2011 Guinness Records

[Stefan]

I saw the 2011 Guinness-World Records book today. The 2010 version twice wrote that Ron holds the world record with his 9.55 seconds. That is finally gone now, but Erik still isn't in there because they decided to not tell the regular 3x3x3 speed record at all. The only cubing records they mention are David Calvo's four cubes underwater, Haiyan's record blindfolded, and Anssi's record solving with her feet.

 

[~Adam~]

I thought those 3 were the only good records anyway :fp

 

[StachuK1992]

I don't understand why they would tell feet and underwater, but not 2H speed. Any ideas?

 

[xXzaKerXx]

Maybe they decided that single solves are getting boring, and they decide to mention other crazy cubing accomplishments instead? The gender mix-up is annoying, they should be careful with their notes.

 

[~Adam~]

Because they are catering to idiots. People just want to see stupid things in these books.

edit - I'm not referring to blind as stupid.

 

[MAHTI-ANSSI]

Not the first time journalists/Arnaud/other people think I'm a female.

 

[flan]

They dont seen to like putting the same record twice in the series of books. I guess there philiosphy is that readers would be more likely to buy the books if they had different quirky records like underwater instead of just updates to the obvious ones.

 

[kinch2002]

Anyone know what the UWR for underwater is? I did 6 (and a half) when I tried

 

[Carrot]

It's so funny, because a danish newspaper wrote that I was in the book xP (I'm not...)

They even wrote I had solved a 'pyramix' in 3.92 seconds O___o (my former WR average)(the newspaper)

I LOL'ed so hard when I read it

 

[Owen]

I wonder if all the other records are this messed up.

 

[~Adam~]

I think that really short guy is just a long way away from the camera.

 

[Stefan]

It's so funny, because a danish newspaper wrote that I was in the book xP (I'm not...)

Oh, I should've said that this is the German version of the book. Don't know whether other versions have the same records. Have you checked the Danish version?

I wonder if all the other records are this messed up.

Yeah, I have no faith in Guinness's accuracy at all. This is just an entertainment book, not to be taken seriously. Records in big serious things like running are better found on wikipedia or specialized sites (like IAAF), smaller serious things like cubing are still better found on specialized sites (like WCA), and Guinness is for the obscure non-serious stuff for which there are no organizations (other than Guinness). And even for that, Guinness wouldn't be the first place I'd look. Wikipedia is much better for many things, for example tallest people. Much more easily found there, much more information, and more up to date. I have no idea what kind of people buy that book these days.

 

[Slash]

Didn't it say anything about Milán's 24 hours record? (4786 cubes) It was a Guinness record race, we even had an official person from Guinness.

 

[Bryan]

Wikipedia is much better for many things, for example tallest people. Much more easily found there, much more information, and more up to date.

And even Wikipedia's wrong. It has the tallest American at the bottom of the page as George Bell, but Igor Vovkovinskiy is taller. George Bell's individual page acknowledges this, but all of Wikipedia didn't get updated when this was certified (which I believe was earlier this year). Igor lives in Rochester, so it was in the local media a lot.

Wikipedia is good for getting a starting hypothesis, and that's about it. Verify it elsewhere.

 

[EricReese]

The standard of cubing..the 3x3 speedsolve..was not in there?

<_<

 

[qqwref]

I saw the 2011 Guinness-World Records book today. The 2010 version twice wrote that Ron holds the world record with his 9.55 seconds. That is finally gone now, but Erik still isn't in there because they decided to not tell the regular 3x3x3 speed record at all.

Hahaha!

David Calvo's four cubes underwater

Two (three?) people have done six... and there used to be a video of one of those. And beating that is quite possible. Someday I'll bother to actually give this an attempt.

Haiyan's record blindfolded, and Anssi's record solving with her feet.

Surprisingly good for Guinness if you don't count the gender swap.

 

[Carrot]

Oh, I should've said that this is the German version of the book. Don't know whether other versions have the same records. Have you checked the Danish version?

yes, I did... it's the same cubing rcords in the Danish version.

 

[ben1996123]

Erik still isn't in there because they decided to not tell the regular 3x3x3 speed record at all.

Anssi's record solving with her feet.

It's so funny, because a danish newspaper wrote that I was in the book xP (I'm not...)

They even wrote I had solved a 'pyramix' in 3.92 seconds O___o (my former WR average)(the newspaper)

Epic fails...

 

[Alcuber]

I think I know why it said Ron van Bruchem was the fastest it wasn't that Guinness world records were slow at finding out, it was because Erik Never told them that he got 7.08 (sorry if this is wrong) but did anyone ever tell them about Erik's 7.08?

 

[FatBoyXPC]

It's not like it's hard to find, Alcuber, Google is a powerful tool that I'm sure the Guinness research team uses.

Edit: Ironically enough googling "rubik's cube guinness record" shows a wikipedia entry for the Rubik's Cube as the first result. The records section of the wikipedia page talks about Erik's 7.08.