Cube-Fu
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It's like Bolt; the man broke the expected limit of the human body. The cube IS limited, but so are humans, so what are you crying about?
Speedcubing has no future... It's fading away...
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don't know. There used to be a lot of cubers in my school(dozens), but it has gone down to 2.t doesn't seem to be spreading a lot in Edmonton.
It seems to me to be spreading in Edmonton. I've discovered groups of cubers springing up in various junior highs (DS, VB, Grandview a few years ago, for example.), although I'm not 100% sure this is still the case. Regardless, I think there's (at least close to) enough people for a decent competition now, I just need to finish tracking them all down... (and hopefully this will aid the growth of cubing in Edmonton)
Back to the original topic, even IF (which I don't it is) speedcubing is fading, it doesn't mean it has no future.
MirzaCubing
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lol, all of those records except 6x6 have been broken. This is a clear indication that it's not impossible to keep advancing speedcubing and the world records.
avgdi
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- There are less and less cubers on competitions worldwide,
Then why is it that there are ~5 new competitors at every comp I go to?
Also, even if speedcubing was "dying," that wouldn't stop me from doing it.
LNZ
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Even as a amateur part time puzzle solver who will never get any where near WR times, I will give my opinion on these claims.
1. There are less and less cubers on competitions worldwide,
2. There are less and less speedcubing video blogers,
3. All records are at (or close to) maximum possible,
4. All cubes are already designed perfectly (or close to),
5. Speedcubing will never get more popularity then what it has now...
1. False.
2. False.
Even though some older and famous video bloggers have left the scene, people are taking their place in an ever increasing amounts.
I have watched hundreds of cubing / puzzle videos on Youtube since May 2009. My favourite is "Crazybadcuber".
3. False.
Unofficial WR's are lower than official WR's.
People have got 4.5 seconds on a 3x3x3 cube and 22 seconds on a 4x4x4 cube.
4. False
Cube and puzzle technology is improving still!
5. False (but only as a non mainstream media covered event).
Claim 5 is true if you compare puzzle solving with the Rubik's cube craze of the early 1980's. I was there in 1980/1981 as a 10/11 year old
and in those years my parents brought me a Rubik's Cube to solve and even funded two solution books to help me solve it. Despite all that,
I could never solve a Rubik's Cube and gave up. In May 2009, I brought one of the books my parents got me in 1980/1 on Ebay and brought
a store brought cube to use. I found that I got the directions of D and D' wrong. Apart from that, I would of solved a 3x3x3 in 1981!
And since then I have solved a lot of puzzles, including many cuboids (ie 3x3x2, 3x3x4, 2x2x4, 2x3x4, etc) and cubes (from 2 to 9 layers and 11 layers).
1. There are less and less cubers on competitions worldwide,
2. There are less and less speedcubing video blogers,
3. All records are at (or close to) maximum possible,
4. All cubes are already designed perfectly (or close to),
5. Speedcubing will never get more popularity then what it has now...
1. False.
2. False.
Even though some older and famous video bloggers have left the scene, people are taking their place in an ever increasing amounts.
I have watched hundreds of cubing / puzzle videos on Youtube since May 2009. My favourite is "Crazybadcuber".
3. False.
Unofficial WR's are lower than official WR's.
People have got 4.5 seconds on a 3x3x3 cube and 22 seconds on a 4x4x4 cube.
4. False
Cube and puzzle technology is improving still!
5. False (but only as a non mainstream media covered event).
Claim 5 is true if you compare puzzle solving with the Rubik's cube craze of the early 1980's. I was there in 1980/1981 as a 10/11 year old
and in those years my parents brought me a Rubik's Cube to solve and even funded two solution books to help me solve it. Despite all that,
I could never solve a Rubik's Cube and gave up. In May 2009, I brought one of the books my parents got me in 1980/1 on Ebay and brought
a store brought cube to use. I found that I got the directions of D and D' wrong. Apart from that, I would of solved a 3x3x3 in 1981!
And since then I have solved a lot of puzzles, including many cuboids (ie 3x3x2, 3x3x4, 2x2x4, 2x3x4, etc) and cubes (from 2 to 9 layers and 11 layers).
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