[Unofficial] 4x4 Hoya method.. single 26.59

[choza244]

Thanks kelseymckenna

 

[Ilkyoo Choi]

It is called Hoya because the inventor of the method has the username 'Hoya'.

Well.. the question would be why is user name Hoya and why did he call it the Hoya method.

Know some Korean, and know his real name, and that will do it.

 

[emolover]

Well.. the question would be why is user name Hoya and why did he call it the Hoya method.

That is silly. Kirjava(Thom Barlow's username) created K4 which stands for Kijava's 4x4 Method.

 

[Sa967St]

Well.. the question would be why is user name Hoya and why did he call it the Hoya method.

Know some Korean, and know his real name, and that will do it.

I searched "호야" in a few different Korean-English dictionaries, and got nothing. Mind telling us what it means?

That is silly. Kirjava(Thom Barlow's username) created K4 which stands for Kijava's 4x4 Method.

Fun fact: "kirjava" is "colourful" in Finnish. (somone told me this at US Nats, but I don't remember who)

 

[Schmidt]

Google translate= FI:kirjava;ENG:mottled
mot·tled *(mtld)
adj.
Spotted or blotched with different shades or colors.

 

[Ilkyoo Choi]

I searched "호야" in a few different Korean-English dictionaries, and got nothing. Mind telling us what it means?

Since you asked so nicely

Jong-Ho is his name, which is 종호.
In Korean, when you are calling someone, you say "<name> ya" or "<name> ah", depending on how the <name> ends; in Jong-Ho's case, it is "Jong-Ho ya".
Now, among close friends, mainly kids, it is somewhat of a trend to skip the first syllable and just say the last two; so instead of "Jong-Ho ya", a close friend would say "Ho ya".

Enigma solved?!

Also, Jong-Ho thought that "Hoya" was easy enough in English and in many other languages to be a well remembered method name. Smart guy.

 

[Evan Liu]

First thing that came to my mind was the Georgetown Hoyas, but I was pretty sure he didn't get the name from there
Hoya is actually the Greek word for "what":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_Hoyas#.22What_is_a_Hoya.3F.22

 

[Carrot]

Hoya is a flower!

 

[Joey VOV]

This is pretty late but I recently switched to hoya, I averaged around 1:30 with yau and and now I am about averageing 1:20+ depending on parity, and I only switched yesterday.