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So,there were very close finishes in OH finals at DSO' 13,just difference of centiseconds between 1st and 2nd,and 2nd and 3rd.

http://live.cubecomps.com/live.php?cid=211&cat=13&rnd=2

I would like to see a list of closest finishes ever arranged in order for all the events in the world.Both for between 1st and 2nd place,and between 2nd and 3rd place.
Would like to see a list of it country-wise too.Thanks
 
I know this is a lot to ask but since we are two months away from the 10 year anniversary of the 2003 World Championship, which was the first official competition (aside from the 1982 WC), it would be interesting to see the evolution of the # of competitors throughout these 10 years of WCA, with a chart illustrating it.
Ideally, it would be nice to have it monthly based, but that would require 12*10 values on the XX axis, so it would be a big line chart, but still it would be interesting to see how the number of registered competitors has evolved since WCA's inception.
 
I'm curious to see the slowest 3x3x3 solvers with a BLD success.

Decided to take this into my own hands. I'm not experienced with SQL so I used R instead.

Code:
wca = read.csv("wca export.csv")
blind = wca[wca$eventId == "333bf",]

blindsmall = blind[,c(5, 7)] #name and best time, BLD
successes = blindsmall[blindsmall$best != -1,] #eliminate DNF averages
success = as.character(unique(successes$person)) #create a unique list of names
loopnum = length(success) #number used in for loop later

speed = wca[wca$eventId == "333",6:7] #name and average, speed
speed = speed[speed$average > 0,] #eliminate DNF/empty values

vec = 0 #placeholder variable
for (i in 1:loopnum) { 
  res = speed[speed$person == success[i],] #table of 3x3x3 averages for blindsolver i
  vec[i] = min(res$average) #takes the best 3x3x3 average
}

output = data.frame(name=success, time=vec) #arranges the two vectors of names and best 3x3x3 averages together
output2 = output[is.finite(output$time),] #Inf was result for blindsolvers with no 3x3x3 average
output3 = output2[order(-output2$time),] #order from highest to lowest

And here's the top 100. Names with special characters didn't translate well.
Code:
                                                     name time
1                                      Walter Antonio Monti 8974
2                                             Hritik Shukla 8595
3                           Hideaki Tomoyori (å‹å¯„英哲) 5841
4                                               Phil Hamory 5636
5                                             Javier Santos 5631
6                                    Hualei Gao (高åŽç£Š) 5425
7                                             Eszter Szabó 5351
8                                             Tharun Suresh 4945
9        Oleksii Bessonov (ОлекÑій БеÑÑонов) 4595
10                                Julián González Acevedo 4569
11     Mark Polinkovsky (Марк ПолинковÑкий) 4544
12                                            Amish Thakkar 4502
13                                             Érik Amorim 4496
14                                   Abhijitharam Tadepalli 4474
15                                           Julia Connelly 4435
16                                            Oky Markianto 4349
17                                          Aygul Tlyavsina 4219
18                                            Alvin Raditya 4218
19                                            Gaston Muñoz 4196
20                                       Jin Zhang (ç«*瑾) 4167
21                           LaÃ*s Azevedo Martins da Silva 4084
22                        Tertuliano Carneiro de Souza Neto 4083
23                                          Zacharie Cortes 4077
24                                          Xin Lu (鹿鑫) 4070
25                                        Frédéric Giguet 4066
26                                         Varun Karandikar 3949
27                                           Mukunth Suresh 3938
28                                           Yann Leenhardt 3937
29                                             Douwe Wermer 3934
30                                            Bruce Norskog 3908
31                                         Martin Maréchal 3860
32                                     Khoirudin Ubaidillah 3851
33                                            Ahmad Muhajir 3796
34                                          Antoine Tonnoir 3781
35                                         Yang Hu (胡扬) 3688
36                                        Robert D. Johnson 3686
37                                           Zulfikar Karim 3627
38                                             Gilles Cayol 3601
39                                 Yijing Liang (æ¢è¯‘é™) 3599
40                                          Nicolas Renault 3578
41                                               John Louis 3577
42                                Chuanliang Ma (马ä¼*æ¢) 3564
43                                    Marcus Forsell Stahre 3547
44                                              Ivan Enrico 3543
45                                            Mats Bergsten 3513
46                                        Matthieu Fresquet 3484
47                                        Krzysztof Opalski 3400
48                                            Jennifer Tang 3391
49                                           Mats Kollbrink 3372
50                                            Ryan Gossiaux 3339
51                                           Rafał Bartuzi 3339
52                                           Joshua Lambert 3333
53                                              Suyash Ojha 3292
54                                                 Dan Wang 3269
55                                          Matthew Wallisa 3265
56                                           David Bergling 3256
57                                        Frédéric Mignon 3246
58                                             Katja Renner 3226
59                              Tsai-Hsuan Chen (陳采è±) 3217
60                                             Bill McGaugh 3203
61                                           Xi He (何熙) 3203
62                                     Bagus Galang Pratama 3179
63                                              Olve Maudal 3172
64                                      Julio Machaca Perez 3170
65                                           Wojciech Jurga 3156
66                          Katsuto Takeuchi (æ*¦å†…å…‹æ–—) 3149
67                                        Ahmad Leo Yudanto 3113
68                                          Vladimir Kostin 3109
69                                              Alex Comeau 3097
70                                         Johannes Neumann 3094
71                                          Thomas Bossmann 3094
72                                              Vikram Mada 3093
73                                        Ralph Eikelenberg 3090
74                                            Vivek Chandru 3085
75                                   Andre Vincentius Angga 3084
76                                           Shantanu Walke 3083
77                                             Adrian Roșu 3048
78                                                 Apriadin 3043
79                                            Raviraj Gohil 3038
80                        Takeshi Akuzawa (阿久沢剛å²) 3006
81                                         Pierre Bienaimé 2995
82                                      Siska Lestari Afdan 2992
83                           Pablo Cristian Duarte de Sousa 2963
84                                            Kathi Sundeep 2939
85                                                 Ben Beer 2931
86                                          Brendan Manning 2929
87                                            Karthik Kumar 2884
88                                           Tyler Hakomori 2879
89                                           Kai Molzberger 2867
90                                        Satriyo Nurdiyono 2861
91                                              Thomas Kohn 2856
92                                            Caleb Shapiro 2842
93                                              Ivan Calvet 2822
94                                             Charlie Pugh 2820
95                                             Donato Marro 2810
96                                               Alan Jiang 2808
97                                       Brandon Whitchurch 2806
98                                   Budi Setiawan Paramata 2772
99                               Diego de Pereda Sebastián 2753
100                                           Jaime Solsona 2747

