antoineccantin
Legend
- Joined
- Nov 8, 2010
- Messages
- 5,471
- Location
- near Ottawa, Canada
- WCA ID
- 2010CANT02
- YouTube
- Visit Channel
No Edward's 29.4x was wayyyyy less noticed than Rowe's NAR.
World Championships 2013 - Las Vegas
- Thread starter Tyson
- Start date
-
- Tags
- championship world
No Edward's 29.4x was wayyyyy less noticed than Rowe's NAR.
uvafan
Veteran
Edward's 29.4x was also an LL Skip.
But yeah, I agree on the premise that good times should be more noticed.
XTowncuber
Veteran
Edward's 29.4x was also an LL Skip.
But yeah, I agree on the premise that good times should be more noticed.
I think he used WV, so it's not as lucky as an LL skip. Still pretty lucky though.
Evan Liu
Veteran
To anyone who has congratulated me for or commented on my clock WR average: thank you. It felt so good to get it after failing to even improve my NAR for 5 rounds! 
The DNF was a 6.42, so the average would have been 6.59 if I had just turned the clock one hour more at the end, but at least I already knew it was WR after the 4th solve. Also, I missed becoming world champion by 0.01 seconds, but I'd take getting WR over becoming world champion any day. I hope I get to keep the WR for more than one week! (Pierre has a competition tomorrow.)
I have no videos, only a picture of the scorecard with my clock, so I don't think this deserves a new thread.
The DNF was a 6.42, so the average would have been 6.59 if I had just turned the clock one hour more at the end, but at least I already knew it was WR after the 4th solve. Also, I missed becoming world champion by 0.01 seconds, but I'd take getting WR over becoming world champion any day. I hope I get to keep the WR for more than one week! (Pierre has a competition tomorrow.)
I have no videos, only a picture of the scorecard with my clock, so I don't think this deserves a new thread.
masterofthebass
Premium Member
At least I can outdrink it.
So did you. 3 times in a row.
You might think that now because it's your first WR, but the chance to be world champion only comes around once every two years and it happens way less often than a WR. Think about the fact there's only been 6 clock world champions ever.
Carrot
Veteran
I still think WR is better than being world champion! (3rd, 2nd and 2nd are my latest three attempts at getting the title)
Dene
Premium Member
Both are important in their own right. However generally in sport, being world champion is considered to be more important than holding a world record or being the #1 team (specifically in reference to general rankings, such as the FIFA world rankings, as opposed to rankings within a tournament, such as the EPL). For example, I'm sure Roger Federer enjoyed being ranked #1 in the world in tennis, but I doubt that meant as much to him as winning all those grand slams. Another example: I'm sure Usain Bolt enjoys holding the 100m WR, but that is nothing in comparison to winning the Olympics.
XTowncuber
Veteran
Carrot. I agree. you can get a lame average and still be world champion. Not so with world records. Carrot.
Username
Legend
Does Carrot come from Os-Carrot-Andersen? (Figured it out myself btw)
Stefan
Legend
masterofthebass
Premium Member
And you can also be WR holder for an hour. I think being the first world champion at 6x6 is more recognizable than Claes Hedin being the first WR holder for about 3 hours. And typically, if you get a "lame" average, you still end up beating the best competition in the world at an event like WC. There's actually a competition that you won and beat your opponents, regardless of what the result was.
antoineccantin
Legend
- Joined
- Nov 8, 2010
- Messages
- 5,471
- Location
- near Ottawa, Canada
- WCA ID
- 2010CANT02
- YouTube
- Visit Channel
In most sports, being world champion or winner of the Olympics is most prestigious, however, in cubing, many of the fast people don't always go to the World Championships, so I would think having the world record is better.
PeelingStickers
Veteran
Zed, not Zee goddammit
masterofthebass
Premium Member
I'm fairly certain Feliks is way happier with his world championship than his WR.
XTowncuber
Veteran
I can't speak for Feliks, but I think his first goal was WR. Becoming the world champion made him really happy because it was sort of the last thing on his checklist. I fail to see how winning a big competition is better than being the best in the world. I think Carrot's world record pyraminx average is much cooler than my world championship. I would gladly trade with him.
dbax0999
Veteran
In 5 years would you rather say "I had the world record in 2013" or "I was the 2013 world champion"? I think the latter.
Noahaha
blindmod
If I had to choose one, I'd choose WR of course. If I already had some WRs, I'd take World champion.
masterofthebass
Premium Member
Wait until you get both and see which one feels more important. Being at a competition and beating the best people in the world in a head to head competition is a far better feeling than just getting a good average at a local competition without anyone else being remotely close in skill. Especially in an event like pyra, where a result can be completely scramble-dependent, the even playing field of winning a round proves so much more who the best in the world is.
Carrot
Veteran
I was kind of kidding, given that I have never had the chance of being world champion (I'm happy with what I have)
But if you have never been world champion, how can you judge what that's like?
I multiplied being european champion with 7.
also:
DYK…
… Drew Brads is an alien?
… Mike, Bobby and Canadian guy are epic company?
… I actually know the name of the Canadian guy now (Julian David?)?
… Noah Ricci and Andrew Arthurs are the same person?
… Uwe Meffert is forever my only friend?
… Pyra Guy (Felix Lee) is better at learning mega alg than Mega Guy (Nick Rech)?
… But Nick knows Odder-notation for mega, so I taught him an OLL with this description “Just do the funny CP and mess it up half ways”?
… Odder-metric (3x3x3) N-perm?
… Harris Chan was there?
… Harris Chan told me that 100 moves in 5 seconds is 20 tps?
… Therefore I have higher max turn speed on mega than pyra?
… Because I did sexy*6 in 1.05? (Harris, upload the 1.1)
… Drew Brads is fast?
… I’m not kidding. He is fast!?
… I finally got my hands on Lubix lube?
… Teflon lube is weird?
… Carrot?
… Las Vegas is warm!
… NR 3x3x3 avg with 1 second with Zane’s cube? (could have been 2 seconds if I hadn’t messed up 2 scrambles)
… Zane is still my favourite friend?
… I owe Zane a new cube because I threw it away xD?
… I have a timer that looks exactly like mine, but it’s not? (who owns the same timer as I have in my vids?)
… So many people knew me, but I had no clue who they were?
… People are fast at Megaminx?
… I did wrong LL for 3 first solves in the Pyraminx final?
… On average during the whole competition I did almost 2.5 LL’s per pyra solve?
… I can’t get times over 1 minute for Megaminx, 5 PLL algs….?
… I won the Megaminx show-off race? But no one cares about that anyway…
… I got 4th for Megaminx, even though it was the only event I had practiced for the competition?
… I don’t remember when I last time solved more than 50 pyra solves in a row without breaks… (might explain why I kept doing wrong LLs)?
… Ranzha is fast at Skewb!
… Where is Bobby?
… DYK is weird to write?
Stefan
Legend
Getting the (official) world record doesn't mean you're the best in the world. It depends on the scrambles, plus someone who never even competes officially could be the real best in the world.
You both sound like typical cases of you always want what you don't have
Last edited:
Similar threads
- Locked
