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{{Short description|Competitive sport}}
[[Image:10baseT cable.jpeg|right|thumb|125px|A [[Category 5 cable|Category 5 Ethernet cable]].]]

'''Speedcabling''' is a competitive [[sport]]. [[Steven Schkolne]] devised the sport, which originated in the United States. In the standard rules, competitors are challenged to separate a mass of either six or twelve tangled [[Category 5 cable|Cat 5 Ethernet cables]] in the fastest possible time. Either two or four each of red 7-foot, blue 14-foot, and yellow 21-foot cables are tangled. According to the regulations, the cables are tangled by forming a figure-eight and placing them in a [[clothes dryer]] on high heat for three minutes. They are then allowed to cool.<ref name="regulations">[http://schkolne.com/speedcabling/rules.html Speedcabling regulations]</ref> Schkolne says this allows them to achieve a "natural" entanglement.<ref name="bbc"/>

==First competition==
The first speedcabling competition took place at the ''[[Machine Project]]'' art gallery in [[Los Angeles, California]], which local web developer Matty Howell won. His prize was a $50 gift certificate for dinner at an Italian restaurant.<ref name="bbc">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7240939.stm |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=2008-02-12 |access-date=2008-02-12 |title=Close to the wire - the joys of speedcabling}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.speedcabling.org Concept creator's web site]
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/jodilynn/tags/speedcabling/ Flickr page with photos of competition held at the ''Machine Project'']

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