Statistics Ideas for analysis of the WCA database.

By Lucas Garron
(with some ideas from Michael Gottlieb)
Original list April 4, 2008
Revised 20090611

Continental competition records
most people in a round
people with 2x2x2 > 3x3x3
People with most events without 3x3x3?
Ratios
All 13.37 results
Other fun stuff, like results with al the same digit (2:22.22)
Round results (1:00.00)
All 1:02.27 results
most common result (time)
Most common even-second (xxx.00) time
Person with most xx:xx.00 times
Rounds/people with All DNF or DNS
People who got worse at 3x3x3 every comp
people who have finished a 5x5 but not a 4x4
Ratio of avg / single
improved every comp / round
Improvement streaks (comps/orunds)
Slowest for each event
DNF streak
Most DNF before success
Most NRs
Add single + OH + BLD ranks
3x3 BLD + 4x4 BLD + 5x5 BLD + multibld
Longest name
Shortest name
Highest % of consonants in a name
Most number of accented letters in name
Never been in home country/continent comp
All countries by # of competitors
Longest-standing NRs
1st place in an event at first comp
Most 1st places in first comp
Longest time no-sub-20
Most comps no-sub-20
Biggest normalized SD
Most consistent avg (SD, best-worst best-worst counting)
Lowest events / comps attended
Most comps for only 3x3x3 speed
Only Magic
nxnxn, but not 3x3x3
WR in all events done
WR events / events done
WRs / events done
most comps without 1st place (3x3x3 & all)
Most last place finishes
Number of 1sts in rounds but not finals
Largest ratio of former WR set to current OPB
Longest time between consecutive WRs
Most WRs (sets) per country
Most WR's set IN a country
WRs / comps, for competitiors and countries
Sum of all ranks
Closest margins for a new WR
Longest time from a competitor of a nationality to a comp in that country.
Total multi BLD ratio
ratio of number of cubes solved during multibld event to number of cubes solved during 3x3BLD event
The closest anyone has come to a WR but not gotten it
Most solves / attemps in an entire comp
Most solves / attempts ever
Most 3x3x3 solves ever
Most solves in 3x3x3 events ever
Most competitions without final round
Most rounds competed in
Longest time competing before getting a WR
 You take the states of a puzzles to the number of solve in the event, then multiply all
Total time at a Stackmat? (sum of ALL times)
Fastest average average per result
Fastest average of EVERY result
Most non-BLD DNFs
mean5 computed for every average (WR means, etc.)
WR worst-of-an-avg
WR best counting time in an avg (WR nth of an avg)
density plot of comp dates
Ratio: highest competitions attended / time between first and last comp (at least 3 comps)
Most WC titles
Person with WRs set in most countries
Person with WRs set in most comps
BLD mean(3)