Speedcubing "Superstars"

[Lotsofsloths]

How about an official "Cubing Hall of Fame"?

Sounds like a good idea, but.. I think it would be fit if we gave a brief description to each person in the Hall of Fame.

 

[Hadley4000]

Ryan Patricio.

 

[Bryan]

What about Bob Burton? Even though he's never held a 3x3x3 record, he's organized many competitions and been a delegate for many more. So he's doing a good job at increasing the number of competitors.

 

[jazzthief81]

For me it's Dan Knights by a long way:

- First world champion of the modern era.
- One of the first persons that practiced the Fridrich system and developed it to a high level (16 seconds) and he had to do that almost all by himself.
- Shared that knowledge by building the first website that explained in plain English how to solve F2L, perform fingertricks, learn algorithms, etc.
- The buzz I got from watching his videos 6 years ago is still the main reason why I'm cubing now.
- A true sportsman: great temperament and competition attitude, always behaved well when among other cubers, no sign of pretension at all. Just a really nice guy.
- We all owe to him.
- I miss him.

 

[qqwref]

Lol, I think pretty much anybody who is top 10ish in a category is going to end up on the list .

I hope not, that's a lot of people! I'm in the top 10 in two different average categories but I'm pretty sure there are people who aren't sub-10 in anything (officially) who deserve a spot on a superstars list way more than I do. How about Toby Mao? Jason Baum? Johannes Laire? The superstars list should be kept pretty compact, as opposed to the "well-known cubers" list, which could benefit from being 100+ people long.

 

[AvGalen]

Everyone that's in A top 10 list????

That would make me a superstar (fewest moves) which I definately am NOT.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Hey, I'm in 2 top 10 lists! It's beside the point that both of those lists have fewer than 12 people on them, and I'm very close to the bottom of both of them (I'm the third-worst in the world at both categories).

I clearly deserve being a superstar far less than Arnaud does. (But Arnaud, you're a superstar to me.)

 

[Dene]

3rd worst in the world, yet ahead of 6.5 billion people

 

[fanwuq]

Not on list:

Derrick Eide, Michael Gottlieb, Lucas Garron, Alex Yu...

 

[Brian Le]

Justin Adsuara! That kid's amazing xP

 

[Brian Le]

Sorry for double posting, but you forgot Minh Thai...

 

[ooveehoo]

You're missing Thibaut Jacquinot!

 

[Lt-UnReaL]

Also Yu Nakajima is the right spelling.