Who is the greatest speedcuber of all time?

[Inusagi]

For me, it was Thrawst. All his videos learned me soo much, and if I were hestitating and asked him, then he always answered. And also, I couldn't figure out how to learn Friedrich back then, but luckly, he had a tutorial on that too (I actually thought that I had to pay money before I could learn it).

 

[Alex DiTuro]

There are more ways to measure 'the greatest' than simply ability and speed.

Who has influenced the sport the most etc?

sport??? O.O You must be joking....

 

[4Chan]

For me, it was matyas, i thought he was amazing.

His 5x5 skill was inspiring!

 

[JBCM627]

There are more ways to measure 'the greatest' than simply ability and speed.

Who has influenced the sport the most etc?

sport??? O.O You must be joking....

Yes, sport. It fits. Even after swimming competitively for 18 years on a national level, I consider cubing a sport.

 

[pcharles93]

There are more ways to measure 'the greatest' than simply ability and speed.

Who has influenced the sport the most etc?

sport??? O.O You must be joking....

Let's take a look at this.
Basketball: Invented by James Naismith with a ball and peach basket. Object is to put a ball through a metal ring. Ancient Native Americans had a similar sport involving a stone hoop perched high up on a stone wall.
Football: Getting a ball that's not even round past a line or over a post. Brute force is used often.
Nascar: Pressing your foot down and turning left.
Drag Racing: Slamming your foot down once you see green.
Cubing: Using intuition, memory, dexterity, pattern recognition, and foresight to solve the most popular puzzle of all time.

Which seems more impressive?

BTW, soccer is the one sport whose players I do respect. It does require a lot of thought on behalf of the players instead of plays being decided by coaches. The field is also huge so the strikers, defenders, and mid-fielders have to work together.

 

[Derrick Eide17]

First, I was amazed by Ryan Gossiaux with his 30 seconds solve and 5 minutes BLD at CTY. That got me into solving the cube.
I got on speedcubing.com and saw the names of many fast cubers from WC2007. I always confuse Harris Chan and Dan Harris.
Then, I got on the Internet and found speedsolving sites of Macky and Chris Hardwick. I realized the Chris was the original master of big cubes and OH. (But he is no longer considered very fast in these categories.) But now he is the best in big cubes BLD. He’s also very friendly.
Later, I got on youtube and found crazy sub-10 people like Harris, Erik, Nakajima, and this mysterious TDcuber person.
I soon found Gabbasoft and I was frustrated by the controls. I went on the UWR and emailed Phil Thomas. At that time, his time on 2x2 Gabbasoft was 6 seconds, I thought that was really amazing. He also suggested me to try IsoCubeSim. That’s when I found out about Michael Gottlieb. And he pretty much held the UWR for every computer cube!
I started to learn my PLLs and I found Lucas Garron’s, Bob Burton’s, and Lars V’s algs. I realized that Lucas’ algs were the best. So I learned them.
I found speedsolving.com (I joined when I saw that super long thread about Kuti) Later, I noticed Mike Hughey, Lofty, Dene, and AvGalen posted a lot. Mike is like Chris, only crazier.
Recently, I’m amazed by Dan Cohen and Derrick Eide; they are awesome at every puzzle.

There are too many awesome cubers, it’s hard to say who is the best.
But the best overall are Dan, Derrick, and Erik.

Wow, I really appreciate that you see my as that good/overall as a cuber
Thanks so much really it means a lot

and like most people on here the best/most inspirational cubers have been mentioned already. but how about now we talk about who we think are the friendliest/nicest cubers ever?

my list would consist of people like

Ron, Erik, Dennis, Wuqiong, Mike, Milan, Dave, Matt, Mondo, Harris, Jean, and Arnaud.

over 85% of these people i have never even met in real ife and some i havent barely even TALKED to but still from internet communication and knowing what kind of person they are i KNOW they are great people still

I know there are MANY MORE but i currently cant think of at that moment so sorry if i didnt include you.

 

[immortalcube]

I believe the greatest/most influential/most famous of cubers was Erno Rubik himself. Don't forget, he made up his own solution to the puzzle before anyone else did, plus he took like a month off from life in general to figure out how to solve it. Now that's what I call dedication! (note the fact that he didn't even believe it was possible to solve it)

I remember how proudly I demonstrated to her [Erno's Mom] when I found the solution of the problem, and how happy she was in the hope that from then on I would not work so hard on it.

LOL

PS (let me preface this by saying that I think racing cars is a stupid waste of fuel, which is probably responsible for the high gas prices now )

Nascar: Pressing your foot down and turning left.
Drag Racing: Slamming your foot down once you see green.

I read an article in Wired magazine about that the other day. (Mouse over the orange lables). Not so easy as you might think.

Cubing: Using intuition, memory, dexterity, pattern recognition, and foresight ...

You also use all of that racing cars too, only if you mess up, you and the people behind you are dead.

(For the record, being 6'4", I play basketball almost exclusively, so I'm prejudiced against all the sports you mentioned )

 

[Andreaillest]

Well for cubers who inspired me are:
Tyson Mao: Inspired me to cube. Saw him on Beauty and the Geek. Sparked my interest.
Yu Nakajima: He inspired me to keep on getting faster. His videos were some of the first speedcubing videos I watched.
Harris Chan: See Yu. Also, he seems like a pretty cool guy.
Ryan Patricio: I was very impressed on his OH solves.
The Dzoans: Read all the above reasons.

