Layer By Layer

Episode 28 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Friday January 3, 2020 Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics: - The Elbies 2019! Spoilers for the winners below: - Best New 3x3: Welong WR M - Best New Non-3x3 Puzzle: Valk 5 M - Best Episode of Layer By Layer: 16 - I Put It In A Vending Machine - Best World Record: Graham Siggins 59/60 MBLD - Luckiest Official Solve: Andrew Huang - Skewb U-Perm - LBL Subreddit Comment of the Year: Issun_x: "I'd like to see Kit comment on how the WCA regulations views folding your FMC scramble sheet into a paper aeroplane and throwing it to the delegate to finish, in order for increased efficiency in submission of solutions." - LBL Subreddit User with a Gandalf-related Username: YueXiaoNotPass - Cuber of the Year: Sean Patrick Villanueva - Andrew's Bad Prediction: Rowe Hessler will have one of the next 4 solves above the current world record or solve above the other solve that was above the world record/below the time of the world record from previously in the same day, or by the end of the year

Episode 27 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. DON'T FORGET TO VOTE IN THE ELBIES: https://forms.gle/S69CHxQaJMa5uaui7 Recorded Friday November 22 Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics: - Kaijun Lin 5BLD WR - Andrew Doesn't Forget the Bell this time - Red Bull World Cup 2019 - FMC Americas 2019 - Domino Reduction - The Elbies 2019 - MEOTD: Food - Bad Prediction of the Day: A GAN cube will not win the Elbies listener's choice

Episode 26 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Wednesday, November 13. Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics:  - THE NEW MOYU CLOCK IS HERE!!! - A bunch of World Records: Yunhao Lou 4.38 Clock, Graham Siggins 59/60 MBLD, Stanley Chapel 1:06.23 4BLD, and of course, Feliks Zemdegs 5.53 3x3 - Sean Patrick Villanueva and Leo Borromeo  - When will we stop finding new Algorithms? - Kit is good (but actually bad) at FMC, and bad insertions are demotivating - Martin Egdal of the Day: Nordic Championship 2019 overview, 17.61 3bld - Bad Prediction of the Day: Whoever wins FMC Americas 2019 will have a 26.67 mean of 3 or worse

Episode 25 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Wednesday, October 16. Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics: - Congrats to Gundolf for actually guessing the last bell! - Max Park OH single (finally) - 49 point MBLD WR by Graham - The Awards Show: Send us your ideas! - Linus Frész's 24.00 FMC Mean - Andrew is off Facebook; but where can he find cubing news? - Andrew's only cubing goals - Kit Clement of the Day: Best counting 2x2 single - Bad prediction of the day: The second place 3x3 average at UK Championship 2019 will be sub-6.2

Episode 24 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Tuesday, October 1. Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics: - Baba is Cube - Last names that break statistics - FMC North America West 2019: Bad scrambles, or just being tired? - World Records: 4x4 by Sebastian Weyer again, 4x4 BLD by Stanley Chapel again - Kit guesses for whom the bell tolls - Groupifier - WCA's growth slowdown - Rob's Challenge Pen Capping WB: https://youtu.be/X3gQvCoD4W0 - Fresh Moyu Clock rumors

Episode 23 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Friday September 6.  Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer  Topics:  - Follow-up: You know, the thing we talked about last episode  - Andrew forgot to bring his cubes to San Diego Summer 2019  - Scramble Signatures  - Our strategies for FMC NA West - What should Kit's goal be in the prediction game?  - Bad Martin Egdal of the Prediction of the Day: UFC Fights

Episode 22 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Friday August 23.  Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics:  - Follow-up: Oreos  - World Records:  Max Park 7x7 single, Max Hilliard 3BLD single, Stanley Chapel 4BLD single/average, Juan Pablo multiple Megaminx averages, Daniel Rose-Levine Feet average, and a surprising 4x4 single from Sebastian Weyer - US Nationals and Bronycon - What to do with a duplicate scramble? - The current State of the Smartcubes - BLD buffer: Should you choose a different buffer from everyone else? - Martin Egdal of the Day: Farming - Prediction of the day: Collin Burns will be out of top 100 in a year

