A couple puzzles that I would add would be the Gear Cube, a c4u 3x3x4, and a Professor Pryaminx. How about you guys ?

I think the Gear-Cube could be done in 2 steps with a single look each, corners and then all other pieces. It would really be a dexterity challenge much like the Rubik's Magic rather than a solving challenge.

The C4Y 3x3x4 would make a nice puzzle but the Professor's Pyraminx is too expensive a puzzle to be widely popular. Also, I doubt Uwe has the stock to meet demand and when demand goes up the amazing quality of the puzzle will probably have to go down as more molds are made to produce more.

I think the Dayan Gem II or III could make good competition puzzles.

Skewb makes sense.

Domino.

Oskar's 17x17x17. Imagine the massive hands needed for finger tricking, which would have to be evolved in order to break the 1 hour solve barrier! They would have to look something like this:

3x3x2 and 15 puzzle. and I think "3x3x3 with feet" should be removed.

Yeah, that's just it. To add something, something else has to be taken away. What can be taken away???

Skewb & Gear Cube should be the most possible competition field I think.

Golden Cube (of course!).

Probably many of you did not organized a middle size competition.
I think now there are more than enough events there.
First I would delete some events like
7x7x7 (too long to scramble, and enough big cube are there in the competition),
6x6x6 (too long to scramble, and enough big cube are there in the competition),
SQ-1 (too complicated to scramble),
Megamix (too complicated and long time to scramble),
Clock (there is no original item in the market just KOs),
Magics (too simple and too fast solution => many same result),

But of course I would add some other events like
Domino with original dots (it is long time in the market, and you can bought it now as well)
Rubik's 15 (not an easy puzzle)
Rubik's Race (exiting 2 player game)
Hungarian Rings or Babylon tower (because I would love to see a puzzle with balls in the competitions, and the HR is very easy to scramble the same)

What do you think?

Forgot to wrote, but I think the same. It is too long, and not enough "FUN" event.

I would love to see either the curvy copter or helicopter cube both with and without jumbling.

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3x3x4 and Skewb are absolute must haves for competitions, I think they're perfect challenges. Pyraminx Crystal would also be a good one. Perhaps even FTOs.

Remove Pyraminx and add Skewb instead.

Master Skewb instead of FTO.

Rubik's Magic - completely pointless in competitions, if you ask me, as there's no real puzzle to solve, once you've memorized the 7 moves or so to go from start to finish. It's nothing more than a flick of the wrist.

I would replace it with a "surprise puzzle" - a wierd and random puzzle which changes with each competition, and is revealed only on the day. A bit like how a different sporting event is introduced at each Olympics...

But then the competition would have to supply that puzzle, and potentially more than one hundred people could want to compete in it. I think that would be an awfully expensive event every time.

So let the manufacturers provide a few samples for each competition - it wouldn't cost them too much and would be a great way of cheap marketing/publicity, and getting more people to try it and then perhaps buy it for themselves. Win-win for everyone!

Skewb and 3x3x2. Those are two really simple puzzles that would make for great solving.

The fact that the Skewb has never been an official competition puzzle blows my mind.

I agree with you, I think Skewb and 3x3x2 (or 3x3x4) must be in competition.

I really like this idea !

Also, i was thinking of making an event in which we have to work in team. I thought of that because I noticed that in many sports there are events in team, so what about doing the same for puzzles ?
Maybe solving one 3x3x3 with two hands of two different persons, or doing a relay...


PS : i never participated in any competition, so these are just ideas of a lonely cuber at home

There are team blindfold solves, where one competitor is blindfolded and the other tells what moves to do.

don't remove pyraminx!! pyraminx is awesome.