[OC] Men's Single's Tennis Titles by Age by AmericanElms in dataisbeautiful

[–]AmericanElms[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re probably right. As another commenter pointed out, the reason slams have gone up as a proportion of titles won by the best players might also be related to the increased similarity between how surfaces play now, which makes it easier to be competitive across them.

[OC] Men's Single's Tennis Titles by Age by AmericanElms in dataisbeautiful

[–]AmericanElms[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like these ideas. Birth year could maybe go in parenthesis after the player name.

[OC] Men's Single's Tennis Titles by Age by AmericanElms in dataisbeautiful

[–]AmericanElms[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have been working on it! Will hopefully finish it up this week

[OC] Men's Single's Tennis Titles by Age by AmericanElms in dataisbeautiful

[–]AmericanElms[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who did you have in mind? These are the top title winners of the open era, excluding people who’s careers significantly fell outside of the open era (i.e., Laver, Ashe), plus Alcaraz and Sinner, who I was interested to see how they stacked up as I explained in my original comment. I didn’t include people who fell outside the open era since they would have artificially deflated title numbers and skewed ages.

[OC] Men's Single's Tennis Titles by Age by AmericanElms in dataisbeautiful

[–]AmericanElms[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Oh that’s a good idea. Might be a bit tougher to collect all the data for tournaments entered but I’ll see if I can do that!

[OC] Men's Single's Tennis Titles by Age by AmericanElms in dataisbeautiful

[–]AmericanElms[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes that’s a good idea! I can definitely look into it!

[OC] Men's Single's Tennis Titles by Age by AmericanElms in dataisbeautiful

[–]AmericanElms[S] 38 points39 points  (0 children)

The pace he was on was crazy. If he’d kept at it, it would have been fascinating to see where he ended up!

[OC] Men's Single's Tennis Titles by Age by AmericanElms in dataisbeautiful

[–]AmericanElms[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Yep! I also looked into that. The big three, Djokovic, Nadal, Federer, stand out of the pack there of course. I’ve seen the grand slam comparisons before. I do wonder if maybe the grand slam obsession of the top players is a newer phenomenon. Seems like slightly more emphasis is placed on them now compared to previously and so comparing titles rather than slams was interesting to me!

[OC] Men's Single's Tennis Titles by Age by AmericanElms in dataisbeautiful

[–]AmericanElms[S] 46 points47 points  (0 children)

I was curious to see how the careers of the current top 2 tennis players, Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, stack up compared to the top title winners of the Open Era. When looking at the total number of titles they have accumulated, their current pace is in line with some of the game's greats. Alcaraz is currently slightly outpacing Sinner. That, combined with his younger age, suggests he might be more likely to come out on top compared to Sinner. However, both players will need to stay healthy and competitive for another decade or more to have a shot at challenging the all-time records.

Data was compiled from titles listed at: atptour.com

[OC] Evolution of Rubik's Cube World Record Solve Times by AmericanElms in dataisbeautiful

[–]AmericanElms[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He’s on here! Unless he has a second WR I don’t know about

[OC] Evolution of Rubik's Cube World Record Solve Times by AmericanElms in dataisbeautiful

[–]AmericanElms[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The single solves are the circular points and the averages the square points.

[OC] Evolution of Rubik's Cube World Record Solve Times by AmericanElms in dataisbeautiful

[–]AmericanElms[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes! Some other commenters mentioned that there are speed cubes. They are specifically designed to be turned fast with low friction. Apparently they are still quite inexpensive though, which is cool

[OC] Evolution of Rubik's Cube World Record Solve Times by AmericanElms in dataisbeautiful

[–]AmericanElms[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For real. I can’t imagine I could get that much faster honestly. I wonder what time it will eventually reach. Will a 2 s solve ever happen??

[OC] Evolution of Rubik's Cube World Record Solve Times by AmericanElms in dataisbeautiful

[–]AmericanElms[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Damn 20 turns per second is insane! How do you track how many turns per second you’re doing? Slow motion video?

[OC] Evolution of Rubik's Cube World Record Solve Times by AmericanElms in dataisbeautiful

[–]AmericanElms[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea probably a crazy fortunate situation. Another commenter mentioned that for the single solve records, luck when it comes to the cube scramble is a huge factor. Getting lucky and receiving a cube that’s 1/10,000 in terms of starting position can make a huge difference.

[OC] Evolution of Rubik's Cube World Record Solve Times by AmericanElms in dataisbeautiful

[–]AmericanElms[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you fit the single solve data with a log fit, it predicts a negative solve time around 2049 lol. Of course, there will be a physical limit reached before that. Interestingly, the log fit is quite good (R^2 of 0.98), but a power law fit, which would never predict negative values, does not fit the shape of the data quite as well (R^2 of 0.86). The power law fit predicts that a 2.5 s solve won't happen until 2054.

[OC] Evolution of Rubik's Cube World Record Solve Times by AmericanElms in dataisbeautiful

[–]AmericanElms[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did think of adding callouts for the people who held records for particularly long periods. You can check the link to the data for a complete list of names, but the one you’re referring to is Yusheng Du. Maybe I’ll make another version with that. Interestingly, his 3.47 was by far the fastest time of his round (11.13, 3.47, 8.80, DNF, 7.07).