[Unofficial] Seung-Hyuk Nahm 39.71 5x5 Ao12 + "SWR" 38.11 Ao5

[artless1der]

Seung-Hyuk now has YTWB 5x5 single.

Seung is def amazing and no doubt a top player

Max got a 28.80 back in January 2023 but apprently either not on cam or not uploaded

 

[artless1der]

By definition, record means "best" so that was my mistake in saying it was literal; however, now that I think of it, I have no idea where I got the definition. I thought Daniel Goodman had a video but it appears he did not. Maybe it's something I made up in a dream because it seems real to me that this was something.
the R on LR, NR, CR, WR etc = RECORD
which means the solve happened in a competiton as a RECORDed solve counting on the person's official WCA profile

 

[DGCubes]

By definition, record means "best" so that was my mistake in saying it was literal; however, now that I think of it, I have no idea where I got the definition. I thought Daniel Goodman had a video but it appears he did not. Maybe it's something I made up in a dream because it seems real to me that this was something.

the R on LR, NR, CR, WR etc = RECORD
which means the solve happened in a competiton as a RECORDed solve counting on the person's official WCA profile

I never made a video on this afaik, but I'm pretty sure Andrew Nathenson (ColorfulPockets) did - I can't find his video now but maybe someone else remembers. Pre-2017 or so, the terminology was:

PB - personal best (used for either your best official solve or your best unofficial solve, depending on context)
Overall PB - overall personal best (used for clarifying, when you get a competition result that's also your best solve ever)
WR - world record, best solve ever done in a competition
UWR - unofficial world record, best solve ever done outside a competition

These were somewhat confusing and inconsistent (PB often resulted in conversations like "I just got a PB!" "Nice, official or overall?") so Andrew (I think) proposed an R/B dichotomy to differentiate official results from other results:
PR/PB - personal record (official) and personal best (overall)
WR/WB - world record (official) and world's best (overall)

Once people started adopting this system around the late 2010s, PB became less ambiguous. UWR then became obsolete/archaic/deprecated (I like all those words to describe it and couldn't pick just one lol), but its meaning never changed as far as I know, and it's still colloquially used pretty often as a synonym to WB.

While PB/PR is extremely useful because of the previous ambiguity of "PB", the WR/UWR terminology was never actually confusing -- it's just inconsistent after the introduction of PR and WB. That made it a lot harder to get the entire community to switch to WB when UWR really worked fine, so you'll still see some people use UWR as it used to be used.

But, the idea of UWR being understood by some to mean something different from WB is super linguistically interesting and I hadn't heard of that before! Words are only what we make them, so you're not necessarily wrong but people might misunderstand you if that definition isn't widespread. (For my own sake I kinda hope it's not widespread because if it is then I've been misunderstanding a lot of people lol)

 

[artless1der]

I never made a video on this afaik, but I'm pretty sure Andrew Nathenson (ColorfulPockets) did - I can't find his video now but maybe someone else remembers. Pre-2017 or so, the terminology was:...

all I wrote was;
"the R on LR, NR, CR, WR etc = RECORD
which means the solve happened in a competiton as a RECORDed solve counting on the person's official WCA profile"

it was a reply to something someone else said, so I guess the forum put a bunch of their words on as a prelude to the little tidbit of my own above haha I don't even know who Daniel Goodman is, tho I did used to follow Colorful Pockets on YT (lol still couldnt have told you his name either)

Thanks for help clarifying, I also would not have thought such terms were confusing, tho some people's misunderstanding is itself kinda confusing

 

[DGCubes]

all I wrote was;
"the R on LR, NR, CR, WR etc = RECORD
which means the solve happened in a competiton as a RECORDed solve counting on the person's official WCA profile"
it was a reply to something someone else said, so I guess the forum lut a binch of their words on a s a prelude to the little tidbit of my own above haha I don't even know who Daniel Goodman os, tho I did used tomfollw Colorful Pockets on YT (lol still couldnt have told you his name either)

Thanks for help clarify, K also would not have thought such terms were cknfusing, tho some people's misunderstanding is itself kinda confusing

Ooooops, I got confused and thought I was replying to @DuckubingCuber347, sorry about that! I'm Daniel Goodman btw, nice to meet you

 

[artless1der]

Ooooops, I got confused and thought I was replying to DuckubingCuber, sorry about that! I'm Daniel Goodman btw, nice to meet you

It's all good ha, and likewise, nice to meet you... in fact if you're the same DGCubes as I'm thinking... pffft! I probably used your code a few times at CubeDepot a few years back
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