2018 Speedcubing Records Predictions

[Hero]

Well this was fun.

Spoiler: WR predictions

• 3x3
  • Single gets bumped down to 4.55. Max breaks it first, Feliks ties the record a month later, then Feliks beats it again at his next comp.
  • Average gets down to 5.79 by Feliks at a comp in South Africa.

• 2x2
  • 0.50 single by Blake Thompson because lol. WR will still stay at 0.49 until December of 2018 when it will get beaten with a 0.47.
  • Kevin improves his WR average early in the year, but Maciej will end the year with the record. He will get some insanely easy scrambles, and get a 1.2 average
• 4x4
  • Records galore by Sebastian! 18.24 single with a PLL skip and U2 AUF
  • Sebastian will unfortunately +2 out of a sub-21.5 average early in the year, but will get the WR at the end of the year with 21.23
• 5x5
  • Feliks will get WR single with a 36.52. Nahm and Max will also get sub-40 singles.
  • Feliks - 41.25 average. ‘Nuff said.
• 6x6
  • Kevin will be unable to gain his WR back, but will be able to get it at the beginning of 2019. WR single stays the same at 1:20.03.
  • Max takes WR average with 1:24.35, inching Feliks out by 0.2 seconds.
• 7x7
  • First sub-2 will happen this year by Kevin. Time will be 1:58.98 with an R-perm.
  • Feliks beats his own record down to 2:08.99
• OH
  • Record will stay at 6.88.
  • Average will be 9.98 by Max.
• BLD
  • Oh boy. This will be interesting. Jeff beats the WR first, followed by Daniel Lin. Jeff gets it back, and then Ishaan gets it with a misscramble. There will be confusion as to whether or not to count it, but it will count. The time will be 16.67.
  • 19.88 average by Angelo.
• Feet
  • Jimin will remain at the top and will take over single. He will get a 18.85.
  • Average gets improved by Jimin himself to a 23.39
• FMC
  • Not much to say year. Both records will stay the same. Maybe another person will get a 19 with an insane 16 to 3C. Nobody will beat the average.
• Pyra
  • Drew beats single with a 1.26
  • Drew gets WR average at Nats with a 1.97. (Reaction will be insane)
• Skewb
  • Jonatan takes the single down to 1.06.
  • Average will stay the same.
• Mega
  • Juan Pablo will get 2 more sub-30s. The WR single will be a 26.69 with a PLL skip.
  • Juan Pablo will break the average WR early in the year, but Yu Da-Hyun will snatch it at the end of the year with a 32.37
• Squan
  • Rowe breaks single with a 4.99.
  • Rowe also breaks average with a 7.66. CP skip on solve 2 and EP skip on solve 4.
• Clock
  • Nathaniel will keep the record at 3.73. 4 more sub-4s singles will happen. 1 by Wojciech, 1 by Evan, and 2 by Tairan. Tairan will also DNF a potential WR single.
  • Without a doubt, the average will be sub-5. Tairan will get a 4.88.
• 4BLD
  • Kaijun keeps the single.
• 5BLD
  • Kaijun keeps the single.
• MBLD
  • Another interesting event. Shivam will tie 41 points, but will just be over Maskow’s time. There will be a post on Speedsolving with exactly 24 people replying with something along the lines of “Aww, so close, you’ll get it next time!” Kamil also breaks the 40 point mark with exactly 40. He attempts 46, but time runs out while he is executing cube 44. The WR will still remain at 41 points by Maskow

Spoiler: Personal PB Predictions

Not going to go as in depth here.

• Current single / Current ao5 -- Predicted Single / Predicted ao5
• 2x2 - lol / lol - lol / lol
• 3x3 - 4.365 / 8.333 - 4.365 / 7.78
• 4x4 - 27.539 / 32.354 - 22.714 / 26.89
• 5x5 - 59.725 / 1:08.301 - 51.233 / 1:00.02
• 6x6 - 2:05.942 / 2:13.977 - 1:47.186 / 2:03.105
• 7x7 - 3:51 / 4:04 - 3:03.973 / 3:12.195
• OH - 10.02 / 15.621 - 9.45 / 13.39
• BLD - 1:14 - 58.53
• FMC - 26/ 26.66 - 23/ 25.00
• Squan - 4.438 / 8.75 - 4.244 / 7.99
• Pyra - lol / lol - lol / lol
• Skewb - lol / lol - lol / lol
• Mega - 46.69 / 53.00 - 37.95 / 45.67
• Clock - lol / lol - lol / lol
• Feet - 1:24 / 1:43 - 58.33 / 1:02.36
• 4BLD - 17:18.52 - 8:15.66
• 5BLD - DNF - 16:34.17
• MBLD - 3pts - 11 pts

