Where to order 1000 cubes and more?

I can just see this guy in a gym with 2 other guys... HUGE piles of rubiks cubes lying around... it would be madness.

And the people who memorize PI to such extremes don't necessarily have to memorize the whole thing, they are savants who have the capabilities to calculate it. Check out brainman, cool movies. But then again, I'm sure they do memorize it. I think I'm going to look more into that right now.
 
No, none of the top few Pi memorizers calculated it. I've seen interviews, for the most part they just enjoy memorizing numbers, so they sit and do 50 or 100 or 200 every day for years...

Anyway, I think most savants are actually very limited in their amazing calculating abilities, that is, they are VERY amazing at something, but only one thing. So I don't think it would be likely for that one thing to be pi, you couldn't just intuitively know the way to calculate pi in the same way that you could know (say) how to calculate if a number is prime, or how to multiply big numbers together. So it's not the bunch of superhuman brains that you might think :)
 
darkzelkova said:
I can just see this guy in a gym with 2 other guys... HUGE piles of rubiks cubes lying around... it would be madness.

And the people who memorize PI to such extremes don't necessarily have to memorize the whole thing, they are savants who have the capabilities to calculate it. Check out brainman, cool movies. But then again, I'm sure they do memorize it. I think I'm going to look more into that right now.
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Well, Kim Peek would certainly excel at such a task, but as Mr. Pochmann said, ignorant post of the year candidate indeed.
 
StefanPochmann said:
Dene said:
Kim Peek would certainly excel at such a task
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How do you know? Did he ever do anything like this?
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In a documentary (can be found on youtube) his father states (without shown evidence, although I'm sure trained scientists have verified it) that when reading a book he would read one page (with one eye >.<) in about 15-20 seconds, and would remember 98% of it. Check out the documentary, it'd be a fun hour for you. (when you have time to kill).

From this, I would assume that memory tasks would be in his kind of area of expertise. I could be wrong.
 
I did watch that (or at least one) documentary about him. I think his dad said eight seconds for two pages. And in the background you see Kim staring at a book the whole 23 seconds of the scene, never turning a page. Impressive. The 98% was probably measured by asking questions about it afterwards. If you give me a book about Rubik's Cube I might be able to do that as well. In other words, previous knowledge helps. Plus he only needs to remember the general content, not the exact sequence of words and punctuation. So this is not at all like precisely memorizing a random sequence of digits. And there are speedreading competitions where people actually really do this, and if he were able to do what he claims, he'd blow the competition away, but interestingly he never participates there. In the documentary I saw, he also answered questions from audience members, I checked one answer and it was wrong and nobody cared! I've seen this in other similar documentaries as well. They let these people get away with mistakes, pretending they were correct.

Please show me where he participated in any kind of serious memory competition or anything remotely equivalent. I don't care about anecdotes about fuzzy achievements.
 
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Well you have to be reasonable, the guy might have a good memory, but he also has a mental disorder. While he is ok a lot of the time, at other times he kind of flips out. An organized competition might not be the most suitable atmosphere.
I'm not trying to defend him, but I understand a bit about mental disorders so I take a more "sympathetic" stance (I don't like to use that word because it implies actually caring.)
Regardless, there is strong evidence that he can memorize book pages and lists of words (in the documenttary) very well, and it seems unlikely that this was practised through any sort of actual training. That is impressive (but comes at an unfortunate cost).
 
Awww... the poor boy. Enjoys being the celebrity and getting the attention but never eager to really prove himself. Could turn out bad, I guess.

But yeah, that's why I said "any kind of serious memory competition or anything remotely equivalent". So... anything?
 
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I read all this tread and don't understand your calculation about the amout of images to memorise. I need 8-12 images to memorize a cube (2 stickers per image). May be 10 is a fair average. Don't you? So, 10 000 images for 1000 cubes. There are also the locations that should be in the long term memory, so the preparation for that attempt should take years. Anyway, there are no way that I believe it.
 
10,000 images would be a good estimate for me, using my system. And yeah, I'd use 1000 rooms. But there's no reason why the rooms would necessarily have to be in long-term memory; I've created them on the fly before. The trick would be coming up with a way to create rooms on the fly such that you could remember the order of them somehow. The key to doing this would be to have some ordered list 1 to 1000 that you already have memorized that you could use to keep the rooms straight. That wouldn't necessarily be impossible.

It's a crazy idea, but not necessarily impossible.

So guys, is there any room in that gym for me to join you with my attempt?
 
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