Also of note, there are 36 people with a BLD success with no 3x3x3 average that are not listed here.
 
Can someone post the traditional Worlds Attended so far lists?

List 1: A list of all competitors who are registered to attend Worlds 2013, ranked by how many world championships they will have attended by August 1st of this year.

List 2: A list of all WCA competitors who will have attended at least one world championship by August 1st of this year, and the number attended by that date.
 
5x5x5 Blindfolded

Ooops. I wasn't even planning on making stats today, but Tomasmu was doing some stuff about this and I decided to join in

Overall Stats
261 Successes in 1483 Attempts, giving a success rate of 17.60%
82 out of 187 people who have attempted have successes

Most attempts
[table="width: 400, class: grid, align: left"]
[tr][td]Rank[/td] [td]Name[/td] [td]Attempts[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]1[/td] [td]István Kocza[/td] [td]76[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]2[/td] [td]François Courtès[/td] [td]70[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]3[/td] [td]Mike Hughey[/td] [td]49[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]4[/td] [td]Zhizhe Liang (梁稚喆)[/td] [td]32[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]5[/td] [td]Chester Lian[/td] [td]29[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]6[/td] [td]Marcell Endrey[/td] [td]28[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]7[/td] [td]Chris Hardwick[/td] [td]27[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]8[/td] [td]Kai Jiptner[/td] [td]26[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]9[/td] [td]Baiqiang Dong (董百强)[/td] [td]25[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]10[/td] [td]Marcin Zalewski[/td] [td]25[/td][/tr]
[/table]
Most Successes
[table="width: 400, class: grid, align: left"]
[tr][td]Rank[/td] [td]Name[/td] [td]Successes[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]1[/td] [td]István Kocza[/td] [td]37[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]2[/td] [td]Mike Hughey[/td] [td]18[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]3[/td] [td]Chris Hardwick[/td] [td]13[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]4[/td] [td]Chester Lian[/td] [td]12[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]5[/td] [td]Zhizhe Liang (梁稚喆)[/td] [td]8[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]5[/td] [td]Marcell Endrey[/td] [td]8[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]5[/td] [td]Fabrizio Cirnigliaro[/td] [td]8[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]8[/td] [td]Aldo Feandri[/td] [td]7[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]8[/td] [td]Dmitry Karyakin[/td] [td]7[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]10[/td] [td]Tim Habermaas[/td] [td]6[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]10[/td] [td]Tomoaki Okayama (岡山友昭)[/td] [td]6[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]10[/td] [td]Muhammad Iril Khairul Anam[/td] [td]6[/td][/tr]
[/table]
The 3 people with no DNFs
[table="width: 400, class: grid, align: left"]
[tr][td]Rank[/td] [td]Name[/td] [td]Attempts[/td] [td]Solves[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]1[/td] [td]Matthew Sheerin[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]2[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]2[/td] [td]Bernett Orlando[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]1[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]3[/td] [td]Taku Yanai (矢内拓)[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]1[/td][/tr]
[/table]
Most Attempts without a Success
[table="width: 400, class: grid, align: left"]