Really, any speedcuber is inspiring. They encourage me to keep practicing.

 

[Stefan]

how about now we talk about who we think are the friendliest/nicest cubers ever?

my list would consist of people like

Ron, Erik, Dennis, Wuqiong, Mike, Milan, Dave, Matt, Mondo, Harris, Jean, and Arnaud.

What!? I'm not in that list? Now I'm freakin pissed.

 

[ExoCorsair]

how about now we talk about who we think are the friendliest/nicest cubers ever?

my list would consist of people like

Ron, Erik, Dennis, Wuqiong, Mike, Milan, Dave, Matt, Mondo, Harris, Jean, and Arnaud.

What!? I'm not in that list? Now I'm freakin pissed.

Yeah but it's Derrick so you can take it with a grain of salt.

 

[ThePizzaGuy92]

-Erik is general has to take the cake.
-Yu for 3x3x3 speedsolving
-and Chirs H. is my biggest influence.

EDIT: after the Czech Open 2008, Erik for 3x3x3 also. :] 7.08 + two sub-12 avgs?!

 

[Derrick Eide17]

how about now we talk about who we think are the friendliest/nicest cubers ever?

my list would consist of people like

Ron, Erik, Dennis, Wuqiong, Mike, Milan, Dave, Matt, Mondo, Harris, Jean, and Arnaud.

What!? I'm not in that list? Now I'm freakin pissed.

Yeah but it's Derrick so you can take it with a grain of salt.

Well first im sure stefan was joking and cares less if he would be in my list at all or not, even if i dont think he is one of the friendliest cubers of all, i still respect the hell out of him even if time to time he takes a jab at me or tells me to shut the fu** up. he is a great cuber and i still RESPECT him.

Now exo what did ur post accomplish at all besides insulting me?

 

[ExoCorsair]

Clearly you cannot take a joke either!

 

[Derrick Eide17]

Clearly you cannot take a joke either!

who said i didnt? i didnt flip out on you at all did i? i just the impression i got from your post as how can i not take that impression from what u said?
hug?

 

[HelloiamChow]

There was a time when Macky was lapping the field at every competition he went to. But still, not enough time has passed for us to really see a period of greatness.

 

[Alex DiTuro]

There are more ways to measure 'the greatest' than simply ability and speed.

Who has influenced the sport the most etc?

sport??? O.O You must be joking....

Let's take a look at this.
Basketball: Invented by James Naismith with a ball and peach basket. Object is to put a ball through a metal ring. Ancient Native Americans had a similar sport involving a stone hoop perched high up on a stone wall.
Football: Getting a ball that's not even round past a line or over a post. Brute force is used often.
Nascar: Pressing your foot down and turning left.
Drag Racing: Slamming your foot down once you see green.
Cubing: Using intuition, memory, dexterity, pattern recognition, and foresight to solve the most popular puzzle of all time.

Which seems more impressive?

BTW, soccer is the one sport whose players I do respect. It does require a lot of thought on behalf of the players instead of plays being decided by coaches. The field is also huge so the strikers, defenders, and mid-fielders have to work together.

Ahem, Football, thank you very much. I think its absolutely ridculous that the us and canada call it soccer, considering everyone else evrywhere calls it football. Its THE most popular sport in the world and it should be respected.

NASCAR is in no way a sport. Just another reason for hics to drink beer and act like freakin retards. I don't consider gaming a sport, either. I usually consider an activity a sport if it requires phyical activity(basketball = yes chess=no). But hey, everyone's entitled to their opninion.

 

[pcharles93]

I only used the word soccer because I used football in the same post. I suppose I could've called it American football as told by my French instructor.

 

[Hadley4000]

I am a big hater os NASCAR. But, it actually is a sport. It takes serious serious endurance to to able to handle the track for that period of time, and at that speed. Drivers are known to lose almost 10 pounds of water through their sweat in 1 race.

Like I said. I am in no way a hick, and find NASCAR boring as hell. But I respect it.

As far as cubing, I'd say it's a mind sport.

 

[hawkmp4]

Sure, its a mind sport...
But think of the dexterity and precision in turning that's needed to get even under a minute.

 

[JBCM627]

Sure, its a mind sport...
But think of the dexterity and precision in turning that's needed to get even under a minute.

Relative to an equivalent level in other sports, it isnt that significant. I'd say that sub-1:00 its like running a sub-7:00 mile... achievable in only a few weeks (if you can't do it already), and you don't need to be in very good shape. In swimming (for those who know times), I'd say its like a 2:00 100m swim... again, not at all fast, and easily achievable.

Comparatively, the people who train to run and swim train up to 5 or 6 hours daily for quite a few years. It is only after this that they get down to sub-4:00 miles, or sub-0:50 100m swims. I'd say that cubing is still nowhere near its potential, as nobody has trained (that I know of) to this extent yet, and if anyone has, it is certainly very few.

Even getting past the 20-second barrier is somewhat feeble compared to the dedication some runners/swimmers put in. It took me very little time to achieve my current competition average of 15.42 and national rank of 31, whereas in swimming, even after 18 years of it (yes, up to 6 hours a day!) I had trouble scraping above a top 30 national rank that was still limited to people in my age group.