Factors that affect solve time...

[Meaghan]

I'm doing a research project (A Statistical Analysis of Motor Skills Based on Age and Geographical Location) and I'm using cubes as a means of assessing motor skills.

For the "Geographical Location" part, I am looking at all kinds of different aspects that vary from country to country and how they correlate to time (The mean of the top 100 times from each country in 2011). So far I have looked at Years of Compulsory Education, GDP, Population Density and Number of Internet Users.

If you have any suggestions as to possible parameters for my project, they'd be much appreciated! They can be completely random too.

~Also, if you have any high resolution pictures of anything related to cubes that I can use on my poster as well, that'd be great.

 

[MaeLSTRoM]

Languages used in each country. (The majority of cubing info seems to be in english, so it would be interesting to see how this one turns out)

 

[Specs112]

Having a girlfriend

forever alone...

 

[cubernya]

Not sure about this, but I would assume how bright the colors are.

I'm sure I'm overthinking this

 

[Cheese11]

Having a girlfriend

forever alone...

This is what made my friend quit sort of.

Not sure about this, but I would assume how bright the colors are.

I'm sure I'm overthinking this

This is actually a super duper big factor for me. If I don't have Cubesmith Halfbrights, my time's are about 2 seconds slower.

 

[applemobile]

I like the fact that whoom ever deleted my post thought I was trolling. I really wasn't. Phases of the moon affecting people is an exelent often sturdier scientific phenomena.

 

[Robocopter87]

Amount of people at competition.

Hand Size.

 

[Akash Rupela]

1. How much free time can a person afford
2. How badly does one try to improve
3. Language
4. Genetic abillity to coordinate fingers while moving them fast
5 Efficiency of Fingertricks

 

[Genesis]

How obsessed they are with cubing =)

 

[StachuK1992]

http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?31064
I'm almost offended no one's posted this yet

 

[retep]

Emotions and/or stress (I know why I am angry or frustrated I am very inconsistent, get lots of lockups and even my only pop ever ). I also found (as was mentioned) temperature a big factor, not only do my hands tend to move slower when they are cold, my cube does as well (I think the lube I used, white lithium grease, is temperature sensitive, it feels gummy, like a very viscous liquid slowing down my cube when it is cold, but when it is warm it feels quite nice, like it is kind of melting and a much less viscous liquid that my cube actually slides smoothly on as opposed to trying to push through).

 

[jskyler91]

Time of day, amount of light available, alertness, hydration, comfort with algorithms, intoxication level- caffeine and other..., how many solves you have done, weather, environment/ ability to avoid distractions,stress level, these are just a few that come to mind.

 

[Cool Frog]

I would just like to throw in there, that for an aptitude test I had a while ago they gauged fine motor skills.

I scored in the lower 27th percentile of everyone ever tested there (A VERY large number of people)

 

[zen3]

-Knowledge of algorithms
-Fingertricks

 

[ThomasJE]

• Room temerature
• Mood
• Distractions
• Warming up (earlier/later in an average)
• Lighting
• Sticker colour (size, brightness etc.)

Just a few that I could think of.

 

[Godmil]

Phases of the moon affecting people is an exelent often sturdier scientific phenomena.

However the body of research fails to demonstrate that this is real.

 

[RaresB]

The size of your hands ??