Redi Cube in the WCA [Poll]

[Tabe]

How about higher order pyraminx puzzles? Maybe we'd get better hardwares if it were made a WCA event.

 

[Competition Cuber]

If anything, we should add rescramble to the WCA. Thoughts?

No, because you're not technically "solving" the cube.

I like that idea.

And, as I mentioned in the Red Bull thread, I wouldn't mind seeing a no-inspection 3x3 event.

I like the idea, maybe start it in a random orientation like BLD?

 

[CapriPhonix]

I know this has been said a million times, but I'd rather they add Mirror BLD no inspection. This is something interesting that that isn't another puzzle but a smaller nxn, or a random puzzle made by a company. This is something unique that can add a whole new dimension to cubing as a whole imho.

 

[FastCubeMaster]

As much as I don't reckon this is gonna happen, I would love to see team events, like team solve with one hand each or something.

 

[Ronxu]

As much as I don't reckon this is gonna happen, I would love to see team events, like team solve with one hand each or something.

This totally wouldn't turn into fast oh solvers teaming with the highest bidder.

 

[FastCubeMaster]

This totally wouldn't turn into fast oh solvers teaming with the highest bidder.

Every event has to have the best doesn't it?

I know that event is probably not going to work, it was just a bad example.

 

[Ronxu]

Every event has to have the best doesn't it?

I know that event is probably not going to work, it was just a bad example.

Not necessarily. For example in something like teamBLD both teammates have to be world class for world class results. In your example one teammate doing OH would be faster than awkwardly trying to have both participating 99% of the time.

 

[Mellis Ferton]

I don't think the Redi Cube wouldn't be a good event to add. It doesn't have a lot of people wanting it as an event. Let's look at Kilominx! Kilominx is a highly suggested, highly wanted event in the WCA. It gets a lot of praise unlike the Redi Cube. The latest event added was in 2014, so I don't think that they would add Redi Cube. There are a lot better options like teamBLD and Kilominx, and maybe, just maybe higher nxnxn cubes.

 

[One Wheel]

maybe, just maybe higher nxnxn cubes.

As much as I like big cubes, even I have to admit that as an event 8x8 or 9x9 doesn't really add much. If we're adding events, Gigaminx would be logistically difficult, but it would add reduction in a dodecahedron and a large puzzle with no parity. Full-blind mirror blocks would also add an entirely new element, and allow a previously unserved group to compete on a level with everyone else: completely blind people.

 

[Ronxu]

Kilominx is a highly suggested, highly wanted event in the WCA.

lol. People were begging for skewb to be added for years and it turned out to be a mistake. If you made a poll on adding kilominx now you'd get like 20% for and 80% against.

 

[Jaysammey777]

lol. People were begging for skewb to be added for years and it turned out to be a mistake. If you made a poll on adding kilominx now you'd get like 20% for and 80% against.

Skewb is a decent event, no mistake.

 

[Julio974]

1-and-a-half-years-later-answer:
We would need Redi Cube and Kilominx as new official events.
Redi cube is a different kind of corner-turning cube. It would bring new things to the WCA!
Kilominx is different from Megaminx due to its solving. It is also more accessible to beginners and (generally) to everyone thanks to its easier solving.

 

[Mastermind2368]

Redi cube is a different kind of corner-turning cube. It would bring new things to the WCA!

Everything is at least slightly different, and Redi cube is pretty much just solved just like a pyraminx. I don't you about everyone else, but for every single WCA event (6x6 and 7x7 not included, and some other obvious stuff like OH ) I had to learn something new to be able to solve it. When I picked a redi cube up for the first time, I had already a big idea on how it worked, and what I needed to do to solve it. Now, don't get me wrong, lots of cubes use the same stuff over and over to solve, its hard to find some new challenge, we don't need more of the same. Also, uwrs are around 10 secs?? Thats a super low starting point for an event. You only have a good 8.5-7.5 secs to improve in the best case scenario, whereas if you added something bigger you would have a huge improvement range, and less luck based stuff. I do think the wca should branch out, and it already does a bunch, but we need to be more cautious before adding a new event in, as new potential wca puzzles have lots of hype around them that dies out quickly. I would love to see some new events, but the candidates are all pretty bad.

 

[Underwatercuber]

Also the hype for these cubes to be wca events was huge initially and now has died down a ton. I think that’s an indicator that they probably shouldn’t be events (for a while at least)

 

[Tabe]

I would love to see some new events, but the candidates are all pretty bad.

I've changed my mind on redi - don't want to see it added, for all the reasons you mentioned.

As for kilominx, still want to see it added. I think it's a great "lesser" version of megaminx.

If I'm adding events, though, I add master pyraminx first. Then kilominx. Then maybe a cuboid or something else.

 

[Sion]

I think the issue is how fast methods are developed, and how quick people come to learn them.

I think that the next WCA event should be an even-ground puzzle, kind of how the original Rubik's cube was back in the 80s, where nobody is given an advantage because of knowledge in other events. This would prevent the same people from constantly holding records, almost like how the NxN scene is today.

I say maybe look at the curvy copter,and make jumbling and non jumbling separate events. Sure, it may not be too spoken of, but are any non WCA puzzles practiced and spoken super large about?

Also, the mechanism of the curvy copter is extraordinarily simple, and I can easily see speed versions being produced.

Any thoughts?

 

[One Wheel]

I say maybe look at the curvy copter,and make jumbling and non jumbling separate events. Sure, it may not be too spoken of, but are any non WCA puzzles practiced and spoken super large about?
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Any thoughts?

I’m still a fan of gigaminx, but I think you make a fair case for curvy copter. I would be inclined to think that adding two events at once for a single puzzle is probably too much, I would do just jumbling. May as well make it a little harder.

 

[Loser]

Kilominx and redi cube both had hype right away, and people saying the wca must add them now, but the wca did the right thing by waiting to see if they remianed popular, and they didn't. To anyone who says they would have gotten more popular if they were added and the wca missed their chance, that's true for every event. Kilominx has been held and one comp since pre worlds, and redi cube was basically only held unofficially by China comps sponsored by moyu.

If the wca is to add an event, it needs to be held unofficially at comps for a decent period of time, and not die within a few months.

I personally think that the event should be one with a current uwr of greater than 30 seconds, to give more room for improvement, and so we don't have another scramble based event. Something like 3x3x5 I would be interested in though, although that is never held unofficially.

 

[Sion]

Kilominx and redi cube both had hype right away, and people saying the wca must add them now, but the wca did the right thing by waiting to see if they remianed popular, and they didn't. To anyone who says they would have gotten more popular if they were added and the wca missed their chance, that's true for every event. Kilominx has been held and one comp since pre worlds, and redi cube was basically only held unofficially by China comps sponsored by moyu.

If the wca is to add an event, it needs to be held unofficially at comps for a decent period of time, and not die within a few months.

I personally think that the event should be one with a current uwr of greater than 30 seconds, to give more room for improvement, and so we don't have another scramble based event. Something like 3x3x5 I would be interested in though, although that is never held unofficially.

This is why I like curvy copter. aside of it being insanely challenging even without jumbling (only person on youtube doing uwrs only got 55 seconds), it is easy to assemble and improve upon. I don't think we have that much knowledge on edge-turning cubes.

 

[TetCuber48]

I REALLY want the redi cube as an event. I've wanted it for a while. it might be too simple for a comp tho. it would be cool to see a mirror cube or something.