Odd WCA stats/ Stats request Thread

qqwref said:
The thing that really confuses me is that 常方圆 (Fangyuan Chang) took consistently over 4 seconds in the Magic whereas he is usually much faster. In fact he's never had a competition before where he didn't at least get one sub-3. I almost wonder if there was some kind of weird circumstance at play in the whole competition, like everyone was blind or something.
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I wonder if this was a competition populated entirely by people she taught to solve. Perhaps she was slow because she taught a slower method, like the pure flipping method (no twists), and she decided to solve it with the same method she taught everyone else (just for fun).

I ran a non-official competition at my house after teaching a class to a number of kids just a few weeks before one of our official Indiana competitions. If I had already been a delegate at the time, perhaps I could have done something similar (only with 3x3x3 instead of Magic). As I recall, we had 13 competitors, so it would have been potentially legitimate. If I had done that, I would have been tempted to do my 3x3x3 solves BLD (Haiyan style) (except slower :)). (As it was, I didn't compete.)
 
Mike Hughey said:
I wonder if this was a competition populated entirely by people she taught to solve. Perhaps she was slow because she taught a slower method, like the pure flipping method (no twists), and she decided to solve it with the same method she taught everyone else (just for fun).

I ran a non-official competition at my house after teaching a class to a number of kids just a few weeks before one of our official Indiana competitions. If I had already been a delegate at the time, perhaps I could have done something similar (only with 3x3x3 instead of Magic). As I recall, we had 13 competitors, so it would have been potentially legitimate. If I had done that, I would have been tempted to do my 3x3x3 solves BLD (Haiyan style) (except slower :)). (As it was, I didn't compete.)
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You are correct. Fangyuan taught some children at an orphanage to solve and held the competition for them.
 
According to the WCA definition of a country, Yugoslavia doesn't count and thus the NR disappeared when the country did. His country rank should be blank since he hasn't switched to an existing country. We could try to get in contact with Joszef but knowing what happened to other 1980s cubers this may be very difficult.
 
qqwref said:
According to the WCA definition of a country, Yugoslavia doesn't count and thus the NR disappeared when the country did. His country rank should be blank since he hasn't switched to an existing country. We could try to get in contact with Joszef but knowing what happened to other 1980s cubers this may be very difficult.
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I imagine someone could deduce what former Yugoslav republic he is probably a member of by last name, but yes, obviously there's no way to be sure and contacting him would likely be a problem.
 
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