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Contest

Cube2Cash
Hello everyone,

The Houston Cubing Association is starting a new Cube2Cash program, in which donated cubes are given away to cubers (just like you) and all the collected money will be given to the
Ronald Mcdonald House Houston The cubes that are being given away are 4 Type A I cubes, generously donated by the Haiyan Zhuang, current World Record holder of the 3x3 Blindfold solve and the webmaster of http://www.cubehaiyan.com

How the Contest works:


There are 4 cubes that are going to be given away in the contest. That means that you have 4 chances to win a Type A I cube (
1st 10 people only, everyone else gets 2). Each entry is only $2. You can pay by cash or by PayPal. If you want to pay by cash, please PM or email me, and I will give you my home address. Mail the money to my address, and PM or email me with your name, amount sent, address, and email. If you choose to pay by PayPal, send the payment via PayPal and PM or email me your name, your email, and the amount sent. The PayPal address is hcainfo@sbcglobal.net. PayPal users: In the statement, mention that this is a charity event organized by the Houston Cubing Association. After receiving your payment by either cash or PayPal, I will assign you a specific number and inform you that I have received your payment. PayPal users: if you do not receive a confirmation email/ PM in 48 to 72 hours, I probably did not receive your payment and your entry will not be counted (for mail payments it may take some time for the mail to get to me, so it could be 2 or more weeks depending on where you live). Please PM or email me again asking me if I got your payment if enough time has elapsed ( Paypal: 48 to 72 hours and Mail: 2 or more weeks depending on where you live).

After the contest is over ( The date set right now is
July 6th), I will film the drawing of the winners and put it on my YouTube Channel. I will use my calculator to generate random numbers and will choose the 8th number generated as the winner. I will do this 4 times to get all the winning numbers. Please note that if you win one cube, you cannot win another one.

Have fun and thanks for your support!


-Aditya Dargan, Founder and President of the Houston Cubing Association


P.S. My email is aditya(at)cubegeek(dot)net if you prefer to email me rather than using PM on the forum. Thank you, Mr. Haiyan Zhaung for donating the cubes.

News

Here all the latest cubing news will be listed. Check for updates 

Haiyan Zhuang's new BLD WR : 47.22 seconds

This is just amazing. I mean who can be faster than Ville? Well this guy can. He beat the previous world record by a second. That is just ownage. He memorized for 15 seconds and then boom, he solves it crazy fast. I am happy for this guy, but Ville is obviously going to take the WR record back. Probably more than 5 seconds. The speedcubing community can expect a sub 30 blindfold time( Have you seen his sub-25 solve?). Ville has gotten better times than this; never in competition, though Ville and Haiyan aren't the only two guys who have the potential for the world record. Rowe Hessler is on it too. I checked his WCA profile and  found something strange; his bld solves are faster than his 3x3 speedsolve. I heard( heard lol) a rumor on speedsolving.com that he does bld in speedsolving. That is just messesd up.I can't say anything bad to him. I mean he has a WR; most cubers never will.

Matyas Kuti: Hero or cheater?

There have been many debates regarding Matyas Kuti cheating. Nobody actually knows if he cheated or he did not. It all started when one guy on the speedsolving. forum was suspicious of Matya's fast times. He was probably jealous and made a post about him cheating. As soon as other people saw thus, they became to question Matyas. What method did he use? How did he memorize?What blindfold did he use? etc. So the debate heatened up to the point where he was "caught" cheating in a video. In an attempt at multi-bld, he messed up on one of the algorithms and he fixed it in a layer by layer method. This could only be done if he was peeking. So the WCA members came up with an idea; they were going to test Matyas under strict rules.

Erik Akkersdijk's success

So you know  Erik Akkersdijk right? Well, if you don't, then you don't know about many WR(World records) then. This guy is a super beast and extremely talented at speedcubing. He holds the most World Records right now.This ranges from from the 2x2 to the 5x5. That is very impressive. I really doubt that these World Records will be broken. They will be broken eventually, but that is going to take a long long time. I mean who can break the World Record for the 2x2 by beating the impressive time of .96 sec? That would be horrible if someone else got a time of .95 seconds. I would be mad at that guy and at the same time happy that I have some competition. Well, for atleast the 2x2. Erik's got a bunch of people on his tail for the 3x3 speedsolve. Yu Nakijima and Harris Chan are  a few of them. If you do not know, he solved the 3x3 within a time of 7.08 seconds. One word: beast. It was a lucky solve obviously, but hey "getting lucky is not a crime..." Without further a due, I present to you some videos of Erik just beasting his cube(s).

 

Anthony Searle's new NAR multi-blind

As you may know Anthony Searle has just recently broken the NAR( North American Record) for muti-blind in competition. He solved 5 cubes blindfolded in about 47 minutes flat. That is just plain amazing, I mean like not everyon is going aroud breaking records all the time. So as I was saying, Anthony is a speedcuber who was born in Belize and he now lives in Texas. He is a cool guy and one of my cubing friends. So you are going like yeah, Anthony is a beast. Well, he is. He is good at blindfoldcubing, and speecubing. He is going for OH( One-handed) as well. If you don't know, Anthony is the only cuber from Belize, so basically he has like 10 National records, and 1 Continental.

 

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