal with arthritis, difficulty in leaning new algorithms, or easier or more efficient algorithms to reduce reliance on high TPS, etc. Are there anyone else with the same needs?
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I'm fully in favor of a little more forum infrastructure for the senior niche. Shen's comp round-ups are a fantastic thing for the senior cubing community, he puts a lot of time into them, and there are competitors here that are not on the Facebook group. It has fully earned a spot of its own IMO. The slow-burn of this particular thread is just an impedance mismatch.
 
WEEKEND COMP ROUNDUP (JUL 2-5)
A quiet week with several PRs but only a couple of small ranking changes...

Gary Miller (80+ eight WRs) made two PRs at North American Championship 2026: 2x2 best 14.55 and Pyraminx best 24.94 both remain ranked 3rd.

Dennis Rosero (40+ Kinch #3) made double Megaminx senior PRs at Mental Breakdown II Bogotá 2026: best 1:14.76 remains ranked 7th and average 1:29.47 remains 13th. Earlier in the week, he made a Clock PR average 8.37 at Pocos Cupos Bogotá XXVII 2026, taking him from 18th to 17th.

Daniel Houghton (40+ big cube top tens) made a 7x7 PR mean 4:24.05 at NxN in Jura 2026, remaining ranked 9th.

Also in Jura, Olivier Wirz (60+ 2x2 WR) made a 4x4 PR best 1:37.70, taking him from 14th to equal 12th alongside John Cook.

The WCA export is delayed this week, so I haven't seen any other top ten results from outside my watchlist, which I usually find via Phil Lewis' Recent Senior Records page.

This week I also followed Lars Vennike Nielsson, Thor Muto Asmund, Kerry Go, Lisa Kucala, Mike Hughey, Peter Hugosson-Miller, Akatsuki Kitamura, Kazuhiko Kusano, AJ Nicholls, and Ulrich Spies, who competed without making any new PRs.

In 40+ Kinch rankings, yours truly Shen Flindell is up from 8th to 7th ahead of Timothy Lawrance after several PRs last week, most notably a 3BLD best. Jia-Hong Lu's three PRs last week have brought him to the top page, entering at 22nd ahead of Daniel Houghton, pushing Ge Shi off the top page.

Congratulations to all of these high achievers!

Next week: Mats Bergsten, Peter Hugosson-Miller, John Cook, Ge Shi, Jochen Bauer, Sander Kaspers, István Kocza, Dennis Rosero, Maria Oey, Ton Dennenbroek, Claude Arsicaud, AJ Nicholls, and Kevin Gray, in 10 competitions around the world.

My watchlist consists of the following:
: Cubes 3x3-7x7 - top 10 average, top 5 single 40+, top 5 average and top 2 single in older age groups
: 2x2, FMC, MM - top 5 average, top 2 single 40+, top 3 average and top single in older age groups
: BLD - top 5 average and single 40+, top 3 average and single in older age groups
: Other events - top 2 average, top single 40+, top average and top single in older age groups
: Kinch rankings – top 10 in 40+, top 5 in older age groups (minimum score 10), top 3 female
: Fastest to complete profile

This has resulted in a list of 119 "top ranked seniors". Please don't ask me to follow you as well, unless you fit the above criteria and I've missed something.

Please let me know if you know of anyone moving to a new age group who might be a candidate to join the top ranks.

Many thanks to Michael George for creating and maintaining the Senior Cubing Rankings website, and to Phil Lewis for creating the Senior Cubing Tracker site, which can be found via the Useful Links section of the SCR site.
 
WEEKEND COMP ROUNDUP (JUL 7-12)
A second week with no SWRs...

Mats Bergsten (70+ 21 WRs!) made a PR and a double at Stockholmsligan 7: Peber – 2026 this week: Clock average 24.38 remains ranked 2nd; Pyraminx average 19.00 remains ranked 4th and best 13.39 takes him from 8th to 4th ahead of Barry Bower at 6th and a missing entry at 5th.

AJ Nicholls (40+ 6x6 WR8) made double 6x6 PRs at Stevenage July 2026: best 2:28.37 takes him from 8th to 4th ahead of Shen Flindell, and mean 3:04.57 remains ranked 8th.