Spoiler: New Cube Predictions

• MoYu becomes more and more obsolete. They will only produce good non-WCA puzzles, but QiYi will have produced puzzles better than MoYu in all events, but MoYu puzzles will still be used.
• No good clock comes out.
• A new mechanism for 2x2 comes out by GAN. They’re 2x2 will take over. It will feel similar to the Dayan, and a little better.
• QiYi makes a really good 5x5 called the WuLou, that will be factory magnetized, and still under 35 dollars. Yuxin will also create a really good 5x5 and that will compete with QiYi for best in the market. MoYu will make a bad 5x5. Someone will magnetize it, and it would still be bad. Everyone will forget about it, until someone figures out that the MoYu 5x5 will be really good if you switch the springs with Maru Soft Springs.
• X-Man creates the Volt v2.
• Moyu comes out with a smaller Pyraminx.
• Moyu makes two megaminxes, with the AoHun being one.
• Valk will release a 4x4. It will initially have issues with the mold, but then it will come back in October, and will be really good.
• Better 6x6 by YuXin that will be released on June 14.
• QiYi makes an insane 7x7.
• Skewb hardware stays the same.

Spoiler: Other Random Cubing Predictions

• Mats Valk gets a sub-6 average, but he just barely misses WR
• Kian gets a sub-5 3x3 single.
• Sebastian gets 3 total sub-19s, with one being a 17 +2
• Nats podium will be Max, Drew, Bill
• Collin Burns starts competing seriously again. He beats his 5.25 with a 5.09
• Megaminx becomes a really popular event in Poland. With the top 20 people being sub-1.
• Erik gets another 7.08
• There will be a tie in results for at least one podium for an event at US Nationals.
• There will also be another WR tie time wise (this excludes events such as FMC and MBLD)

Spoiler: Personal Goals

• Current global/Goal global
• 3x3 - 10.2 / 9.4
• 2x2 - 3 / 2.3
• 4x4 - 36.5 / 30
• 5x5 - 1:14 / 1:02
• 6x6 - 2:25 / 2:04
• 7x7 - 4:00 / 3:20
• OH - 19 / 17
• BLD - 2:05 / 1:20
• FMC - 28 / 27
• Feet - 1:50 / 1:20
• Pyra - 4.5 / 4.3
• Skewb - 5.5 / 4.5
• Clock - 18 / 10
• Mega - 58 / 49
• Squan - 10.9 / 9.5
• 4BLD - 15:00 / 9:00
• 5BLD - 30:00 / 18:00
• MBLD - 3.5pts DNF / 9 pts

Other cubing goals

• GET A LOL 2X2 OFFICIAL SINGLE PLEASE
• Make finals at Nats for Squan and megaminx.
• Do really well in FMC at Nats.
• Podium in different events (megaminx)
• Staff at almost every comp
• Go to a lot of comps
• Have fun at comps
• Go to another international comp (Euros?)
• Get fast at dumb events like 2x2 and Clock
• Get better at OH
• Top 75 WR SoR Single. Currently 144 because 2x2 single.
• Top 20 NAR SoR single. Currently 48
• Top 60 WR SoR average. Currently 138 because Clock and 2x2
• Top 18 NAR SoR average. Currently 42.
• Become a Silver Member
• Get a sub-7 official 3x3 single
• Get a sub-52 Megaminx official average.
• BEAT THAT 10.00 SQUAN AVERAGE because that’s really annoying, but it really isn’t needed because lol squan
• Get top 100 in the world for Squan (currently WR24 single, WR20 avg), Mega (WR200, WR256) and FMC (WR631, WR264)
• Get an official sub-25 FMC single (prob not because no comps have FMC
• Be cool

Life Goals

• Continue doing well in school
• Get good at comp sci
• Work with that friend on that secret project
• Spend more time with friends
• Do well on SAT/ACT/PSAT stuff like that.
• Make more friends
• Read more books
• Discover something really cool
• Don’t be lazy
• Make more bad jokes

Some of those predictions are so random. But it was fun to make.

These predictions... are interesting to say the least.

 

[The Pocket Cuber]

2x2 single same average 1.3X
3x3 single 4.0-4.2 by Mats Average Feliks 5.6X
4x4 single same average 22.XX by Sebastian
Pyraminx single 1.0-1.2 by Drew average sub 2 Drew
Skewb single .9X Average same

 

[GenTheSnail]

Well this was fun.

Spoiler: WR predictions

• 3x3
  • Single gets bumped down to 4.55. Max breaks it first, Feliks ties the record a month later, then Feliks beats it again at his next comp.
  • Average gets down to 5.79 by Feliks at a comp in South Africa.

