He's back...

Short history lesson:

The first Rubik's Cube World Championship was held in Budapest in 1982. The format was best of 3 solves, and Minh Thai won with 22.95 (the WR for 20 years).

The next Rubik's Cube World Championship was in Toronto in 2003. Dan Knights won that with a 20.00 average of 5, the WR. Jess Bonde set the single WR with 16.53 (barely beating Dan's 16.71).

At Caltech Winter 2004, Shotaro Makisumi ("Macky") set both the single and average WR's with 14.76 single and 16.53 average. Then, at Caltech Spring 2004, he broke both of those records with a 12.11 single and 15.38 average. At Caltech Fall 2004, he broke the average record again with a result of 14.52.

Anssi Vanhala beat Macky's record at SveKub 2006 with a 13.22 average of 5.

This was beaten by almost 1.5 seconds at KCRC 2007 by Yu Jeong-Min ("Gungz") with an average of 11.76 seconds, and wasn't beaten until a year and two months later by Nakajima. He competed at 3 competitions after KCRC 2007, the last being in January 2008.

And most here have been cubing since then, or at least have an idea of the WR history since then.

The 11.76 WR was very important to cubing because it was the first sub-12 average in competition. On his first competition, he'd achieved what a lot of people said wasn't possible. I'm not sure, but 11.76 then is like sub-9.7 now. His sunday contest videos also popularized the Joy cube. At the other competitions he attended, he didn't do so well (lack of practice and +2's is what I heard). Then he disappeared for 2 years, but I'm not sure why (some people say he joined the military but I have no idea).

I'm glad he's back. He worked really hard and it's great to see that he's still as good as ever. *roots for Gungz*
 
Wasn't there already a thread about him returning? It had a link to a video of him doing a PLL time attack which was 33s or somewhere around that time I think.

In any case, glad he's back. Jun is also another person I would like to see to return.
 
mazei said:
Wasn't there already a thread about him returning? It had a link to a video of him doing a PLL time attack which was 33s or somewhere around that time I think.

In any case, glad he's back. Jun is also another person I would like to see to return.
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Ah... yeah you're right. I meant "he's back" as in, he's competing again :)
 
edd5190 said:
Short history lesson:

The first Rubik's Cube World Championship was held in Budapest in 1982. The format was best of 3 solves, and Minh Thai won with 22.95 (the WR for 20 years).

The next Rubik's Cube World Championship was in Toronto in 2003. Dan Knights won that with a 20.00 average of 5, the WR. Jess Bonde set the single WR with 16.53 (barely beating Dan's 16.71).

At Caltech Winter 2004, Shotaro Makisumi ("Macky") set both the single and average WR's with 14.76 single and 16.53 average. Then, at Caltech Spring 2004, he broke both of those records with a 12.11 single and 15.38 average. At Caltech Fall 2004, he broke the average record again with a result of 14.52.

Anssi Vanhala beat Macky's record at SveKub 2006 with a 13.22 average of 5.

This was beaten by almost 1.5 seconds at KCRC 2007 by Yu Jeong-Min ("Gungz") with an average of 11.76 seconds, and wasn't beaten until a year and two months later by Nakajima.
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and Chambon WR n Murcia Open 2008?
 
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