Remove Inspection from WCA

[Puzzle Maniac]

Inspection is the most degenerate thing I have ever witnessed in a so-called "speed" activity. I'm not exaggerating when I say it literally ruins speedcubing. Imagine if track racing had you randomly stand at the starting line and stare at the track for 15 seconds before you start running. Yeah, it would be bloody stupid. Now imagine that there's a phase in cubing where you need to analyze the cube as fast as possible before you even start solving and then immediately begin turning within fractions of a second. That would also be bloody stupid. But that's where we end up when a casual puzzle gets turned into a competitive activity with no alterations to make it actually fair. The bloody idea even says "solve the cube.... as fast as possible" not "solve the cube after staring at it and planning half the solve." Oh, or I could just not use inspection and lose seconds of my time to fix a glaring design choice in the activity. I will never do a solve with inspection ever unless the community stops idolizing "optimal planning" and removes inspection entirely.

 

[cuberbutnotacuberV2]

i'm sorry i saw this and was instantly reminded of this meme

 

[Deleted member 27249]

Inspection is the most degenerate thing I have ever witnessed in a so-called "speed" activity. I'm not exaggerating when I say it literally ruins speedcubing. Imagine if track racing had you randomly stand at the starting line and stare at the track for 15 seconds before you start running. Yeah, it would be bloody stupid. Now imagine that there's a phase in cubing where you need to analyze the cube as fast as possible before you even start solving and then immediately begin turning within fractions of a second. That would also be bloody stupid. But that's where we end up when a casual puzzle gets turned into a competitive activity with no alterations to make it actually fair. The bloody idea even says "solve the cube.... as fast as possible" not "solve the cube after staring at it and planning half the solve." Oh, or I could just not use inspection and lose seconds of my time to fix a glaring design choice in the activity. I will never do a solve with inspection ever unless the community stops idolizing "optimal planning" and removes inspection entirely.

What's your problem? This no sense...

 

[Martyt7777]

Inspection is the most degenerate thing I have ever witnessed in a so-called "speed" activity. I'm not exaggerating when I say it literally ruins speedcubing. Imagine if track racing had you randomly stand at the starting line and stare at the track for 15 seconds before you start running. Yeah, it would be bloody stupid. Now imagine that there's a phase in cubing where you need to analyze the cube as fast as possible before you even start solving and then immediately begin turning within fractions of a second. That would also be bloody stupid. But that's where we end up when a casual puzzle gets turned into a competitive activity with no alterations to make it actually fair. The bloody idea even says "solve the cube.... as fast as possible" not "solve the cube after staring at it and planning half the solve." Oh, or I could just not use inspection and lose seconds of my time to fix a glaring design choice in the activity. I will never do a solve with inspection ever unless the community stops idolizing "optimal planning" and removes inspection entirely.

You posted this a bit early

 

[Cubinginatree]

Inspection is the most degenerate thing I have ever witnessed in a so-called "speed" activity. I'm not exaggerating when I say it literally ruins speedcubing. Imagine if track racing had you randomly stand at the starting line and stare at the track for 15 seconds before you start running. Yeah, it would be bloody stupid.

Yea you gotta do that in track

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

I agree, inspection is an utterly useless feature in the WCA and provides no importance in speedcubing aside from the fact that it allows 5 year olds to solve cubes in 3.09 seconds

we should remove inspection, and introduce x-ray planning. You only have to look at the cube for 3 seconds and then track each piece by using x-ray tracing which is an advanced technique used by high people like the famous skibidi rizz sigma and a certain fanum taxer.

this solves all our problems

 

[Puzzle Maniac]

Had I suggested the removal of clock, would the WCA have removed inspection instead?

 

[abunickabhi]

I feel the WCA should not change anything. It takes decades to put systems in place yo.

 

[Jared Burkhart]

MY NO INSPECTION TIME 3X3 IS TWELVE SECONDS
BRO
I ENJOY BOTH INSPECTION AND NO INSPECTION
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?????