Speed-age factor

I think it's safe to say for this metric a lower number wins. Think about it, if you had a best competition average of, say, 3 minutes, your factor would be 180 / 12 = 15. I think you'd agree that would be worse than your current 2.323.

And for someone your age, I'd say 2.323 is really quite good. This metric is by its very design made to favor us old folks.

Oh, and congratulations on your great performance at the Virginia Open. You beat me in the first round pretty bad, but I got you in the second round. :) It was a very lucky average for me to get 32 seconds in the second round.
 
I think it's safe to say for this metric a lower number wins. Think about it, if you had a best competition average of, say, 3 minutes, your factor would be 180 / 12 = 15. I think you'd agree that would be worse than your current 2.323.

And for someone your age, I'd say 2.323 is really quite good. This metric is by its very design made to favor us old folks.

Oh, and congratulations on your great performance at the Virginia Open. You beat me in the first round pretty bad, but I got you in the second round. It was a very lucky average for me to get 32 seconds in the second round.
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Ahh... I see now, so its kinda hard for me to use that system >.<

As for the VA Open, it was really fun, I wiped out completely in the 2nd round, the afternoon tiredness got to me :)
 
Lotsofsloths said:
Ahh... I see now, so its kinda hard for me to use that system >.<
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Yes, I guess in order for you to match my current speed-age factor at your current age, you'd need an average of 8.52 seconds. Now that would REALLY be impressive!

Oh, and your fastest time at the VA Open was faster than my fastest time ever at home, even including lucky cases. So you're obviously already better than me.
 
Mike, Rune is for real 43.95/76 = 0.58 36 is his best single. (I calculated it before you did because we started this earlier today at SveKub =)

My brother beats us: 29.37/42=0.70 (barley again)

Another mean machine is, again a Swede, Lars Petrus who is 47 (about) and got an 21 average, so he is sub 0.5
 
17.82/13 = 1.37

Mine isn't very good, I think you would have to be older to get a low number for that. A 13 year old would need sub 10 to have 0.71 and sub 5 to get 0.36. :)
 
I have a 32.03 average from a few years ago, at age 55...that would be
0.58...and I had a single solve at 23.75...0.43

My unofficial average home is quite a bit better, but that needs to be reproduced in competition to have meaning. I didn't get around to
any competitions in 2007.
 
Oh, and your fastest time at the VA Open was faster than my fastest time ever at home, even including lucky cases. So you're obviously already better than me.
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It wasn't even lucky >.<
and my fastest time at home is 21, lucky!
But, at the comp. it was a nice F2L, along with Sune OLL and a Y-Perm(my favorite permutation, it just runes so smoothly) PLL.
 
18.44/18 = 1.02
single: 15.46/18 = .86

Will improve at my next competition.
 
15.20 / 23 = 0.66

In 7 days it will be
15.20 / 24 = 0.63

I don't like this ranking system. I forget his name, but the very young Japanese cuber at Worlds who's sub 20 would have something like
19.xx / 7 or 2.75 ish. Say someone is 35 and averages 1:35 this person would also have a 2.75ish in this ranking system. Forgive me if I have the young Japanese cuber's age or fastest average incorrect, I am just going by what I remember. He was absolutely amazing to watch by the way.

This ranking varies directly as time and inversely as age, so very young cubers will have a very large number in this ranking no matter what their solving time.

In short I don't like this ranking, and I don't see a clear way to interpret it at all, but I'll participate anyway :-D

Chris
 
I don't think that it's really anything that makes a difference, just a number that comes up. Obviously it's not really good to compare people with this number for multiple reasons, including one that you said.
 
cmhardw said:
In short I don't like this ranking, and I don't see a clear way to interpret it at all, but I'll participate anyway :-D
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There is actually one (at least), If you compare your SAF to someone in the same age as yours, then it's absolutly fair =)

But, the pointof doing that is none, you can compare times only and get the same result :p

For young cubers you can do the inverse = ISAF.

age / time = Inverse SAF

Rune is about 1.70, a 10 year old solving in 20 seconds gets 0.5 =)
 
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