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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 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

- Hollywood, Maryland of the day: Socks the Cat

- 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 🦀🦀🦀

- Unofficial events and restructuring the WCA

- Speedcubing Extra Events (SEE)

- What can Andrew do with a 3D printer for cubing?

- Bad cubing memes

- A GREAT cubing meme

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