Episode 21 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Tuesday July 23. Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics:  -  Andrew figured out why he doesn't like 4BLD and 5BLD - A whole bunch of world records from the World Championship and beyond! - Kit is 1/2 on bad predictions - New 3BLD formats - What is the ideal venue for a large competition? - Martin Egdal of the Day: 3BLD ERs - Bad Prediction of the Day: 69/69

Episode 20 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Wednesday June 19. Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics:  - Kit makes a prediction - The weird and wonderful world of Fewest Moves world records, and FMC 2019 - A very strange incident - 3x3 Tier List - Kit's bad prediction of the day: No 4BLD or 5BLD mean WRs before the end of the year, and neither Max nor Feliks will win worlds.

Episode 19 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Monday June 3 . Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Ask us for advice!  Email Layerbylayerpodcast@gmail.com Topics:  - Email your advice questions - WRs: Jake klassen 3BLD 19.79, Jackey Zheng Squan 4.95, Siggins MBLD 50/52, Max Hilliard 3BLD 18.28 - Podcast apps/Spotify/Luminary - Discussion of several (possibly unfair?) practices in the WCA - Weird interactions with friends and cubing - Martin Egdal of the Day: Most solves in one comp - Reg (Guideline) of the Day: a1a2+++

Episode 18 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Wednesday May 8, 2019. Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics:  - BIG WR CHECK IN: -- Tymon pyra, as predicted -- Feliks! 5.69! -- Yunhau Lou 4.43 clock average -- Reto Bubendorf FMC mean -- Mark’s 19 -- Stanley Chapel 4bld: 1:10 -- Tijmen Van Der Ree - 4.98 squan - BigBLD means - FMC with erasable pens - Jay fingertricks - "FMC" is a bad name for the event - Martin Egdal of the Day: sub 20 3bld - Reg (Guideline) of the day: 4b2++ Ask us for advice! Send emails to LayerByLayerPodcast@gmail.com

Episode 17 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Wednesday April 3, 2019. Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics:  - Revisiting the cubing Battle Royale, with GAN 356i or other virtualized cubes - Clock Single WR: 3.29 by Suen Ming Chi - The Shared Judging System - WE WANT MORE STICKERLESS SHADES - The Nod Don - MEOTD: Sleep? - Reg of the Day: 1e

Episode 16 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Tuesday, March 19, 2019. Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics:  - World Record Check-In: Stanley Chapel 5BLD WR! - The Stackmat Conspiracy - Online competitions and sketchy results - Tetris 99 - Can we make a cubing battle royale? - Worlds 2019 - the FMC Prisoner's Dilemma, and superrationality Vsauce2 video: MrBeast's $1,000,000 Dilemma - First North American FMC 21 - The WCA stole our idea - Martin Egdal of the Day: Blindfolded success streak - Reg of the day: tendies

Episode 15 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Saturday, February 16, 2019. Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics:  - Follow-up: there is no Follow-up - Should the WCA create more incentives to record your solves? - Similar to Layer by Layer... - Andrew's magical GTS3 fix - The FMC Database - Skeletype, Andrew's FMC tool: https://youtu.be/bVY31jW16do - Martin Egdal of the Day: Water - Reg of the Day: A6e https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#A6e

Episode 14 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Tuesday, January 29, 2019. Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics:  - The bell - RECORD CHECK-IN: 17 FMC single - Predictions: will 17 be tied before all other WRs are broken? - Re-thinking Worlds - Why was Nats so late? - What are comps like on the west coast? Are results predictable? - Podcon! - How to keep older cubers in the community? How to keep friendly atmosphere despite growth? - Martin Egdal of the day: chess! - Reg of the day: 9M https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#9m Does anybody read these notes?