4.88 World Record Square-1 Average | Dylan Baumbach

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(4.48) 4.82 (deleted 5.21) (7.90) 4.84 4.97

I started developing OBL Prediction (OBLP) during a snow week in college in January 2023, knowing that it could just be the leg up I need to make me a real WR contender. I soon started posting crazy unofficial averages on my alt channel with huge amounts of overinspection, with neither I nor anyone else knowing if it would ever be a viable method in competition. Nevertheless, I continued to practice it. However, it would not be until a full year and 34 rounds later in February 2024 that I got my first PR average with it: 5.26. A long, agonizing year had passed by, wasting round after round and feeling my doubt in the method increasing each time; but finally, I had something to show for it.

This average marked a turning point in my competition performance: the era of ‘almost’. Two rounds later I got my first ever sub-WR best possible average (BPA), 4.60. But the thing that killed this average was actually OBLP; I mispredicted OBL on the crucial last solve and missed a super easy solution that I could have gotten world record on even if I had just not tried to predict it at all. This was a crushing moment, especially because I knew that opportunities like that would not come very often.

But over the next 15 rounds, I got not one more chance, not two, but six more chances at the world record, and missed it every time. I tried to focus on just getting sub-6 averages and not world record averages, but nevertheless it hurt a bit more each round. With other top solvers starting to learn and use OBLP officially, I knew I was running out of time to ever get any kind of record; I couldn’t keep almost doing it. I had already stumbled through a year and a half with no records to show for my hard work, and it started to feel like the most I would ever get is my collection of BPAs and championship titles.

But finally, I didn’t almost do it, I did it. Even if it’s only by three hundredths of a second, I could not be more happy with this average; after seeming to lose all composure on the fourth solve and possibly losing my sub-5 average from the misscramble, I clutched out a sub-5 on a terrible CS/OBL, and with a cubeshape that I just learned how to predict OBL from two weeks ago. I really had to push myself in inspection on that last solve, and this time it paid off.

Here’s a list of every time I had a sub-WR best possible average (BPA):

02/17/24: 5.54 average with 4.60 BPA
04/28/24: 5.04 average with 4.45 BPA
06/09/24: 5.24 average with 4.91 BPA
06/09/24: 5.63 average with 4.73 BPA
06/09/24: 5.18 average with 4.34 BPA
07/18/24: 5.01 average with 4.71 BPA
07/19/24: 5.10 average with 4.72 BPA

Honorable mentions include my double DNF out of 5.85 average in April 2022 and my 4.92 BPA on 1/15/24.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me and followed my Square-1 journey up until this point for the past several years. Thanks to my parents and to all my friends and peers who have given me a reason to keep going after many failures. And thanks to Hassan for not Keatoning me.

Reconstructions courtesy of @BlueAcidball:

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Treasure this moment Dylan. You pushed through years of improvement and close calls and that all led up to this average. I’m so honored to have witnessed your progress over the past few years, I remember when you got the very first sub 7 3 look average back in 2021, and I was so happy that 3 look had finally been proven to be officially viable. And now you’ve proven that 2 look is the future. You’ve pushed square-1 to its absolute limit, and that is the essence of speedcubing. In 2016 I genuinely believed that one day 2 look would be possible, and what an amazing sight to see it finally realized with a WR. You are the GOAT dujak, the whole squan community is so proud of you ❤️❤️❤️

Ok enough glazing learn WS- 8 slicers they’re not that hard

DerpyCuber
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After seeing so many of your sub-WR BPAs, I'm so happy to see you clutch the Square-1 WR average now! Most deserved record ever

carykh
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this average has solidified you as the greatest squaner of all time. unbelievably proud

xgriesser
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LETS GO I KNEW THIS WAS GONNA HAPPEN
Great job Dylan you really deserved this

shreyanshtiwari
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So happy I could be there to see this in person! From watching your WR potential at the time of 5.02 until now, this has been a long time coming. I fully expect more records from you in the future. Can’t wait to see how low squan average can go with 2-look!

hassankhanani
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Absolutely incredible! This moment will be remembered for years!!!

EliteCubingAlliance
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probobly the most deserved squan record yet.
Congrats broo

viktornedeljkovic
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Watching you grow from your first competition in 2019 has been honorable, and thus, the journey is not even close to the end. You are destined for greater achievements in this event and I along with everyone is so proud of you Dylan. Congratulations❤️

josiejorubric
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Absolutely insane clutch and nerve control :O I’m so proud of you Dylan! Can’t wait to see you continue to push the limits of sq1 even further :D!!!!

andrewt
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i knew you could do it. oblp has and will change square one so much and honestly since you are the only one THIS consistent at it, i really know more wrs will come from you. good luck on more wrs

catcuber
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LFGGG DYLAN been rooting for you since you’ve started using oblp and it’s amazing to see you finally get WR congrats!

cspisfake
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I’ve only known you for a year or so, but that entire time i knew that every average you went up for was genuinely world record potential and im so impressed you finally pulled it off, good fucking shit man!

pasha
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This has been coming to you for years, I can’t express how happy I am that you were finally able to pull it off. Incredible work.

David-Speedcuber
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The passion, determination, and perseverance behind this wr is unmatched. Huge congrats; may you get more glorious wrs!

andersonhong
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Reminds me of Tymon’s 4.86, so clutched!!!

ThatCubeKidd
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Nice world record very well deserved.
I was there and saw it in person

Cubing
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Massive congratulations Dylan! I can't think of a more deserved World Record.

matthewbidwell
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It was only a matter of time. Congrats Dylan!!

icubeslow
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I'M SO PROUD OF YOU DYLAN!! Congrats!! 🥳🤍

caitlynkhuu
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the extra solve has to be one of the clutchest solves in cubing history, huge congrats! i'm sure you'll lower this even more soon :)



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