The Great Cubing Debate

Sajwo said:
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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I'm not sure if 'lose' means coming 2nd or worse, but I'd probably go for winning comps. There is an aspect that people might say you don't 'deserve' the record if you always seem to perform poorly and then suddenly get a record, but I also think personally winning and being known among the fast people you compete with and all the spectators of that competition is more rewarding than a record that people will see on the internet. Unless it was a big or important record, in an event that takes a lot of skill (A clearly deserved one).

But anyway, that could be because of my competitions and the competitors in my country and area.


What is or are the best cubing related videos you have watched or like to watch?
 
Mastermind2368 said:
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.
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At first I was thinking "wow, finally someone with a reasonable opinion", and then as I continued reading through this wall of text, the only thought left in my head was "what are you talking about".

(also, cool US-centrism, please remember that many of us are not Americans and countries other than freedomland exist)

(I have nothing to contribute to this thread; I just wanted to point this out.)
 
FastCubeMaster said:
I'm not sure if 'lose' means coming 2nd or worse, but I'd probably go for winning comps. There is an aspect that people might say you don't 'deserve' the record if you always seem to perform poorly and then suddenly get a record, but I also think personally winning and being known among the fast people you compete with and all the spectators of that competition is more rewarding than a record that people will see on the internet. Unless it was a big or important record, in an event that takes a lot of skill (A clearly deserved one).

But anyway, that could be because of my competitions and the competitors in my country and area.


What is or are the best cubing related videos you have watched or like to watch?
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Why do you think the two most subscribed YouTube cubers are Spanish, when the US has the most WCA members, and Spain is #10 on the list?
 
teboecubes said:
Why do you think the two most subscribed YouTube cubers are Spanish, when the US has the most WCA members, and Spain is #10 on the list?
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...because Spain is not the only place where people speak Spanish. It's the second most-spoken language in the world, behind Mandarin Chinese and beating English (according to Google search).

What do you think will be the next 'best thing since sliced bread' of cubing? The most recent, I would say, was magnetization.
 
xyzzy said:
(also, cool US-centrism, please remember that many of us are not Americans and countries other than freedomland exist)
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You do realize that I do currently live in the US and that means I know more about the nats and stuff as Asian/Euro qualifying won't make any difference to me as it wouldn't be worth it to go to a comp other then worlds outside of the US just for the sake of going. I'm not saying the US is any better, it just effects me. If someone posted the same thing as me, but used Asian/Aussie nats qualifying (Do they even have qualifying times?) I wouldn't really care as I can relate to them in a similar way. Also I thought I would point out that I have lived in India for 8ish years, meaning I don't have the average USA personality, or the average Indian personality.
 
I'm definitely not the person to ask for this, but the majority of cubers would say either a variation of the valk (valk m, valk power, etc.), a variation of the gts (gts2m, etc.), or a variation of the gan air (air sm, um, etc.). Basically any variation of a flagship cube.

What is the best 4x4 on the market (not cubicle pro shop or magnetized, just the regular cube)?
 
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