WR History if Feliks had chosen a different hobby

[DeeDubb]

I was thinking today, what if Feliks didn't cube? How would the world records look? One could argue it's impossible to assume anything because Feliks also had a tremendous impact on other cubers who have gotten better by learning from Feliks and using him as motivation. However, let's assume every record was identical and we just removed all of Feliks' solves. Here's how the Rubik's Cube WR single history would look:

Rowe Hessler would have been the first person to break Erik's 7.08 with a 6.94 at MIT Fall 2010 (11/13/2010)

Rowe's record stands for 281 days until Che-Ting Chu of Taiwan breaks it with a 6.89 at Taiwan Summer 2011 (8/21/2011)

Che-Ting's record would be short lived, lasting only 6 days, when Nipat Charoenpholphant of Thailand breaks it with a 6.78 at Hua Hin Open 2011 (8/27/2011)

Nipat's record lasts 64 days when it is broken by Mats Valk of the Netherlands with a 6.41 at the Dutch Open 2011 (10/30/2011)

Mats' record lasts 77 days when it is broken by Asia Konvittayayotin of Thailand with a 6.15 at the Bangkok 2012 (1/15/2012)

Asia's record lasts for 99 days when it is broken by Michal Pleskowicz of Poland with a 6.11 at the Cubing Spring Grudziadz 2012 (4/21/2012)

Michal's record lasts 106 days when Yumu Tabuchi of Japan breaks it with a 6.09 at US Nationals 2012 (8/5/2012)

And finally Yumi's record lasts 210 days when it Mats takes back his WR with a 5.55 at the Zonhoven Open 2013 (3/3/2013).


I thought this was pretty interesting. If anyone wants to do this with another record, feel free. I might do another one later, but I'm not sure. Also, I may have made mistakes. I just used Excel to organize things and I could have hastily messed up, so let me know if you spot anything and I'll edit it.

 

[Ollie]

This is pretty cool, thanks!

Maybe if Marcell Endrey had chosen a different hobby?

 

[guysensei1]

Do one for averages and 5x5 and 4x4and whatever other event he has WRs in!

 

[Tim Major]

Cool thread, I hadn't even heard of Che-Ting Chu... unless he was the guy who got the LL skip?

I think the average WR would be more interesting, considering Feliks is the only person who's had the 3x3 average world record in over 4 and a half years.

I can't think of a non-really slow way of doing what you did though... did you check every sub 7.08 single's solver's profile to check if they beat it multiple times in 2011, etc? It seems realllllly slow like 15 minutes for this.

 

[DeeDubb]

Cool thread, I hadn't even heard of Che-Ting Chu... unless he was the guy who got the LL skip?

I think the average WR would be more interesting, considering Feliks is the only person who's had the 3x3 average world record in over 4 and a half years.

I can't think of a non-really slow way of doing what you did though... did you check every sub 7.08 single's solver's profile to check if they beat it multiple times in 2011, etc? It seems realllllly slow like 15 minutes for this.

I took all the solves that were done 7.08 and under off the WCA page. I put them in excel with names, times, and events. I sorted by name first, so I could delete all of Feliks (of the 145 sub-7.08 singles, Feliks has 47 of them... that's nuts). I took out Feliks, then resorted by speed. The events show the year, but not dates, so I just deleted anything that was in a year after solves faster than that one (like any solve done after 2010 that was slower than Rowe's 6.94). After I got all the years done, I had to manually look at the dates of each event to filter out the ones that occurred in the same year, but after (if that makes any sense). I added the dates, and wrote it up. It probably took about 20 minutes.

Whose average did Feliks break the first time?

 

[Bindedsa]

I took all the solves that were done 7.08 and under off the WCA page. I put them in excel with names, times, and events. I sorted by name first, so I could delete all of Feliks (of the 145 sub-7.08 singles, Feliks has 47 of them... that's nuts). I took out Feliks, then resorted by speed. The events show the year, but not dates, so I just deleted anything that was in a year after solves faster than that one (like any solve done after 2010 that was slower than Rowe's 6.94). After I got all the years done, I had to manually look at the dates of each event to filter out the ones that occurred in the same year, but after (if that makes any sense). I added the dates, and wrote it up. It probably took about 20 minutes.

Whose average did Feliks break the first time?

You can use this to easily check any event.

 

[DeeDubb]

You can use this to easily check any event.

Yes, that's what I used, but I still have to click the event to see when the date was. The title of the event gives clues sometimes about the season, but other than that, it's hard to tell anything more than the year just by the title of the event.

 

[Bindedsa]

Yes, that's what I used, but I still have to click the event to see when the date was. The title of the event gives clues sometimes about the season, but other than that, it's hard to tell anything more than the year just by the title of the event.

I was just talking about the record average that Feliks broke. I don't really see how else it could be useful.

Edit: Also, this gives dates, still not sure how it would be helpful, though.

 

[DeeDubb]

I was just talking about the record average that Feliks broke. I don't really see how else it could be useful.

Edit: Also, this gives dates, still not sure how it would be helpful, though.

Lol, that is actually perfect. Oh god.... there's over 1000 averages ahead of the 10.07 that Feliks broke. There's no page 2 option, so I'm not sure how I could figure it out.

 

[Bindedsa]

Lol, that is actually perfect. Oh god.... there's over 1000 averages ahead of the 10.07 that Feliks broke. There's no page 2 option, so I'm not sure how I could figure it out.

You could go through each continent.

 

[Pro94]

Tomasz Żołnowski 10.07 broken by Erik Akkersdijk 9.89 at Alania Open (27/06/2010), after 302 days.

