Ollie
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The only person I've seen launch anything close to legitimate hate was adimare, but that's just sort of how he rolls, so I wouldn't take it personally. Ollie might've used a 4-to-8-letter word at the outset, but that was also just an expression of skepticism. Kit, Mike, myself, and others just want to be convinced... like the saying goes: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. You have made an extraordinary claim which, if true, is amazing. But so far, nothing you've shown and none of your explanations have satisfied the perfectly reasonable doubts we have. For instance, my question above hasn't been answered, because your explanation still lacks sense in the context of your method. I'm sorry if that's hurting your feelings. I know what it's like to be really proud of something only to have others shrug it off as nothing. But like Ollie said, we are an extremely skeptical community. If you had been around these forums a while longer, none of this would've been a surprise to you. This sort of thing happens at least once a year. You're just the lucky winner, is all.
While using a naughty word, I continued with the best intentions. But this post below just stood out for me and I'm done being courteous, as this reeks of /r/iamverysmart:
Look: I find your feats of BLD to be incredible, take lots and lots of work, and I admire you greatly for them, but they are not impossible. In the 80s, do you think people thought that 7BLD was possible? No! A 7x7x7 cube couldn't even exist back then! You are completely basing your arguments off of sheer doubt. I will tell you I am in MENSA if that helps legitimize my potential "amazingness," whatever that means. The human mind is capable of incredible things. Bad attention is not fame, I would rather be an outlier in the community than a hated one, which is what I have become. To be honest, I didn't think anyone would really care or take notice, certainly not to the level it has happened. I can play chess/go blindfolded and so I wanted to apply that to cubing.
Even playing chess and go blindfolded isn't comparable here. You've likely played thousands of games of each, and you will have better than average pattern recognition, planning ability and ability to think strategically.
You'll be able to play blindfolded because the starts of games are fairly standard at higher levels, with common defences and amounts of variance that allow you play blindfolded. I know first hand from losing to my old boss, a South African champion and is a beast at blitz chess. He thrashed me while he was blindfolded and proceeded to tell me virtually every move I made, but still not perfectly. Here's where I stick my neck out again.
I think that you think that you can apply that same logic to cubing and pass off being able to solve a cube blindfolded. Doing thousands of layer-by-layer solves doesn't qualify you to be able to do it blindfolded in such a way that you can simply remember the colours and have a perfect mental representation when you proceed to solve. As Mike said, this is beyond the realms of normal people, and unless you are an actual savant, which would be a huge claim, then I don't believe you.
I don't want to re-hash the criticisms we have laid out here around the strange solutions and convenient camera issues because I feel like you haven't addressed any of them. But I think you practiced the solution beforehand, and the unnecessary moves and rotations in your solution are a mask.
Edit: Made response slightly less rude.
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