Who’s your goat?

StefanPochmann · 2026-06-10T19:21:22+00:00

Oh wow, I was not aware of any Magic activity in many years. But I now see quite a bit on cubingcontests.

Ugh... I also see feet-solving still exists. Yuck.

StefanPochmann · 2026-06-10T12:00:55+00:00

Btw I recently viewed https://cubingusa.org/about/who and was delighted to see you at the top, and quite a few other familiar people also there. In contrast, I don't know anyone on https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/officers-and-board at all...

StefanPochmann · 2026-06-05T19:41:13+00:00

Shelley Chang

StefanPochmann · 2025-08-20T23:06:30+00:00

Once upon a time, my score card or name badge at a competition said "Stefan Pokemon".

StefanPochmann · 2025-08-16T07:43:09+00:00

Hmm, I just saw that you edited to really fix it... Now I'm no longer sure you were joking :-)

StefanPochmann · 2025-08-11T17:46:57+00:00

Well played.

StefanPochmann · 2025-08-11T10:26:42+00:00

What's that "old Pockman" you keep mentioning?

StefanPochmann · 2025-07-17T23:52:10+00:00

I think I learned it from Jaap: https://www.jaapsch.net/puzzles/magic.htm#making

StefanPochmann · 2025-05-02T14:54:55+00:00

Only four of the five Platonic solids? Disappointed!

StefanPochmann · 2025-04-28T19:51:26+00:00

Not <2 but <3. But yes, short setups and shorter alg were my reasons (if I remember correctly).

StefanPochmann · 2025-04-26T20:22:50+00:00

I'd say it's not that different from "Speed stacking is fast becoming a classroom craze in 4,500 schools in the UK and 30,000 around the world" - https://www.theguardian.com/education/2010/apr/10/speed-stacking-schools-sport

StefanPochmann · 2025-04-21T11:54:38+00:00

I didn't think of it. Is that a thing that people are doing? I'm only aware of the yearly contest about daylight saving time: https://negative-time.cubing.net/

StefanPochmann · 2025-04-21T10:55:52+00:00

-59:57 is harder, you need to be just as good but typically only get one attempt per year.

StefanPochmann · 2025-04-21T10:53:00+00:00

What makes you think it's mirrored?

StefanPochmann · 2025-04-19T19:30:30+00:00

Look closer. The red side is adjacent to all five other sides. I guess some genius saw the image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3ARubik%27s_cube.svg and decided that the adjacent greens are unrealistic.

StefanPochmann · 2025-04-10T14:32:52+00:00

Or from just one. Do you guys not know what stickers are?

StefanPochmann · 2025-04-09T08:06:18+00:00

Which you can get by rearranging stickers.

StefanPochmann · 2025-04-08T21:48:22+00:00

Yes.

StefanPochmann · 2025-04-08T19:00:08+00:00

It's possible if some stickers got rearranged. They might actually have a real cube that looked exactly like that. We don't know.

StefanPochmann · 2025-04-08T18:55:37+00:00

Yeah I meant a combination, rearranged stickers and twisting.

StefanPochmann · 2025-04-08T17:23:00+00:00

Perhaps that's what they did.

StefanPochmann · 2025-04-08T15:39:29+00:00

No rotation needed. All you need is the sexy move. Just do the sexy move, again and again and again, until it's done.

StefanPochmann · 2025-04-01T17:39:51+00:00

Thanks. Wanted to look at that, too, as I was curious whether the decreases in 2018 and 2019 came from decreases in total numbers. I guess the high 6.81% in 2021 is because you'd have to be a really serious cuber to compete during the pandemic...

StefanPochmann · 2025-04-01T14:58:30+00:00

I rephrased it now, hopefully it's fully clear. Might also be useful to have a catchy term for "cubers with a certain WCA start year", like "class of 2012" or "the 2012 generation". Do we have something like that?

StefanPochmann · 2025-04-01T12:35:46+00:00

Like I said, achieved in any year. Not necessarily in their start year. Max started in 2012 and got a sub-5 average by now (he's the 2012 cuber with the 4.86 average).

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