Also in Stevenage, Kevin Gray (50+ Pyra WRs) made two PRs and consecutive doubles: Skewb best 4:35 takes him from 18th to 10th ahead of Ulrich Spies; 4x4 best 1:11.26 followed by 1:01.61 takes him from 80th to 30th, and average 1:13.64 followed by 1:12.73 enters at 33rd; and Megaminx average 2:44.81 enters at 31st.

John Cook (60+ FMC WR3) made three PRs at Australian Nationals 2026: 3OH best 46.33 remains ranked 8th; Square-1 best 56.41 takes him from 10th to 9th ahead of Mats Bergsten; and 3x3 average 25.21 takes him from 18th to 16th.

Amit Sheffer (40+) joins my watchlist after entering the 3x3 top ten at Mike's Cubes Israel 2026 last week: 3x3 average 12.41 takes him from 18th to 9th ahead of Bobby Mapp. He also made two senior PRs: 2x2 best 3.11 (166th to 58th) and Pyraminx best 9.51 (478th to 361st).

Both members of senior cubing's most glamorous couple made double Clock PRs at Cupika Jakarta Summer 2026: Ton Dennenbroek (60+ all Minx WRs) made a PR best 13.22 (16th to 12th) and average 21.23 (20th to 16th), while Maria Oey (60+ 4x4 WR2) made a PR average 21.87 (remains 17th) and best 18.72 (20th to 19th).

Sander Kaspers (50+ MM WRs) made a PR and a 50+ PR at Warm Up Lent 2026: 3BLD PR best 1:24.94 takes him from 15th to 13th; 4x4 50+ PR best 1:08.03 takes him from 54th to 50th.

Also in Lent, Jochen Bauer (50+ Kinch #4) made a Clock PR best 8.09, taking him from 14th to 13th.

Ge Shi (40+ fastest to complete profile) made two PRs at GAN Philippine Championship 2026: 3BLD best 54.22 takes him from 24th to 22nd; and 3x3 best 18.20 from 450th to 414th.

Dennis Rosero (40+ Kinch #3) earned three third place podiums at Unicentro Yopal 2026: 2x2 with average 4.50, 4x4 with 53.22, and Pyraminx with 7.26.

Several top ten results from outside my watchlist over the last week have come up, which I found via Phil Lewis' Recent Senior Records page:
: Petr Kundera (50+) at Slovak Championship 2026 – Pyraminx average 6.37 (remains 4th)
: Erika Aasen (60+) at Sleep & Solve Landsbro 2026 – Megaminx best 3:29.41 (enters at 8th)
: Sonja Black (50+) at Seattle Summer 2026 – 3OH best 25.84 (remains 9th)
: Anne S. Squadron (80+) at Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2026 – 3x3 best 1:29.41 (remains 10th)

This week I also followed Peter Hugosson-Miller, István Kocza, and Claude Arsicaud, who competed without making any new PRs.

In 40+ Kinch rankings, after just one week Ge Shi is back on the top page at 25th ahead of Akatsuki Kitamura.

In 50+, Mats Bergsten continues to rise, up a place to 21st ahead of Gianluca Placenti.

Congratulations to all of these high achievers!

Next week: Ge Shi, AJ Nicholls, Daniel Houghton, István Kocza, Martin Heilig, Michael Stocker, Olivier Wirz, Peter Hugosson-Miller, Ron van Bruchem, Sander Kaspers, Kate Stuart, Lisa Kucala, Dennis Rosero, Timothy Lawrance, Fumiki Koseki, Kazuhiko Kusano, Ryuji Hamano, Shinji Mochizuki, Yuji Suse, and Choi Goho, in 11 competitions around the world.

My watchlist consists of the following:
: Cubes 3x3-7x7 - top 10 average, top 5 single 40+, top 5 average and top 2 single in older age groups
: 2x2, FMC, MM - top 5 average, top 2 single 40+, top 3 average and top single in older age groups
: BLD - top 5 average and single 40+, top 3 average and single in older age groups
: Other events - top 2 average, top single 40+, top average and top single in older age groups
: Kinch rankings – top 10 in 40+, top 5 in older age groups (minimum score 10), top 3 female
: Fastest to complete profile

This has resulted in a list of 120 "top ranked seniors". Please don't ask me to follow you as well, unless you fit the above criteria and I've missed something.

Please let me know if you know of anyone moving to a new age group who might be a candidate to join the top ranks.

