michaellahti
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Speedcubing became a bit popular at my school for a time, but more a fad among some of my friends and the "popular kids" and other people thought I was just trying to copy them, yet I taught many who knew how to do it.
Would you like speedcubing to become really popular?
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Lemme reword what I think:
There aren't many speedcubers where I live. I would wish for Speedcubing to be just a little popular. Not so much as where my Teacher is trying to solve it and doesn't notice us all waiting outside of the door.
There aren't many speedcubers where I live. I would wish for Speedcubing to be just a little popular. Not so much as where my Teacher is trying to solve it and doesn't notice us all waiting outside of the door.
Tyjet66
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I wish it was a little popular, like 1-2 other people per class. 1st and 2nd hour no one knows how. My 3rd hour, 2 people know, I thought one, someone else is interested in learning as well. And in my 4th hour, an exchange student from Denmark does it in just under 2 minutes. I thought him as well. =P
A lot of people are interested in learning but they all say they wont be able to. =/
A lot of people are interested in learning but they all say they wont be able to. =/
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no
/sarcasm
/sarcasm
CubesOfTheWorld
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I don't want it to be so popular, that this is not considered a talent.
I do want more people to respect it, though.
I do want more people to respect it, though.
Rayne
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This.
Andreaillest
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Sure, why not. I don't really care anyway.
jackdexter75
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The only reason i'd like to have more people is because then maybe I could go to a competition in my area. But I like the idea of being one of the few who speedcube under 20 sec and such.
zachtastic
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Speedcubing should be popularized.
More awareness could bring in new minds to make a contribution to speedcubing. Think new methods, techniques, etc. Competitions could expand to areas that do not currently hold comps. Massive popularity would result in In-store diy kits, chinese cubes, basically one could simply stop by wal-mart and buy an F-II for example. It wouldn't be a bad thing. If "stupid people" tried to jump on the bandwagon they wouldn't get anywhere because they're well, stupid people, they would still continue to marvel at faster solvers, so all insecure people afraid of losing their talent to "stupid people" can rest easy.
More awareness could bring in new minds to make a contribution to speedcubing. Think new methods, techniques, etc. Competitions could expand to areas that do not currently hold comps. Massive popularity would result in In-store diy kits, chinese cubes, basically one could simply stop by wal-mart and buy an F-II for example. It wouldn't be a bad thing. If "stupid people" tried to jump on the bandwagon they wouldn't get anywhere because they're well, stupid people, they would still continue to marvel at faster solvers, so all insecure people afraid of losing their talent to "stupid people" can rest easy.
Nestor
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I've been cubing since January, and I'm just starting to know the workings of the cubing community so my opinion might not count to many. Nevertheles here comes the wall of text:
I struggle to find people who actually enjoy cubing, and not just learn to solve it and then loose interest. So far I've teached about 7 people how to solve it, and only ones shows interest in becoming serious in speedcubing. Besides these, I've met 3 people who can solve it and they are all happy with just been able to do so. I'm not a good cuber at all (30" PB), and part of it is that there isn't much motivation in spending 7 months playing with a plastic toy on your own alone at home. A larger community would mean more cubers, and I'm up for that.
As a comparison take rollerblading. I started rollerblading in 1995, during the initial blading boom and watched as the sport grew excesivelly large, then collapsed on its own premature success. Over the years, our local skating community fell from thousands to eventually a dozen skaters and during the past 10 years, I tried to keep the sport alive in our country by bringing new people in and warning old friends that if we didn't drop the "exclusive group" mentallity, our sport would die. Sure, lots of the newbies I brought to the group where #$@#, but for every 5 that where not serious like us, one shinned and became great. Spending a decade skating with the same people becomes a little monotonous and after I was forced to quit due to permanent ankle injury 2years ago, the group slowly fell appart and serious rollerblading is now dead in our country.
I'm just saying, right now most of the old cubers might hate the influx of newbies that are not in synch with the community's way of being, but just as cubing faded during the 90s the current boom will too come to an end and the growing trend will stop. The more people get hooked now, the more will continue to cube 10 years from now and trust me, you'll wish everyone would have been more open now.
... or maybe I'm just a newbie... and my opinion is even more irrelevant since I'm just bitter because I have no one to cube with..
..who knows.
I struggle to find people who actually enjoy cubing, and not just learn to solve it and then loose interest. So far I've teached about 7 people how to solve it, and only ones shows interest in becoming serious in speedcubing. Besides these, I've met 3 people who can solve it and they are all happy with just been able to do so. I'm not a good cuber at all (30" PB), and part of it is that there isn't much motivation in spending 7 months playing with a plastic toy on your own alone at home. A larger community would mean more cubers, and I'm up for that.
As a comparison take rollerblading. I started rollerblading in 1995, during the initial blading boom and watched as the sport grew excesivelly large, then collapsed on its own premature success. Over the years, our local skating community fell from thousands to eventually a dozen skaters and during the past 10 years, I tried to keep the sport alive in our country by bringing new people in and warning old friends that if we didn't drop the "exclusive group" mentallity, our sport would die. Sure, lots of the newbies I brought to the group where #$@#, but for every 5 that where not serious like us, one shinned and became great. Spending a decade skating with the same people becomes a little monotonous and after I was forced to quit due to permanent ankle injury 2years ago, the group slowly fell appart and serious rollerblading is now dead in our country.
I'm just saying, right now most of the old cubers might hate the influx of newbies that are not in synch with the community's way of being, but just as cubing faded during the 90s the current boom will too come to an end and the growing trend will stop. The more people get hooked now, the more will continue to cube 10 years from now and trust me, you'll wish everyone would have been more open now.
... or maybe I'm just a newbie... and my opinion is even more irrelevant since I'm just bitter because I have no one to cube with..
..who knows.
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I have mixed opinions, really...
You see, if cubing became a popular sport in India, we would have more competitions and maybe better prizes. Funding for tournaments wouldn't be too much of an issue. Good cubers could set up classes and earn a little.
On the flip-side, people like me wouldn't really be considered as geniuses and the uniqueness of the skill will be lost. Once something gets too common, people lose respect for it. You'd have people watching you and saying Meh... I know a ton of people who do it in half the time. This can be really demoralizing for beginners.
You see, if cubing became a popular sport in India, we would have more competitions and maybe better prizes. Funding for tournaments wouldn't be too much of an issue. Good cubers could set up classes and earn a little.
On the flip-side, people like me wouldn't really be considered as geniuses and the uniqueness of the skill will be lost. Once something gets too common, people lose respect for it. You'd have people watching you and saying Meh... I know a ton of people who do it in half the time. This can be really demoralizing for beginners.
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i voted no.
because if it grows, it becomes a "cool thing" to do, and everyone does it then for like 3 months, and then it becomes stupid to them. and then they call you stupid because you are still doing that thing that was "in" like 3 months ago.
and i like to be the only one in my class to solve the cube!
because if it grows, it becomes a "cool thing" to do, and everyone does it then for like 3 months, and then it becomes stupid to them. and then they call you stupid because you are still doing that thing that was "in" like 3 months ago.
and i like to be the only one in my class to solve the cube!
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