Cubers you should have heard of

KConny said:
Thanks Mike. We were thinking about Guimond but decided to cut him. Didn't know what to write, he's such a strange man. And about Marcus Stuhr, he never did compete. He was REALLY fast. But didn't influence the community enough? And Guus, you're right. He could be there. Great FMC'er, but so is Per and Mirek, but he also competed in the first WC, which makes him a bit more interesting. We've tried to keep the list short. But I can be persuaded.
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Those arguments make sense. If Marcus hadn't had such an uncomfortable relationship with the rest of the cubing community, he might have had a greater influence (and BLD might have been significantly different than it is today), but I agree that as it is, he didn't. And certainly it would be a challenge to write the comment about Guimond. I mainly thought of adding these two because new people might hear their names mentioned and wonder what the stories are behind them, and they both certainly have colorful stories.

As for Guus, yes, it was the extra boost of being in the first WC that made me suggest him. Otherwise I would have included Per and Mirek as well.
 
In December 1999 I found Chris Hardwick and Ton Dennenbroek via the computer game Rubik's Games. There used to be a website rubiksgames.com where you could post best results for that game. Chris already knew Dan Knights. Dan and his friend Matt Wilder were also speedcubing.
The five of us started this community, but it was Chris who started the Yahoo forum. So basically it was Chris who brought us all together.

Although I like Jessica very much, and she was the first to publish the CFOP method on INTERNET, I have books from October 1981 (long before WC 1982) where the CFOP method is already fully described. That is why I will never call it the Fridrich method. In 1981/1982 I used cross/F2L/CLL/ELL.

Have fun,

Ron
 
rahulkadukar said:
Guys where is Ville Sepannen. I dont think anyone will even be able to touch his insane BLD times (Once he succeeds in 5x5x5 BLD :D)
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As KConny mentioned in the first post we tried to keep the list short,so we singled out people like Dan Cohen and Ville Säppenen. They are indeed very successful, but are relatively new in the cubing community, so most people have good knowledge of their achivements already. We tried to focus mostly on historical information.

Of course it's hard to draw the line on who to include or not, so if anyone feels to mention other people, please write a few lines about them, instead of just posting the name.
 
For Anssi's description:

It was not Norrköping Open 2006 it was called SveKub2006 even though it was held in Norrköping.

Norrköping open was last year 2009.

I like the list very much.
 
I think Olly Hayden (stiff_hands) was the first to publish a blindfold solving method.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/angela.hayden/cube/cube_frontpage.html

I think Dave Orser (slow_cuber) was the first to solve 10 cubes multiple blindfolded.

I think Jess Bonde was the first to do a 24 hour cube marathon.

I think Suehiro Kondo was the first modern age speedcuber from Japan.

I think Tony Snyder thinks he was the first person to apply God's algorithm on a cube scrambled with 15 moves.

David Wesley was the first to win medals in 3x3, 4x4 and 5x5 during one World Championship. Erik Akkersdijk was the second.

Btw. I met 19/21. Minh Thai and Gungz still missing. I spoke to Minh on the phone.
 
Ron: Thanks for the information. People that found the first post interesting will eventually read you post as well.

Mike Hughey said:
I mainly thought of adding these two because new people might hear their names mentioned and wonder what the stories are behind them, and they both certainly have colorful stories.
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That's another hard thing to do for me/us. The stories behind those cubers isn't as easy to find as Erik A's results. But that is indeed the reason why that information should be posted here. I'm not just sure about their stories and don't want to get it wrong. It also tends to look a bit like gossip, which isn't what were looking for.
 
Shadet said:
Why You didn't write about Tomasz Zolnowski, WR holder in 3x3x3 AVG ?
He is great 3x3x3 cuber, after all....
Shame on You...... -_-
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Thanks. The answer to that question as been given more than once now. Did you even read the first post?

It's just so useless. I knew these questions would arise so i thought it would be a good idea to answer them in the very first paragraph. It seems that it didn't help. Common people, if you're reading a thread, READ it.
 
KConny said:
Shadet said:
Why You didn't write about Tomasz Zolnowski, WR holder in 3x3x3 AVG ?
He is great 3x3x3 cuber, after all....
Shame on You...... -_-
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Thanks. The answer to that question as been given more than once now. Did you even read the first post?

It's just so useless. I knew these questions would arise so i thought it would be a good idea to answer them in the very first paragraph. It seems that it didn't help. Common people, if you're reading a thread, READ it.
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Its not specific enough...
Awesome thread btw. I just learned a lot of new things.
 
Yeah, i read the first post... Whatsoever, at my opinion , at Speedcubing, where the main Rubik's Cube is 3x3x3, You should include person like him....
According to Your first post, You didnt include Dan Cohen becasue everyone knows Him, so why did You include worlwide famous Erik ?
 
Erik has/had a total of 32 world records. Tomasz has/had two.
Dan got all 13, except one, of his world records last year. Eriks been breaking world records since 2007.
 
miniGOINGS said:
Cyrus C. said:
EDIT3: Isn't Roux more popular than Petrus?
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I'm pretty sure that Petrus is the second most popular 3x3 speedcubing method, with Fridrich as the first. I checked the Wiki.
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Well, of the two polls I could find on the issue Roux is excluded from both.
http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10960
http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16971
Regardless, based on the results from first link Petrus was more popular (assuming Roux users voted as 'Other').

... apologies for the offtopicness!
 
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