Odd WCA stats/ Stats request Thread

CRO said:
Apparently it's impossible to get certian times using the Stackmat timer.
http://www.stefan-pochmann.info/misc/stackmat/qj_accuracy.png

Okay, but how did the winner of first round of magic here got a .98?
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Only the vast majority of used timers were this faulty. Gen 1 timers for example didn't have the problem. Don't know what timer was used there. Here's a more complete picture: http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/s...st-please-help&p=372945&viewfull=1#post372945 and http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/s...st-please-help&p=372966&viewfull=1#post372966
 
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Impressive difference between continents !
Code: 
Continent      1-day competitions   Total competitions  Ratio
Europe         165                  405                 0.41
South America  30                   62                  0.48
Asia           260                  356                 0.73
Oceania        16                   21                  0.76
North America  291                  310                 0.94
 
That reminds me... I was looking at 2 or 3 days competitions in India. Why they only hold so few events over a course of 2 or 3 days is a mystery...

Take for example DJ Speedcubing Open 2011: http://www.worldcubeassociation.org...l+Results&competitionId=DJSpeedcubingOpen2011

Only a total of 18 solves per competitor was offered for a 2 day competition.

EDIT: I'm not so surprised, take a look at the schedule.

DAY 1:
TIMINGS EVENTS
11.30-2:00 3x3 eliminators
2:30-4:00 One handed
4:30-7:00 3x3 eliminators
DAY 2:
TIMINGS EVENTS
9.30-12:30 Blind-folded
12:30-2:00 3x3 Finals
2:00-2:30 prize distribution

I suppose it's a lack of equipment perhaps? I hope it wasn't one competitor at a time on one stackmat timer >_>
 
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It might have been something like that... that's pretty ludicrous. Maybe they only trust the delegate to do judging or something.

edit: 2.5 hours for the 3x3 finals? That's only 80 solves... which works out to about 1:50 per solve. That's unbelievably slow even for one timer.
 
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qqwref said:
And a little bonus, top ten sub15 and sub20 streaks:

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sub20:
personId      personName             streak
2008BARA01    Bence Barát               279
2005REYN01    Tim Reynolds              259
2007NAKA03    Yu Nakajima               228
2009DIEC01    Cornelius Dieckmann       226
2007POLK01    Adam Polkowski            224
2009SPRI01    Alexander Springhorn      223
2006OKAY01    Yohei Oka                 218
2009MORI05    Paolo Moriello            213
2007TAMA02    John Tamanas              193
2010UTOM01    Vincent Hartanto Utomo    192
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Oh cool. Ironically, I broke my streak of 259 sub-20s in the first 3x3 final round that I won, when I accidentally swapped two F2L corners. So I broke my losing streak at the same time as I broke that sub-20 streak. After that solve I've done another 96 sub-20 solves...that would have been a nice streak. Bence's streak is still ongoing, and dates back to Romanian Open 2010.

So, anyone want to try to make a list of the highest number of consecutive weeks with a competition? I'd like to see that list :D I promise I'm not planning to compete next weekend.
 
Could we have a 'medal table' for the all rankings? (E.g., for 3x3 single, Australia has gold, Japan has silver and Poland has bronze) Also, how do you get these stats?
 
ThomasJE said:
Could we have a 'medal table' for the all rankings? (E.g., for 3x3 single, Australia has gold, Japan has silver and Poland has bronze) Also, how do you get these stats?
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He downloads the WCA database and runs SQL queries on it.

I tried to upload the WCA database to the server I have running on my computer and it said it was too big :p Hopefully I can get it to upload to another one I know of (that's online)
 
Robert-Y said:
That reminds me... I was looking at 2 or 3 days competitions in India. Why they only hold so few events over a course of 2 or 3 days is a mystery...

Take for example DJ Speedcubing Open 2011: http://www.worldcubeassociation.org...l+Results&competitionId=DJSpeedcubingOpen2011

Only a total of 18 solves per competitor was offered for a 2 day competition.

EDIT: I'm not so surprised, take a look at the schedule.

DAY 1:
TIMINGS EVENTS
11.30-2:00 3x3 eliminators
2:30-4:00 One handed
4:30-7:00 3x3 eliminators
DAY 2:
TIMINGS EVENTS
9.30-12:30 Blind-folded
12:30-2:00 3x3 Finals
2:00-2:30 prize distribution

I suppose it's a lack of equipment perhaps? I hope it wasn't one competitor at a time on one stackmat timer >_>
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Yup, it *IS* lack of equipment.
In Mumbai Open 2012, they only had 2 timers to handle around 80 competitors. I suggested the organizer to make the format of 3x3 Best of 2 and others events to combined final with cut-offs, otherwise we'll run out of time.

I don't know how about the previous competitions though..
 
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Kian said:
I am also interested. I suppose you will be way down the list nowadays, though.
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No way, I'm still up there. Though I'm going to drop off now post-nationals.

Another request, who has been to a lot of competitions without competing much?
Number of rounds competed divided by number of competitions attended, ranked by lowest. For example, at US Nationals, Aaron Lester would get nine rounds. Total cumulative rounds over total competitions.
Who would be lowest? Tyson maybe?
Edit: No, that doesn't work, it'll just be a bunch of one competition one round of 3x3 people. How to calculate what I'm asking? Lowest value of rounds/competitions for each value of competitions?
 
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Just found something a bit funny.

Mirek Goljan who represents Czech Republic broke/tied the FM WR twice and the FM WR was broken/tied twice in Czech Republic, but Mirek has never broken the WR in Czech Republic.
 
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