Cubing fun facts!

[brododragon]

Hi, this thread is for all those fun facts that you can't tell anyone because nobody understands cubing. It just has to be in some, way, shape, or form related to cubing (so not like the thread created by @Aerma).

I'll start. In the WCA rulebook, there's a set of rules for how many moves the optimal solution must be to be considered a useable scramble. For pyraminx, it's 6. Guess how many moves the WR is. It's 6.

Note: man I need to get to bed it's 2:00 AM.

 

[Deleted member 52530]

there a russian potat on a cubing forum

 

[brododragon]

there a russian potat on a cubing forum

That's fun

 

[ProStar]

5-7 and megaminx scrambles can be 2 moves from solved, according to the subregulations following the one brodo mentioned.

Spoiler: Reg

• 4b3e) 5x5x5 Cube, 6x6x6 Cube, 7x7x7 Cube, and Megaminx: sufficiently many random moves (instead of random state), at least 2 moves to solve.

 

[brododragon]

5-7 and megaminx scrambles can be 2 moves from solved, according to the subregulations following the one brodo mentioned.

Spoiler: Reg

• 4b3e) 5x5x5 Cube, 6x6x6 Cube, 7x7x7 Cube, and Megaminx: sufficiently many random moves (instead of random state), at least 2 moves to solve.

Same with 3x3

 

[Hazel]

5-7 and megaminx scrambles can be 2 moves from solved, according to the subregulations following the one brodo mentioned.

Spoiler: Reg

• 4b3e) 5x5x5 Cube, 6x6x6 Cube, 7x7x7 Cube, and Megaminx: sufficiently many random moves (instead of random state), at least 2 moves to solve.

Same with 3x3

Why do they even bother with this rule if realistically it will never, ever need to be considered? Even if it's just for formality's sake - why only 2 moves?

 

[The Cubing Fanatic]

Mats Valk no longer endorses VLS.

 

[Hazel]

Mats Valk no longer endorses VLS.

I can't find a source on this. Do you have one?

 

[brododragon]

Why do they even bother with this rule if realistically it will never, ever need to be considered? Even if it's just for formality's sake - why only 2 moves?

I agree that it would be more moves. But it's there so that in the extremely unlikely case you get a 1 move scramble, you can't just lift your hands off the stackmat and put them right back in for a +2, giving you a no-skill WR. You might say it's faster to just do the turn (and it is), but I would for the +2 option because of nerves.

 

[The Cubing Fanatic]

Yes, The Corner Cutter Podcast Ep #84.
Shawn from the Speed Cube Review mentions that while at lunch Valk told him not to bother with VLS but to learn something like ZBLL instead.

 

[ProStar]

Why do they even bother with this rule if realistically it will never, ever need to be considered? Even if it's just for formality's sake - why only 2 moves?

I mean, realistically, no one will ever get the scramble that Yusheng Du got, but he still got it.

 

[brododragon]

I mean, realistically, no one will ever get the scramble that Yusheng Du got, but he still got it.

It's not only the scramble. There's also the cross/block you start on, the method, the skill of utilizing luck, and much more.

 

[xcross]

Fun Fact:
If you were to dedicate enough computing power to it, a computer could create all new kinds of 1LLL variatons, with some that are easy to recognize!

 

[any name you wish]

Fun fact: there are only 4 events that the winner of US Nationals 2019 was not the North American Record Single holder in that same event in the beginning of COVID, and only one event that the winner of Nats was not the NAR holder of single OR average.

Also Max Hilliard+Jeff Park=Max Park

Event	Winner of Nats	NAR Single	NAR Average	Event	Winner of Nats	NAR Single	NAR Average
3x3	Patrick Ponce	Patrick Ponce	Max Park	Feet	DRL	DRL	DRL
2x2	Will Callan	Sameer Aggarwal	Will Callan	Clock	Scalpel	Evan Liu	Scalpel
4x4	Max Park	Max Park	Max Park	Mega	Nicolas Naing	Nicolas Naing	Nicolas Naing
5x5	Max Park	Max Park	Max Park	Pyra	John Gaynor	John Gaynor	Luke Van Laningham
6x6	Max Park	Max Park	Max Park	Skewb	Leo Min-Bedford	Leo Min-Bedford	Carter Kucala
7x7	Max Park	Max Park	Max Park	Squan	Ethan Erez	Jackey Zheng	Aiden Bartlett
3BLD	Max Hilliard	Max Hilliard	Jeff Park	4BLD	Scalpel	Scalpel	Scalpel
FMC	Cale Schoon	Mark Boyanowski	Cale Schoon	5BLD	Scalpel	Scalpel	Scalpel
OH	Max Park	Max Park	Max Park	MBLD	Graham Siggins	Graham Siggins	Everybody

 

[TheSpeedSkewber]

Fun fact that my Grandad, (who was a nurse) told me.

Back in the 80s, he used to see people with swelling between the finger and the wrist, caused by turning stiff Rubik's Cubes. It's a good thing we are past those days, otherwise I think we all would have developed this if not some form of carpal tunnel by now.

Article i found from 1981 to back this up