Sorry to slightly change the topic, but there’s an idea I’ve been toying around with recently to help people improve at 3x3 and other events. I listen to old episodes of the cubing show, and in one of the 2016 ones they mention that the best way to improve at 3x3 is to watch people solve who have jut broken the time barrier you are about to break. This make sense because you can evaluate what they’re doing and see how you need to change your solves to match theirs. For example, let’s say I was averaging 16 secs and really wanted to average sub 15. I would watch a cuber who is averaging around 14 seconds, using the same method as me, do an average of 5 and pick out what they’re doing that I’m not. The problem with this idea, I realized, is that these solves (that are not necessarily world-class) can be very hard to find, because either you can’t really see what the person is doing (e.g competition solves), or they just aren’t there on commonly found/used YouTube channels because these youtubers know that solves are not a good way to make your channel grow.
So I thought of 2 possible fixes to this problem. Both of these have to do with consolidating a bunch of solves in one place, but they do it in different ways. My first idea was to have a YouTube channel dedicated to collecting averages of 5 from people of different speeds and different methods. You would have multiple playlists for different skill levels and different barriers that have been broken. This is probably the easiest idea, but I don’t like it as much as my other idea because it’s not as organized.
My other idea was to create a separate database on it’s own website, structured like
Algdb.net. Each puzzle/event (yes, this format would let you have other events as well, like OH or 4x4) would have it’s own major category, and then each major event category would be split into methods (for 3x3 I’d imagine there would be CFOP, Roux, and ZZ). Each of those method categories would be split up into barriers that people often break, like sub-25, sub-20, sub-15, etc. In each of those method categories would simply be a bunch of videos of people solving just past the barrier that others are trying to break.
The concept for both the Youtube and the website database idea are the same, but the execution would be very different. Tell me if either of these ideas would be a viable thing to do, and if I should pursue them. Some parts of this post probable don’t make any sense, so please tell me if that is the case and I will answer your question.
Sorry for the ramble!
