I am a senior in high school at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
(NCSSM) and early on in my junior year I started a club at school for
teaching people how to solve the rubik's cube. In the middle of the year the
club did not meet very much due to packed schedules for all the members and
myself included. At the very end of the year I held a competition for speed
solving the rubik's cube for anyone who wanted to attend. I held the
competition on the weekend of final exams so there was not a very large
turnout due to a lot of people studying for exams the next day. However,
these competitions are a tradition that I want to keep up well into next
year. On this page I will post all of the competition results in a format
similar to the Unofficial World Records Page. Here you can find out who the
fastest people are at my school for last school year and soon to come this
coming school year. I also invite you to follow the NCSSM link above and find
out more about this school. It is not a typical high school at all. NCSSM is
a residential public high school (there is no tuition to attend) which
selects applicants from various high schools from around the state of North
Carolina. Appromixately 250 juniors and 250 seniors attend this school (there
are no freshmen or sophmore classes) which focuses on accelerated studies in
science and mathematics as well as in humanities. There are also a wide
variety of electives in the art and music department as well. It is an
excellent school, one that I'm glad to attend.
I plan on doing a lot more with this page this coming school
year after I have hosted a few more competitions. So here it is, the first
official NCSSM Rubik's Cube competition results.
The rules of the competition were that each person was given
three chances to solve the cube and the fastest time of the three counted as
that person's time. Once everyone had a fastest time these times were
compared to see who was the fastest. I recently added Aaron Silverman to this
list 6-10-01 because it came to my attention that he did record a time at the
contest, however at the time I was unaware of it. In order to be fair I have
added his name to the main event.
Main Event - May 2001
Place
Time
Name
1
1 minute 2.85 seconds
Ryan Spielvogel (c/o
2002)
2
1 minute 9.91 seconds
Trent Wood (c/o
2001)
3
1 minute 40 seconds
Aaron Silverman (c/o
2002)
4
1 minute 45.50 seconds
Abby Shoun (c/o
2001)
I did not compete in the main event as I wanted to even out
the results and give others a chance to take the first place slot. Below is a
table of all of the trials taken by the competitors.
Trial
Ryan Spielvogel
Abby Shoun
Trent Wood
1
1:12.72
2:27.03
1:09.91
2
1:02.85
1:45.50
1:17.72
3
2:04.57
2:29.72
2:02.25
Bonus Round (4-way head to head)
The following round was done just for fun after the main
event. In this event we all competed head to head in a 4-way race. Here are
the results from this round.
Bonus Round (4-way head to head)
Place
Time
Name
1
19.85 seconds
Chris Hardwick (c/o
2002)
2
1 minute 9.24 seconds
Ryan Spielvogel (c/o
2002)
3
1 minute 25.02 seconds
Trent Wood (c/o
2001)
4
2 minutes 1.50 seconds
Abby Shoun (c/o
2001)
Lastly here are some departing quotes from each
competitor
Trent Wood:
Jesse Helms is my hero... I have no chance to survive
make Chris's time.