Re:Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [vi...
by 1659447091 on Thursday September 24, 2026 @10:19AM
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> a) objective scoring b) no gender split rankings b) women in the top 10, consistently?
Why are changing the criteria?
Here are a list of race results you can look through.[0]
Look at the longest distance & time races such as the multi day one and females are "in the top 10, consistently", in overall results.
And thats with currently only about 20% of ultra endurance runners are female -- but growing. Apparently the science has female physiology as potentially superior for the longer distances (>195 miles) and studies[1] show that they are faster in amateur pace per mile at the greater distances
Why are changing the criteria?
Here are a list of race results you can look through.[0]
Look at the longest distance & time races such as the multi day one and females are "in the top 10, consistently", in overall results.
And thats with currently only about 20% of ultra endurance runners are female -- but growing. Apparently the science has female physiology as potentially superior for the longer distances (>195 miles) and studies[1] show that they are faster in amateur pace per mile at the greater distances
[0] https://ultrarunning.com/calendar/race-results
[1] https://runrepeat.com/state-of-ultra-running