Female World Record (FWR) Thread

[Izzymizzymus]

aedan bryant and levi gibson?

im sure aedan is nonbinary. idk who levi is tho

 

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im sure aedan is nonbinary. idk who levi is tho

what is the difference between trans and nonbinary

 

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trans is an umbrella term for people whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth (typically the opposite sex), while non-binary describes individuals whose gender identity falls outside the traditional binary of male and female

i totally understand this

 

[gruuby]

aedan bryant and levi gibson?

yup i forgot. also kucala lol.

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

trans is an umbrella term for people whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth (typically the opposite sex), while non-binary describes individuals whose gender identity falls outside the traditional binary of male and female

i will stick to man and woman (this stuff is too confusing for my 2x2 brain)

 

[qwr]

i will stick to man and woman (this stuff is too confusing for my 2x2 brain)

It's OK it's all make believe anyway

 

[ClovisKoo]

It's OK it's all make believe anyway

casual bigotry on a rubiks cube forum? surely you can do better than that

edit: I will refrain from flooding the thread with politicized issues, but here are some quick reading resources regarding the well-documented history of transgender and non-binary people:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-binary_gender#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_gender#History

Our understanding of gender identity is not particularly well-understood, in part due to efforts from governments censoring and undermining it over the past several decades, but feel free to have a look and understand the thought process of transgender and non-binary people a little bit more, instead of taking the opinions of internet strangers with political symbols as their profile pictures as fact.

 

[gruuby]

Yeah, this is going downhill very quickly. Thanks guys.

 

[Lord_Oscar]

NZ big cubers might be cooked when she comes to NZ.

 

[gruuby]

NZ big cubers might be cooked when she comes to NZ.

Is she going there soon?

 

[gruuby]

“dilutional”

let’s go back to talking about FWR

Yes let's. This one is pretty old but Berta García Parra's 1:45 4bld single from July 2023. Her rate of improvement was insane. A year earlier she hadn't gotten sub 4 minutes

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

Yes let's. This one is pretty old but Berta García Parra's 1:45 4bld single from July 2023. Her rate of improvement was insane. A year earlier she hadn't gotten sub 4 minutes

where do you find these WRs though

edit: nvm i found it

 

[gruuby]

Yeah for those who don’t know, go to rankings and under gender, click female and it’ll show the top 100 female results.

 

[finger go brr]

i dont rlly like the idea of female wr's cus wtf does gender have to do with pattern recognition and motor skills. it also creates this whole debate on what counts as a woman which no-one on either side of the argument has the energy for.

anywho im just a dumb man pls correct me if im wrong

 

[gruuby]

It doesn't really have anything to do with it. It's simply another statistic and isn't even an official statistic. Just for funsies

 

[finger go brr]

It doesn't really have anything to do with it. It's simply another statistic and isn't even an official statistic. Just for funsies

semi-related: chess has woman grandmaster titles, which isn't just a statistic and is an official title, which is pretty dumb imo. whats worse is that it has a lower elo requirement than the standard grandmaster title, which is ms. monopoly levels of sexism

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

i dont rlly like the idea of female wr's cus wtf does gender have to do with pattern recognition and motor skills. it also creates this whole debate on what counts as a woman which no-one on either side of the argument has the energy for.

anywho im just a dumb man pls correct me if im wrong

it’s just nice to see in a hobby where most cubers are male

 

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i dont rlly like the idea of female wr's cus wtf does gender have to do with pattern recognition and motor skills. it also creates this whole debate on what counts as a woman which no-one on either side of the argument has the energy for.

anywho im just a dumb man pls correct me if im wrong

9 characters: male > female (in number)

 

[Clock_Enthusiast]

i dont rlly like the idea of female wr's cus wtf does gender have to do with pattern recognition and motor skills. it also creates this whole debate on what counts as a woman which no-one on either side of the argument has the energy for.

anywho im just a dumb man pls correct me if im wrong

Like @gruuby said, it's a statistic. I don't really understand why it bothers people, because what counts as an overall record (or even a competition result for that matter) doesn't depend on gender.

Another viewpoint is that this may not matter to you personally, but it might matter to some women (who are comparatively underrepresented, but still very impactful in this community). I'm good friends with a former FWR holder who very much sought after FWR. She is fully aware it wasn't the overall world record, but it's a ranked statistic that she enjoyed working towards. In the end, cubing is for fun.

If a ranking makes people happy and proud (like any statistic on the WCA website), then I'm happy for them.

 

[finger go brr]

Like @gruuby said, it's a statistic. I don't really understand why it bothers people, because what counts as an overall record (or even a competition result for that matter) doesn't depend on gender.

Another viewpoint is that this may not matter to you personally, but it might matter to some women (who are comparatively underrepresented, but still very impactful in this community). I'm good friends with a former FWR holder who very much sought after FWR. She is fully aware it wasn't the overall world record, but it's a ranked statistic that she enjoyed working towards. In the end, cubing is for fun.

If a ranking makes people happy and proud (like any statistic on the WCA website), then I'm happy for them.

yeah thats fair. in any case, its quite sad that the statistic means anything bc it just shows that women aren't as equally represented as men in cubing. it'd be ideal if for any world record itd be a 50-50 what gender holds it. hopefully someday thatll be the case