History of the best speedcubes?

[YouCubing]

I'm doing a presentation for my Research Paper class on the history of 3x3 single world records. Obviously just listing out who got them, when, and how fast they were would be boring and wouldn't qualify as research, so I want some background info! What I'm looking for is the most popular speedcubes throughout cubing history, when they were released (doesn't have to be exact), and any interesting factoids/helpful background info that go along with it. Any help is appreciated!

 

[qwr]

History of cubing - Speedsolving.com Wiki

 

[YouCubing]

History of cubing - Speedsolving.com Wiki

oh thank you very much!

 

[Sub1Hour]

Don't forget to mention the Valk, also If you need actual "credible" sources then you might be out of luck, my English teacher wouldn't let me site the forums or Wiki when I made my God's number presentation.

 

[qwr]

In the early days, modding was much more common. People would put pins in their V cubes (pin mod), round of corners of pieces (Florian mod), and modify piece geometry (torpedos, 48 point mod). Nowadays people don't really do that because cubing companies already design the pieces well.

Don't forget to mention the Valk, also If you need actual "credible" sources then you might be out of luck, my English teacher wouldn't let me site the forums or Wiki when I made my God's number presentation.

Your English teacher sucks, though he/she might just say that as a blanket standard. In any analysis of internet-based subcultures, you're going to have to quote direct sources which are usually forums and if old enough mailing lists and newsgroups.

 

[Sub1Hour]

Your English teacher sucks, though he/she might just say that as a blanket standard. In any analysis of internet-based subcultures, you're going to have to quote direct sources which are usually forums and if old enough mailing lists and newsgroups.

Yeah. I asked if I could use mathematical proof forum posts as a source, but he asked "Is it biased?", I said "It's just mathematical proofs".

Thankfully J Perm listed his sources on his God's Number video that he released while I was working on my project, so I had enough sources. He was a little confused on why I was using a source from 1995 about the superflip, but he allowed it.