What event would you like to become WCA official?

[Ellis]

I would like 3x3BLD as average of three (all three solves counted, no dnf:s
allowed) or normal average of five. Then the easiness of the scrambles do
not count as much.

Ouch, that would be tough (for me at least).

 

[Pedro]

TeamBLD for sure

and I agree with Shelley here:

The pyraminx should be replaced by the tetraminx, which is the same thing but without twisty tips. The tips of the pyraminx are trivial and aren't indicative of puzzle solving ability anyway.

 

[Bryan]

Moving from Pyraminx to tetraminx could actually be very difficult. Thing about how many kids out there have trouble buying a new 3x3x3. I suppose you could just change the scrambling to not touch the tips and allow people to use either puzzle.

I definitely think Skewb should be next. It's completely different from other things out there, and it's very quick. Even with a basic method, you're talking about 30 second solves.

After that, I'd say TeamBLD.

 

[Ryanrex116]

I say snake. But if the misalignments might be hard to judge, ill say skewb.

 

[Pedro]

Moving from Pyraminx to tetraminx could actually be very difficult. Thing about how many kids out there have trouble buying a new 3x3x3. I suppose you could just change the scrambling to not touch the tips and allow people to use either puzzle.

I definitely think Skewb should be next. It's completely different from other things out there, and it's very quick. Even with a basic method, you're talking about 30 second solves.

After that, I'd say TeamBLD.

agreed about the pyraminx

I don't know where to buy a tetraminx, and I kinda like my pyraminx, so this could be the best solution

 

[mazei]

Perhaps you could just glue the tips of your Pyraminx so that it doesn't move.

 

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Hungarian Globe!

 

[Mike Hughey]

You know of a way to do sq1BLD without going to cubeshape first? I'd be interested to hear it.

I do (but just theoretically, no more than you), but that's not what I said. What I said was you don't need to on-the-fly trace pieces through several moves until cube shape. You could *learn* transition tables from all shapes to cube shape *beforehand*. Once you've done that, it should be much easier and not as time-consuming. It's a lot to learn, of course. But it's just one extreme end, learning transitions for all shapes. The other extreme end is knowing only the cube shape. One method between those two extremes is to learn transitions for a subset of all shapes so that any shape is at most one move away from one of those, so you have very little to trace during the attempt.

Thanks for bringing this up, Stefan. This is exactly what I had in mind when I said I have a method I want to try. (And I'm talking about the extreme end. It's simply not all that extreme. Compared to the big pi memorization efforts, it's, well, as easy as pie. ) I'm hoping my first successful square-1 BLD solve will be easily stackmatted. Truth is, I'm expecting to be disappointed with anything worse than 5 minutes. And it should be possible to be pretty much as accurate as with 3x3x3 BLD.

 

[boiiwonder]

2-4 and 2-5 relays.

 

[Kian]

This will have all sorts of silly answers

No I think I'm the only one.

In all seriousness, I would probably say 2x2 BLD.

don't you think luck would play WAY too big a factor?

 

[Bryan]

2-4 and 2-5 relays.

Relays have been proposed, but the fact is, they basically come down to who can solve the big cube the fastest.

 

[CubingDuck]

Megaminx BLD would be pretty cool I reckon. And also they should having relay events, like 2x2+3x3+4x4+5x5

 

[Kian]

i love team blind and i think the idea of a team event would be fun for a competition.

 

[Wojto]

2-4 and 2-5 relays.

and 2-6 and 2-7

 

[spdcbr]

Speed assembling a 4x4,or even better, a 7x7!

 

[Gparker]

super square 1 and skewb. 2x2 blind maybe.

 

[Garmon]

As much as I like 2x2x2 BLD, it should not be an official event, gets way too lucky.
Same to 2x2x2 OH, should not be added for the reason a lucky solve would be such a big difference to a non-lucky.
I would like team bld and team solving, but it would be quite hard to work who goes with who etc.
I think 3x3x3 with feet should be removed as well, it's slightly silly in my opinion.

 

[Kian]

As much as I like 2x2x2 BLD, it should not be an official event, gets way too lucky.
Same to 2x2x2 OH.
I would like team bld and team solving, but it would be quite hard to work who goes with who etc.
I think 3x3x3 with feet should be removed as well, it's slightly silly in my opinion.

i don't think it would be that difficult to determine who goes with whom. just force people to register as a team, and they can be ranked as such.

 

[Siraj A.]

Definitely Skewb.

 

[cuBerBruce]

Definitely Skewb.

Skewb! The only speedsolve event in which I've won a certificate!

I note, however, that Skewb has even fewer positions than 2x2x2. So issues with easy scrambles in 2x2x2 would also generally apply to Skewb.