How do you compare to other cubers your age?

[cmhardw]

Quite interested by the stats, I have no other excuse to why I'm so slow. Would be good to have some stats with pure tps vs age, like that sexy move 100 turn time (or your favourite PLL). My fastest time seemed to be at least twice as slow as most fast people.

What kind of cube are you using? Some things that could affect your (RUR'U')*100 time could be:

-having a cube that is not as nice as most (your cube may be too tight, may need more lube, etc.)
-not turning efficiently (trying to cut corners rather than lining up the sides fairly closely, with minimal corner cutting)
-Your hands not being very coordinating for cubing (yet). This comes with more practice.
-Trying to go too quickly (resulting in forceful turns with lots of pauses. Ideally you want slightly slower, more accurate turns and thus no pauses)
-Not enough endurance for (RUR'U')*100. I'm pretty sure my wrists would get tired doing (RUR'U')*100 and I would slow down significantly near the end. 3x3x3 cubing really comes in bursts of speed rather than endurance speed. Try timing (RUR'U')*12 instead of (RUR'U')*100.

Just some ideas. My global average is about 16.5 seconds, so take my advice with a grain of salt.

 

[CiaranBeahan]

Age: 14
Global Avg:10
Method: CFOP
Gender: Male

 

[Selkie]

Age: 44
Global Average: Sub 17
Method: CFOP with some COLL and some WV
Gender: Male

 

[Kirjava]

26 roux 9 male

 

[cfcuber]

I don't know. I'm still in high school, and I'm sub 16. I know kids who are younger than me who are way better, and likewise I know kids in university and college who are worse. It all depends on when you started and how much you've practiced since then.

 

[Logiqx]

Cool to see additional responses. The more data the better!

I'm happy to update my charts again this weekend. I'm sure Pip could do the same if he had Excel at home.

Quick reminder before you respond... please read the original post.

I suspect a few people may have misunderstood what is meant by global average. This survey it is NOT about your typical Ao5 or Ao12. I think the majority have got it right.

 

[SolveThatCube]

Age: 13 (14 in a couple of months)
GLOBAL average: 12
Method: CFOP, VLS, WV, COLL, ELL
Gender: Male

 

[NothingCrazy]

Age: 38
Global average: 2:15? (Started cubing about 2 months ago)
Method: CN Petrus, toying with Roux atm, but I'm much, MUCH slower with that
Gender: Male

 

[Logiqx]

Latest charts:

 

[pranav jain]

Age: 12
Global average: 16.5-17
Method: CFOP(full PLL, 2look Oll+15 others)
Gender : male

 

[Antonie faz fan]

This might sound Rly stupid but what is IQM and median?

 

[Logiqx]

The Interquartile Mean (IQM) and median are insensitive to statistical outliers, unlike the mean.

They are quite a good representation of the "average cuber" in each age group.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interquartile_mean

Example... take 12 cubers and line them up based on their average solve time:

Mean = average time of all 12 cubers
Median = average time of cuber 6 and cuber 7
IQM = average time of cubers 4 to 9 (i.e. ignore 3 fastest and 3 slowest)

Some age groups include beginner times so the median and IQM are a better measure of "typical times" for each group.

 

[JackGibson]

Age: 14
GLOBAL average: ~35
Method: CFOP with crappy F2L, 2 look OLL and PLL.
Gender: Male, I think.

 

[Kusntestos]

Age:15
Global Average: 12-13
Method: CFOP
Gender: Male

 

[Sin-H]

the 19-21ers are better than the 16-18ers? crazy. or a biased selection of participants in this thread

Age: 21
GLOBAL average: 8-9
Method: CFOP
Gender: male

 

[Coolster01]

Age: 12
GLOBAL average: 10.8
Method: CFOP
Gender: Male

 

[pipkiksass]

Thanks all for the continued responses.

Very apt to use IQM, I think, given the way cubing averages are calculated. I know that's more an "intercentile" mean, but the point stands!

My daughter's been ill, so I haven't had any time to cube, let alone analyse stats. Will update my pure stat spreadsheets tonight with the new posts. I've tried to produce a scatter graph with lines tracing the IQM and mean, but you should see the output in OpenOffice - each scatter point is about 50 pixels square, it looks horrible! Much as I hate the MS chart control, I can't wait to have access to Excel!

Anyhow, watch this space...

 

[pipkiksass]

Latest stats:

Respondents: 113

Mean age of respondents: 22yrs
Median age of respondents: 18yrs
Mean speed: 20.31
IQM speed: 16.87

CFOPers: 98
Rouxists: 8
ZZophiles: 4

Male: 104
Female: 5

 

[ADDCuber]

Age: 14
GLOBAL Average: ~12.5
Method: CFOP
Gender: Male

 

[TinaIsAwesome]

Age: 20
GLOBAL average: 16
Method: CFOP
Gender: Female