What if....

RIGHT, will people stop asking questions about Kuti if i say this? its just its been covered before, and its a sensetive issue, and its very off topic.

point one - Kuti is a very talented twisty puzzler, his sighted WRs will attest to that
point two - Kuti appeared to be an extremely talented BLD solver too.
point three - when somebody put a piece of paper between Kuti and cube, the solve was completely messed up.
point four - this is where my knowledge gets messy; there were investigations into his actual BLD ability, they (the WCA board) concluded he was cheating
point five - (he denies that he cheated, i think) he was asked to give over 1000 euros in prize money back, on condition that if he did, he could attend WCA competitions.
point six - he didnt give the money back, and as such, has left competitive speedcubing.

i dont think that there was a 'sentence' in which he couldn't compete, i just think he had to get the money back.
if there is, it is probably 3 years or something.

now back to the original question, yes?

EDIT: lol mistarts knows!
EDIT 2: i did try Erik, really :(
 
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EmersonHerrmann said:
What do you think would happen if some of the cubers from the past (i.e. Mihn Thai) came back...with like 10 second averages or something?
That would be pretty cool dontcha think?
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Actually Minh is not really much faster than he used to be. He still cubes some for fun, but he now runs an import company for cosmetics :)
I have him on MSN ;) (we only talked about once or twice though)


Also: could we PLEASE stop talking about Matyas? Lets not get too off topic again ...
 
Right, so only one or two people in the 1980s was fast enough that I'd consider them to have a chance of coming in and getting a top 100 average right off the bat. If you average just over 20 seconds, I'm sure that was very impressive back then (and it was, if you won a world championship with a 22 single :P), but that's pretty much a casual cuber. You honestly didn't have to turn THAT fast to do it (you had to be pretty good at wristing, but that's something else entirely) - but watch Harris Chan or Yu Nakajima, they turn extremely fast and use fingers. I have trouble believing anyone who spent years playing with cubes that you needed to turn with wrists would be able to get down to the modern WR speeds.
 
yeah definitely, its hard enough to get a sub 40 (with no practice). obviously with a lot of practice you get plenty better, but i do think that sub 20 is definitely pushing it with wristing.

EDIT

to hepheron; either - i would do my work
- i would practice guitar more
- i would learn to play piano properly
- i would spend a lot more time with my girlfriend.

hmm...
maybe i should take a break...
 
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Think about this, what if the Rubik's cube was never invented, what would life be like
 
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