The Great Cubing Debate

TBH, probably "or you could just use petrus", because everyone knows it.

You know how non-cubers are like "do you use it [the cube] to get girls?" (or boys, but as I am male, always girls). Do you think that cubing can make you seem more attractive, or does it make you seem more like a nerd?
 
People at my school and noncubers in general think it’s cool I can solve a cube so quickly.

How long does it take to average one second faster (i.e. from sub-19 to sub-18)?
 
I'd say that it vairies with who you are, how much you want to improve, how fast you are etc. There is no way you can put a number on it. For example, sub 19 to 18 could take a day or several months.

In 15 years, will speedcubing be more common, will it have a boom in populatiry, will it stay the same or will it decline?
 
Not really, it will grow to about 400-500k people, but I dont think much more then that since It isn't really all that good of a spectator sport.

Is Max taking over feliks, Seung, and kevin? Or do you think the three will go back and forth for a while (6x6 and 7x7 for kevin)
 
teboecubes said:
No; while Max is getting more WRs, Feliks will stay as the (subjective) top speedcuber.
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I think that Max is taking over everyone, including Feliks. It's quite possible that he will hold most if not every of 3x3-7x7 WRs. In that scenario he will be undoubtful the best speedcuber in the world.

teboecubes said:
How will cubing look in 2030? (bigger comps, WRs, etc.)
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Bigger comps, much more attention from the media and probably almost unbeatable WRs. I really hope there will be some advancements in the hardware, like high tps cameras on every solving station to avoid incidents.


What will be the biggest surprise of the year 2018?
 
If you don't mind, I'm gonna go full out on this. I personally don't see any reason to hate RedBull for what they are doing. Lots of cubers go on about how they are trying to replace the WCA, and they themselves have said they don't want to do that. If anyone even bothered to read it, they would also notice that they said they have taken note of the WCA and admire the work they have done for the community. If you have been to any comp, even if it was something like Nats or Worlds, you know that the community is very casual, you can go up to any person and start a conversation about anything at all. The WCA felt like it was getting too big, so they decided to add qualifying times for Nats 2016 to make it more formal. Now they do have reasons for doing that, but it also takes the fun out of it for some people. Imo, it would be better to just do something like having gone to 3 comps and competing in 5 events, then you can compete in everything. That would remove all the people who know how to solve a cube, but are only going because it is like 30 mins away and even if they did go, they must care about it a little bit. Now if you keep it like that, it makes it less competitive, meaning less room to grow. So how are you going to make it grow? You keep US nats and WCA worlds which are much better for competitor and you add Redbull WC for TV and stuff. You can get lots more viewers if its knockout, whereas WCA has just doing times and seeing who gets the best. If you go back to old Cubecast Episodes they wonder how it could grow and Redbull comes along taking that burden from the WCA. For the question, I think its totally cool as it isn't even WCA related.

What are your thoughts on Redi Cube, Kilominx...
 
I dont have any of them, but I have tried them, and I do think that they are both good puzzles. If I had to add one to the WCA, I would say kilo tho, just since it has some qualities of another puzzle in the WCA (mega)

What is the best event, and why?
 
obviously 2x2 because it's the fastest event. you also have a chance to get a decent single without any skill

would you rather set new records but always loose every competition or don't break any records but constantly winning competitions? explain why
 
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