The Most Overated/Underated Country in Cubing

[OtaMota]

Historically, Thailand for underrated, back in the day, they had a lot of good people, and I hope they can make a return.

 

[Fred]

I hope Japan can also make a return. They had a bunch of WRs and even had their own color scheme (blue and yellow swapped).

 

[bldcuber314]

I hope Japan can also make a return. They had a bunch of WRs and even had their own color scheme (blue and yellow swapped).

Not that many comps

 

[precompsubwr]

Indonesia is underrated

 

[arbivara]

Argentina is quite underrated as they have Leandro Martin Lopez and Caio Hideaki Sato (sorry if I misspelled) as well as Theo Goluboff and Manuel Gutman

Caio is Brazilian! Guido Dipietro, on the other hand, is Argentinian

 

[Isaiah Scott]

I'm sorry if I offended any Brazilian or Argentinian cubers @arbivara

 

[cuber314159]

There are two ways of looking at this: you can look for countries with a few top cubers who are really good but not very well known as they are not quite the very best and don't have much content for an online audience.
But you can also look at the depth of cubing talent, the number of people who are nearish to the top compared to their population, I'm pretty sure New Zealand still has the highest proportion of the total population having a sub-10 3x3 average.

 

[AhsanDaCuber125]

India is underrated.
In 2x2, we got Ram, who’s amazing.
We have good times in each event, and we have a former WR holder in Clock, Neil Gour.
And for BLD… @abunickabhi

 

[AhsanDaCuber125]

Most overrated country is probably China

Yes I agree. Even though they may be good, people like Yiheng are putting events like 2x2 and 3x3 to the end.
Most of their pro cubers are coached too, while other pro cubers, use their time and improve.

 

[Lord_Oscar]

I think one of the most underated countries has to be New Zealand, with only 5.1 million people living there, they have some really competitive times and many OcRs.

Glad to hear that you think this!

But you can also look at the depth of cubing talent, the number of people who are nearish to the top compared to their population, I'm pretty sure New Zealand still has the highest proportion of the total population having a sub-10 3x3 average.

I believe that this is true.
At Oceanics 2022, I think New Zealanders collected around one-third of all the podium spots. With already well-established cubers like Dwyane Ramos, Elyas Eyou (@ElyasCubing) , Jasper Murray (former pyraminx WR average holder), Alexander Vujcich (who placed 3rd in Megaminx at Worlds 2023) and Tom Nelson (@CyanSandwich, who won 5bld at Worlds 2017!) and James Macdiarmid (@TheSixthSide, current multiblind OcR holder), we can (and do) perform respectably on the world stage.
We've also got a ton of up-and-coming talent.


All, in all, my patriotism is firing.

India is underrated.
In 2x2, we got Ram, who’s amazing.

I agree with this too. Ram's a great guy; both in a cubing sense (damn, he's fast), but he's also a super nice guy in general.

 

[gsingh]

India is underrated.

Hard disagree; no offense to anyone but almost all of the NR's are extremely mediocre

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

i think the Philippines is kind of underrated because
We have THREE of the best Roux solvers in the world AND the WR holder for Roux.
We have 3 of the best OH solvers in the world
WR11 3x3 Single and WR10 3x3 average
Lots of up and coming cubers

edit: we are kinda weak at other events like big cubes and side events (our top 3x3 blder is good when he doesn't dnf)

 

[Sombi McJunior]

India is underrated.
In 2x2, we got Ram, who’s amazing.
We have good times in each event, and we have a former WR holder in Clock, Neil Gour.
And for BLD… @abunickabhi

and pratik for skewb

 

[AhsanDaCuber125]

Hard disagree; no offense to anyone but almost all of the NR's are extremely mediocre

Eh, in some events like Clock, stretching out to top 100, yeah, but I think most are fine.

 

[AhsanDaCuber125]

Has anyone mentioned Ireland?

 

[Sombi McJunior]

Has anyone mentioned Ireland?

ireland is good an all but who do they have besides Ciaran?

 

[AhsanDaCuber125]

ireland is good an all but who do they have besides Ciaran?

There are still good cubers from Ireland close to him.

 

[precompsubwr]

ireland is good an all but who do they have besides Ciaran?

they have @yes cubing

 

[AhsanDaCuber125]

Denmark is a very underrated country, they have good results. Especially from the Egdal brothers.

edit: oh wait @BVCuber13 already said this

 

[jaicecubez]

Netherlands is underrated in my opinion. Mats and Twan are both very good cubers. The country also plays a very important role in speedcubing history.