Craig Bouchard is Calling Out Matyas Kuti on Magic

[Dene]

. Now I REALLY don't believe you . Yes, I much prefer your new (old?) argument. I think we should just call it a day there. You're right that we must be careful what we say, as things are always taking out of perspective (I saw in a magazine a couple of weeks ago, some "fun facts". One said that Da Vinci spent 15 years (or around-about) perfecting the lips of the Mona Lisa. I was just like, are you kidding, he spent about 15 years painting the entire thing, with a 5ish year break because he was too busy. Talk about stretching the truth).

 

[cubie]

Hi Craig, you are great in your endevour! Still, please, do not forget, you do not only have to defeat the devil Matyas, but also a great bunch of international speedcubers, having better international rankoinfgs, and at least four Hungarians, before reaching the current worlkd records of Matyas Kuti.

Cheers

 

[Harris Chan]

@ Cubie: Craig used to hold the WR for Magic too

 

[cubie]

Hi Harris, I know he used to hold the WRs, still, Craig seems to pursue his crusade as if this young Hungarian was the only enemy to his past WRs. T\Still, there are many great speedsolvers having great official results close to Matyas" ones to be defetaed: Mate, Milan etc

 

[sam]

@Cubie - Read the first two pages of this thread. he says that he will just beat Matyas. if anyone else comes and beats them both then thats fine. but he says that its just Matyi who he is going to beat.

 

[cubie]

All right then, good luck! And God bless the best!

 

[Dyste]

I remember having watched something on t.v. a few years ago about someone who had one brain, as in they didn't have a right or left side, just a whole. They said he could remember most of what he read over the years. I think someone asked him to recite a paragraph from a chapter or page of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

 

[sam]

Yes. he was the man Rainman was modeled after. he is a sevant. Kim Peek. There was a discovery channel special on him. He has an agenesis of the corpus callosum. Very rare case which the corpus callosum doesn't seperate the two halves of the brain. You can do more research about it. there is a lot of interesting information on it.

 

[hdskull]

I voted for Craig, because he's the only one with the balls to stand up to Kuti, I give him props for that. However, obviously Matyas will win, because he's probably the only person in the world that can solve a magic in an average of .8 secs.

 

[ExoCorsair]

However, obviously Matyas will win, because he's probably the only person in the world that can solve a magic in an average of .8 secs.

For the present at least. Who knows who will be able to in the future.

 

[Kenneth]

I have not checked the poll results or read much of this tread but, I have a guess: North Americans favor Craig and Europeans favor Matyas.

Am I right or wrong?

(Maybe I shuold start a poll for that question?

 

[jazzthief81]

I have not checked the poll results or read much of this tread but, I have a guess: North Americans favor Craig and Europeans favor Matyas.

I've got another theory for you: a lot of people may find that the way how Craig is making this into a personal attack against Matyas is a bit childish and egotistic and that's why they don't vote for him.

Also the people who have met Matyas know that he's the most jovial of personalities and he would be the first to congratulate you if you would break his world record.

 

[Ton]

I gues you do not know Matyas , he did not practise that hard for magic, so if you take a record, Matyas will practise a bit more and take it back, that is if he cares at all.
btw who care at all for the magic , it is not even a puzzle how you solve it in competion....

 

[jackolanternsoup]

Good luck Craig but I voted for Matyas lol.

And it would be cool to have an army of specialists..

 

[CraigBouchard]

Ton, how do you know how much he practiced for magic? A while ago, before he had the world record, I asked him, and he said he practiced (not sure the exact number) but it was minimum an hour a day...

 

[Erik]

ha ha ha! Minimum an hour a day, trust me that's indeed not much...

 

[CraigBouchard]

I said minimum...

 

[AvGalen]

Is that just for Magic, or for every puzzle?

 

[Erik]

I said minimum...

yes so the answer: minimum an hour a day is not really an anwser, it could be 1 hour it could be 4...

 

[David Pritts]

I would speculate that whether or not he "cares about magic", it's probably safe to say he cares about other events much more. Examples: 3x3x3, 4x4x4, 5x5x5, and BLD... most people care about these more, and they are more fun anyway (I think, at least).

With that in mind, I'd say practicing magic for a minimum of an hour a day is a lot, even if practicing the 3x3x3 for an hour+ a day is not really that much.

Plus, consider how little time it takes to solve the magic. One hour of practice on the magic = a large number of solves.

Lastly, yes; it was certainly very egotistical the way Craig went about this. But who cares? I know I've done much worse when it comes to being egotistical It probably helps his motivation.

David

EDIT: I just read what I wrote and I'm not sure if it made sense at all ;-) ; what I believe I was trying to say was that given all of the other things he could have been practicing, devoting over an hour a day to the magic indicates that he was pretty dedicated to it at the time.