• 2x2
  • 0.50 single by Blake Thompson because lol. WR will still stay at 0.49 until December of 2018 when it will get beaten with a 0.47.
  • Kevin improves his WR average early in the year, but Maciej will end the year with the record. He will get some insanely easy scrambles, and get a 1.2 average
• 4x4
  • Records galore by Sebastian! 18.24 single with a PLL skip and U2 AUF
  • Sebastian will unfortunately +2 out of a sub-21.5 average early in the year, but will get the WR at the end of the year with 21.23
• 5x5
  • Feliks will get WR single with a 36.52. Nahm and Max will also get sub-40 singles.
  • Feliks - 41.25 average. ‘Nuff said.
• 6x6
  • Kevin will be unable to gain his WR back, but will be able to get it at the beginning of 2019. WR single stays the same at 1:20.03.
  • Max takes WR average with 1:24.35, inching Feliks out by 0.2 seconds.
• 7x7
  • First sub-2 will happen this year by Kevin. Time will be 1:58.98 with an R-perm.
  • Feliks beats his own record down to 2:08.99
• OH
  • Record will stay at 6.88.
  • Average will be 9.98 by Max.
• BLD
  • Oh boy. This will be interesting. Jeff beats the WR first, followed by Daniel Lin. Jeff gets it back, and then Ishaan gets it with a misscramble. There will be confusion as to whether or not to count it, but it will count. The time will be 16.67.
  • 19.88 average by Angelo.
• Feet
  • Jimin will remain at the top and will take over single. He will get a 18.85.
  • Average gets improved by Jimin himself to a 23.39
• FMC
  • Not much to say year. Both records will stay the same. Maybe another person will get a 19 with an insane 16 to 3C. Nobody will beat the average.
• Pyra
  • Drew beats single with a 1.26
  • Drew gets WR average at Nats with a 1.97. (Reaction will be insane)
• Skewb
  • Jonatan takes the single down to 1.06.
  • Average will stay the same.
• Mega
  • Juan Pablo will get 2 more sub-30s. The WR single will be a 26.69 with a PLL skip.
  • Juan Pablo will break the average WR early in the year, but Yu Da-Hyun will snatch it at the end of the year with a 32.37
• Squan
  • Rowe breaks single with a 4.99.
  • Rowe also breaks average with a 7.66. CP skip on solve 2 and EP skip on solve 4.
• Clock
  • Nathaniel will keep the record at 3.73. 4 more sub-4s singles will happen. 1 by Wojciech, 1 by Evan, and 2 by Tairan. Tairan will also DNF a potential WR single.
  • Without a doubt, the average will be sub-5. Tairan will get a 4.88.
• 4BLD
  • Kaijun keeps the single.
• 5BLD
  • Kaijun keeps the single.
• MBLD
  • Another interesting event. Shivam will tie 41 points, but will just be over Maskow’s time. There will be a post on Speedsolving with exactly 24 people replying with something along the lines of “Aww, so close, you’ll get it next time!” Kamil also breaks the 40 point mark with exactly 40. He attempts 46, but time runs out while he is executing cube 44. The WR will still remain at 41 points by Maskow

Spoiler: Personal PB Predictions

Not going to go as in depth here.

• Current single / Current ao5 -- Predicted Single / Predicted ao5
• 2x2 - lol / lol - lol / lol
• 3x3 - 4.365 / 8.333 - 4.365 / 7.78
• 4x4 - 27.539 / 32.354 - 22.714 / 26.89
• 5x5 - 59.725 / 1:08.301 - 51.233 / 1:00.02
• 6x6 - 2:05.942 / 2:13.977 - 1:47.186 / 2:03.105
• 7x7 - 3:51 / 4:04 - 3:03.973 / 3:12.195
• OH - 10.02 / 15.621 - 9.45 / 13.39
• BLD - 1:14 - 58.53
• FMC - 26/ 26.66 - 23/ 25.00
• Squan - 4.438 / 8.75 - 4.244 / 7.99
• Pyra - lol / lol - lol / lol
• Skewb - lol / lol - lol / lol
• Mega - 46.69 / 53.00 - 37.95 / 45.67
• Clock - lol / lol - lol / lol
• Feet - 1:24 / 1:43 - 58.33 / 1:02.36
• 4BLD - 17:18.52 - 8:15.66
• 5BLD - DNF - 16:34.17
• MBLD - 3pts - 11 pts

