Layer By Layer

Episode 43 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 26, 2023 Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Or on SpeedSolving: https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/the-layer-by-layer-podcast.76921/ Topics:  - Cakes - Bananas - "BLD Championship" (AKA Wingspan) - "I forget what Kit called it, someone let me know on Reddit because I can't be bothered to find it in the episode" (AKA Res Arcana) - "FMC USA 2018" and "FMC USA 2019" (AKA Splendor and Seven Wonders Duel) - The new Disc Golf WCA event - Reg of the Day: Guideline 2i1c+: Electronic Hand Warmers

Episode 42 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things.  This episode we were joined by Feliks Zemdegs and Jay McNeill for a head-to-head gameshow competition. Recorded Saturday, March 13, 2021 Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Or on SpeedSolving: https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/the-layer-by-layer-podcast.76921/ Topics: IT'S ALL A GAME SHOW! Games: Name that famous solve based on an audio clip Guess the time based on an audio clip Guess the timing of an event in a video Categories Personal Trivia

Episode 41 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Sunday, March 7, 2021 Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Or on SpeedSolving: https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/the-layer-by-layer-podcast.76921/ Topics: - Bananas, and the banana scale: https://spoonuniversity.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/149/2016/04/Bananas-759x419.jpg - Kit's idea for a BLD championship - New Speedstacks timer design! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qq7wUyZZNA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h08w5bVAPyU - Reg of the Day: 7f1a - Andrew's first forum post: https://forum.worldcubeassociation.org/t/and-or-consistency-with-7f1a/12834?u=andrew_nathenson

Episode 40 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Wednesday, February 10, 2021 Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Or on SpeedSolving: https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/the-layer-by-layer-podcast.76921/ Topics: - Yunhao Lou 3.86 Clock WR average - Ice Cream Cakes - ALTERNATIVE TITLE GUESSING CONTEST: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdP7PkjtYwguE-b1cAU_Vn8ToU-Rn3dtE8loJgyeCnXhd7Utg/formResponse - Some Unofficial MultiBLD results - Graham and Rowe 60 point attempts, Graham's huge 200 cube attempt - Graham: 62/64 in 59:17 and 189/200, Rowe: 60/60 in 59:53 - There’s a difference between unsolvable cubes and “wrong color scheme” cubes_art: https://www.instagram.com/cubes_art/?hl=en Pic with all opposite colors: https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ9V0tSpkQ6/ - Is Worlds' 30 second registration cutoff too strict? - New SEE Events: Kit: Among Us Cubing: 10 points; Oops all U Moves: Average of 5: 1.04 1. 0.91 R' R' R2 R R2 R' R2 R R' R2 R R R' R R' R2 R R2 R R R' R' R' R' R2 (solved) 2. (0.73) R2 R' R R' R2 R R' R2 R R R R R2 R' R R2 R2 R2 R' R R2 R2 R R R (solved) 3. 1.24 R2 R2 R2 R R' R' R' R2 R R' R R R R R R2 R' R R' R2 R2 R R2 R R2 (U2) 4. (3.19) R2 R' R R R' R' R2 R2 R2 R R2 R R' R R' R R' R R2 R' R R R' R' R2 (U2) 5. 0.98 R R' R R' R2 R2 R R' R2 R' R2 R' R' R2 R' R R2 R2 R' R2 R' R R R R (U') Andrew: Among Us Cubing: idk like 8?; Oops all U Moves: Average of 5: 0.80 1. (1.22) R' R2 R' R R' R R R' R R2 R' R2 R R2 R' R' R' R' R R2 R2 R2 R2 R R (solved) 2. 1.11 R2 R R' R2 R R2 R' R2 R2 R2 R' R' R' R R R2 R2 R' R' R' R R R2 R2 R' 3. 0.86 R' R2 R' R' R2 R R R' R R R R' R2 R R R2 R' R' R2 R2 R R2 R' R2 R2 4. (0.34) R' R R' R' R2 R R R R R R R2 R R2 R2 R R R' R2 R2 R R R' R R' 5. 0.43 R' R' R R' R2 R2 R' R R R R' R2 R' R2 R2 R2 R R2 R' R2 R R' R2 R2 R'

