Women's Rubik's Cube World Record Has Been Broken By 6-Year Old Chinese Girl (Twice in 3 Days)
Impressive. Girl is so young she's still speaking gibberish and is already breaking world records. Is it the tiny hands? It's gotta be the tiny hands. I know Rubik's cubes come in all shapes, sizes, and patterns. So when she gets older I'd imagine this girl could switch to a cube that better fits her adult sized hands (or master a different style of cube, or go to college and learn rocket science, or whatever Lian Yunzhi wants to do with her life). But I've always thought it would suck to devote your life to a sport or skill that you peak at as a child.
There's a few sports/things like that out there. Like gymnastics. The Olympics had to raise the minimum age for gymnasts to 16-years old, because the best gymnasts in the world were tiny children who were presumably forced to do nothing with their childhoods other than practice 24/7.
I use the skateboarding example in blogs all the time because I think it's so funny/kinda heartbreaking. But I still remember when Tony Hawk first landed a 900 at the X-Games. It was like, the greatest feat in the history of extreme sports. Tony Hawk was the greatest skater of all-time, and his whole life had built up to that moment. Look how much it meant to him and every other skater/fan in the audience when Tony Hawk landed just one single 900.
But then somewhere along the line people realized that small more agile bodies (i.e. kids) could spin way faster than adults. Kids started skateboarding at a younger age. Now there are 7-year olds landing 900's.
This 9-year old Japanese kid, Ema Kawakami once hit back-to-back-to-back 900s right in Tony Hawk's face.
I think the same thing is kind of happening in wrestling. The best high school wrestlers are sometimes able to beat the best college wrestlers. Freshman in college are always all over the top of the national rankings. Just listen to how fired up KB gets talking about the GOAT teen boys of the sport.
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Honestly I'm not even sure what my point is. I just think it's interesting. And kind of tragic is some way. It would have to be frustrating to dedicate you life to a sport knowing you'll never be as good as you were as a kid. Or knowing that somewhere out there, there's a 10-year old Chinese girl who would make you her bitch.
I'm not sure if that's the case for all Rubik's cubes, but I do see that the men's world record for fastest 3x3x3 average solve time was set by an 11-year old Chinese boy named 王艺衡 (Yiheng Wang)
Maybe kids just have more time on their hands to rip cube all day long. Or maybe it's just a China thing. Well-disciplined Chinese kids can do superhuman things. Things most full grown adults could never dream of. That I know for a fact.
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Ok that's a terrible example. That video has always just cracked me up. But you get my point.