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Proposed Regulation: 2k6) At the discretion of the WCA Delegate, a competitor may be disqualified from some events (a single event, multiple events, or all events) if the competitor SAYS THE WORD RUBRIC EVER AGAIN. Pros: I never have to hear the word rubric again Cons: none

I always get discouraged looking at world records, which can dissuade me from practicing events that I don't normally practice. But I had a thought -- if you want to become the best cuber in the world, you don't need to break any records (though some may disagree, of course), you just need to...

I'd be willing to bet I'm the worlds fastest Rubik's cube solving triplet dad. How would you fill in the blank?

Hey guys, I made a cubing channel, something I've wanted to do for a while. I'm starting with a video series on skipping OLL, and it will include tons of easy, non-WV OLL skip cases. If you're interested, check it out and subscribe if you like it. Here's my first video...

I have finished generating full CMLL+6-flip algorithms, most of which are pretty nice. Thanks to PDF for helping me to sort through a few of them. Are they worth it, or not? I suspect for CMLLs that share algorithms with their COLL CP counterparts, the algs are worth it since you will end up...

I've seen a lot of people (CFOPers) saying they wanted to, or have started to, learn ZBLL on the forums, and it got me wondering on how many you actually have to learn to affect an average. The first thing you have to get numbers for is how often you get a cross on top in speedsolves. Normally...

Hi guys, I just attended US Nationals, and was amazed at the number of people that attended this one event. It seems that the numbers are growing year by year (the actual numbers are about the same for the last few years, but I think that has something to do with location), and if this...

So I was thinking the other day, "how great would it be if there was an Aolong v1.5. It would be the perfect cube." And then I realized I could do that since I have both by swapping the edges between them. The results: v2 corners with v1 edges: Really fast. A little unstable at first, and...

Hi! I've been posting a lot on the forums for months now, but still feel really disconnected from the people on here, and I also never did a member introduction. So here goes: My name is Chad, and I am a 24 year old graduate student at a Baptist Seminary in North Carolina. I've been...

Recently I have been looking into OLS, as I think it is the best possibility to 'improve' CFOP out of all the other additional sub-steps out there. I have also recently become obsessed with CubeExplorer, and so I am going to begin a massive undertaking which will hopefully (years from now)...

I saw the first resolution for the next year on last years thread, so I thought I'd start the one for the upcoming year. What are your resolutions/ goals for cubing? Mine: 2x2: Learn something other than CFOP and actually practice it 3x3: Sub-12 global average 4x4: Practice more / sub-1...

My question is, now that we have stackmats with the ability to accurately time down to the millisecond, why are we still truncating the digit and using the rest as the official time? I could see how this is relatively unimportant for solves greater than ~10 seconds, but with as people are...

As I was drilling LL today, I decided to do so without inspection to help improve OLL recognition. This got me thinking that there might be a good way to quantify how good at lookahead you actually are with a few time trials. A session of no inspection cross drilling, no inspection F2L (only one...

Braden Rock, 15, a decent speedcuber in my town died in a car accident Monday morning, September 28th. Figured I would just leave this thread here as a memory of his cubing. I didn't know him, but his times were just close enough to mine that he inspired me to try to move up in the state...

So I'm thinking about making flashcard sets to sell (maybe through some distributors? if there's enough interest) to aid in learning algorithm sets. I know that I personally would prefer physical flashcards to apps or to printed sheets or whatever, and have made some for myself for learning WV...

I was hoping to work out a meet-up deal with some North Carolina cubers in the Triangle area, wasn't sure if anyone on the forums would be down for that. I'm not too hopeful tbh

Got bored and created an excel spreadsheet based on current WR averages for 2x2 - 7x7, and it fits the regression curve nicely (r^2=.998). It predicts probable world record averages for cubes from 8x8 (4:11) to 20x20 (39:19). For those of us playing with big cubes, it can give numbers to shoot...