I'm thinking about making a video about speedcubers who also speedrun. Off the top of my head there's Stanley Chapel who's third in the world in Super Mario Bros, and Graham Siggins who's sub-18 in Super Mario 64 16 star. DGCubes and LaZer0MonKey play NES Tetris which I might talk about as well...
One of the most popular threads on the forum is Non-Cubers say the darndest things, which is honestly not a topic I'm crazy about. When you stick with a hobby for a long time, I think it becomes really easy to lose sight of how much you knew before you became interested in it, and in turn I feel...
I've been working on a series of videos where I discuss the history of single world records in various events. I want to eventually make one of those for most events (probably leaving out 2x2 or doing an average video for that one, maybe Pyraminx too), and I like to talk about solves that either...
Ever since I started doing videos about speedrunning video games I wanted to give a world record history video a shot, kind of like Summoning Salt if you're familiar with him. Earlier this week I decided to do that for the 3x3 single records, because I think the event has a really interesting...
Alright fellas, so I decided to create a bunch of new YouTube channels so that people who subscribe for certain types of content only get that type of content, since I cover a wide variety of videos. The channel is called ME Plays Cubing, and I'm kicking it off with another video about cubing...
Hey fellas, it's your friendly neighborhood Matt, and I'm making a series of YouTube videos about cubing misconceptions (channel is linked to my account as of today). I'm done recording video and audio for the first one, and it's going to cover the following misconceptions:
-Rubik's is the...
There's a lot of questions I expect to get related to cubing. How fast can you solve it, what steps do you take, blah blah blah blah blah. One I didn't expect to get was whether I have autism, but multiple people have asked me in the past few months. I don't think they mean anything by it...
So from what I can tell, the two most common algorithms people learn for the adjacent corner swap for PLL on 2x2 are the Aa and T perms. The algorithm I've taught people for that case is actually the Ja/L perm (R' U L' U2 R U' R' U2 R L, although the last two moves are executed more like an R2...
Color neutrality is something I've considered trying several times over the past few years, but I've never actually made a serious enough effort to implement them into my normal solving. Probably should get on that but that's a story for another time. Anyway, I'm sure a lot of other people have...
So in the past few weeks, I've had a handful of people ask me whether magnetic cubes are allowed in competition or if they're considered cheating or whatever. I basically said that there's never been a level playing field in competitions since people bring their own cubes from home, so the...
So I had a stupid idea that probably goes against a WCA regulation or two, but picture this.
I head into the competition venue with 5 bags full of the new GAN 349 Pro Elite XS Max Plus Z3800X cubes that had recently come out. They cost me $120 each. And I wonder why I rarely have money lying...
So a while ago, I decided to buy a blindfold and learn Old Pochman to solve a 3x3 blindfolded. (Pochman? Pochmann? I'unno) I spent a few weeks working on learning the method and memorizing more and more letter pairs at a time. Yesterday I decided to put everything together for the first time and...
So not too long ago I started getting back into speedsolving. Been working a lot on 2x2, bought a new 5x5, and I'm also getting my first 6x6 and 7x7 for my birthday coming up in less than a week. As you might imagine, one of the things I've done recently is go through the WCA website to look for...
Well it's been a hot minute hasn't it.
Wassup fellas, it's your friendly neighborhood Matt (although probably only like 2 and a half people remember who I am). I'm the fella who sorta destroyed the off topic discussion forum with all the threads I made (make assumptions about the next person...
I need to use this place more often.
Hey fellas, it's ye boi Matt, back from the dead for like the trillionth time. You may be wondering where the heck I've been, and if not, well I don't blame you. I've been using this mobile app called Amino, which contains a ton of different communities for...
Hey fellas, it's Matt, back from the dead. I've been using this app called Smash Amino for about nine months now. During this time, I've gotten 80 blogs featured, been selected for the community events team, and apparently been declared the "king of Smash Amino" I guess.
As a community events...
Ok. This one's pretty self-explanatory. One person posts an incomplete sentence and the next person completes it, then leaves a sentence for the next in line.
I'll start with:
Man, I could really go for some...
Here I am again, making another off-topic thread. So this time, you have to give the next person a category, such as, say, a Pokémon. The next poster would say something like "If Matt was a Pokémon, he would be a Primeape, because he's strong." (Real life example, but it was used to describe a...