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I'm not sure if that's true. He's said in podcasts before that he spends a majority of his time practicing 3x3. From what I understand he barely practices 4x4, 6x6, and 7x7.

First average with 4 sub-4s!!!! Insane. Based on his rate of momentum, a pure sub-4 average seems possible this year.

World Best, also known as unofficial world record

I think this is a viable solution, but there are some problems that stick out to me. The first is that there may be poorer areas of the world where not everyone has a phone or camera. Practically I don't know how big of a problem this would be. The second is that there could be some edge cases...

That's true. I'm not familiar with the Chinese cubing community, but my intuition is that if his family asked that he not be filmed, it's not impossible that people would respect that. Again, obviously not the best thing to do, but is the WCA going to ban/penalize him for doing that? In general...

What's stopping Yiheng from not filming his 2x2 solves? Obviously it would be pretty suspicious and I'm not saying it would be the most upright thing to do, but am I right that from the current regulations, it would have allowed basically all his removed WRs to stand? I'm not the biggest expert...

Yeah, obviously 1 second is not materially wasting time. But it's obvious that he intentionally got a worse result than he could have, presumably so he could break the world record more easily in the future. I'm not saying this should be retroactively DNF'd, but this seems to fall under the...

I feel like intentionally sandbagging like that should be against the rules. There's this reg: 2k6) Does not fulfill the event's requirements (e.g. not knowing how to solve the puzzle). A competitor should not compete with the expectation of a DNF result or an intentionally poor result. 2k6+)...

His latest YouTube video was a 4.72 ao12! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O2ehRfGvvo

Well, I have a full-time job, so I was hoping one of the brilliant young kids on this forum could do it :)

Someone should collect all these into a spreadsheet or something, with exact dates of the record and links to videos. Then you could make a website that does this automatically.

The king is back! Man, I remember the first 6x6 WR after I start cubing back in 2015, 1:33.55 by Kevin Hays.

Sebastian winning 4x4 is probably the most likely unexpected win. Feliks and Kevin might be able to podium in 6x6 and 7x7. 3x3 is far too competitive, though.

The simplest answer is that people are willing to buy them at that price. They definitely present themselves as a premium brand, as mentioned above. Out of the top 10, I know Garrett doesn't use Gan, and I wasn't able to confirm for Max (although he has definitely used it in the past before)...

bruh