Spoiler: New Cube Predictions

• MoYu becomes more and more obsolete. They will only produce good non-WCA puzzles, but QiYi will have produced puzzles better than MoYu in all events, but MoYu puzzles will still be used.
• No good clock comes out.
• A new mechanism for 2x2 comes out by GAN. They’re 2x2 will take over. It will feel similar to the Dayan, and a little better.
• QiYi makes a really good 5x5 called the WuLou, that will be factory magnetized, and still under 35 dollars. Yuxin will also create a really good 5x5 and that will compete with QiYi for best in the market. MoYu will make a bad 5x5. Someone will magnetize it, and it would still be bad. Everyone will forget about it, until someone figures out that the MoYu 5x5 will be really good if you switch the springs with Maru Soft Springs.
• X-Man creates the Volt v2.
• Moyu comes out with a smaller Pyraminx.
• Moyu makes two megaminxes, with the AoHun being one.
• Valk will release a 4x4. It will initially have issues with the mold, but then it will come back in October, and will be really good.
• Better 6x6 by YuXin that will be released on June 14.
• QiYi makes an insane 7x7.
• Skewb hardware stays the same.

Spoiler: Other Random Cubing Predictions

• Mats Valk gets a sub-6 average, but he just barely misses WR
• Kian gets a sub-5 3x3 single.
• Sebastian gets 3 total sub-19s, with one being a 17 +2
• Nats podium will be Max, Drew, Bill
• Collin Burns starts competing seriously again. He beats his 5.25 with a 5.09
• Megaminx becomes a really popular event in Poland. With the top 20 people being sub-1.
• Erik gets another 7.08
• There will be a tie in results for at least one podium for an event at US Nationals.
• There will also be another WR tie time wise (this excludes events such as FMC and MBLD)

Spoiler: Personal Goals

• Current global/Goal global
• 3x3 - 10.2 / 9.4
• 2x2 - 3 / 2.3
• 4x4 - 36.5 / 30
• 5x5 - 1:14 / 1:02
• 6x6 - 2:25 / 2:04
• 7x7 - 4:00 / 3:20
• OH - 19 / 17
• BLD - 2:05 / 1:20
• FMC - 28 / 27
• Feet - 1:50 / 1:20
• Pyra - 4.5 / 4.3
• Skewb - 5.5 / 4.5
• Clock - 18 / 10
• Mega - 58 / 49
• Squan - 10.9 / 9.5
• 4BLD - 15:00 / 9:00
• 5BLD - 30:00 / 18:00
• MBLD - 3.5pts DNF / 9 pts

Other cubing goals

• GET A LOL 2X2 OFFICIAL SINGLE PLEASE
• Make finals at Nats for Squan and megaminx.
• Do really well in FMC at Nats.
• Podium in different events (megaminx)
• Staff at almost every comp
• Go to a lot of comps
• Have fun at comps
• Go to another international comp (Euros?)
• Get fast at dumb events like 2x2 and Clock
• Get better at OH
• Top 75 WR SoR Single. Currently 144 because 2x2 single.
• Top 20 NAR SoR single. Currently 48
• Top 60 WR SoR average. Currently 138 because Clock and 2x2
• Top 18 NAR SoR average. Currently 42.
• Become a Silver Member
• Get a sub-7 official 3x3 single
• Get a sub-52 Megaminx official average.
• BEAT THAT 10.00 SQUAN AVERAGE because that’s really annoying, but it really isn’t needed because lol squan
• Get top 100 in the world for Squan (currently WR24 single, WR20 avg), Mega (WR200, WR256) and FMC (WR631, WR264)
• Get an official sub-25 FMC single (prob not because no comps have FMC
• Be cool

Life Goals

• Continue doing well in school
• Get good at comp sci
• Work with that friend on that secret project
• Spend more time with friends
• Do well on SAT/ACT/PSAT stuff like that.
• Make more friends
• Read more books
• Discover something really cool
• Don’t be lazy
• Make more bad jokes

Some of those predictions are so random. But it was fun to make.

This was fun to read
I really like how much specific detail you went into each event.

 

[GenTheSnail]

Tommy, Daniel and I each come within 1 second of Raymond's NAR mean near the end of the year, but Raymond had safely broken it with a sub-30 NAR average of 5 the month before. He also set a sub-25 single that wasn't NAR, because after Louis heard that Feet had been changed, he started practicing again and broke the NAR Single with a lucky 23.84 single and a disappointing NR 34.08 average.
Feet is again announced as an event for Nats 2019 due to the sustained popularity of the event across the country.
Feet remains as average of 5 and stays in the WCA.
WRs: 23.96a/18.47s
The Top 100 results will be sub-45a/40s

Since Simon finished learning ZBLL he manages an 8.76 ao5. Hyeon Kyo Kyoung switches to classic ZZ and gets another sub-6 PB, and beats Simon's average by about a second. Most people still reject ZBLL as a feasible LL technique for the average person though the method has grown slightly in popularity due to more prominent cubers using it and protesting its practicality. Similarly, ZZ gains more followers and has more than a dozen cubers set sub-10 averages.
Roux goes sub-6.5a/5.5s, OH sub-11/8 by Kian and Kavin respectively. Vincent manages a sub-7 average, and beats Kian's previous sub-7 PB. All three of them finally get a First place in OH.

