[WR] Sam Zhixiao Wang Clock single 5.88

[kinch2002]

Done at Guildford Summer Open 2011 by Sam aka r_517. I don't know of his own yt channel if he has one.

WR single 5.88 (4th solve)

3rd solve

5th solve

Average was 11.30, 6.78, 8.15, 5.88, 7.05 = 7.33
Scrambles are here: http://tinypic.com/r/2ykaon4/7

 

[chicken9290]

wow this is pretty sick. this guys got skill. do you think he'll ever break that wr single again

 

[uberCuber]

Wtf, there are so many WR's being broken in such a short period of time....

 

[AustinReed]

Yay! A legit sub-6!

 

[cubersmith]

yey, I judged the 6.78

 

[David1994]

Go Sam!! I get to see him in action tomorrow

 

[jrb]

Did anyone notice that after every solve, he pushes his chair backwards and then moves it back to the table again?

 

[r_517]

Did anyone notice that after every solve, he pushes his chair backwards and then moves it back to the table again?

lol i didn't know why i was doing that...

 

[Tao Yu]

Go Sam!! I get to see him in action tomorrow

Exactly this. I can't wait, even now. I learned the Pochmann method yesterday just because of him. (I played an online clock)

Go Sam! That's amazing!!

 

[kinch2002]

Inb4 Ireland becomes clockpro country

 

[scotzbhoy]

yey, I judged the 6.78

Yay, I judged the WR!

 

[ardi4nto]

At the WR single video: Did he touch the clock before the judge examine it?

 

[tx789]

Even harder to get for woner and this is like the 7th and 8th world records.

 

[superti]

¡¡ congrats ¡¡

 

[Andri Maulana]

At the WR single video: Did he touch the clock before the judge examine it?

Yeah, the clock position change while the judge still clapping?

Correct me if im wrong

 

[AJ Blair]

Did anyone notice that after every solve, he pushes his chair backwards and then moves it back to the table again?

It's probably just a pre-solve or post-solve ritual...I click the reset button on the timer a few times before inspection...I don't know why...I just do!

 

[kinch2002]

Yeah, the clock position change while the judge still clapping?

Correct me if im wrong

I think you're right, but I was spectating it and, as delegate, will vouch for the fact that it was solved when I looked at it, and that he never did any turns after the solve. I think you'll find this sort of thing happens very often in clock solves, mostly because judges aren't told what they have to do rigorously enough. If the judge doesn't immediately pick the puzzle up to check it, it is almost a natural instinct for the competitor to do so.

 

[ardi4nto]

I think you're right, but I was spectating it and, as delegate, will vouch for the fact that it was solved when I looked at it, and that he never did any turns after the solve. I think you'll find this sort of thing happens very often in clock solves, mostly because judges aren't told what they have to do rigorously enough. If the judge doesn't immediately pick the puzzle up to check it, it is almost a natural instinct for the competitor to do so.

I was also judging similar competitor attempt at Indonesian Open 2011.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k1-cvbxnuU&feature=player_embedded
but I gave the competitor a DNF because he touch the clock, although it was solved
It would be Indonesian NR single if it was not DNF.

I was delegate there too.

 

[kinch2002]

I was also judging similar competitor attempt at Indonesian Open 2011 too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k1-cvbxnuU&feature=player_embedded
but I gave the competitor a DNF because he touch the clock, although it was solved
It would be Indonesian NR single if it was not DNF.

I was delegate there too.

How about some of Faz's 3x3 single WRs where someone else picks up the cube before the judge? We going to DNF that now? The judge couldn't see some of the pieces from where he was standing.

 

[ardi4nto]

How about some of Faz's 3x3 single WRs where someone else picks up the cube before the judge? We going to DNF that now? The judge couldn't see some of the pieces from where he was standing.

Well,
I'm not going to judge whether it's DNF or not, you were there and you know what actually happen.
But at your point, I start to think to not-DNF my competitor now.