Layer By Layer

Layer By Layer

This is Layer by Layer: a Cubing Podcast (ostensibly) about cubing and Rubik's Cubes. Hosted by Kit Clement, a WCA delegate, Twitch streamer (kitstopher), and quiet-event specialist; and Andrew Nathenson, a Youtuber (ColorfulPockets), competition organizer, ZZ-user, and FMC specialist. Kit and Andrew talk about cube news, organizing competitions, and really whatever they're into at the moment. You can discuss the show at https://www.reddit.com/r/layerbylayer/ Happy Cubing!

Episodes

May 30, 2023 75 mins

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 w...

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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-podc...
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March 13, 2021 59 mins

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...

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March 1, 2021 66 mins

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 Cak...

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October 18, 2020 65 mins

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 

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September 5, 2020 49 mins

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 ...

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August 16, 2020 64 mins

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.

- Alg...

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August 2, 2020 73 mins

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 Mov...

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July 2, 2020 69 mins

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

- ...

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June 18, 2020 69 mins
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: CSTime...
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June 9, 2020 66 mins

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://ww...

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April 18, 2020 69 mins

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

- Sho...

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April 4, 2020 67 mins
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...
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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 un...

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February 8, 2020 75 mins

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...

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January 20, 2020 76 mins

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:
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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 I...

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December 6, 2019 59 mins

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 2...

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November 15, 2019 68 mins

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 Zemd...

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October 25, 2019 58 mins

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: Se...

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October 8, 2019 66 mins

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 ...

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