Episode 39 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. ALTERNATIVE TITLE GUESSING CONTEST: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdP7PkjtYwguE-b1cAU_Vn8ToU-Rn3dtE8loJgyeCnXhd7Utg/formResponse Fun fact, you can hear Andrew's cat a few times in this episode. Recorded Monday, October 5, 2020 Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Or on SpeedSolving: https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/the-layer-by-layer-podcast.76921/ Topics: - Martin Egdal of the Day! 4.59 Square-1 World Record Single! - Cakes - The Alternative Title Guessing Contest - fill out this form and see how you do! - "That's Not ZZ, Though" - When is it okay to go outside the parameters of the method? - Red Bull Competitions, and their terrible country picker. - New SEE Events: From last episode: Mirror Solves: - Kit: 1:25 average of 5 - Andrew: 1:06.24 Average of 5 Unreal Man Challenge: Andrew: 7:58. 86 [https://bit.ly/35cuO8r], 3:26.83[https://bit.ly/3ke6eu4], DNF, DNF, DNF Kit: (DNF(1:40.82)) U B2 U' R2 B2 R2 B2 U L2 D2 U' B R' D L' F U R' F D2 L2 2. 6:03.91[https://bit.ly/3kaL1ky] D2 R2 B2 L' D2 F2 D2 U2 R' F2 U2 R D' L2 F R2 U B L2 D2 U 3. 6:04.78[https://bit.ly/3jcnDls] U' R U' L2 D R2 U B2 D R2 D' R2 U B2 R' B' L B2 F' D' R 4. 5:32.20[https://bit.ly/3j9dTbN] L2 D B L U2 D' F B2 D' B2 R2 L2 U' F2 U R2 D2 F' U' L 5. (4:35.20[https://bit.ly/3lPDHeO]) L2 D2 R2 D2 F2 D2 B' R2 B L2 U2 L2 D' R B2 D U R B' U' L2 New Events: Andrew - Oops, All U Moves Kit - Sneaky Among Us Cubing

Episode 38 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Monday, August 31, 2020. Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Or on SpeedSolving: https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/the-layer-by-layer-podcast.76921/ Topics: - IS COLLIN BURNS IN THE TOP 100? (yes) - Kit's final score for Bad Prediction of the Day: 2/10 - Jabari redesigned algdb - speedcubedb.com - the new, better AlgDb? - Cakes - Is 4x4 parity rigged? - Rubik's Connect cube - Cube Mafia, on Twitch and in Real Life - End segment that we totally do every time, and not just because we forgot to do new SEE events this episode: Is a Pop-Tart a Ravioli?

Episode 36 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Thursday, July 23 Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Or on SpeedSolving: https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/the-layer-by-layer-podcast.76921/ Topics: - Using Axial Turn Metric to determine +2s with Slice Moves - Cakes (?) - Denmark's Competition: -- 1.21 Pyraminx NR - Rasmus Stub Detlefsen (longest standing Danish NR) -- Martin got jinx'd -- Two identical pyraminx scrambles in a row: https://rb.gy/qzrqcf - Kit's Cubing Math Corner: Megaminx Scrambles! Are they representative of random state? - Hollywood, Maryland of the Day: Weather, Hotel Prices, Flights - New SEE Events: -- Andrew does GoCube BLD: avg of 5: 24.311: 29.124, (44.731), 22.456, 21.353, (19.520) -- Kit does GoCube Tutorial Speedrun: 7:14 - Kit's World Record: youtube.com/watch?v=uk448nrg-dw - New Events: Kit - $50 3-cube relay - 51.46 ao5 - Andrew - Mirrored GoCube: https://pockets.cubing.net/MirrorCube/

