What time counts as Speed Solving?

[Asheboy]

Do you think there's a time at which you can call your self a speed solver/cuber?

 

[Tomarse]

As fast as you can do it, there is no time which makes you a speedcuber, the idea is solving as fast as you personally can, that makes you a speedcuber.

 

[Escher]

meh, there have been plenty of threads like this...

the general consensus is that there is no 'time barrier'.

it is defined by whether you want to solve faster, or just to be able to solve it.

EDIT
oops, tom beat me to it...

 

[Mike Hughey]

Here's a couple of those threads:
http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4565
http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5366

 

[Tomarse]

meh, there have been plenty of threads like this...

the general consensus is that there is no 'time barrier'.

it is defined by whether you want to solve faster, or just to be able to solve it.

EDIT
oops, tom beat me to it...

It's all good

 

[Inusagi]

what about if you only solve a megaminx? Does is called speedcubing then?

 

[JLarsen]

what about if you only solve a megaminx? Does is called speedcubing then?

Well if you want to be that technical it would just be speedsolving.

 

[James Kobel]

what about if you only solve a megaminx? Does is called speedcubing then?

Well if you want to be that technical it would just be speedsolving.

or maybe speeddodecahedroning

 

[*LukeMayn*]

lol, pryaminx:
speed trianglebasedpyramiding

square-1:

speed zomgwtfwhatshapeisito.0ing

 

[not_kevin]

square-1:

speed zomgwtfwhatshapeisito.0ing

So... how do you pronounce that?

 

[qqwref]

Speedsquaring, guys, you're not even trying Clearly the shape is a square. (Speedrectangularprisming?)

More seriously, I tend to think of "cubing" as involving all twisty puzzles - the 'cube' just comes from the Rubik's Cube, which by far was the most popular and most common twisty puzzle. And speedcubing/speedsolving is just trying to solve twisty puzzles as fast as you can. Of course you're still a speedcuber if you don't solve the 3x3

 

[pcharles93]

lol, pryaminx:
speed trianglebasedpyramiding

Speedtetrahedroning to be simpler and make it somewhat mystifying for the average person.

 

[shelley]

square-1:

speed zomgwtfwhatshapeisito.0ing

So... how do you pronounce that?

Say the whole phrase out loud very fast. Be sure to do the o.0 face in the middle.

 

[d4m4s74]

if you time your solves and try to get faster it's a speedsolve in my opinion

it fits in the same thread:
when should you start thinking of competing?

 

[ImNOTnoob]

square-1:

speed zomgwtfwhatshapeisito.0ing

So... how do you pronounce that?

Say the whole phrase out loud very fast. Be sure to do the o.0 face in the middle.

Speed zoh-my-gawd-wot-da-ph*-wot-shaype-iz-it-ing (makes a weird face while saying it.)

 

[qqwref]

when should you start thinking of competing?

As soon as you have a competition nearby. If you don't go to competitions because you think you are too slow, you're just missing out on a valuable experience. Even when you average about a minute, you're still unlikely to be the slowest person there, and people in competitions won't look down on you just because you are slower.