Add methods in the WCA profiles

[stoic]

I'd imagine this is true:

people would probably just put joke answers.

So, the answer to the question

would it be useful to add a profile field here on the forums for people to add their method, which will be displayed in their profile?

possibly depends on how much it adds to the user experience to allow people to put endless variations on "CFOP and proud", "Rouxer til I die", "not telling" or "ECE with a hint of ABC and a twist of XYZ" as to whether it's worth doing.

 

[FJT97]

On this note, would it be useful to add a profile field here on the forums for people to add their method, which will be displayed in their profile? I assume you mean method for 3x3 since that is the one that varies most?

Yep, That would be also cool!

 

[JustinTimeCuber]

Why not let people put anything, and have a "profile" of preferences, including favorite event, mains, etc? Haven't worked through the details, but it could be a good path to take.

 

[FakeMMAP]

How does a user change their profile picture? How does a user update their method if they change?


On this note, would it be useful to add a profile field here on the forums for people to add their method, which will be displayed in their profile? I assume you mean method for 3x3 since that is the one that varies most?

ahem... there are at least 3 widespread 2x2 methods, sooo many pyraminx methods, and don't forget about BLD.
furthermore BLD would require specification of memo method, execution method and order.

 

[pjk]

Why not let people put anything, and have a "profile" of preferences, including favorite event, mains, etc? Haven't worked through the details, but it could be a good path to take.

ahem... there are at least 3 widespread 2x2 methods, sooo many pyraminx methods, and don't forget about BLD.
furthermore BLD would require specification of memo method, execution method and order.

Should I add fields for 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, 5x5, and BLD then? Or even "Cube mains" for each puzzle. If there is enough interest, I'll gladly add them. I've just went ahead and added a field for 3x3 method, which you can update in your personal details profile here:
https://www.speedsolving.com/forum/account/personal-details

I will also add this below avatars on posts if that is something people want. Let me know.

 

[tx789]

Should I add fields for 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, 5x5, and BLD then? Or even "Cube mains" for each puzzle. If there is enough interest, I'll gladly add them. I've just went ahead and added a field for 3x3 method, which you can update in your personal details profile here:
https://www.speedsolving.com/forum/account/personal-details

I will also add this below avatars on posts if that is something people want. Let me know.

I think the only thing that should be on posts is the main method for 3x3 and maybe the cube, perhaps your main event. But if any are added from what I listed it should be only two. Because we don't want people with 20+ fields on their posts listing all thier mains, favourite events, ect.

It could be cool to have method, and main event on posts. I wonder how many would use it? For methods I'd think people who didn't use CFOP would be more likely to use that feature.

 

[mark49152]

Isn't this what signatures are for?

 

[JustinTimeCuber]

You could have a thing where it says "add event" and then when you click it it gives you a name field for the event, a method field, and a main field. Then, there could be a drop-down menu or something that would show all of the events you entered so you could set a main. Then, only that one would be under your profile, like

<calendar thing> Aug 16, 2014
<location thing> st louis, mo
WCA: 2013BARK01
<rubik's cube symbol (favorite event)> 3x3x3
Solves: CFOP on Tanglong

it could be limited to a reasonable amount of characters so a troll couldn't say
CFOP with 4 WV algorithms, partial edge contro, full COLL, and 19 ZBLLs
and
Moyu Aolong v1 with purple instead of white, red instead of yellow, and pink instead of red, Cubicle weight 2 lube and perfect tensions bruh

 

[xchippy]

There should just be a box on the WCA profile that the person can type whatever they want (including method). This would allow people seeing their profile to learn more about them and allow people that don't want to put things there not to put them there.

 

[JustinTimeCuber]

There should just be a box on the WCA profile that the person can type whatever they want (including method). This would allow people seeing their profile to learn more about them and allow people that don't want to put things there not to put them there.

The only problem with that idea is that trolls might put stuff that is either completely unrelated to cubing or inappropriate in the box.

 

[Calode]

So I was thinking recently about another project to work on and I came back to this after proposing something.

I'd make a website for profiles. People could write down various bits of info. They'd log in with their wca db account and then from there, edit their profile. Information that could be included would be their youtube channel among other things. Along with their pbs and mains and methods for various events including non-wca stuff.

You'd go to something like me.cubing.net/2016HOOV01 to see someone's profile.

Of course there's a lot more I can include. Your guys' thoughts on this?

 

[efattah]

Opponents of 'method listing' are forgetting this is not just a curiosity. In fact, over time, logging methods could be a major contribution to the development of speed cubing in general. There are so many arguments all the time about this or that variant being faster and which new variant has potential. Some way of graphing these statistics would go a long way to show which new (or old) methods are showing promise. I'm not saying implementation is easy. Even just keeping track of the fastest time for a method would be of value. If, for example, a ZZ solver pulls off a crazy single or average, the solver could fill in a form and 'apply' for a possible (method) record on that single or average. This would eliminate huge overhead from every single solve having to have a method, but it would still keep track of the generally fastest singles & averages for each method.

 

[aybuck37]

there could be a drop down box with options. And one of them could be just the option custom

 

[One Wheel]

What about an option for an individual to upload a reconstruction of a given solve? That way as far as the WCA database is concerned there is a very limited range of answers that can be included. If somebody wants to go through and classify those solves they can, and there's nothing wrong with publishing what they find, but then you don't have to worry about silly answers or weird hybrids of methods.

 

[James Snowden]

But why not just put the method you use to solve in comps since declaring your main method, that way you can't put a joke answer as people could refer to the method claimed to be used and what was actually done. Also, I imagine that it would be very difficult to be method neutral and as fast as possible as inspection isn't realistically long enough to explore every method. Any way, there could be an option for method neutral if anybody considers themselves to be so.

 

[Loiloiloi]

But why not just put the method you use to solve in comps since declaring your main method, that way you can't put a joke answer as people could refer to the method claimed to be used and what was actually done. Also, I imagine that it would be very difficult to be method neutral and as fast as possible as inspection isn't realistically long enough to explore every method. Any way, there could be an option for method neutral if anybody considers themselves to be so.

The WCA doesn't record solutions and it would most likely be a huge waste of time to do so, so no we can't refer to how people "actually" solve in competitions.

 

[pjk]

So I was thinking recently about another project to work on and I came back to this after proposing something.

I'd make a website for profiles. People could write down various bits of info. They'd log in with their wca db account and then from there, edit their profile. Information that could be included would be their youtube channel among other things. Along with their pbs and mains and methods for various events including non-wca stuff.

You'd go to something like me.cubing.net/2016HOOV01 to see someone's profile.

Of course there's a lot more I can include. Your guys' thoughts on this?

That URL isn't working for me. Can you update the URL so I can get a better of idea of what you're referring to?

While we're on this note of customizing profiles: I'm looking for someone to come on board and help implement customizations to speedsolving.com like what is being discussed here. If you're interested, please shoot me a PM. Thanks.

 

[Loiloiloi]

That URL isn't working for me. Can you update the URL so I can get a better of idea of what you're referring to?

His use of "something like" makes me think he's just providing an example of what the URL would look like.