abunickabhi
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Original discussion here: https://forum.worldcubeassociation....les-be-not-counted-for-records-nr-cr-wr/12783
This is quite an obvious topic and there have been a few discussions in the past over the years, but now that some events have gotten even faster with better hardware, we can try to revisit this topic.
There are various ways of classifying or getting a threshold to what maybe called a fast event. The fastest events statistically are in the order 2x2, Skewb, Pyraminx, clock, 3x3 and so on (if we consider only the top 100 solvers say).
If we consider all the solvers in the WCA database, and look for the fastest events, the list or order might differ a bit (I have not computed that yet!)
The first discussion we can start having is with the 2x2 singles.
There has been some saturation of the singles curve as compared to the average curves for various populations. For other events, this effect is a bit less pronounced. Also, for longer events there is this case where a person has a long standing record in singles, and that might be causing a small flat curve.
Some events like Rubik’s Magic in the past, had flat lines throughout the population, and the better solver was only decided in milliseconds, without the better solver needing to be more creative or knowledgeable or having better solving technique. I am not saying that 2x2 singles and Rubik’s Magic singles are the same, 2x2 is definitely a more complex event, but the singles record is more scramble dependent, and the aspect of the better solver just being able to execute a few milliseconds faster comes into the picture.
What are your views?
This is quite an obvious topic and there have been a few discussions in the past over the years, but now that some events have gotten even faster with better hardware, we can try to revisit this topic.
There are various ways of classifying or getting a threshold to what maybe called a fast event. The fastest events statistically are in the order 2x2, Skewb, Pyraminx, clock, 3x3 and so on (if we consider only the top 100 solvers say).
If we consider all the solvers in the WCA database, and look for the fastest events, the list or order might differ a bit (I have not computed that yet!)
The first discussion we can start having is with the 2x2 singles.
There has been some saturation of the singles curve as compared to the average curves for various populations. For other events, this effect is a bit less pronounced. Also, for longer events there is this case where a person has a long standing record in singles, and that might be causing a small flat curve.
Some events like Rubik’s Magic in the past, had flat lines throughout the population, and the better solver was only decided in milliseconds, without the better solver needing to be more creative or knowledgeable or having better solving technique. I am not saying that 2x2 singles and Rubik’s Magic singles are the same, 2x2 is definitely a more complex event, but the singles record is more scramble dependent, and the aspect of the better solver just being able to execute a few milliseconds faster comes into the picture.
What are your views?