Episode 35 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 29, 2020 Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Or on SpeedSolving: https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/the-layer-by-layer-podcast.76921/ Topics: - Is Tazzlyn's slower solving a benefit to streaming? - Everybody guessed the Bell - The Pockets Show! Every week on Friday from 4-6 Pacific at twitch.tv/ColorfulPockets - Productivity links from Kevin: https://fortelabs.co/blog/one-touch-to-inbox-zero/ https://fortelabs.co/blog/para/ https://fortelabs.co/blog/the-one-touch-guide-to-doing-a-weekly-review/ - Cakes (??) - Kit's Math Corner: Fibonacci and 3x3 Random Move Scrambles - To what extent is learning algs worth it? - If we had modern hardware many years ago, would a slice turn be a +2? - Hollywood, Maryland of the Day: How Hollywood got its name - New SEE Events: Andrew does 3x3 With Face: 1:20.61 average of 5 Andrew: GoCube App Tutorial Speedrunning (7:12.87) Kit: GoCube BLD (24.71 ao5)

Episode 34 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded LIVE Wednesday, June 17 Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Or on SpeedSolving: https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/the-layer-by-layer-podcast.76921/ Topics: - Generating random state 7x7 scrambles - rolling the die multiple times - xyzzy: CSTimer FMC scramble filtering - Alpha cuber is awesome on SpeedSolving guessed the bell! - cakes (???) - Andrew and Kit doing streaming - Kit's Math/Cubing Corner: Teaching how to solve a cube intuitively in NCTM journal - Hollywood, Maryland of the Day: Volunteer Fire Department - New SEE Events: Further discussion of Fewest Pockets         - Best fewest pockets solve on example scramble: 10/46 by xyzzy and 10/49 by bartogian         - Kit's attempt: https://rb.gy/riulkb         - Updated Rules: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XjVJxknuwi5HYPCpDak4fxuV0_XTR5f7jwdLhKdL7CI/edit         - Andrew's Bash script: https://github.com/ColorfulPockets/FewestRolls/blob/master/fewestRolls.sh

Episode 33 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Friday, June 5, 2020. Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer or on Speedsolving: https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/the-layer-by-layer-podcast.76921/ Topics: - Final Fantasy, emulation, etc. - layerbylayer.reddit.com - xyzzy's comment: https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/the-layer-by-layer-podcast.76921/page-2#post-1372092 - 5x5 Random State - Using 3BLD scrambles for everything - Online Competitions: Cubing @ Home, Twisty Puzzle Cup, The Monkey League - 15 Puzzle Parity by Numberphile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI1WqYKHi78 - Kit does Blindfolded 3x3x3: 41.35 average of 5 - Andrew does 3x3x3 with Mask: 15.13 single - New SEE Events: 3x3x3 with Face, and currently-unnamed-but-pretty-cool-event: For those of you who want to try out Andrew's event, here is an example scramble, rules, and rolls: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19YuG1BmWpYQn_2NCsJRE34FZ9rVp_Ign0QN3yByd1Hw/edit?usp=sharing

Episode 32 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded LIVE Friday, April 10, 2020. Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics: - The Wandering Tuttminx Meme: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cubers/comments/fw0j21/when_listening_to_layerbylayer_last_night/ - Cubing at Home - Andrew Reveals the Bell - Shoutout to Hollywood, Maryland - Andrew invented a new OH M2 fingertrick - Delegate fistfights - Thought experiment: what if 3x3 scramble generators could only generate half of all states, but It’s an arbitrary half - Megaminx is alg-resistant - Livestream Q/A - SEE Events of the Day: 3x3 with Mask, and Blindfolded 3x3

LBL LIVESTREAM: FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 3 PM PST - we forgot to say the date in the episode itself. Episode 31 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Friday, March 27 Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics: - Magic: The Gathering update - Topppits' Great Comment - Dobeye's Flow Chart: https://i.redd.it/4txrtk5504p41.png - Cubing At Home competitions - New SEE Events - the challenge Results: Andrew w/o oven mitts: 59.79; Kit: 2:15.77

Episode 30 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Friday, March 6, 2020 Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer The video for this episode: Coming soon on ColorfulPockets! Topics: - Special Guests Mark Boyanowski and Graham Siggins! - Follow-up: Why the Reddit link thing happened - Why people underestimate how large gaps are at the upper end of MBLD skill - THE GAME OF FOUR - The first WCA shirt - "Corner Twist Kid" is back! And doing well! - Outdated thoughts about Coronavirus - Sitting at competition stations - People don't understand what parity is - Cubeography is not a thing - Karate Chop Stops Scores: - Mark: 9/30, + 17 Bells = -1 points - Graham: 25/41, + 21 Bells = 30 points

