Ways to Cube??

anything else u guys?i recorded the guitar hero drums(it was hard),i'll record one-hand,mittens,trampoline, tomorrow.(anything else that "I" could do)btw im only 14 so i cant do any of the driving stuff.
 
I haven't read this whole thread so someone might have posted this already but:

while juggling.

Saw a youtube video of a guy juggling with 3 cubes, each time cube A landed in his hand, he did one turn on it, and juggled it again. After a few minutes cube A was solved. :P
 
ChromisElda said:
I haven't read this whole thread so someone might have posted this already but:

while juggling.

Saw a youtube video of a guy juggling with 3 cubes, each time cube A landed in his hand, he did one turn on it, and juggled it again. After a few minutes cube A was solved. :P
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Fake.

Do a Hughey. If you know what I mean ;)

Edit: Papa Hughey, to be specific :)
 
blah said:
ChromisElda said:
I haven't read this whole thread so someone might have posted this already but:

while juggling.

Saw a youtube video of a guy juggling with 3 cubes, each time cube A landed in his hand, he did one turn on it, and juggled it again. After a few minutes cube A was solved. :P
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Fake.
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I'm pretty positive this isn't a fake (Stefan posted it recently; I've posted it before that):
http://uk.video.yahoo.com/watch/1264862/4437082

It's not 3 cubes - it's 2 balls and a cube - but I suspect he could do 3 cubes if he really wanted to. It must have taken a lot of work for him to get good enough to do this; I highly respect his accomplishment!
 
It looks like its filmed in reverse. If you look carefully at the big arking ball throws you can see that the catches involve a lot of motion, but the throws use a pretty short swing in comparison. It looks as if the thrown balls are almost magically propelled from his palm.

Plus: What method does he use? I only counted about 50 face turns, anyone seen him in FMC? :p
 
Cride5 said:
It looks like its filmed in reverse. If you look carefully at the big arking ball throws you can see that the catches involve a lot of motion, but the throws use a pretty short swing in comparison. It looks as if the thrown balls are almost magically propelled from his palm.

Plus: What method does he use? I only counted about 50 face turns, anyone seen him in FMC? :p
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I can't see the video, but 50 is a normal number for an optimized solve. 50 is NOT an FMC-solve
 
Cride5 said:
It looks like its filmed in reverse. If you look carefully at the big arking ball throws you can see that the catches involve a lot of motion, but the throws use a pretty short swing in comparison. It looks as if the thrown balls are almost magically propelled from his palm.

Plus: What method does he use? I only counted about 50 face turns, anyone seen him in FMC? :p
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The throws look very normal to me. Also, there is another video out there of pieces of him performing this for an audience (unfortunately, they're not complete solves), and he's doing a patter part of the time while solving, so you can tell it's not in reverse. And the throws look basically the same. It really totally doesn't look like it's reversed to me. I would be shocked if it is reversed.

Also, it's hard to tell when he just grabs the cube and doesn't make a turn (there are clearly some times when he does that), but I count a lot more than 50 turns - probably more like 70. If it's 70 turns, that's a perfectly normal (even somewhat bad) Fridrich solve.

If this is fake, I admit I've been taken in. It looks totally real to me. And considering I can juggle 2 balls while solving a cube BLD behind my back, I consider myself to have a somewhat informed opinion. :)
 
OK, I've changed my mind :o It looks like he's using some kind of LBL method with OLL/PLL at the end. At time -0:36 you can see him doing his inspection for PLL, with a completely oriented white LL.

Apologies for my scepticism, but it really is quite an amazing feat! I'm certainly no stranger to juggling (can do 4-balls, mills mess etc). I had a wee go at scrambling the cube in a regular cascade, and just keeping the cube correctly oriented is a monster challenge, never mind inspecting it!!!

Much respect Bret Wengeler :cool:
 
PatrickJameson said:
3x3 BLD while driving.
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Me too. I didn't want to admit it. I usually memo at stop lights, before I get onto the main highway. On the highway, I don't do any sequences if any cars are nearby or if the road is going to curve, or any similar possibility of danger. Some evenings I memo just before dusk and solve while it's dark. The distraction is similar to talking on a cell phone or listening to the radio -- you need to pause and give absolute attention to the road at times. Obviously, speed BLD is not the goal, just slow and careful.

I gave up regular solving (and one hand solving, which I am bad at) because it requires taking your eyes off the road several times. At least with BLD, you can do the memo only when it is safe, perhaps even before driving, then solve while your eyes are completely on the road. (That's the way I rationalize it anyway.)
 
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