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Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video]

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etiennebausson · 1790230765 · focus · HN ↗
I'm a bit curious about the rationale behind splitting the category by gender for rubik's cube. Is there a difference in dexterity to justify it?
Sound about as useful as splitting rubik's cube champion by weight class.
Video looks impressive, though the resources poured into that training seems excessive to me. Maybe I'm too poor and don't understand how rich people raise their kids?
1. patrec · 1790242154 · focus · HN ↗
  Can you name any fields from the top of your head that have a) objective scoring b) no gender split rankings b) women in the top 10, consistently?
  1. jstanley · 1790243141 · focus · HN ↗
    This was not from the top of my head but:
    * Equestrian endurance racing: <a href="https://www.fei.org/endurance/rankings" rel="nofollow">https://www.fei.org/endurance/rankings
    * Long-distance sled-dog racing: <a href="https://iditarod.com/race/2023/" rel="nofollow">https://iditarod.com/race/2023/
    * NHRA drag racing: <a href="https://www.nhra.com/news/2023/final-2023-camping-world-drag-racing-series-top-10-standings" rel="nofollow">https://www.nhra.com/news/2023/final-2023-camping-world-drag...
    * Crossword solving: <a href="https://crosswordtournament.com/2018/index.htm" rel="nofollow">https://crosswordtournament.com/2018/index.htm
    * Dog agility: <a href="https://www.agilitynow.eu/results/agility-world-championship-2024/" rel="nofollow">https://www.agilitynow.eu/results/agility-world-championship...
    I read that the reason so many fields appear to be male-dominated is just that men have wider variance on almost anything you can measure, so outliers on any metric are more likely to be men.
    etiennebausson · 1790282528 · focus · HN ↗
    I would argue that sled dog racing at least is heavily impacted by the participant weight, but fair enough.

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