Episode 29 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Monday, February 3, 2020 Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics: TRY THESE LINKS! - http://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer/posts/?=3 - https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/posts/tf2_trading_guide/?=3 - World Records: Max Park 5x5, 6x6, 7x7; Cale Schoon Fewest Moves - Graham Siggins' dedication - Feet is Gone

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?

Episode 13 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Discuss the episode on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/layerbylayer/ Recorded Wednesday January 9, 2019 Topics: - Follow-up: Cameras aren’t as cheap as we thought - Optimizing methods for good singles/one-off averages - What current WR will stand the longest? - YouTube premiers - Ephemeral events - Martin Egdal of the day: SOR! - Reg(s) of the day 10f4: https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#10f4

Episode 12 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Discuss the episode on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/layerbylayer/ Recorded Monday December 23, 2018 Topics: - Dodgecubing happened! And we have the rules. - Cameras might not be as expensive as we thought - So you're an old dude and you want to go to a comp? - The Fewest Moves Deal or No Deal! - Martin Egdal of the Day: Worst NR - Reg of the Day: 12g2 https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#12g2

Episode 11 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Discuss the episode on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/layerbylayer/ Recorded Tuesday December 11, 2018. Topics: - Multi scoring - Dodgecubing - 3x3 world record: should the WCA record solves? Security cam footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB3ut65SFUU - Max Hilliard 16.55 3BLD WR - XC3E skeletons - Martin Egdal of the day: 7x7 - Reg of the day: 9b https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#9b

Episode 10 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Discuss the episode on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/layerbylayer/ Recorded Monday November 19, 2018. Topics: - Dodgecubing Update - Computer Vision for scramble verification https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaW1dmqRE0o - Andrew is a BLD accuracy god - The crazy FMC World Record weekend - Force Cube Hell (trying to make force galaxy megaminxes) https://www.reddit.com/r/Cubers/comments/9ufb7f/i_hesitated_about_it_but_heres_my_first_video_be/e95cvou/ - There are three Rouxers in the top 7 OH solvers (or 1 in the top 2, or 2 in the top 5) - Martin Egdal is an unstoppable nemesis - Reg of the Day: 9f12c https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#9f12c

Episode 9 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Discuss the episode on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/layerbylayer/ Recorded October 24, 2018. Topics: - Biking Accident - Film (like, actual film) sucks - Starting a non-WCA league with the intention of merging with the WCA if it’s popular and the WCA wants to - We review WCAT applicants: Here's an imgur album with all of the applicants: https://imgur.com/a/7Wgrxv5 - 5 people 5 FMC scrambles The best FMC analogy - When should competitions be announced? Subtopic: Is the new distance policy a bad thing? - FIRST! - Reg of the day: 4b3 https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#4b3 The incident: https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/incidents/28?fbclid=IwAR2Sr1O07nznLjg9HDFwS5aRgg0iBbPfMI0QRXjVMhL6RJ0chh4FNs6USxA

Episode 8 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Discuss the episode on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/layerbylayer/ Recorded September 28, 2018 Topics: - Andrew pulled a Kit - Walker’s journey - Kit’s classes - Everything you need to know about ZZ and ZZ-CT - Should the WCA add another puzzle? Is there a better system? - The snack registration fee (FMC-A Atlanta) - Reddit pros and cons - Reg of the day https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#3d1b

