As one or two of you might know, the Rubiks Cube World Championship was last weekend. I got 23rd in the world!!! And I got [i]2nd[/i] in one handed!!! Coolness. So anyway, I doubt this, but was anyone else there? Also, where the beep was Ross (cybeross)? He wasn’t there. Did he die or something?
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well done!!!
i take it they haven’t opened the ‘solving while idling a uni’ category yet?
Congratulations! That’s quite an accomplishment (I think…) I can now tell people that I know the guy who is second place in the world for one handed rubiks cube!
So, did you get any pictures of the event?
hey!
I was there! My two friends and I arrived on sunday, were the guys from NY. Im 66th in the world, hah hah hah. The pressure really got to everyone in the finals I think, except fridrich who looked pretty good.
Anyways, Im the kid with the mohawk, my friends were the hippie looking kid and the guy in pajama pants.
Anyways, hook me up with an IM to chat. NickLIkesFire
Nick
Oh yeah, I saw you there Nick. The hippie was Jake Rueth, right? He showed me his Rubiks Magic, it was soo cool.
And I got a few pics of it, I’m going to upload them to my site soon.
URL: http://www.geocities.com/speed_cuber
And there were a few unicyclists there, but no event for it. And this kid could juggle five balls. It was awesome.
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on a jo’burg radio station they reported that the 20.2sec winning time was 2 seconds faster than the accepted guiness record
i thought they were well inside 20 sec’s allready?
i knew there was a reason i missed u around here…
Loads of people can do it in under 20. The world record average time is 16.5 for an average of ten. But everyone was soooo nervous. My best time was 25, which is fairly good for me. My average is about 27 or 26.
And for the one handed, I got 54. That’s about my average. But then I got 1 minute 20, which is terrrible.
My average time is about 15 seconds. That’s about how long it takes for me to get bored/ frustrated and give up and go outside to unicycle.
heh heh heh. no, the hippie was jay goodell, his time was about 1:13 or something, not great, but ok. I sp.ent the da’y hanging out with reporters mostly. The mohawk gets attention, I might be in the NY times, im not sure yet.
I also hung around with dan haris, and some chick from Austrailia, I forgot her name, and her fiance’. Nice people. Jaap and his friends were sitting behind us so we talked to them, that jaap guy is crazy with those puzzles.
Its nice to know im missed gild, Im sure ill have some time this semester and Ill start posting again.
Paco, when I first read that sentence, I was like, WHOA! And stuff. I don’t think anyone has averaged fifteen yet.
There was another hippie dude named Jake. I don’t know if I saw Jay, though.
So no one knows what happened to Ross? I think he must have died. Yup.
oh, no, sorry, hes stuck in colorado, he just couldnt make it. He told me that in 2005 hes going to come and clean up.
Bummer.
Dang, I was looking forward to meeting him. Oh well.
Did you know the wc2005 is going to be in Florida, in this 80’s themed hotel? Apparently there’s a gigantic Rubiks Cube in the lobby. Sounds perfect.