Event with the least attention-feet?

[qqwref]

And it should be because it's stupid and shouldn't be an event.

Yup.

I feel like when you say you can even do it with one hand the reaction is "wow, that's impressive, show me", but when you say you can even do it with your feet the reaction is "lol ew" or "you must be really obsessed with that thing".

Also, from my perspective, OH has advanced so much over time, with new algs, orient-first techniques, better turning styles and grips, etc. to the point where it's so much deeper than you'd expect. On the other hand, after all this time, the biggest advances in feet seem to be "use your big toe" and "you can actually do U turns", and the best averages are still around 30 seconds, which is a lot (as in, using feet is still a gigantic handicap).

 

[Kit Clement]

I agree that feet is often discriminated against, but it certainly is not the event with the least attention. It gets a lot of attention just because people hate it so much. Clock gets way less attention than feet.

Depends on where you go, really. Here in the midwest, with Evan, Ryan, Nathan and myself, we usually give clock a good showing. And a significant majority of the competitions in the midwest have had clock in 2013. Over here, feet definitely gets less attention.

 

[antoineccantin]

Yup.

I feel like when you say you can even do it with one hand the reaction is "wow, that's impressive, show me", but when you say you can even do it with your feet the reaction is "lol ew" or "you must be really obsessed with that thing".

Also, from my perspective, OH has advanced so much over time, with new algs, orient-first techniques, better turning styles and grips, etc. to the point where it's so much deeper than you'd expect. On the other hand, after all this time, the biggest advances in feet seem to be "use your big toe" and "you can actually do U turns", and the best averages are still around 30 seconds, which is a lot (as in, using feet is still a gigantic handicap).

Actually, if I say I can do it with my feet, people are usually like "OMG I WANNA SEE!" or "It's fake I saw it on mythbusters :fp".

It's just dem silly americans which think it's gross

 

[mark49152]

Most people have manky feet. Even watching foot solves on Youtube makes me think ewww. I feel sorry for the scramblers...

 

[Noahaha]

Depends on where you go, really. Here in the midwest, with Evan, Ryan, Nathan and myself, we usually give clock a good showing. And a significant majority of the competitions in the midwest have had clock in 2013. Over here, feet definitely gets less attention.

I just meant overall attention from the community, not frequency in competition. I've been to around 5 comps with clock and only one with feet, but people still talk about feet 10x as often as clock.

 

[Kit Clement]

I just meant overall attention from the community, not frequency in competition. I've been to around 5 comps with clock and only one with feet, but people still talk about feet 10x as often as clock.

Yeah, that's fair, just two different measures of attention. Although there's not too much to talk about clock, really. You can talk about pin patterns and how you handle lucky cases, but that's about it.

 

[Kirjava]

Feet draws speedcubing away from '100m sprint' type legitimacy towards 'most marbles held in mouth' inanity.

It's been inherited from the start of the new modern era of speedcubing where cubing was some novel thing.

 

[sneaklyfox]

No, it isn't logical in any way. It's ridiculous for ridiculous sake. I understand that you enjoy it and I'm not trying to get at you for it but it is less logical in my opinion than solving with elbows.

How often does the average person open a door using a handle with their elbow compared to feet? Much more often I would wager. Why? Because it is more easier to do so.

I suppose I should've come up with a better example but I honestly can't think of anything I would use my feet for if I can't use my hand for some reason.

You use your elbows for opening doors instead of feet because of where the door-knob is. If you dropped a pencil on the floor and couldn't use your hand to pick it up, you would not get down and use your elbows to pick up a pencil now, would you? Anatomically, a foot is closer to a hand than an elbow is.

But personally, I have no interest in feet solving.

 

[~Adam~]

I would never pick a pencil up with my feet. I would open a door with my elbow.

Also it may be anatomically closer but that is arbitrary. Elbows are physically closer. Also meaningless.

 

[sneaklyfox]

I would never pick a pencil up with my feet. I would open a door with my elbow.

You would use your teeth?

 

[~Adam~]

No. However I may try a mouth solve later.

 

[sneaklyfox]

Ok, what WOULD you use to pick up a pencil on the floor if you could not use your hand to pick it up... say it was because you couldn't bend down but you can use your hand after it gets above a certain height?

 

[~Adam~]

So my hands could potentially take the pencil from between my toes for example? I would use my @&£%ing hands.

Come up with an example where using my feet is actually beneficial. Edit - as an alternative to using your hands.

 

[antoineccantin]

So my hands could potentially take the pencil from between my toes for example? I would use my @&£%ing hands.

Come up with an example where using my feet is actually beneficial.

Football.

 

[~Adam~]

Yes. I would in fact play football with my feet incased in socks and boots.

 

[uniacto]

So my hands could potentially take the pencil from between my toes for example? I would use my @&£%ing hands.

Come up with an example where using my feet is actually beneficial.

walking.

 

[~Adam~]

Once again requires very little dexterity in your feet. You guys are just proving my point but please continue.

 

[uniacto]

Once again requires very little dexterity in your feet. You guys are just proving my point but please continue.

"once again"? Since when did you say that you wanted an example that required your feet to have dexterity?

What point? Please clarify.

 

[EMI]

I don't think many people take feet solving extremely serious. However I like that it can be great fun at competitions, especially when people have pops (speaking from own experience ). Also I think non-cubers actually are impressed by feet (the typical description of speedcubing often includes that they solve it "even with their feet"). I know people that found feet more impressive than BLD.

 

[antoineccantin]

I don't think many people take feet solving extremely serious. However I like that it can be great fun at competitions, especially when people have pops (speaking from own experience ). Also I think non-cubers actually are impressed by feet (the typical description of speedcubing often includes that they solve it "even with their feet"). I know people that found feet more impressive than BLD.

I agree. In fact, at a school talent show I did an OH solve, a BLD solve and a feet solve and they seemed at least as impressed with the feet solve as the BLD solve.