Year 12 School Speedcubing Research Project

[Ollie]

No matter who your audience, never assume they know anything.

If you are presenting to a room full of well-established and respected academics then you know that they understand the basics.

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[applemobile]

The key word is Assume. If you know your audience, then it is not an assumption it is a fact.

 

[aceofspades98]

I think you should touch up on other speedsolving methods, like roux, zz, and many others.

 

[jayefbe]

Nice retort. I'll try that the next time I present a scientific paper to a room of well-established and respected academics.

I've presented research to respected academics multiple times, and every single time I give a concise yet thorough overview of the information relevant towards understanding the importance and relevance of the research. In fact, I believe it is the single most important aspect of a scientific presentation. Without an understanding of why any research is important and applicable, it's just details of no real consequence. Any argument that it is not important to give even a modicum of background information is ridiculous.

 

[Ollie]

I've presented research to respected academics multiple times, and every single time I give a concise yet thorough overview of the information relevant towards understanding the importance and relevance of the research. In fact, I believe it is the single most important aspect of a scientific presentation. Without an understanding of why any research is important and applicable, it's just details of no real consequence. Any argument that it is not important to give even a modicum of background information is ridiculous.

Not sure whether you got that I was being sarcastic. But yes, I do understand that from writing several reports this year alone. I was merely addressing applemobile's misinformed statement that you should treat every audience you present to as if they don't know the basics. For example, I wouldn't tell the room about where the brain is before discussing cognition or memory.

 

[Ross The Boss]

god yeah, having cold hands and solving makes my times triple, warm hands makes it so much easier to get a good average

i actually set my PB 11.8 solve (non-lucky) on my first solve of the day with cold hands. my look ahead was just super good for the solve.

 

[applemobile]

I was merely addressing applemobile's misinformed statement that you should treat every audience you present to as if they don't know the basics.

Not sure if trolling or just stupid

I said 'never assume your audience knows anything' so if you know they know something, you are not assuming.

 

[cxinlee]

I'd like to say great job to the op. Maybe you could talk about the methods we use for speedcubing, and even the quality of the cube.

 

[Ezazar]

Thank you everyone for your feedback! I agree that i have barely explained the basics of speedcubing. The idea was to aim the article towards a speedcuber audience but explain only the key areas that I was discussing in detail (e.g. break down of Fridrich method). This way I can ensure the marker knows enough about cubing to understand what is in the article. However i do believe I've done this quite poorly and have left out fundamental information such as what Mark49152 had listed. I am word capped at 1500 words so this will be difficult to sneak in but i will do my best.

As for what was mentioned in Ollie's first comment about memory and brain training, I had intended to test the effects of memory games on myself to back up this claim. It's getting close to the due date so I don't have time for that. So i may need to remove that part, and maybe some others, or find more trustworthy information to support it. I had also tested Lumosity Brain Trainer games on myself for around 1-2 months. Throughout this time I had improved my solve times noticeably (4 seconds less on average). however i also saw no significant improvement in other areas such as academic, problem solving etc. So i don't really know if I can really believe it's having an effect...

Thanks everyone again for your feedback. Any more is still appreciated

 

[Maccoboy]

i actually set my PB 11.8 solve (non-lucky) on my first solve of the day with cold hands. my look ahead was just super good for the solve.

i guess it's not the case for everyone then
when my hands get cold they move half as quickly as normal if that :L

 

[Ollie]

Pretty sure applemobile is trolling, but ah well:

The key word is Assume. If you know your audience, then it is not an assumption it is a fact.

Right, Ezazar knew his audience at the time of writing, rendering your argument invalid.

As an examiner reading that, I would have no idea what you are even talking about. You imply an awful lot of knowledge onto the reader. What is a Rubik's cube? What is solving it? Surely it depends who 'jumbled it up?' Dafuq is a finger trick?
You could have written the best thesis in the world, but without these core basics, the reader will just see 'blah blah blah'

Which makes this wrong, refer to top comment. Supported by jayefbe:

Any argument that it is not important to give even a modicum of background information is ridiculous.

Tldr. I'm right you're wrong. No matter who your audience, never assume they know anything

Whether or not you use assume or a different word, it contradicts your own point. You virtually have no argument or have supplied any decent counter-arguments.

 

[RukaChuka]

I get it, simples