Episode 7 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Discuss the episode on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/layerbylayer/ Recorded September 18, 2018. Topics: - Weird Sleep Schedules and traveling - Kinch improvement: Linear Transformation of all Kinch scores - Tillamook - Andrew forgot about his competition, but did well at FMC - Kit remembered his competition, and did kinda bad at everything but still won - An improvement to multiBLD techniques - Podcasts we listen to: Dear Hank and John: https://www.patreon.com/dearhankandjohn The Pitch: https://www.gimletmedia.com/the-pitch Beautiful Anonymous: https://bit.ly/2vZbSsW Hello Internet: www.hellointernet.fm Relay.fm: https://www.relay.fm/ The Glass Cannon Podcast: https://glasscannonpodcast.com/ 99% Invisible: https://99percentinvisible.org/ Hardcore History: https://bit.ly/2DaN1UD - Team events: How to make them engaging and unique Relays, TeamBLD, Rob's Challenge, Wild card: dodgecube - Reg of the day: 1c10 https://bit.ly/2ObYYlL

Episode 6 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Discuss the episode on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/layerbylayer/ Topics: - Tillamook - Andrew’s new podcast, Brain to Board https://overcast.fm/itunes1430844944/brain-to-board - Pranking Walker - MBLD Basket Case - Follow-up on MBLD N/N situation - KINCH KINCH KINCH (and other ranking systems) https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/misc/sum_of_ranks/ http://wcadb.net/kinchranks.php - GTS3 Ridges: Gimmick or Useful (or other??) - GAN 354 discussion - Kit's color scheme - Reg(s?) of the Day! 12c4 and 10f4 https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#12c4 https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#10f4

Episode 5 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things Discuss the episode on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/layerbylayer/ Topics: - Taking pictures of a cat - 3D printing for cubing - Andrew’s method, camp classes - RIDDLES WITH ANDREW! - Max Siauw vs. Kevin Hays: a correction - Is Kit’s GiiKER cube defective? (Follow-up) - We totally predicted Max Hilliard’s WR - DRL feedback (or should we say, feet-back) - FMC H1a-like reg - Max Park OH, official misscrambles - Reg of the Day: https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#4g - WRs: Juan Pablo Huanqui mega, Shivam MBLD - Basket case for MBLD - Types of learners - Most efficient way to practice 3BLD

Episode 4 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded LIVE at CubingUSA Nationals 2018! Discuss the episode on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/layerbylayer/ Topics: - World Records, Megaminx OcR in the lunch room - Andrew's World Best with Mark: Rob's Challenge FMC - Andrew's possessed stopwatch - Why wasn't there a snack room at Nats?? - Who is the best cuber without a Wikipedia page? - Reg of the day: Crazy regs from 2006 https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/history/files/regulations2006.html - How would someone organize a competition if they've never seen or been to a competition? - Multiple World Records in the Same Day - You mean you're not on the football team?

Episode 3 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Discuss the episode on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/layerbylayer/ Topics: -Vidcon -Japan -Western Champs - GiiKER Cube - Andrew racing Alex Davani to silver membership - Shadow M - Is Kit's GiiKER cube defective??!?!? - Alberquerque - almost learned how to spell it (it’s Albuquerque) - Double Jeopardy - discouraging videos isn’t the issue? - PB vs PR - Rise of cubing on Twitch twitch.tv/kitstopher -Reg of the day A1a2+++++ https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/guidelines.html#A1a2+++++

Episode 2 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Discuss the episode on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/layerbylayer/ Topics: - Oregon State Favorites recap - Go Cube / Giiker Cube Go Cube: https://goo.gl/1mw6ZE Giiker Cube: https://goo.gl/XnWGD2 - World Records: Kevin Hays 7x7 Single: https://goo.gl/ovQZm8 Daniel Rose-Levine Feet Average: https://goo.gl/YS7iLo Jeff Park 3x3 Blindfolded Single: https://goo.gl/WdXXB5 - Regulation of the Day: A5b https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#A5b - Video Evidence used to retroactively apply penalties Max Park's 6x6 WR mean (DNFed): https://goo.gl/Fp7KZZ - Andrew's beginner's method: Hexagonal Francisco B https://goo.gl/WBS3CG

Episode 1 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Discuss the episode on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/layerbylayer/ Topics: - Using a different method for OH vs 2H https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCfLsh5vDt0 - Andrew gets a lot of LL skips with ZZ - Low attendance at CubingUSA Regional Championships - Regulation of the Day: H1a https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#H1a