It's crazy how much the cubing community has grown in the past few years, I started cubing in 2022 and did my first competition in 2023, when there was around 215,000 competitors
The World Cube Association governs competitions for mechanical puzzles that are operated by twisting groups of pieces, commonly known as 'twisty puzzles'. The most famous of these puzzles is the Rubik's Cube, invented by professor Rubik from Hungary. A selection of these puzzles are chosen as...
www.worldcubeassociation.org
10 people listed per page with 30,168 pages = 301,680
but the last page only has 8 people, so 301,678.
hmmmm, Cubing China's page, cubing.com, only lists 301,173.
But how many of those 301k are active? And what would you consider active?
Competed within the last 3 years? 5 years to be generous?