What Percent of the World Can Solve A 7x7

[tfkscores]

I just did my first 7x7 solve without any help which was pretty cool and was wondering does anyone know what percent of the world can solve a 7x7. I tried googling it but i found out that for the 3x3 its 16% especially after the movie pursuit of happyness the percentage went strait up. Same thing for other cubes over 3x3.

 

[qqwref]

0%, rounded down to the nearest percent.

Seriously, it's pretty small... I'd be very surprised if more than 100,000 people could solve a 7x7 on their own (and even that is about 0.0015%).

Where'd you get the 16% figure?

 

[tfkscores]

idk i just googled it and it said it was very small but then increased after pursuit of happiness. leme check again.

 

[tfkscores]

13.3% my bad

 

[qqwref]

I'd still like to see where you got the number. 10% of the world's population is about 670 million people and that seems like a LOT to me.

 

[tfkscores]

yea idk i got one off of one yahoo answers question and one wikipedia thing. you try googling it see what you come up with.

 

[Kian]

13.2% is absurd.

 

[fanwuq]

Maybe 13.3% of the people who own Rubik's cubes?

 

[miniGOINGS]

Are you sure that's not .133 percent?

 

[tfkscores]

yea go look it up dude

 

[Mike Hughey]

Okay, so I googled, and these are pretty funny. Here's the 13.3%:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070527152752AAAU6hV

And here's someone who says it's 28% in the US:
http://www.chacha.com/question/what-percent-of-the-us-can-solve-a-rubik's-cube

I guess that just goes to show you how you can totally trust the Internet for quality information, huh?

I guess it must be true that you have to be stupid to be able to solve the cube. This article says only 5% of Mensans can solve it:
http://www.technosourcehk.com/press-85.php

So I guess if you qualify for Mensa, you're much less likely to be able to solve the cube than the average person.

(And in case you haven't figured it out yet, the truth is that nobody has a clue.)

 

[miniGOINGS]

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_percent_of_people_can_solve_a_Rubik's_Cube
You're saying that if i get 15 people in a room, on average 2 of them will be able to solve a Rubik's Cube?

 

[mcciff2112]

Sorry about the double post, but you're saying that if i get 15 people in a room, on average 2 of them will be able to solve a Rubik's Cube?

Depends on who is in the room

But I would have to say no. It's not that common for someone to know how to solve it, that's why people are so amazed by those of us who can.

 

[tfkscores]

yea that doesnt seem right

 

[tfkscores]

haha yea at family reunions and stuff and all my friends are just like shocked when i pull out my 4x4 and solve it its so funny cause its so easy.

 

[Ethan Rosen]

yea that doesnt seem right

So don't claim it as a fact

 

[miniGOINGS]

Like, in a school of 500 people, I am the only one who knows how to solve, other than those who I have taught (maybe 6 at the school). And in the entire staff only 1 teacher. 13.3% doesn't sound right.

 

[Tim Reynolds]

@minigoings: Dude, fix your link. And you (and tfkscores) really didn't need to double post, you can edit your posts.
13.3% sounds absurdly high. That sounds like a number that someone just picked randomly once, and then everyone thought that they knew what they were talking about. Think about all the people you know. Now think of how many of them could solve a cube before you could. That's probably closer to the percentage of people who actually can solve a cube, before you messed up the statistic by teaching lots of people.

anyway, 13.3% probably isn't true. 74.4% of statistics are made up on the spot =)

 

[miniGOINGS]

I think I've met only 1 person in my entire life, that knew how to solve the cube before I could.

 

[tfkscores]

yea i know me to