Girls in forum?

So far there has been 4 girls in this forum including me.
I've gotten few girls in to cubing at my school. One of them was just jealous to me so she learned to solve the cube just to show that she could do it too, one just saw me doing the cube and thought it was cool and wated to do it too (hope she sticks with the cube little longer) and yhe last one is my sister.
 
Dyste said:
The majority seem more intent on providing a good management of the aesthetics of their appearance, oddly intrigued by fashion, boys, and things of that nature. Or, otherwise, they're just extremely lazy and like to eat and sleep.
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Exactly! I like to say "slaves of modern stereotypes". Pff, they make me sick >_> :)
 
Dene said:
Lol yea, I'm a girl at heart, does that also make me a lesbian? I wouldn't complain if I was allowed in the girls locker room :p . As for the grammar etc, I have no idea why, I've always just liked things to be neat (hence the teddy arrangement :) ).
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Of course, I suppose that would be the exception to your beliefs. :rolleyes:
 
One of the reasons for cubers to be mostly men is that men tend to get addicted easier.

Another reason would be that cubing has a math aspect and more men than women are "beta"-types (meaning math/science oriented)

But there are lots of exceptions to this rule. The Dutch have some cube-mothers (Maria Oey, Grada Ooms) and my niece is quite fast (sub 45). At the Lyon Open (first one this year, not the winter edition) there were a lot of girls and the same is true for Polish Open.
 
AvGalen said:
Another reason would be that cubing has a math aspect and more men than women are "beta"-types (meaning math/science oriented)
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Nonsense! It's mostly historical and social incidence. But I should write an essay on that rather than arguing here. :p

Anyhow, I taught something like 5 girls at Math Camp, and a few more indirectly (or not alone). One girl was even thoroughly opposed to cubing; she knew how to solve one by the end of the month. ;)

(And I think we've also established that there are half a dozen girls in this forum...)
 
Harris Chan said:
Jessica Fridrich, I must admit, is not a female from the beginning (even on her site it signs "Jerry Fridrich").

I saw the picture of each competitor at WC1982 in a book (the US guys were looking at them), including Fridrich in there. Later when I was doing the 42 cubes marathon, Rhodri and Rowe were talking about it, trying to distract me xD
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Harris, Stefan,

Steff may be right! Most of us do use a system invented by a girl. Let me explain:
In the Netherlands that same Fridrich method, cross+4pairs+OLL+PLL, was called the Treep-Dockhorn method, officially published in 1981 by Frans Schiereck. The inventers are Kurt Dockhorn and Anneke Treep, one of the founders of the dutch cubist club CFF in 1981. Anneke was a 16-year-old girl then. They probably invented the system early 1981 and probably before Jiri Fridrich (that was his official name in Budapest 1982) and Mirek Goljan did.

In 1996 or 1997 Jessica put her system on the internet and probably she was the first who published such an advanced system and made it available to the world. That's why we call it the Fridrich system these days.

Gus
 
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AvGalen said:
Just to show that there are lots of girls in official competitions a made a small collection of photo-links (thansk Gilles):

http://lh5.google.com/gillesvdp/RzNZhcKkrzI/AAAAAAAAAIY/gDJnG7dyx2c/World%20Championship%202007%20Budapest%20-%20010.JPG?imgmax=912
http://lh6.google.com/gillesvdp/RzN...ampionship 2007 Budapest - 011.JPG?imgmax=912
http://www.gillesvdp.com/cube/docs/pictures/polish_open_2007/Polish_Open_2007_022_small.jpg
http://www.gillesvdp.com/cube/docs/pictures/polish_open_2007/Polish_Open_2007_103_small.jpg
http://www.gillesvdp.com/cube/docs/pictures/lyon_open_2007/Lyon_Open_2007_018_small.jpg
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I can't look at the first 2 pictures ?

In the 3rd picture, the 2 girls on the right seems more like models/cheerleaders, and we should have them at competitions more often. ;)
Also, what's the program used to produce the results image ?

In the 4th picture, Arnaud's just showing how popular he is with girls. :D

Last picture shows the point, female cuber, haha.


Last year, at my school not many people solves the cube, nowadays EVERYONE knows how to solve the cube, haha. That includes many girls, they just know how, but they don't want to get faster.
 
The first two pictures are from gilles picassa album. You can download them and then view them (picassa is weird). On the pictures are the "mothers" (Grada Ooms, Maria Oey and Gilles mother)

The third picture indeed has dancers and cheerleaders, but also female cubers. The dancers and cheerleaders were a lot of fun to watch (Polish Open 2007)

The girls on the fourth picture are much to young for me, but it was weird that so many wanted my autograph

The fifth picture is from the Lyon Open 2007 and there were some fast female cubers over there.
 
Hahaha I see. I still can't see the pictures, maybe they are set on private.

Do you guys know what program was used for this?
 
today i got my sister interested into cube for few brief seconds. She never attempted to solve it before, and I just attempted to teach her the entire F2L right away in a span of about 5 minutes :) The amazing thing is that I think she got it :D She doesn't really understand yet how to do the 4th slot (because you need to hide the corner in a way as to not destroy the 3 slots you already filled), but it's almost there! I'm pretty impressed right now :) The problem needs to be approached carefully, because anytime i say the word "algorithm" and "learn" in the same sentence, she tells me to screw myself and goes out of the room. Anyone has some subtle synonyms for "algorithm" or "learn"? :D
 
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Ah... so you've struck the gender-based language barrier.

First, understand that when your sister tells you to screw yourself she doesn't mean it literally. She is fulfilling an important role as your sibling by keeping your male ego in check and preparing you for future relationships. I no longer have to tell my brother to screw himself because his wife and daughter do it on a regular basis. So next time your sister says that to you, just say "Thank you."

I understand that the word "algorithm" is intimidating. "Move" or "move sequence" would be more appropriate.

And while you could euphemize the word "learn" with "memorize," I don't think you really have to address the concept. Ask her to "do X," not to "learn X". It will incorporate itself into her memory of its own accord, and if your sister prefers to believe that happens via osmosis, then let her.
 
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