Stay ConnectedThis is Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast (ostensibly) about cubing and Rubik’s Cubes. Hosted by Kit Clement, a WCA delegate, Twitch streamer (kitstopher), and quiet-event specialist; and Andrew Nathenson, a Youtuber (ColorfulPockets), competition organizer, ZZ-user, and FMC specialist.
Kit and Andrew talk about cube news, organizing competitions, and really whatever they’re into at the moment.
You can discuss the show at https://www.reddit.com/r/layerbylayer/
Happy Cubing!
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 .
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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