Many thanks to Michael George for creating and maintaining the Senior Cubing Rankings website, and to Phil Lewis for creating the Senior Cubing Tracker site, which can be found via the Useful Links section of the SCR site.
 
OK, as we have a whole new Senior Cubers sub-forum, I've set up a thread just for competition reports, and posted my first weekly comp roundup there. I'll mainly be active in that thread now...
Teaser for this week's report: Mats Bergsten has lost one of his 70+ world records!
Here's a link to the new thread:
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Thread 'Competition Reports'

Here we are in a new Senior Cubers sub-forum, so I'm starting a thread to post reports of competitions, whether it's a personal report from a senior's perspective or my weekly senior comp roundups....
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I'm not a senior cuber. But I just looked at the site and found it interesting.

I also find the idea of completed profiles interesting. (all singles and also all singles and avgs)
Is there a list somewhere of which seniors have a complete profile? There can't be that many of them?
Also I guess this a suggestion to make that list.
 
icedcool55 said:
I'm not a senior cuber. But I just looked at the site and found it interesting.

I also find the idea of completed profiles interesting. (all singles and also all singles and avgs)
Is there a list somewhere of which seniors have a complete profile? There can't be that many of them?
Also I guess this a suggestion to make that list.
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That would be an interesting list. I suspect there are more of them than you think - there are quite a few older cubers who are attracted to things like big BLD and FMC.

Edit: Just looking at the top 20 kinch list for ages 40+, slightly over half (11 out of 20) have no zero scores in their kinch profiles, meaning they at least have a complete singles profile.
 
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Sander Kaspers (50+ MM WRs) made a PR and a 50+ PR at Warm Up Lent 2026: 3BLD PR best 1:24.94
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To bad it was a wrong data entry. I DNFd 6 times (got 1 extra because the delegate calling the end of the round in the microphone when I was just started my 5th solve....)
 
Hello You all senior cubers! My name is Teemu Jokela and have been competing in WCA since 2021. In time of Covid19 we were all "sitting home and worried what will happen to us" and at that time I started to do cubing. I made a promise to myself, that then the Pandemia is over, I would start competing and "touring the world". To this date, I have been into 77 competitions and done about 2 600 solves.

Then I started competing, I realized the fact - most of competitors are much much much younger than myself and there are not a lot of "over 40-years old" in competitions (except parents' of younger cubers). During the years, I have had of honor of getting to know other senior cubers, such as from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland and of course from my home country, Finland.

I've had a "dream" of senior cubing competition for many years. As all the WCA competitions are open to anyone - which is a very good thing - I've still wanted to have a competition for "oldies". It has not been possible yet.

Today - it is possible!

My friend launched a new website called Cubik.fi - it is a platform for practising, lobbying - and also for competitions! Website has not been running long, but so far we have 2*2, 3*3, 4*4, 5*5, 6*6, 7*7, Clock and Pyraminx (visualisation for scrambles of Clock and Pyraminx is not ready yet). Skewb will be added soon. You can use timer plugged in, or You can use inspection and timing from computer/cell phone. You can attach Your WCA-account to Your profile.

First senior competition is scheduled 10.9.2026 at 19.00 Finnish time. We will have two rounds of 3*3, 2*2, 4*4, Pyraminx and Clock. First round can hold up to 32 competitors. Next rounds will have the best 16 competitors. Everyone does one solve at a time - You can see real time results for every solve - and after that next solve is done and etc. Chat can be used - You can boost other competitors or even roast them and You can talk about Your solves (everyone does their solves at the same time). After one round get back to the main screen / first page and choose Your next event from there. All the events start exactly at the time of schedule.

I welcome all You seniors to this web site and hope to see many of You in the coming competition! I have set the time limit so, that if You do 3*3 in less than 2 minutes, You should be able to all 5 solves.

Best regards, Teemu.
 
Hi,

Just wanted to get back on my last forum post.

We had first "senior competition" at 10.9.2026 and about half of the competitors were seniors. We had a live chat and competitors enjoyed the competition and we had good chat discussions - from people in different countries and different speeds. Concept seemed to work - cubing community works also online from Your homes!

We will have competitions also in the future - I cannot guarantee how often, but the next ones are 21.9.2026 (3*3, 2*2 and 4*4) and 22.9.2026 (Pyraminx, Clock and 5*5). These competitions are open for everyone and we start at 19.30 Finnish time.

Best regards, Teemu.
 
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