Sweden
Swedish speedcubing.
Swedish cubers are older on average than if you compare to the rest of the world, at least 1:10 of the Sweds that compeated are 40 years or older. But of course most Swedish cubers are youngsters, just like in the rest of the world.
Most notable Sweds in speedcubing:
- Lars Petrus ... A living legend.
- Gunnar Krig ... Cubing skills.
- Simon Westlund ... Cubing skills.
- Anders Larsson ... WCA Delegate
- Kenneth Gustavsson ... Method developing, community activity.
- Rune Wesström ... Probably the only person in the world aged 80 or more that can solve a cube in less than 60 seconds (sub 40 even).
Community
Sweden had since 2005 a 'offcial' organisation named SveKub, that is short for Svenska kubföreningen (Swedish cubing association) that first was a registred association but now is just a network of Swedish cubers. SveKub has a website with a forum and there is where competitions in Sweden are discussed and organised by the members of the network, besides the usual cubing forum activities, like helping new cubers, posting algs, trading cubes and such.
Besides that there is also a mostly Swedish speaking IRC channel named #rubik at the Quake-net, also a place for discussions within the community.
