Let's make the CubingUSA map more complete

[StachuK1992]

http://www.cubingusa.com/cubers.php
Obviously, this is nowhere near the population of cubers; not even close to those have officially competed, even.

Personally, I think it would be a great resource and community builder, to know if someone's near by. If you find someone or someone finds you, a little meeting or whatnot could be organize now.
As of now, I just see people saying stuff like "I see you're from ___. Cool,; Where?"

To actually see other cubers' names/contact info, you must log in, so if you don't, a CubingUSA username would be needed (and beneficial, in the sense that if you want, they can notify you of any competitions).

Also, a linked project - why not make this for more than the US?
I think it would be a great way to bring the world-wide community together.
As is, the people in the Western world don't necessarily grasp what's happening 'over there,' due to language barriers and the like. I think having a map of lots of cubers would be rather neat, and could show nicely how dispersed we are.

tl;dr
http://www.cubingusa.com/cubers.php
Make an account. Put yourself on the map. kthx.

~statue.

 

[Edward]

Yes, let's do this.
I've been on the map for a while...

 

[Daniel Wu]

I literally just made an account yesterday.

Anyway, I think the world map would be a cool idea.

 

[StachuK1992]

I think the world map would be a cool idea.

I'll look into making this.
If needed, I can host the data on my server.

 

[FatBoyXPC]

I definitely agree that we should make this more complete. I was just going to mention this exact thing (but now I have a thread to link it to!) when I post my Indiana cube meetup

 

[teller]

I think it's a fine idea to mention this site every once in a while. Perhaps some of the newer people don't realize it's there, and they should register!

 

[Cyrus C.]

I use CubingUSA so much, I forgot there were people who didn't know about it.

 

[StachuK1992]

See my sig.
teller - my thoughts. We older members know of it, but 'new' ones don't, and it's great for finding people.

 

[supercuber86]

I signed up just now

 

[That70sShowDude]

When do the competition stats get updated?
They were last updated on August 11th.

 

[Cyrus C.]

When do the competition stats get updated?
They were last updated on August 11th.

When are rankings updated?
Rankings are updated once a month when the WCA puts the new data.

http://www.cubingusa.com/statefaq.php

 

[LewisJ]

I feel special for being a "1" blip all by myself away from others. On second thought, that isn't such a good thing.

 

[pcuber]

I will have to sigh up soon. I also found out that I'm not the only speed cuber in my town.

 

[Cyrus C.]

Is there anything to stop non-North American cubers from putting themselves on the map? There's some guy in Africa on there.

 

[StachuK1992]

Is there anything to stop non-North American cubers from putting themselves on the map? There's some guy in Africa on there.

This is true.
Hrm. Are there any downsides to simply using this?

Besides permission from CubingUSA, I don't see any real problem right now.

Edit:
and the fact that it's "CubingUSA"

 

[Sa967St]

more Canadians need Cubing USA accounts!

 

[Cyrus C.]

and the fact that it's "CubingUSA"

Just means that people outside of North America won't get the support for comps, rankings, and such that people in NA get.

 

[ElectricDoodie]

I'm from Tampa, at the University of South Florida.
I never meet any cubers...
Or ever get to see any competitions.

I actually have never seen anyone speedcube, in real life.
In fact, I have never seen anyone solve a cube, other than my wife (who I taught), brother (who I taught) or brother-in-law (who I also taught.) All of them don't cube anymore. They can still solve it, but they don't usually do it anymore.

I'm deprived of cubing...
Pretty much, I have never seen anyone speed solve in real life, other than me. I imagine it would be a really cool thing to see, up close.

 

[Forte]

I imagine it would be a really cool thing to see, up close.

It is
The first time I saw other cubers was at US Nats 2009, and it was really weird with all these people in the same room that knew how to speedcube o_O

 

[teller]

I'm from Tampa, at the University of South Florida.
I never meet any cubers...
Or ever get to see any competitions.

I actually have never seen anyone speedcube, in real life.
In fact, I have never seen anyone solve a cube, other than my wife (who I taught), brother (who I taught) or brother-in-law (who I also taught.) All of them don't cube anymore. They can still solve it, but they don't usually do it anymore.

I'm deprived of cubing...
Pretty much, I have never seen anyone speed solve in real life, other than me. I imagine it would be a really cool thing to see, up close.

I feel you.

My first exposure to other cubers was very recently at the Washington D.C. open 2010...I had been speedcubing in isolation for 30 years, and Ron van Bruhem sits down next to me and goes "wanna race?" ...and he totally kicks my ass. It was a surreal honor to be humiliated by such a great cuber right off the bat.