Chris finds a way to magnetize cubes like he showed in that one video. Someone builds the cube he showed at Nats and it's not as good as everyone was hoping for, but people still like it a lot because everyone loves Chris.
He and Andrew get pretty good with ZZ-CT and both get multiple sub-11 averages with the method.

Yu-Da Hyun travles out of the country three times for competitions with megaminx and shatters Juan's records with a 27 single an 32 average, which he comes less than .5 seconds of breaking, but doesn't.

OH finally goes sub-10 since Seung improved a lot and got lucky scrambles. Someone slightly unexpected (not Antoine, Feliks, or Max) breaks the 6.88 with a 6.74 single. It's thought that the cube was also misscrambled, but it is slowly confirmed that the scramble and the solve are good.

In MBLD, two people get over WR and five people break the 40-point barrier. Nothing much happens in Cubic Big BLD WRs, but Stanley comes painfully close to 4BLD WR. Roman gets a sub3 at home and a 3:20 DNF in comp.

 

[Competition Cuber]

Single, Average

2x2: 0.46, 1.35
3x3: 4.37, 5.70 (unless Chris invents something new this year that lowers 3x3 WRs and whole bunch)
4x4: 18.99, 22.54
5x5: 37.86, 41.35
6x6: 1:17.63, 1:20.76
7x7: 2:03.54, 2:09.77
3x3 BLD: 17.35, 21.54
3x3 FMC: 18, 23.33
3x3 OH: 6.86, 9.95
3x3 WF: 19.98, 25.68 (Im not sure how the change to average of 5 will effect this though)
Clock: 3.73, 4.94
Megaminx: 29.93, 34.65
Pyraminx: 1.21, 1.97
Skewb: 1.10, 2.03
Square-one: 5.59, 7.98
4x4 BLD: 1:30.61
5x5 BLD: 3:40.52
3x3 Multi: 42/42 58:54

 

[cuber314159]

World records:
2*2: 0.49/1.31
3*3: 4.4/5.7
4*4: 18/21
5*5: 37/41
6*6: 1:13/1:19
7*7: 1:55/2:03
Pyra: 1.0/1.9
Skewb: 1.0/2.3
Square one: 5.3/8.2
Oh: 6.3/9.7
Feet: 18/21
Clock: 3/5
3bld: 15
4bld: 1:20
5bld: 3:10
Mbld: 43/43

Hardware: (inpredicted chronological order)
Wu line 3x3
Qiyi release a wuji V2
Yuxin release a new 6x6
Moyu release an aolong like cube but it isn't very good and they then slowly allow mofang jiaoshi to become their main designer and then slowly become irrelevant
Wushuang V2 and new yuxin 5x5
Qiyi announces they are working on a valk4 then a few months later release a wuque V2( thunderclap 4x4)
Zcube start to become a decent cube company.

 

[WACWCA]

World records:
2*2: 0.49/1.31
3*3: 4.4/5.7
4*4: 18/21
5*5: 37/41
6*6: 1:13/1:19
7*7: 1:55/2:03
Pyra: 1.0/1.9
Skewb: 1.0/2.3
Square one: 5.3/8.2
Oh: 6.3/9.7
Feet: 18/21
Clock: 3/5
3bld: 15
4bld: 1:20
5bld: 3:10
Mbld: 43/43

Hardware: (inpredicted chronological order)
Wu line 3x3
Qiyi release a wuji V2
Yuxin release a new 6x6
Moyu release an aolong like cube but it isn't very good and they then slowly allow mofang jiaoshi to become their main designer and then slowly become irrelevant
Wushuang V2 and new yuxin 5x5
Qiyi announces they are working on a valk4 then a few months later release a wuque V2( thunderclap 4x4)
Zcube start to become a decent cube company.

Just to help, Your skewb avg has already been hit twice, and squan avg was broken too

 

[WACWCA]

Just a few
2x2: 0.45/1.23
3x3: 4.23/ 5.46
Squan: 4.50/ 7.52
Pyra: 1.11/1.71
Skewb: 1.1/ 1.92