Ten Thousand!

[Tim Reynolds]

Congratulations to Rizki Arifin Nugrahanto (http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/p.php?i=2010NUGR05) on being the ten thousandth person entered into the WCA database!

Up to and including the results from this past weekend, we're up to 10015 competitors in WCA competitions. Wooh!

 

[Alifianto.Adi]

Wow. And He's from Indonesia

 

[incessantcheese]

hey tim are you actually a delegate or something, cuz that's hilarious. i mean, it would make sense, but still hilarious.

this is tony from across the river by the way >_> or wait, i think we're on the same side of the river...? hmm

 

[Edward]

That says alot about the cubing community

 

[CubesOfTheWorld]

Are you kidding me? I was just about to make a thread on this.

What a great milestone, anyway.

 

[AndyRoo789]

IT'S OVER 9000!!!111

Haha, cool.
How many of them are actual speedcubers though?
I'm sure a good number of them are just people who can solve the cube and don't intend on getting faster.

 

[cincyaviation]

close enough

 

[Tim Reynolds]

hey tim are you actually a delegate or something, cuz that's hilarious. i mean, it would make sense, but still hilarious.

this is tony from across the river by the way >_> or wait, i think we're on the same side of the river...? hmm

Nope, I'm part of the WCA Results team but I'm not a delegate. Bob's been able to go to pretty much every competition around here, so there's not really any need for it.

 

[HaroldParella]

IT'S OVER 9000!!!111

Haha, cool.
How many of them are actual speedcubers though?
I'm sure a good number of them are just people who can solve the cube and don't intend on getting faster.

There has to be some line drawn considering they actually took the time to go to and compete in an official competition.

I would guess there are a lot of people who don't even bother going because they aren't that interested. So maybe going to a comp. would show that they are interested?

And if I remember correctly, the definition of "Speed Cuber" is someone who tries to solve the cube as quickly as they can. Wouldn't that mean that just by going to the comp. they are trying to solve it quickly?

 

[incessantcheese]

it would make sense that there are many more speedcubers than there are competitors. think of how many speedcubers are in areas where there aren't many (or any) competitions and have never been to competitions.

and more evidence of this is people who go to their first competition and set times of under 20s. they've probably been cubing for a year or two so, in all likelihood, there are a lot of speedcubers who have yet to go to a competition.

i cubed for two years without any thought of going to a competition (i'm in boston, not sure how many were in this area back then). then i took essentially a 3-year break before going to a competition with about one week's warning that tim and his club organized. so... 5 years as a "speedcuber" without being registered anywhere. i don't know how unusual that is to do, but i was pretty invested in cubing, getting down to 20s average back in 2006 or so before going to college.

 

[Olivér Perge]

Wonderful news! I'm happy to hear that the cubing community is getting larger and larger. I also believe this number will be doubled in a few years!

 

[Weston]

This means im in the top 1 percent for 3x3

 

[masterofthebass]

This means im in the top 1 percent for 3x3

there aren't 10,000 3x3ers yet

 

[HaroldParella]

This means im in the top 1 percent for 3x3

there aren't 10,000 3x3ers yet

Nice try Weston, maybe next time

 

[Weston]

This means im in the top 1 percent for 3x3

there aren't 10,000 3x3ers yet

Nice try Weston, maybe next time

Oh darn. Its kind of surprising to me that there are 350+ people that have not competed in 3x3.

 

[Dene]

Here I am. Or there.