Rubik's Cube BLD 47.22s WR, Haiyan Zhuang, Beijing Metropolis Open 2009

[byu]

He beat Nakajima's video from at home! And by .09 seconds, too.

How is Nakaji even involved in all this? It's a BLD record for goodness sake.

This time is just incredible, seriously.

How so? It's not even a second better than the previous WR, and Ville's done better averages at home.

I'm not dissing Haiyan here, I'm just surprised that people are surprised that he got the WR

I also don't see what's so impressive about this. Haiyan did a good job, and obviously is very talented, but Ville's going to steal the WR away at Vaasa for sure, by at least 5 seconds. (Note that I'm not as good of a blind predictor as Mike is)

It's obviously impressive. Of the thousands of BLD solves ever done in competition, this is the fastest. Ever. Even if Ville beats his record by 20 seconds the next time he competes, it doesn't make this not impressive. The man deserves a lot of credit, don't rob him of that.

I am not attempting to rob him of credit. I am simply saying that Ville has done so much better that if Ville had gone to more competitions, he would have the WR lower than this. Sorry if my previous post was rude.

[shelley]

Of the thousands of BLD solves ever done in competition, this is the fastest. Ever.

Actually, he has done two faster. Unfortunately, they were in the speedsolve round so they didn't count as the BLD WR.

[joey]

HaiYan has done times much lower than this too, if he had been to more comps etc etc etc..
Just keep quiet now byu.

[byu]

HaiYan has done times much lower than this too, if he had been to more comps etc etc etc..
Just keep quiet now byu.

All right. I'm sorry. I didn't realize that my post was rude or anything. I was just stating my opinion.

[Kian]

Of the thousands of BLD solves ever done in competition, this is the fastest. Ever.

Actually, he has done two faster. Unfortunately, they were in the speedsolve round so they didn't count as the BLD WR.

haha, fair enough. even more impressive, then.

[Swordsman Kirby]

How so? It's not even a second better than the previous WR, and Ville's done better averages at home.

So has Haiyan. He almost had a sub-40 average of 12 if he didn't have his 2nd DNF on the 12th solve.

[spdcbr]

I like seeing peoples reactions when they take off their blind fold and see the solved cube and yell: "yeah!" By the way cts2906, you only have 4 posts?

[Lord Voldemort]

Of the thousands of BLD solves ever done in competition, this is the fastest. Ever.

Actually, he has done two faster. Unfortunately, they were in the speedsolve round so they didn't count as the BLD WR.

He does BLD in normal speedsolve as well?

[Mike Hughey]

He does BLD in normal speedsolve as well?

Look at his times. It's pretty obvious just looking at them. And yes, people who were there have confirmed that's what he does. His best solve done BLD in competition is 44.61, so he's beaten this by almost 3 seconds in competition. But like Shelley says, it doesn't count.

[Lord Voldemort]

Wow! That's cool.
This motivates me to get a successful BLD attempt by the end of the week.
Sadly, I've been posting in the blindfold failures thread a bit too much for my liking.