Who is THE cuber of 2007

[Erik]

who do you think is THE cuber of 2007? Is it Yu Nakajima, fresh world champion, is it Matyas Kuti, the wonderboy? Share! (sorry I put myself on it too..)

 

[Dyste]

Well, I chose Yu, because he's a very good sub-12 solver, and he seems to be able to become fast within months at whatever he starts twisting/turning. However, I suppose he isn't as all-around as Mr. Akkersdijk, but he's brilliant at what he focuses on.

 

[Sin-H]

I chose Erik because he set up a lot of world records this year and he's world class in every event.

If it would just be for 3x3, I'd vote for Yu Nakajima.

 

[Pedro]

voted for Gungz (Yu Jeong-Min), because he set the avg WR almost a year ago and nobody was able to beat it this year

 

[Leo]

Voted for Erik, he's just all around great at cubing. Yu is champ at 3x3, and Matyas is awesome at BLD (while I cant even complete a BLD ) but I dont think either of them are as good in a variety of things as Erik.

 

[Radu]

matyas for all what he did...although only the mbld 15 would have been enough

 

[LarsN]

I only started speedcubing this year, and the name that kept popping up and amazed me the most was: Mátyás Kuti

Well, BLD is my prefered event

 

[AvGalen]

I would like to vote for both Mátyás and Erik, both if I can only vote for one person it has to be Mátyás.
Both of them are really good on every cube (2-3-4-5). Mátyás is better on puzzles like Magic/Clock/Pyraminx/Square-1, but Erik beats him on feet, fewest moves and megaminx. The deciding factor is blindfolded, where Mátyás is simply much better than Erik.

Just look at this list to see why none of the others come even close to Mátyás and Erik (a top 10 overall would have been a good idea, but I guess these 2 lists are the best comparison available right now: http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/statistics.php#8 and http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/statistics.php#4)

 

[Rama]

So hard between Mátyás and Erik.

 

[alexc]

Voted for Matyas. Erik would be my second vote. They are both very well rounded. If it was just 3x3, I would vote Yu Nakajima, Eduoard Chambon, or Yu Jeong Min.

 

[jeff081692]

I vote for Erik. I have a new respect for people that can solve the megaminx in less than 2 minutes.

 

[Speedy McFastfast]

I voted for Erik, for a few reasons.

One: He's better at the 3x3 than me.
Two: He has mad minx skillz. (had to spell it with a Z )
Three: I have never like Matyas much.



Go Erik!

 

[joey]

I voted for Erik, for a few reasons.

One: He's better at the 3x3 than me.
Two: He has mad minx skillz. (had to spell it with a Z )
Three: I have never like Matyas much.



Go Erik!

Not being rude, but everyone up there is better than you at 3x3

Also, why havn't you liked Matyas? He's very nice.

 

[Erik]

Yes Mátyás IS VERY nice. Besides being my hero he's my friend too, I love him!

 

[Speedy McFastfast]

I once talked with Matyas on MSN, due to a chat invite my friend sent me. Matyas said hi, and after a while said something like "So do you know who I am?"

I answered, "Yeah, you're Matyas, the one people seem to worship like a god."

He just sent a smile in response.

I also saw a video of him breaking the 5x5 world record, and at the end he didn't seem surprised, or happy, at all. I don't care if you're used to breaking world records or not, you could at least smile about it =-/

I guess that was just a bad first impression. I was under the impression, "I'm better than everyone, so kiss my @$$" Maybe this isn't what he intended, but it's the impression I got.

Matyas also said something about the Twistypuzzles forums being stupid because people ask for algs/help with puzzles. I found this annoying, seeing as I am one of those people who has a lot of trouble figuring things out without at least a little help.

So, in the end, I have only talked with Matyas once or twice, and I didn't get a very good vibe either time. Comparing this to the fact that I have either never talked with most of the people on that list, and the fact that the people I have talked with (Umm... Is Erik the only one?) have been nice to me, I just didn't vote for Matyas.




@ Joey: Ha ha, ok, so everyone on there is faster at me than 3x3. I guess it isn't a hard feat to do, eh?

 

[Erik]

Why should someone be obliged to smile after a WR? I wasn't all cheers myself at the minx WR in Sweden as you can see on the vid. Point is that every cuber has it's own zone of good and bad times. For some a 40 sec is great, for some a 14 is bad. When someone does a 40 sec and is mad about it nobody seems to care. But when someone does a 14 and is mad about it, most cubers are like: wow wtf be happy man I never can do that. I think this is also what happened here.
Oh and Mátyás doesn't like these forums because everyone will be like: oh Mátyás how do you do this? How do you do that? What kind of cube do you use? How can I learn the cube? It's quite annoying to be honest after a while. Personally I just ignore those stupid questions and answer the good ones

 

[Lotsofsloths]

Add Harris Chan and I'll vote..

 

[Kenneth]

I can't aswer because the question is not clear to me.

Does it mean "best 3x3x3 cuber" or "best over all cuber".

If it is the first I say Eduoard, no doubt but if it is th second then it's definitly Matyas - Milan - Erik (Michael Gottlieb is a runner up, many nice results) I rank as the best three cubers (over all cubers is the most intresting when it comes to rank, to get good in only one event is much much easier than to become good over all)

 

[Mike Hughey]

I voted for Mátyás, but Erik is a very close second. I just have to pick Mátyás, though, since I haven't yet heard of Erik doing a 5x5x5 BLD, so that means there's actually something I do better than Erik!

 

[joey]

I chose Matyas, because he has made myself push myself even further in regards to BLD.
I would have picked Erik, jsut because he is awesome.
Ron because of everything he has done for speedcubing and he is a great guy.
Joel Van Noort, again a very nice guy, and a good roomate in Budapest