Cubing Will Live.

[@SwagridCubing]

CORRECTION: I mistook TNL Cubing's logo for being Souptimmy's - and TNL has actually stopped uploading. So, 2 or maybe 3/7 correct for UK Cuber.

[@nascara5cupseriesa5cubing18]

Uhm, how can you have confusion where soup timmy’s has soup bowl and cube as its logo while TNL’s is just a cube and purple blackground, also im not mad just saying

[@DcubesOfficial]

the other youtuber is called cube razn if you were wondering

[@TeboeCubes]

15:15 eminem been real quiet since this dropped

[@STUCUBE]

This was a great video! Especially the end sequence. Cubing is nowhere near dead, it’s growing more than it ever has and I can’t wait to see what the future holds!

[@UK_Cuber]

Great video. Cannot disagree with much you said here and it was all put together really well. Thank you for listening to my points and reading my counter-comments before making this video because so many of the original comments on my video didn’t listen to what I was actually saying. Your point about perspective was something I had not at all considered but was very correct. As someone who has only really practiced 3x3, I came at this topic from a very specific angle and didn’t consider any other events (which is completely my bad). As a small counter to the Reddit screenshots I used, I didn’t intend on them being such a significant part of the video. They were just an afterthought to give a little bit of backing to my points. And it’s nice to know that Reddit doesn’t have my back when serving me posts from 8 years ago smh! Once again, good video, can’t disagree. (0:40 had me dying!)

[@SwagridCubing]

Huge props to you for being able to listen openly and take the feedback/criticisms without jumping to being defensive, which a lot of people would do

[@badlookahead]

cubing will live. it's survived since the late 70s, and hasn't even thought about slowing down. loads of people discover cubing everyday, a youtuber quitting after uploading for a decade isn't going to make a dent in the community.

[@Pseudoslotter]

I recently watched Wall-E, which I think is placed some 2,000 yrs in the future, and there’s still cube in the movie. Just a fun fact

[@edladd212]

Cubing survived the covid lockdowns and there is a huge influx of new cubers at WCA events in the last 2 years. Over 37000 new competitors last year, up from 26000 the year before. I suspect that the new generation of cubers are hanging out in forums that I'm not part of as a semi-retired cuber.

[@gluggy]

banger video, love it when people say "cubing is dead" because theyre not having as much fun as they did, proceeding to ignore 99% of puzzles, ignoring hardware advancements, ignoring cube knowledge and theory, ignoring alternative methods, practice only 3x3 on one cube doing the same cfop solve every single time for the past thousand hours

[@timeisahorse114]

AMAZING video! Btw 13:53 reminded me of the fact that I'm like six seconds too slow to compete in 4x4 because of the cutoff, despite having cubed for 7 years and counting. The only thing that I think is currently wrong with the WCA's regulations is those cutoffs. 3x3's limit is ten minutes but 4x4's is 1:15?? It doesn't make any sense. I get that they can't just have some kid taking an hour on 4x4, but at least make it the same as 3x3. And it gets worse as the cubes get bigger; even Z3 can't beat the 7x7 cutoff yet. For years, I didn't want to even try to get fast enough in 4x4 to compete, since that cutoff seemed so far away. It's unfriendly to beginners. Big cube cutoffs should be raised to allow more competitors in those events. I think that a cutoff of 2 minutes on 4x4 would be reasonable, and maybe 4:30 on 5x5, but idk I haven't done a lot of speed 5x5 or above. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

[@SwagridCubing]

The cutoff is usually more generous for more popular events so that more people can compete. Otherwise 3x3 cutoff would probably be 45 or 60. The issue is that the bigger cubes like 5,6,7 and megaminx are often the culprits for comps running late, so they're actually where you need to be the strictest when running a comp. It's all logistics.

[@timeisahorse114]

@@SwagridCubing I see. It's still odd that 3x3 has a longer cutoff than big cubes, but I get why they have to keep things moving

[@LiamHighducheck]

The cubing rabbit hole goes so much deeper than most would think

[@arcanistm4984]

Perhaps Tingman was included in the list because of this community post: kzbin.infoUgkxmODrHejrW32rYxxY4IYmDj9bExM5XUlJ. However a one month break seems perfectly reasonable after an extremely long period of consistently uploading videos.

[@Skcubing]

This is SUCH a good video

[@osmanbadroodin123]

I have to say This was the first time I've seen your channel and the first vid I've watched of yours But you are definitely going to be one of the big youcubers Great video One of the best I've seen in a while

[@MajesticStriker113]

Btw that last guy was “Cube Razn” he does similar style videos to Beluga except it’s cubing related.

[@curiousNic]

That video was spot-on. I couldn't agree more with your points, cubing is more alive than ever. Especially love the part about changing your perspective, there is so much to discover and learn in the world of cubing.

[@TGSpeedcubing]

Great video! I can say that pretty much every cuber is excited about the future of cubing. I honestly don't know any cuber who isn't optimistic about the community's future.

[@alekscubing]

Holy shit, what a great video! I think that even without the WCA (not saying that WCA is a bad thing, it’s obviously amazing that we have volunteers who help to boost the community) cubing would still survive, although I feel like some changes just have to be made, like for example making two types of comps (casual and competitive) where competitive events like Worlds have a ao12 format instead of ao5 (maybe just for finals cuz worlds is a huge comp) and where big cube events use ao5 instead of mo3, and for the love of god, 3BLD has to be mo3 instead of bo3 (and maybe even ao5 for like world finals), I feel like that would give people more of a choice on how they want to compete instead of being forced to compete in regular formats, and that idea can be expanded beyond just that (like for example elimination on cube desk) although I’m still not sure about how I feel about events like Relays being added to the WCA cuz I just feel like these are more for fun then for a more competitive environment, but I definitely think that adding events little by little (like Redi cube) will only help grow the community.

