and the new WR is...

That was so cool to watch! Best reaction ever from Chris! Thanks so much for getting it on video!

I just got through talking to Chris on the phone. He said he really mostly didn't practice over the past few months. One thing he said was that he hadn't used that particular memory journey in 5 months or so, and as a result his memory was rock-solid. It looks like that can really help!

Also, he said this solve was 100% pure BH. So clearly BH is a pretty successful method. :)
 
Wow...
I'm only some 90 seconds better than that.
Without a blindfold...

That's more than a minute off of the old WR, cool.
Congratulations, and lets see a sub 4 soon :)
 
I have watched the 2:08-jump-for-timer about 10 times now :)

Extremely impressive to hit the pads so accurately!

And at 2:40 and afterwards that blindfolded is suddenly transformed into a..........headband :eek: Another Ville-double-identity?

Chris combined fast and accurate memo with small delays, fast turning and efficient solving. This is one of the most impressive WR's so far! I don't know if any record has ever been beaten by such a large margin (well, maybe 2x2x2 single and old multiblind)
 
Hi everybody,

Thanks for the kind comments. Arnaud, to answer your post I practiced the transition from solving with my hands under the music stand to stopping the timer with my eyes closed several times while they scrambled my cube. If you'll notice, last year I hit the music stand when I went to stop the timer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5RpaHsOmWo) at 6:36. I remembered this and didn't want to do it again this year.

As for the record, I want to be very clear to give credit to Ville and his amazing times. I think it is only a, probably short, matter of time before this record is broken by Ville or somebody else practicing big cubes BLD. Records are meant to be broken however, and I am at least glad to have held it again.

They tell me that memo took 2:22, so that means solving took 2:24. That memo is extremely fast for me, and I think this is mostly because I rested that particular memory journey since October - so about 5 months time of not using it. I felt the images were very easy to see during recall, and I only had a couple short delays. Many thanks to John Louis and J. Bernett at the 2007 World Championship for convincing me to do this with my competition journeys. I am indebted to them.

Again, much credit to Ville and Mike and the other big cube BLD'ers. In no way am I naive enough to think this record is here to stay, I know it will be broken. At such a point I would simply try my best to attempt to get it back

;-)

Chris
 
AvGalen said:
Extremely impressive to hit the pads so accurately!
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I thought the exact same thing once I saw he was almost done and how low his time was going to be. I was hoping he wouldn't spend too much time looking around for the timer even though he practiced beforehand. Luckily, he hit it right on.

Out of curiosity, what would happen if somebody accidentally hit the reset button? DNF, I guess?
 
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ajmorgan25 said:
AvGalen said:
Extremely impressive to hit the pads so accurately!
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I thought the exact same thing once I saw he was almost done and how low his time was going to be. I was hoping he wouldn't spend too much time looking around for the timer even though he practiced beforehand. Luckily, he hit it right on.

Out of curiosity, what would happen if somebody accidentally hit the reset button? DNF, I guess?
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I've done that before. It was a DNF.

anyway, amazing solve! I expected the next record to be from Ville!
 
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