Ninja Storm
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To compensate for the braindead easiness that is Clock, extra difficulty is added by making good Clocks hard to find and making absolutely nobody hold the event.
What is the Easiest Event to Become World Class in?
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To compensate for the braindead easiness that is Clock, extra difficulty is added by making good Clocks hard to find and making absolutely nobody hold the event.
imvelox
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7x7 and 6x6 for sure
Septemper 2013 ~9 minutes
November 2014 WR lel
And clock
Septemper 2013 ~9 minutes
November 2014 WR lel
And clock
henrysavich
Veteran
Clock make take the least hours of practice, but those are very painful hours.
I'd say Pyraminx is the easiest, maybe due to personal bias. About just a year ago I wasn't sub 10'on Pyra and now I fit your definition of "world class" I dropped from 6 to 4 seconds over the course of just a summer.
I would imagine it is similarly easy to get to that level in Ft and Sq1 as well. (You would think skewb would be there as well, but there is a oddly large amount of people that do primarily skewb.)
I'd say Pyraminx is the easiest, maybe due to personal bias. About just a year ago I wasn't sub 10'on Pyra and now I fit your definition of "world class" I dropped from 6 to 4 seconds over the course of just a summer.
I would imagine it is similarly easy to get to that level in Ft and Sq1 as well. (You would think skewb would be there as well, but there is a oddly large amount of people that do primarily skewb.)
penguinz7
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I would agree somewhat, pyra is pretty easy. I went from about 12 seconds to sub-5 in 6 months.
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Being decent at both clock and pyra, I'd say clock is wayy easier to get fast at (although I'm not world class at that like I was at pyra). The difference is that in clock you just need to have the patience to do solves over and over, whereas in pyra you can experiment with methods and stuff and make it more interesting, but also a tiny bit more challenging. The rising amount if information on clock solving also helps new clock solvers. Yes, there is more and more pyraminx information being published constantly but since it's been a popular event for quite a long time I'd say it won't be as impactful (unless someone comes up with some groundbreaking method idea or something)
Hssandwich
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Pyraminx is also pretty easy, I competed in pyraminx for the first time and got an 18 second average about a year ago, one year later, I average sub 4 and have an official 3.86 average.
RaZoR777
Member
Probably Pyraminx/2x2
Tim Major
Platinum Member
World class in clock is averaging sub 7 in my opinion. Unless you're sub 7, how can you say it's easy to get world class at it?
I think Square-1 is the easiest. Clock is close to as fast as it will get, but if Square-1 was the main event (had 30 years of development and high competition), top 100 would surely be sub 11. I think Square-1 or Skewb would be the easiest.
I think Square-1 is the easiest. Clock is close to as fast as it will get, but if Square-1 was the main event (had 30 years of development and high competition), top 100 would surely be sub 11. I think Square-1 or Skewb would be the easiest.
jamessorsona
Regular
I personally think that people become world class in the event that they work hard for. Like is that's your favourite event and you know you can become world class.
PenguinsDontFly
Legend
So true. Clock may be the 'easiest' but you wont get 'world class' if you hate it. 3x3 is pretty easy too (huehuehue)...
adimare
Veteran
FMC by far. Got a 25 move solve on my first week trying it after reading Porky's pdf, that'd get me on spot 24 in the world if it had happened at a competition, don't think it's possible to do something similar in any other event (for 3x3 you'd need to get a 6.42 single at home on your first week of solving the Rubik's cube).
PenguinsDontFly
Legend
Well since its a fastish event, you get more solves and practice than like 7x7 or FMC or MBLD which take forever/1hour per "solve".
DuffyEdge
Veteran
2x2 singles don't have nearly as much value as averages. If you're going for a 2x2 WR, you should be aiming for the average, and not the single, since anyone can get a nice scramble. So in no way did the 0.69 single spoil the 2x2 competition, because people don't really care nearly as much about getting it.
Also, the single will almost certainly be beaten (eventually).
Also, it wasn't a misscramble.
Isaac Lai
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Sadly not everyone is sub 10 after 10 months...
Berd
Legend
Mbld isn't too hard, it's not hard to memorise 9 cubes within the hour.
ryanj92
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As much as I agree with you, OP defined world class as top 50-100 (which isn't a great metric really, i think top 1% is better), which is like 8.5-9 so that's pretty easy... if you want to use a different definition then that's another matter entirely
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Tim Major
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As much as I agree with you, OP defined world class as top 50-100, which is like 8.5-9... if you want to use a different definition then that's another matter entirely
I only read the title :tu
With OP's definition it's surely Skewb
tseitsei
Veteran
9 cubes in mbld is (IMO) nowhere near world class though...
Berd
Legend
Top 100 tho I think. Isn't that what OP wanted?
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Legend
but top 100 in multiBLD isn't comparable to top 100 in many other events. There are so many fewer people who've done multi in competition