[@alekscubing]

Wtf I actually just wrote an essay

[@cariyaputta]

Now send this to WCA.

[@lukiicube]

I enjoyed this video SOO MUCH, the best part was definitely the end montage, i actually got a little emotional a the end.

[@akashsreedharan]

that montage warmed my heart in a special way ❤❤❤

[@timecat1174]

you said every thought I had in this video lmao, and the ending montage made me a bit emotional idk why, but cubing is thriving more than ever and I feel like it's just starting, not even close to dying yet

[@lukiicube]

I thought i was the only one who got a bit emotional at the end lol 😂

[@DcubesOfficial]

This was amazing! great job! i thorughly agree with everything you said, especially the perspective. I haddn't cubed in a while and, as you said, i took a different perspective when I started to learn 7 simul for clock and now im practicing all sorts of events and its been amazing. And smaller youcubers (cubing with alex, JFcubing, k4cubing and more) have been making really good content and they could soon replace the bigger creators that have been around for longer and fill the gaps of content. Cubing will survive, we will survive!

[@seb_bock_cubing]

Last youcuber is cuberazn who makes skits but has been only posting roughly once a month compared to how he used to post somewhat daily so he’s kinda right on that one

[@JoshuaMaraisStuff]

cubing isn't dead because I will willingly watch a 17 minute video about this topic and be even more engaged then I would have been 2 years ago

[@jeffreys.hobbies]

Another banger video, keep up the great work

[@fantiscious]

UK's take is like that guy who says belt method is good

[@nascara5cupseriesa5cubing18]

That’s actually accurate

[@Speedcubenz]

Love this vid! Going to stream a reaction and probably a bit of a rant Tuesday morning New Zealand time 🙏

[@0Aquamelon]

JFC I was wearing earbuds and the beginning hurt my ears

[@Anthony_Jiang]

Keep in mind CubeHead was in the US right after the Matty collab

[@Catch20Cube]

thwe last person out of the seven was cube razn

[@DaBannyGaming]

average massive swagrid W

[@MegaxCubing]

When I wached that video a cuple days ago I was agreeing with most of that video (I am a type of person that agrees with a lot of things very fast even if they are not true) But thb your video about it is great. And it changed my feelings about that video. But still I want new wca event tho xd

[@trains-x5j]

CUBING WILL LIVE CUBING SHALL LIVE IT WILL NEVER DIE. (ok that’s not true but ye)

[@RubiKubiK313]

Cube razn was the last channel in case you were wondering

[@SamSpeedCubes]

I never really liked ukcuber as a youcuber, and this video was no exception, but I don't blame him for thinking this, when you quit something it can seem like everyone is quitting this, I thought the exact sae thing when I quit playing rocket league, because of the fact that I quit I stopped engaging in the online community, and as I saw less because I engaged less I thought that the game was dying, but when I actually checked the player base like 2 or 3 months later it was actually bigger than when I used to play

[@SamSpeedCubes]

also to add to the evidence that its not dying, I'm an organizer for competitions, and in pre pandemic and 2022 we had like 2-4 comps per year in our organization's area, and they weren't even guaranteed to fill, but last year we held I believe 12 competitions and this year we've already had one and have one planned in feb, 3 planned in march, one in april, ad one in may, and that's just what's planned, we have many more in the works, and they're all filling up within as little as 30 mins, and sometimes up to a couple weeks depending on the events and location, also each one of these comps are bigger than the ones before, cubing is far from dead, his research was really lazy in that video

[@otamota7563]

Hypercubing shoutout

[@ignDart]

fr

[@nivcubing]

2:31 thats tnl not soup timmy lol

[@yat_ii]

0:40 Since J-Perm is such a prominent cubing force for so many years, it's genuinely quite significant that he is moving away from cubing

[@SwagridCubing]

Also worth noting that J perm uploaded some days before UK Cubers video

[@gurnies]

last guy you couldnt find was cuberazn, and im so glad he stopped uploading

[@Dinos_storylol]

true lol

[@JoseLCG]

epic video

[@nascara5cupseriesa5cubing18]

UK Cubers points are wrong, and the main one is saying that cubing is about 1 upping back and forth like a yoyo. Its about socialisation

[@robomonk1717]

Kinda like that cubing news has uploaded every week for a while now and there's always a few NRs and CRs broken every week. If you don't think being the best in a country is a big deal, I don't think you're actually serious about results

[@aacubing982]

cuberazn was the last guy

[@papasmurfcubes2616]

Do people even care that much about hardware? That was the weirdest thing about that for me honestly.

[@SwagridCubing]

I thought the same. I buy like a cube a year maybe, I don't get it being the be all end all of cubing

[@kuroneko9270]

I think in any hobby community there are going to be gearheads who really enjoy collecting and using hardware. Nowadays it's hard to find a bad speedcube, but Moyu has definitely done something weird when they released many RS3 variants in the same year.

[@vinesthemonkey]

I do, but I like any mechanical thing

[@speeedycuber]

he ate

[@MicahTheis-1.02]

I am a decade and a half old Lol

[@randomcubestuff3426]

omg guys cubing is dead because i cant get wr anymore because chinese cubers are good at cubing

[@Kyoobiesss]

The irony of creating a dedicated edited video about the subject of cubing, to show that nobody is doing anything related to cubing, is definitely not lost on me lol

[@vinesthemonkey]

the moral of the story: if you make an opinion video don't pull stuff out of your ass