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My PB ao5 is less than 2 seconds faster than my global average, and my PB ao12 is around 1 second faster than my global average... WHY CONSISTENCY... WHY?!
 
guysensei1 said:
My PB ao5 is less than 2 seconds faster than my global average, and my PB ao12 is around 1 second faster than my global average... WHY CONSISTENCY... WHY?!
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Wow, that's boring. :p But I got a 1:21 5x5 single when I averaged almost 2:00 on 5x5 and my previous PB was 1:38, and it kind of sucks because I haven't come even close to beating it in the months since then despite having improved a lot. So maybe it's a good thing that you're consistent. If your PB average of x is closer to your global average, you'll beat it more often because it moves with your average instead of going in random giant jumps. It's better for motivation.

6x6 is the most inconsistent WCA speed event there is because of so many different parities. Are you consistent with that too?
 
IRNjuggle28 said:
Wow, that's boring. :p But I got a 1:21 5x5 single when I averaged almost 2:00 on 5x5 and my previous PB was 1:38, and it kind of sucks because I haven't come even close to beating it in the months since then despite having improved a lot. So maybe it's a good thing that you're consistent. If your PB average of x is closer to your global average, you'll beat it more often because it moves with your average instead of going in random giant jumps. It's better for motivation.

6x6 is the most inconsistent WCA speed event there is because of so many different parities. Are you consistent with that too?
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PB single is more than 20 seconds faster than my global average. Not sure if that's 'consistent'

I don't even know what my global average is anymore
 
Top 100 results for 3x3 single. If you want to be on that list, you need to get 6.84 seconds or below.

Top 1000 results for 3x3 single. To be on that list, you need to get 7.93 or below.

How ridiculous Feliks is:

  • He holds 41 of the top 100 3x3 times.
  • On the top 100 people, where competitors only appear once, the cut-off is 7.61.
  • In 2011, the year he got 5.66, only 2 other people achieved 6.84 or less, Nipat Charoenpholphant and Mats Valk. (see below)

What the top of the results leaderboard looked like at the end of 2011:

  1. Feliks Zemdegs 5.66
  2. Feliks Zemdegs 6.18
  3. Feliks Zemdegs 6.24
  4. Mats Valk 6.41
  5. Feliks Zemdegs 6.55
  6. Feliks Zemdegs 6.65
  7. Feliks Zemdegs 6.65
  8. Feliks Zemdegs 6.65
  9. Feliks Zemdegs 6.77 2010[/red]
    [*]Nipat Charoenpholphant 6.78
    [*]Mats Valk 6.84
    [*]Nipat Charoenpholphant 6.84
    [*]Feliks Zemdegs 6.88
    [*]Che-Ting Chu 6.89
    [*]Anthony Brooks 6.93
    [*]Feliks Zemdegs 7.03


People with more than one appearance on top 100 results (when a tie, in order of fastest time):

  1. Feliks Zemdegs (41)
  2. Alexander Lau (9)
  3. Mats Valk (8)
  4. Cornelius Dieckmann (6)
  5. Lucas Etter (5)
  6. Kevin Costello III (3)
  7. Nipat Charoenpholphant (3)
  8. Michał Pleskowicz (2)
  9. Sebastian Weyer (2)
  10. Bill Wang (2)

Total: 81

And lastly... Alex Lau has 69 of the top 100 solves in the UK. Quite a lot huh? Not really.

Do you think this deserves its own thread? It's pretty ridiculous...
 
Shapeways actually had their massive price increase today, not Oct 7 like CBC said.

17x17 now costs almost 8 THOUSAND DOLLARS (almost 11k if you want it in black). A few days ago, it cost 1.5k.

This will largely hinder my goal of getting nearly all easily available 3x3 sizes... "Frosted Ultra Detail" will likely become a popular material option.
 
So at Harvard fall 2014 yesterday, I was off by a U2 on one of my solves. The judge wasn't completely sure, so he asked me if it was a +2 or DNF. I told him it was a plus 2, and he was about to write it down when the kid next to me said it was a DNF. I told him that it's not a DNF because the WCA recognizes HTM as the metric for determining +2s and FMC and the like, and he preceded to angrily refute what I was saying and was adamant that my solve was a DNF. 1 or 2 other people came over and said it was a DNF, then when they finally called a delegate (or a more experienced judge, wasnt sure who came over), he confirmed it was a +2.

sometimes it just really irks me when people are adamant they are right, when they really have no clue what they're talking about.
 
goodatthis said:
So at Harvard fall 2014 yesterday, I was off by a U2 on one of my solves. The judge wasn't completely sure, so he asked me if it was a +2 or DNF. I told him it was a plus 2, and he was about to write it down when the kid next to me said it was a DNF. I told him that it's not a DNF because the WCA recognizes HTM as the metric for determining +2s and FMC and the like, and he preceded to angrily refute what I was saying and was adamant that my solve was a DNF. 1 or 2 other people came over and said it was a DNF, then when they finally called a delegate (or a more experienced judge, wasnt sure who came over), he confirmed it was a +2.

sometimes it just really irks me when people are adamant they are right, when they really have no clue what they're talking about.
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Also the judge is really doing a bad job if he asks the competitor about the penalty. When a judge asks me if I get a penalty, I tell him or her to ask another judge or the delegate.

What I find to be a more complicated situation is when you get the same scramble for the second time. In that case:
- You can never be sure if it's the same scramble again, and in theory there could be the same scramble twice in a row.
- You can't be sure if it's the wrong scramble, or the last scramble was the wrong one.
- That means, you still should solve the scramble! But if you solved it, and then tell the judge it's the same scramble, you can't prove it ...
- I'm sure this is happening many times, and people don't tell their judge, because they propably get a good time. (Someone once had a WR because of this, and admitted it years later)
- etc.

How should one react as competitor / judge?
What I do: When I inspect and think it is the same scramble, I will say to the judge "I think it is the same scramble". Then I will solve it, if possible using the same solution to go sure. If I am sure that it's the same scramble, I will tell the delegate.
 
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