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    Inter-University Cube Relay 2016-2017

    Welcome to the sixth year of Inter-University Cube Relay! Japanese universities kicked things off later than usual this year, competing head-to-head in a relay competition at Circle Open 2017 Spring on March 4, 2017. For scrambles, rules, and registration, see the official relay page. There's...
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    Negative Time Solving Contest 2016

    It's the 13th year of the annual Negative Time Solving Contest! DST (Daylight Saving Time) ends in most parts of the United States and Canada at 2am on Sunday, November 6. See Time and Date.com to check the clock change schedule in your area. There's also a Facebook event page (scheduled at...
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    Inter-University Cube Relay 2015-2016

    For rules and registration, see the official relay page. Facebook event Welcome to the fifth year of Inter-University Cube Relay! Once again, Japanese universities will kick things off this year when they go head-to-head in a relay competition at the UT Open 2015 on November 23. Scrambles...
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    Negative Time Solving Contest 2014

    It's the 11th year of the annual Negative Time Solving Contest! DST (Daylight Saving Time) ends in many countries in Europe during the weekend of October 24, and in most parts of the United States and Canada at 2am on Sunday, November 2. See Time and Date.com to check the clock change...
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    Inter-University Cube Relay 2014-2015

    For rules and registration, see the official relay page. Facebook event Welcome to the fourth year of Inter-University Cube Relay! Once again, Japanese universities will kick things off this year when they go head-to-head in a relay competition at the UT Open on November 23. Scrambles should...
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    Inter-University Cubing Relay 2013-2014

    For rules and registration, see the official relay page. Welcome to the third year of Inter-University Cube Relay! Once again, Japanese universities will kick things off this year when they go head-to-head in a relay competition at the UT Open on November 24. Scrambles should become available...
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    Negative Time Solving Contest 2013

    Continuing with what has now become a tradition, I'm once again organizing the annual Negative Time Solving Contest. The scrambles for this year and the time submission form will be posted there soon. DST (Daylight Saving Time) ends in many countries in Europe during the weekend of October 26...
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    Inter-University Cubing Relay 2012-2013

    For rules and registration, see the official relay page. Welcome to the second year of Inter-University Cube Relay! Once again, several Japanese universities will go head to head at Tokyo University Open this Sunday to start things up. Universities have long been centers of competitive cubing...
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    Negative Time Solving Contest 2012

    Sorry Europe! I've been doing nothing but math and completely forgot that DST ends a week earlier for you. __ Continuing with what has now become a tradition, I'm once again organizing the annual Negative Time Solving Contest. The scrambles for this year and the time submission form will...
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    Sumo wrestling in Las Vegas

    warning: strong language
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    [wiki] What are you famous for?

    As some of you know, I've been writing wiki articles on Category:Notable Cubers, among others. Many are still rough. Here are some decent ones: Gaétan Guimond, Bob Burton, Stefan Pochmann. My original hope was for others to contribute as much content. That hasn't happened except on a very few...
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    Guinness attempt in Plainsboro NJ: most people solving the cube

    Passing on some info. http://recordcubers.blogspot.com/ Organized by the West Windsor/Plainsboro school district May 19th, 4pm High School North Plainsboro, New Jersey I met the organizers the other day. It sounds like most participants will be the students in the district (they're...
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    Please vote for IndePedals and bring electricity to rural Africa

    My roommate at Princeton, Mark Pavlyukovskyy, asked me to spread the word about his project. By voting online, you can help him win up to $50,000 in funds to bring electrical power to rural villages in Africa. Cool stuff. macky Message from Mark: While on a semester abroad in Oxford...
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    WCA Statistics Website

    Since the official WCA Statistics page is necessarily limited in scope, I'm setting up a WCA Statistics Website (thanks Lucas!). For now, I've put an All-Time World Championship Medal Table. Goals: * (unofficial) updated statistics on one website * user-submitted statistics code (php and MySQL)...
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    Introducing the 1st Worldwide Inter-University Cubing Relay

    For rules and registration, see the competition page. Universities have long been centers of competitive cubing, and many top cubers are university students. The question is natural: Which university has the best cubing team in the world? This unofficial contest is inspired by a relay event...
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    Negative Time Solving Contest 2011

    Continuing with what has now become a tradition, I'm once again organizing the annual Negative Time Solving Contest. The scrambles for this year and the time submission form will soon be posted. DST (Daylight Saving Time) ends at 3am on Sunday, October 30 in many European countries. In most...
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    [Unofficial] 35 minutes of F2L tricks by JUN

    Japanese color scheme, red cross JUN's F2L tricks, posted on Sinpei's blog, were one of the main inspirations for my Advanced F2L pages. Thanks to Dude for the link. Now I need to look for things I've missed and update my site. [edit] I had almost everything already.
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    A Collection of Cubing Curiosities

    http://cubefreak.net/other/curiosities.php Please suggest inclusions. There must be some real gems in A Collection of Algorithms.
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    Interviewing Nakajima: taking questions!

    I'm translating.
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    Things cubers want non-cubers to understand

    http://cubefreak.net/articles/fornoncubers.html This is meant to be a first read for non-cubers with any interest whatsoever in cubing, not necessarily those who actually want to start cubing. Speedsolving Wiki's FAQ has information for beginner cubers, not for non-cubers. There's also...
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