[WR] Xuanyi Geng 3.05 3x3 WR Single

[qwr]

I wonder if a kid who’s been learning and playing chess since they were little would be called a chess computer.

This is every top chess player without exception. Literally every one in the top 20 was a child prodigy. And all the young stars have trained with computers their whole lives.
Compare this for famous mathematicians, who many started to show promise only in highschool and college. I guess in the US we don't have good training for promising young kids. Mathcounts/AMC/USAMO is competition based.

 

[efattah]

Nice video, although one comment is untrue, when Stu says every world record ever set was set with CFOP until Xuanyi used ZB. Minh Thai's 22 second WR was set with corners first, and Marc Waterman's 16-second world record was set with Waterman, although there was no formal cubing association available to verify the latter solve even though it was done at a competition. It was only after the 2003 world championship and the creation of the WCA that every 3x3 single was set with CFOP. Cubing books of the 1980's refer to an earlier world record of 24 seconds also set by Minh Thai before the 1982 worlds.