Girls in forum?

[AvGalen]

I have seen many girls at competitions. Some are really good, both on a technical and theoretical level. And they are not just interested in 3x3x3 as well.

But in general there are no top 10 female cubers and there are many more men at every competition.

I have noticed that girls are faster at learning Magics compared to guys. Every girl so far has been able to perform the twist move after just seeing me do it once. Guys need a couple of tries. Does anyone have an idea why this is so?

 

[Cerberus]

I have no idea why this could be, but did you noticed anything about normal cubes? For my friends, the girls mostly struggled more at learning the 3x3 than guys did. I got no experience at magic, I don't own one, but when I borrowed one from a friend another guy was able to repeat it pretty fast, after showing him the whole solve like 3 times.
I hope my girlfriend will get enthusiasm for cubing and learn some algorithms or intuitive techniques, she does megaminx layer by layer with one self-explored algorith in 7 mins while not focusing O_o

 

[Erik]

Umm.. girls just do what they see? Guys do what they think what they see and give their own twist to it?

Anyway, this 'girls-learn-magic-easier-than-boys' thing is very true. My record for teaching a boy would be 5 minutes. My record for teaching a girl is sub-2. I only showed the twist once.. -> she did the twist. Then showed te flipping once -> she did the flipping. I put the magic back in normal state: she did twist and flips in a row :-D (easy as that)

I'll teach some more girls the upcoming week I think

 

[Laetitia]

I haven't noticed that girls are fast at learning magics. I have been very slow at learning magics, but maybe I'm the exception which proves the rule

 

[joey]

You did the magic jigsaw quick enough

 

[Rama]

All I want to see is... a girl breaking a World Record and it doesn't even matter wich WCA-event it would be.

 

[Stefan]

But in general there are no top 10 female cubers

Ambiguous statement, so maybe not wrong. In megaminx though there's Laëtitia and in 4x4bld there's Shelley.

Wait, actually there are many top 10 female cubers. Just not many female top 10 cubers.

 

[Laetitia]

All I want to see is... a girl breaking a World Record and it doesn't even matter wich WCA-event it would be.

I also want to see a girl breaking a World Record, by preference the event being megaminx and the girl being me

 

[AvGalen]

But in general there are no top 10 female cubers

Ambiguous statement, so maybe not wrong. In megaminx though there's Laëtitia and in 4x4bld there's Shelley.

Wait, actually there are many top 10 female cubers. Just not many female top 10 cubers.

I don't see how this statement is ambiguous. I wanted to point out that there were almost no female cubers in the top 10 of the events. I only knew about Laetitia (MegaMinx) and guessed Shelley was another one (4x4x4_bf) so I added the " in general" to allow for these anomalies. Would the statement still have been ambiguous if I had said "in general there are no top 10 male cubers"?

You are right about your "top 10 female cubers" / "female top 10 cubers". But can you explain why there are "in general, no female top 10 cubers"?

 

[Stefan]

Ugh, didn't really want to make a point with that, only added it to not implicitly claim you're wrong. But ok, these are the possible interpretations I saw:

1. There are no girls in any top 10.
2. There are almost no girls in any top 10.
3. There are no girls in a "general top 10" (i.e. combined overall ranking).

Would the statement still have been ambiguous if I had said "in general there are no top 10 male cubers"?

No, that would've been unambiguously wrong.

 

[Fusty]

Maybe this should whole thread could be summarized into just encouraging everyone to actively seek out females to join their respective local cubing clubs. I don't see any logical reason men are predisposed to the cube(without getting into finer points about internal brain structure. If that's the case then you could just think that women might have a different perspective on the cube, most likely a very valuable one).

 

[tim]

I have noticed that girls are faster at learning Magics compared to guys. Every girl so far has been able to perform the twist move after just seeing me do it once. Guys need a couple of tries. Does anyone have an idea why this is so?

Guys know, that it's a stupid thing to learn. So they don't pay attention at all .

 

[Stefan]

encouraging everyone to actively seek out females to join their respective local cubing clubs.

Why? Seriously, I don't see any reason why you'd do that. Except being horny.

Oh I think people named "Smith" are also very much underrepresented, we should definitely actively seek out people named "Smith" to join our local cubing clubs.

 

[CharlieCooper]

But in general there are no top 10 female cubers

Ambiguous statement, so maybe not wrong. In megaminx though there's Laëtitia and in 4x4bld there's Shelley.

Wait, actually there are many top 10 female cubers. Just not many female top 10 cubers.

I don't see how this statement is ambiguous. I wanted to point out that there were almost no female cubers in the top 10 of the events. I only knew about Laetitia (MegaMinx) and guessed Shelley was another one (4x4x4_bf) so I added the " in general" to allow for these anomalies. Would the statement still have been ambiguous if I had said "in general there are no top 10 male cubers"?

You are right about your "top 10 female cubers" / "female top 10 cubers". But can you explain why there are "in general, no female top 10 cubers"?

hey, and i'm 7th for pyraminx

 

[Stefan]

Oops, sorry. Yeah, my list wasn't complete, I should've said that. I started with girls having won some event and reduced that to the known ones.

 

[Escher]

i think that we are very unlikely to see any improvement in the ratio of girls:boys. at the moment, it seems like less than 1:10.
the main reason for this could be that guys seem more likely to get obsessed about more 'trivial' things (in my experience).
i, for one, would like more girls, simply for the fact that it would make us seem slightly less nerdy to the rest of the population

 

[Jude]

i, for one, would like more girls, simply for the fact that it would make us seem slightly less nerdy to the rest of the population

Well put.

Myself, I've taught one girl (directly), who is sub minute, and two others (indirectly), who are both sub 1:30, which brings the boy:girl ratio to 3:1 at my school Now, I just have to convince them all to compete next Saturday at the UK Open!

 

[Lofty]

There are plenty of other reasons besides just being horny... guys and girls are different more then just physically so having more girls can bring different perspectives and personalities to our community that guys couldn't do. I would like to see more girls.

 

[Lucas Garron]

Attendance at the first two meetings of Stanford Cube Club this year has been about 2:1 girls to boys (or more). :rolleyes:

 

[brunson]

It's probably because they heard you'd be there, Lucas. ;-)