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 ...
May 31, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 43
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 solv...
Apr 26, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Episode 41 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Sunday, March 7, 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: - Bananas, and the banana scale: https://spoonuniversity.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/149/2016/04/Bananas-759x419.jpg - Kit's idea for a BLD championship - ...
Mar 14, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 41
Episode 40 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Wednesday, February 10, 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: - Yunhao Lou 3.86 Clock WR average - Ice Cream Cakes - ALTERNATIVE TITLE GUESSING CONTEST: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdP7PkjtYwguE-b1c...
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Episode 39 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. ALTERNATIVE TITLE GUESSING CONTEST: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdP7PkjtYwguE-b1cAU_Vn8ToU-Rn3dtE8loJgyeCnXhd7Utg/formResponse Fun fact, you can hear Andrew's cat a few times in this episode. Recorded Monday, October 5, 2020 Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Or on SpeedSolving: https://www.speedsolving.com...
Oct 19, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Episode 38 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Monday, August 31, 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: - IS COLLIN BURNS IN THE TOP 100? (yes) - Kit's final score for Bad Prediction of the Day: 2/10 - Jabari redesigned algdb - speedcubedb.com - the new, be...
Sep 05, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Episode 37 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Wednesday, August 5 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: - Kit is really bad at math - Cakes - More Pyraminx NRs! This time in Norway. - AlgDB is Dead 🦀🦀🦀 - Hollywood weather and Google Search quiz - New SEE Even...
Aug 16, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Episode 36 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Thursday, July 23 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: - Using Axial Turn Metric to determine +2s with Slice Moves - Cakes (?) - Denmark's Competition: -- 1.21 Pyraminx NR - Rasmus Stub Detlefsen (longest standing D...
Aug 02, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Episode 35 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Monday, June 29, 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: - Is Tazzlyn's slower solving a benefit to streaming? - Everybody guessed the Bell - The Pockets Show! Every week on Friday from 4-6 Pacific at twitch.tv/Co...
Jul 02, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Episode 34 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded LIVE Wednesday, June 17 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: - Generating random state 7x7 scrambles - rolling the die multiple times - xyzzy: CSTimer FMC scramble filtering - Alpha cuber is awesome on SpeedSolving ...
Jun 18, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 34
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#p...
Jun 09, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 33
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...
Apr 18, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 32
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 Eve...
Apr 04, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 31
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 GAM...
Mar 24, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 30
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 🦀🦀...
Feb 08, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 29
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 Offi...
Jan 20, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 28
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 ...
Dec 06, 2019•59 min•Season 1Ep. 27
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 find...
Nov 16, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Episode 25 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Wednesday, October 16. Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics: - Congrats to Gundolf for actually guessing the last bell! - Max Park OH single (finally) - 49 point MBLD WR by Graham - The Awards Show: Send us your ideas! - Linus Frész's 24.00 FMC Mean - Andrew is off Facebook; but where can he find cubing ne...
Oct 25, 2019•59 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Episode 24 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Tuesday, October 1. Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics: - Baba is Cube - Last names that break statistics - FMC North America West 2019: Bad scrambles, or just being tired? - World Records: 4x4 by Sebastian Weyer again, 4x4 BLD by Stanley Chapel again - Kit guesses for whom the bell tolls - Groupifier - ...
Oct 08, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Episode 23 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Friday September 6. Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics: - Follow-up: You know, the thing we talked about last episode - Andrew forgot to bring his cubes to San Diego Summer 2019 - Scramble Signatures - Our strategies for FMC NA West - What should Kit's goal be in the prediction game? - Bad Martin Egdal o...
Sep 20, 2019•52 min
Episode 22 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Friday August 23. Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics: - Follow-up: Oreos - World Records: Max Park 7x7 single, Max Hilliard 3BLD single, Stanley Chapel 4BLD single/average, Juan Pablo multiple Megaminx averages, Daniel Rose-Levine Feet average, and a surprising 4x4 single from Sebastian Weyer - US Nation...
Sep 06, 2019•1 hr 10 min
Episode 21 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Tuesday July 23. Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics: - Andrew figured out why he doesn't like 4BLD and 5BLD - A whole bunch of world records from the World Championship and beyond! - Kit is 1/2 on bad predictions - New 3BLD formats - What is the ideal venue for a large competition? - Martin Egdal of the ...
Jul 27, 2019•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 21
Episode 20 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Wednesday June 19. Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics: - Kit makes a prediction - The weird and wonderful world of Fewest Moves world records, and FMC 2019 - A very strange incident - 3x3 Tier List - Kit's bad prediction of the day: No 4BLD or 5BLD mean WRs before the end of the year, and neither Max nor...
Jul 03, 2019•1 hr
Episode 19 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Monday June 3 . Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Ask us for advice! Email Layerbylayerpodcast@gmail.com Topics: - Email your advice questions - WRs: Jake klassen 3BLD 19.79, Jackey Zheng Squan 4.95, Siggins MBLD 50/52, Max Hilliard 3BLD 18.28 - Podcast apps/Spotify/Luminary - Discussion of several (possibly u...
Jun 17, 2019•1 hr 11 min
Episode 18 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Wednesday May 8, 2019. Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics: - BIG WR CHECK IN: -- Tymon pyra, as predicted -- Feliks! 5.69! -- Yunhau Lou 4.43 clock average -- Reto Bubendorf FMC mean -- Mark’s 19 -- Stanley Chapel 4bld: 1:10 -- Tijmen Van Der Ree - 4.98 squan - BigBLD means - FMC with erasable pens - Jay...
May 11, 2019•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 18
Episode 17 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 3, 2019. Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics: - Revisiting the cubing Battle Royale, with GAN 356i or other virtualized cubes - Clock Single WR: 3.29 by Suen Ming Chi - The Shared Judging System - WE WANT MORE STICKERLESS SHADES - The Nod Don - MEOTD: Sleep? - Reg of the Day: 1e...
Apr 12, 2019•51 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Episode 16 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Tuesday, March 19, 2019. Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics: - World Record Check-In: Stanley Chapel 5BLD WR! - The Stackmat Conspiracy - Online competitions and sketchy results - Tetris 99 - Can we make a cubing battle royale? - Worlds 2019 - the FMC Prisoner's Dilemma, and superrationality Vsauce2 vide...
Mar 29, 2019•1 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Episode 15 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Saturday, February 16, 2019. Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics: - Follow-up: there is no Follow-up - Should the WCA create more incentives to record your solves? - Similar to Layer by Layer... - Andrew's magical GTS3 fix - The FMC Database - Skeletype, Andrew's FMC tool: https://youtu.be/bVY31jW16do - M...
Mar 01, 2019•53 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Episode 14 of Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast, the show (ostensibly) about Rubik's Cubes, speedcubing, and only occasionally/often about other things. Recorded Tuesday, January 29, 2019. Discuss the show on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/layerbylayer Topics: - The bell - RECORD CHECK-IN: 17 FMC single - Predictions: will 17 be tied before all other WRs are broken? - Re-thinking Worlds - Why was Nats so late? - What are comps like on the west coast? Are results predictable? - Podcon! - How to keep...
Feb 08, 2019•1 hr 38 min
