How far cubing has come...

[PetrusQuber]

The community has grown so massively and the hardware has improved so much. Not to mention the massive decreases in time. I feel kind of funny looking back to, say, the 1982 competition, and saying ‘if I went, I would have podiumed.’ Most people here would have made the requirements actually.

 

[EccentricSensei]

Deep words.
I think even if we went to the....let’s see....2007 competition, (Yu Nakajima got 1st with a time of 11.50, by the way) quite a few cubers would have podiumed, like you said. And that’s just a 12 year difference!
I wonder what quantum leaps speedcubing will have made in a 100 years time! (if the world still exists)