Erik Akkersdijk 9.89 broken by Tomasz Zolnowski 9.87 at East German Open (15/08/2010), after 49 days.

Tomasz Zolnowski 9.87 broken by Erik Akkersdijk 9.57 at German Nationals (12/09/2010), after 28 days.

Erik Akkersdijk 9.57 broken by Yumu Tabuchi 9.03 at Matsudo Open (23/10/2010), after 41 days.

Yumu Tabuchi 9.03 broken by Rowe Hessler 8.91 at Liberty Science (18/12/2010), after 56 days.

Rowe Hessler 8.91 broken by Giovanni Contardi 8.54 at Roma Open (08/05/2011), after 141 days.

Giovanni Contardi 8.54 broken by Piti Pichedpan 8.46 at Chonburi Open (25/06/2011), after 48 days.

Piti Pichedpan 8.46 broken by Rowe Hessler 8.27 at Bridgewater Open (03/12/2011), after 161 days.

Rowe Hessler 8.27 broken by Yumu Tabuchi 8.25 at Rabbit and Turtle (04/05/2012), after 153 days.

Yumu Tabuchi 8.25 broken by Cornelius Dieckmann 8.21 at Berlin Open (13/05/2012), after 9 days.

Cornelius Dieckmann 8.21 broken by Mats Valk 7.77 at Eindhoven Open (16/09/2012), after 126 days.

Mats Valk 7.77 broken by Mats Valk 7.66 at Dutch Open (04/11/2012), after 49 days.

Mats Valk 7.66 broken by Alexander Lau 7.52 at WGC Open 2014 (06/04/2014), after 518 days.

 

[DeeDubb]

That's much cleaner than how I did it. Very nice!!!!

Feliks is awesome, but he sure made cubing records boring Just him breaking his own records and occasionally trading off with other people.

 

[Pro94]

4x4 Single

Dan Cohen 36.46 beaten by Haixu Zhang 35.40 at Guangzhou Big Cubes Open (11/07/2010), after 283 days.

Haixu Zhang 35.40 beaten by Rodrigo Septién Rodríguez 34.90 at Basauri Open (28/11/2010), after 79 days.

Rodrigo Septién Rodríguez 34.90 beaten by Milán Baticz 33.75 at Milan Cube Open (06/03/2011), after 159 days.

Milán Baticz 33.75 beaten by Sebastian Weyer 31.66 at Hamburg Open (01/05/2011), after 56 days.

Sebastian Weyer 31.66 beaten by Mitsuki Gunji 30.28 at World Championship (16/10/2011), after 168 days.

Mitsuki Gunji 30.28 beaten by Mats Valk 30.02 at Dutch Nationals (17/12/2011), after 62 days.

Mats Valk 30.02 beaten by Mats Valk 26.75 at German Open (15/04/2012), after 120 days.

Mats Valk 26.75 beaten by Sebastian Weyer 26.44 at Velbert Open (17/02/2013), after 308 days.

Sebastian Weyer 26.44 beaten by Sebastian Weyer 24.67 at Duisburg Winter (05/01/2014), after 322 days.

Sebastian Weyer 24.67 beaten by Sebastian Weyer 24.33 at Velbert Easter Open (20/04/2014), after 105 days.











4x4 Average

Han-Cyun Chen 43.43 beaten by Syuhei Omura 43.15 at Cube Camp in Kanazawa (22/08/2010), after 364 days.

Syuhei Omura 43.15 beaten by Erik Akkersdijk 41.29 at Lemgo Open (05/09/2010), after 14 days.

Erik Akkersdijk 41.29 beaten by Haixu Zhang 40.86 at Guangdong Open (04/10/2010), after 29 days.

Haixu Zhang 40.86 beaten by Giovanni Contardi 40.59 at Mantua Open (16/10/2010), after 12 days.

Giovanni Contardi 40.59 beaten by Giovanni Contardi 39.73 at South Italian Open (28/12/2010), after 73 days.

Giovanni Contardi 39.73 beaten by Giovanni Contardi 39.10 at Mantua Spring (13/03/2011), after 75 days.

Giovanni Contardi 39.10 beaten by Sebastian Weyer 37.89 at German Open (10/04/2011), after 28 days.

Sebastian Weyer 37.89 beaten by Sebastian Weyer 37.77 at Hamburg Open (01/05/2011), after 21 days.

Sebastian Weyer 37.77 beaten by Giovanni Contardi 36.27 at Roma Open (08/05/2011), after 8 days.

Giovanni Contardi 36.27 beaten by Dan Cohen 35.54 at Princeton Fall (24/09/2011), after 139 days.

Dan Cohen 35.54 beaten by Giovanni Contardi 35.52 at Italian Open (02/10/2011), after 8 days.

Giovanni Contardi 35.52 beaten by Giovanni Contardi 35.51 at World Championship (16/10/2011), after 14 days.

Giovanni Contardi 35.51 beaten by Mats Valk 35.10 at Zonhoven Open (26/02/2012), after 133 days.

Mats Valk 35.10 beaten by Mats Valk 33.57 at German Open (15/04/2012), after 49 days.

Mats Valk 33.57 beaten by Sebastian Weyer 30.81 at Aachen Summer Open (24/06/2012), after 70 days.

Sebastian Weyer 30.81 beaten by Sebastian Weyer 29.17 at Frankfurt Cube Days (09/12/2012), after 168 days.

Sebastian Weyer 29.17 beaten by Sebastian Weyer 28.15 at Frankfurt Cube Days (19/01/2014), after 406 days.

 

[Escher]

(281+302+283+364)/4 = 307.5

Lol...