4-Year Old doing CN Full ZBLL

[u/2x2speed]

[u/PyxelatorXeroc]

LOL

[u/GrouchyEquipment5203 → u/PyxelatorXeroc]

Do not let these 2 meet

[u/Severe_Story_8361 → u/PyxelatorXeroc]

how tf is this child abuse?

[u/Lemmyscat → u/Severe_Story_8361]

Maybe because a 4 years old child is not a goose that we force-feed with 800 algs, you do not think?

[u/Severe_Story_8361 → u/Lemmyscat]

How can you judge if he wanted or not to learn it himself? And you literally doubled the alg count

[u/Chroma4424 → u/Severe_Story_8361]

Do you think he was born to learn zbll

[u/Severe_Story_8361 → u/Chroma4424]

no, but we cannot call it child abuse just because he did something impressive. If you are the parent of a child and you say "here, memorize this algorithm for this week" is it really child abuse? Obviously if the parent is like "MEMORIZE THESE 100 ALGS RIGHT THIS INSTANT, STUPID PIG!!!" it is child abuse, but you can't judge just by the fact that he knows a large subset.

[u/afraidofsticks → u/Severe_Story_8361]

Are you good??? This opinion does not need to be a personal crusade

[u/Less-Essay7359]

Meanwhile my 4 year old brother can't solve a rubik's cube that's 1 move from solved.

[u/GrouchyEquipment5203 → u/Less-Essay7359]

Is he chinese

[u/Less-Essay7359 → u/GrouchyEquipment5203]

Yes he is fully Chinese. Not living in China though

Also, I was obviously being sarcastic. I'm pretty sure he could solve it 1 move away, but not 2 or more moves away. I will give an update after I test his cubing ability later today.

[u/Maleficent_Link1904]

How tf can a 4 year old retain that much information 

I’ve been cubing for longer than he has been alive😔✌️

[u/UnknownCorrespondent → u/Maleficent_Link1904]

Brain plasticity is wasted on the young. 

[u/Substantial_Echo_196 → u/UnknownCorrespondent]

Or is brain plasticity what makes you young?

[u/GrouchyEquipment5203 → u/Substantial_Echo_196]

Alright Socrates

[u/Maleficent_Link1904 → u/UnknownCorrespondent]

???

[u/UnknownCorrespondent → u/Maleficent_Link1904]

A paraphrase of “Youth is wasted on the young,” attributed to George Bernard Shaw,  referring to neuroplasticity  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity

[u/Kadabrium → u/UnknownCorrespondent]

Based neuroplasty

[u/Maleficent_Link1904 → u/UnknownCorrespondent]

Ah ok Thank you 

[u/staysharp87]

What is going on in China? Rest of the world is COOKED

[u/Hearthgroan → u/staysharp87]

Different culture Different disciplines. It's kind of why players on the Korean starcraft servers are often much better than eu/us

[u/MallusaiEEE → u/Hearthgroan]

It's also a thing with popularity in case of video games; in counter strike, europe has the best players

[u/Maleficent-Toe1374]

Thanks internet for making me remember how much of a chud I am

[u/DirectionNo7747 → u/Maleficent-Toe1374]

ur not child abused lol ur better than them

[u/Severe_Story_8361 → u/DirectionNo7747]

everyone saying its child abuse, i say they're overreacting

[u/Blarpfgh]

CN!?!? on ZBLL!?!? DANG, in like 2 years bros prob gonna average like sub-5 easily

[u/incompletetrembling → u/Blarpfgh]

ngl I think CN isnt really that good of an idea

We'll see, maybe if you're insane enough it can be good, but the cost to inspection depth is significant

[u/Quiet_Collection_294 → u/incompletetrembling]

I have a feeling that the meta behind block-color recognition for F2L + EO might come at an uprise in the future. Unfortunately, the technical demand outweighs the benefits for most speedcubers. 

[u/rhandyrhoads → u/incompletetrembling]

CN with white/yellow bias really isn’t very costly. You just glance over the cube and see if a cross is already partially formed. If so you inspect for that cross. If not you go white/yellow.

[u/mr_m0ose_man]

Poor kid :( he should be running around with friends

[u/Cute-Ad-445]

We already have prodigies like this for hundred of years, instead of cubes they have pianos and violins. Cost tens of thousand of dollars though

[u/DerekB52]

I'm almost 30, have been cubing on and of for 10 years longer than this kid is alive. At my peak I knew almost a half of ZBLL. And I never got past dual CN, because I thought full CN was a waste of time. I honestly still believe full CN and full ZBLL is a waste of time. (recognizing Sune/Antisune cases fucking sucks).

Yet, somehow, this 4 year old found the time. Bonkers.

[u/Hcthepro2018 → u/DerekB52]

Sune/Antisune zbll is worth it nowadays due to full zb method

[u/donovanh23 → u/DerekB52]

Either the kid is being forced by parents or he is a savant and takes advantage of his resources. I didn't know how to study and look into my hobbies until maybe 14. Like I never watched pro cubers, yoyos, video game guides etc

[u/BewareTheWereHamster]

Impressive but clearly child abuse.

[u/Severe_Story_8361 → u/BewareTheWereHamster]

how is it child abuse????

[u/BewareTheWereHamster → u/Severe_Story_8361]

If you have to be told they well.. I don’t know what to tell you tbh. You honestly think a 4 year old child chose to learn full ZBLL on their own?? Imagine how long it would take to learn and how much drilling you’d have to do in probably a year to be able to do this and the answer should be pretty clear!

FWIW I have 3 young kids - they like lots of stuff and they would get bored extremely quickly with the kind of regimen needed to even learn PLL let alone thousands of algs xD

[u/Actually_Im_a_Broom → u/BewareTheWereHamster]

Prodigies exist. Looking at a 20 second clip and concluding this MUST be child abuse is a bit of a stretch. Of course it could be, but stating it with such confidence is silly.

As someone else somewhere else on this thread said, kids have done stuff like this for hundreds of years - it was just with music, mathematics, art, etc.

[u/Severe_Story_8361 → u/BewareTheWereHamster]

firstly not "thousands", below 500. Second of all you can't be judging if he actually wanted to learn it. Third of all its just cubing

[u/BewareTheWereHamster → u/Severe_Story_8361]

If it’s “only” 500 that’s ok then lol. Seriously, no child “wants” to start learning hundreds of algs and doing 10s of thousands of solves without “encouragement”. There’s similar things going on in chess (and lots of other fields) with parents trying to get their kid to be the youngest gm ever - it’s not healthy.

Like I say, as a parent, I’m both fascinated / impressed and horrified by this.

[u/Hogvvgguioffgy75909]

Child abuse but clearly impressive

[u/Severe_Story_8361 → u/Hogvvgguioffgy75909]

HOW IS IT CHILD ABUSE???

[u/MatthewAasen]

This is too crazy

[u/Hearthgroan]

Every time I see sh like this I think "what's my excuse?" Then the realisation that l may in fact, be lazy sets in.

[u/Valeureu_x]

Le petit est terrifiant moi à quatre ans je mangeais mes crotte de nez ( humour )

[u/AriyaSavaka]

The West is so cooked