[tr][td]Rank[/td] [td]Name[/td] [td]Attempts[/td] [td]Solves[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]1[/td] [td]Baiqiang Dong (董百强)[/td] [td]25[/td] [td]0[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]2[/td] [td]Dan Cohen[/td] [td]12[/td] [td]0[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]3[/td] [td]Cendy Cahyo Rahmat[/td] [td]11[/td] [td]0[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]4[/td] [td]Shelley Chang[/td] [td]10[/td] [td]0[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]5[/td] [td]Shaden Smith[/td] [td]9[/td] [td]0[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]5[/td] [td]Frank Severinsen[/td] [td]9[/td] [td]0[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]5[/td] [td]Aron Puddy-Mathew[/td] [td]9[/td] [td]0[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]8[/td] [td]Hong Zhang (张宏)[/td] [td]8[/td] [td]0[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]8[/td] [td]Noah Arthurs[/td] [td]8[/td] [td]0[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]8[/td] [td]Callum Hales-Jepp[/td] [td]8[/td] [td]0[/td][/tr]
[/table]
Highest Success Rate by Country
[table="width: 400, class: grid, align: left"]
[tr][td]Rank[/td] [td]Country[/td] [td]Attempts[/td] [td]Solves[/td] [td]Success Rate[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]1[/td] [td]Malaysia[/td] [td]43[/td] [td]17[/td] [td]39.5%[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]2[/td] [td]Hungary[/td] [td]147[/td] [td]48[/td] [td]32.7%[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]3[/td] [td]India[/td] [td]8[/td] [td]2[/td] [td]25.0%[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]3[/td] [td]Japan[/td] [td]72[/td] [td]18[/td] [td]25.0%[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]3[/td] [td]Mexico[/td] [td]4[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]25.0%[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]6[/td] [td]Finland[/td] [td]13[/td] [td]3[/td] [td]23.1%[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]7[/td] [td]Russia[/td] [td]59[/td] [td]13[/td] [td]22.0%[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]8[/td] [td]Italy[/td] [td]51[/td] [td]10[/td] [td]19.6%[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]9[/td] [td]USA[/td] [td]225[/td] [td]42[/td] [td]18.7%[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]10[/td] [td]Sweden[/td] [td]66[/td] [td]12[/td] [td]18.2%[/td][/tr]
[/table]

Yearly Summary
[table="width: 400, class: grid, align: left"]
[tr][td]Year[/td] [td]Attempts[/td] [td]Successes[/td] [td]Success Rate[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]2004[/td] [td]3[/td] [td]1[/td] [td]33.3%[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]2005[/td] [td]3[/td] [td]0[/td] [td]0.00%[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]2006[/td] [td]6[/td] [td]4[/td] [td]67.7%[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]2007[/td] [td]23[/td] [td]6[/td] [td]26.1%[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]2008[/td] [td]52[/td] [td]12[/td] [td]23.1%[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]2009[/td] [td]80[/td] [td]16[/td] [td]20.0%[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]2010[/td] [td]270[/td] [td]38[/td] [td]14.1%[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]2011[/td] [td]412[/td] [td]76[/td] [td]18.4%[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]2012[/td] [td]387[/td] [td]63[/td] [td]16.3%[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]2013[/td] [td]247[/td] [td]45[/td] [td]18.2%[/td][/tr]
[/table]
 
Actually, there was also 2003, with Dror Vomberg getting 2 DNFs. There is talk now on the delegates' group to possibly have those results restored. (So sad for him - he's never had a success (yet), but on one of those 2003 attempts, he only made a mistake on the last 3 cycle.)

I'm very jealous of Chris and István with their near-50% results. I've had a particularly bad run lately; I keep telling myself that it will get better soon. I'm running close to 70% now at home, so I hope I can start to do better in competition.
 
http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/p.php?i=2007DUSS01
This person is sub-15 for 3x3, but his fewest moves attempt... over 500?
Gael Dusser (along with some other people) used to "troll" FMC events by trying to put as many moves as possible into their solutions. They would add things like (R U R' U')x6 just to increase move counts. This is why the WCA imposed an 80-move limit.
All of his regular 3x3 solves were also done blindfold-style.
 
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