How many cubers are out there?

[jonathankim98]

I know this is stupid but would dead cubers could technically count (e.g. Your granny solved it once).

 

[Dene]

Yeah, roughly 0.35 [source]

Outdated and inaccurate data. I didn't say Rubik's brand cubes.

 

[aronpm]

Roughly 100 million cubes were sold by 1982, so the other 250 million sales were spread over 30 years, that's <10 million per year, so the current sales would be more like 370 million. Oh no, my point is ruined.

Also, I highly doubt that the number of knockoff cube sales outnumbers official sales by a factor of 10.

You said something factually wrong, just accept the fact and stop trying to weasel out of it by arguing.

 

[rubikmaster]

I know this is stupid but would dead cubers could technically count (e.g. Your granny solved it once).

Ummm,the question was How many cubers ARE out there?Not how many were out there.And yes,your question was stupid.

 

[ben1996123]

I voted 10 - 20 million.

 

[insane569]

Theres about 17,000 people in the WCA database so i said 10,000-20,000 give or take
Might be off since alot of people don't go to comps.

 

[Dene]

Roughly 100 million cubes were sold by 1982, so the other 250 million sales were spread over 30 years, that's <10 million per year, so the current sales would be more like 370 million. Oh no, my point is ruined.

Also, I highly doubt that the number of knockoff cube sales outnumbers official sales by a factor of 10.

You said something factually wrong, just accept the fact and stop trying to weasel out of it by arguing.

The number of sales over the period from the early 80's to the mid 2000's would have been minimal while the brand wasn't so big for that period of time. The very recent boost in popularity of the Rubik's brand would almost certainly have been accompanied by a boost in sales. I would expect that the past few years have had 20-30 million or more each year sold. I have no evidence for that claim, only common sense.

And you clearly have no idea of the knock-off trade if you think that the sales there are minimal. In my experience, which is a fair amount, people that I have come across with cubes have generally not had Rubik's brand cubes, but rather cheap crappy knock-offs. My first experience with cubes was with knock-offs. And look at countries like China and India, where knock-off sales are huge. You're naive if you don't think cube sales have been in the billions.

 

[aronpm]

You're naive if you think that every second or fourth person in the world owns a cube.

 

[Dene]

Over a period of 30 years, and people can have more than one cube.

 

[aronpm]

If people can have more than one cube, you can't use the cube sales figure to determine how many people own cubes, and by extension how many people can solve them.

 

[Dene]

Of course not, but it can at least provide direction towards an answer.

 

[tx789]

The amount on this forum and on chinesse forums and youtube
Me myself and PI has heaps (and who would subscribe if you weren't interised and how many would the number who don't go on youtube or foroumor haven't completed
500,000 at least

 

[Jaycee]

It really depends on what your definition of cuber is.

 

[Jaysammey777]

5.8% of 7 billion people =406 million people
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_percent_of_people_can_solve_a_Rubik's_Cube
Because the internet doesn't lie

 

[Jaysammey777]

It really depends on what your definition of cuber is.

He stated in the first post Anyone who has solved a Rubik's cube/

otherwise a Speed cuber would be 15 thousand or so

 

[freshcuber]

The number of speedcubers, people who practice solves with the intent of getting faster, is probably much less than 50,000. The number of people who could pick up a scrambled cube and solve it at any given point in time is of course much greater. To throw out a number I'd guess anywhere from 5-20 million

 

[Thompson]

http://villaslife.cn/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&sectionid=4&catid=16&id=78&Itemid=39

Not sure if it's a reliable source, but I got it from the recent sightings in the media thread.

I really enjoyed reading that!

 

[Jaysammey777]

The number of speedcubers, people who practice solves with the intent of getting faster, is probably much less than 50,000. The number of people who could pick up a scrambled cube and solve it at any given point in time is of course much greater. To throw out a number I'd guess anywhere from 5-20 million

relook at my post because I said no such thing as 50,000. rather 15,000 which I'm more leaning toward 20 now.

 

[aronpm]

relook at my post because I said no such thing as 50,000. rather 15,000 which I'm more leaning toward 20 now.

He wasn't responding to you.

 

[freshcuber]

relook at my post because I said no such thing as 50,000. rather 15,000 which I'm more leaning toward 20 now.

I don't see how my post was related to yours at all. As aronpm said. I was just responding to the thread.