When will the 3x3 WR be broken?

[Owen]

NostridomOwenus says the record will be beaten......By the fastest cuber.

 

[Muesli]

I'm waiting for Rowan to pull a 9 second average out of somewhere.

:rolleyes:

 

[fanwuq]

Harris Chan. We've been waiting for over 2 years!
Robert Yau. When computer cubes are allowed in competition.

 

[Escher]

I'm waiting for Rowan to pull a 9 second average out of somewhere.

:rolleyes:

You just wait... Benelux Open

 

[Muesli]

I'm waiting for Rowan to pull a 9 second average out of somewhere.

:rolleyes:

You just wait... Benelux Open

Go-Go-Go-Rowan!

 

[qqwref]

Look at Tomasz's performance at Silesia Open 2009; he did not get a single solve under the WR average even once - does that mean he is incapable of getting a WR average? Of course not

This also proves that you need many competitions (many different rounds and scrambles) and many experiences to get very good results.

It also proves that you can't tell how well someone will do just by looking at one competition. And, while it's true that to get good results (by the competitor's personal standards) takes a lot of competitions, getting good results by the world standard may not. I don't expect faz to get a 9.3 avg first time in competition, but maybe he will get a 9.8 and then still have something to work towards in the competitions to come ;-)

 

[Escher]

Look at Tomasz's performance at Silesia Open 2009; he did not get a single solve under the WR average even once - does that mean he is incapable of getting a WR average? Of course not

This also proves that you need many competitions (many different rounds and scrambles) and many experiences to get very good results.

It also proves that you can't tell how well someone will do just by looking at one competition. And, while it's true that to get good results (by the competitor's personal standards) takes a lot of competitions, getting good results by the world standard may not. I don't expect faz to get a 9.3 avg first time in competition, but maybe he will get a 9.8 and then still have something to work towards in the competitions to come ;-)

Everybody seems to be forgetting that Robert Yau; in his first competition he got a non lucky sub 10 solve (getting NR), 3rd best in the world for 4x4 single, an NL sub 19 OH solve, and a 1:31 5x5 average. In his second, he won every round of 3x3 (3 sub 12 averages, the 2nd of which had a DNF and the 3rd had a counting 13), and the ER for 4x4 average, putting him 2nd in the world (and he got considerably more parities than the current WR).

Few competitions is no excuse

 

[Stefan]

proves that you need many competitions (many different rounds and scrambles) and many experiences to get very good results.

Yeah right.
http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/p.php?i=2007JEON01

it's true that to get good results (by the competitor's personal standards) takes a lot of competitions

I think Yu is a counter-example for this as well, but maybe not even the best. I can't tell, as I don't know people's personal standards.

 

[nlCuber22]

edit: Stefan made a noob out of me. lol.

 

[Stefan]

You can't forget THIS person - one competition, great results.

Dude have you actually read this thread? Obviously not. Please do.

 

[blah]

Just thought more people should know this:

Yu Jeong-Min's last name is Yu.
Yu Nakajima's first name is Yu.

 

[Stefan]

Yu Jeong-Min's last name is Yu.

Is it written from right to left, or is the last name written first? Confused.

 

[Olivér Perge]

proves that you need many competitions (many different rounds and scrambles) and many experiences to get very good results.

Yeah right.
http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/p.php?i=2007JEON01

Yes, that's true! But we were generally talking about Feliks and the 10.07 average. I highly doubt that either someone will break that who has never competed yet or either someone breaks it by 1.46 seconds like Yu Jeong-Min did. (I don't say it's impossible though.)

However, you are right! So now i say: You need many competitions (many different rounds and scrambles) and many experiences to get very good results. Usually!

 

[blah]

In most East Asian cultures that I am aware of, the last name is written first. I know this is true for major countries like China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

But when people register themselves in the WCA database, they just get confused in general. Some people register themselves as last-first and others first-last. The worst, i.e. most confusing, cases happen in countries like Malaysia and Singapore, where last names are not uncommonly written in the middle, I'm not even kidding.

For example, Jonathan Tan Wei Xiat's last name is Tan. In English, his first name is Jonathan; his middle name(s) is(are) Wei Xiat. In Chinese, his first name is Wei Xiat; no middle names; Jonathan doesn't exist in his Chinese name.

 

[iSpinz]

Very true. Im Chinese.

 

[nlCuber22]

You can't forget THIS person - one competition, great results.

Dude have you actually read this thread? Obviously not. Please do.

ahh, darn. thanks for pointing that out.
I had barely looked at it.

 

[Robert-Y]

Look at Tomasz's performance at Silesia Open 2009; he did not get a single solve under the WR average even once - does that mean he is incapable of getting a WR average? Of course not

This also proves that you need many competitions (many different rounds and scrambles) and many experiences to get very good results.

It also proves that you can't tell how well someone will do just by looking at one competition. And, while it's true that to get good results (by the competitor's personal standards) takes a lot of competitions, getting good results by the world standard may not. I don't expect faz to get a 9.3 avg first time in competition, but maybe he will get a 9.8 and then still have something to work towards in the competitions to come ;-)

Everybody seems to be forgetting that Robert Yau; in his first competition he got a non lucky sub 10 solve (getting NR), 3rd best in the world for 4x4 single, an NL sub 19 OH solve, and a 1:31 5x5 average. In his second, he won every round of 3x3 (3 sub 12 averages, the 2nd of which had a DNF and the 3rd had a counting 13), and the ER for 4x4 average, putting him 2nd in the world (and he got considerably more parities than the current WR).

Few competitions is no excuse

Nah, I haven't even gotten a sub-10 avg of 12 yet (PB is 10.3x)

Also, I think that some people probably could break the WR, maybe they just need a better cube.

(Two days before I set the 4x4x4 avg ER, I was only averaging about 47 secs with my own cube, then when I went to Charlie's house on Saturday, I picked up her cube and things changed... )

 

[joey]

Gungz.

 

[Robert-Y]

Gungz.

I would really like that to happen. It would be so... cool

EDIT: Imagine if other former WR holders started to take their WRs back e.g. Shotaro Makisumi (3x3x3), Michael Fung (or Chris Hardwick) (4x4x4), Frank Morris (5x5x5), Lars Vandenbergh (Square-1), Stefan Pochmann (Clock) (<-- I think he can definitely do it) etc...

 

[Hyprul 9-ty2]

In most East Asian cultures that I am aware of, the last name is written first. I know this is true for major countries like China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

But when people register themselves in the WCA database, they just get confused in general. Some people register themselves as last-first and others first-last. The worst, i.e. most confusing, cases happen in countries like Malaysia and Singapore, where last names are not uncommonly written in the middle, I'm not even kidding.

For example, Jonathan Tan Wei Xiat's last name is Tan. In English, his first name is Jonathan; his middle name(s) is(are) Wei Xiat. In Chinese, his first name is Wei Xiat; no middle names; Jonathan doesn't exist in his Chinese name.

Woah you just pulled my name out from no where o_O
In Malaysia most Chinese don't even have legal English names XD We put it there for the fun of it.

Piti has to break it. Hassss to.