Do others here have problems with interference when reusing locations after you exhaust all your locations and have to start over?
I really don't have much trouble as long as it's more than 24 hours. Actually I should change my category in the poll now; I grabbed a 4x4x4 today and did a couple of solves, and I didn't want to use any of my regular rooms, so I made a new one this morning on the spot in about 2 minutes based on the room I was in (putting me up to 159 locations). And I got an 8:56 and a 10:20 using the same room twice back-to-back; I had a little interference on the second one, but it wasn't too bad, maybe partially because it was a brand-new room so there was only the one other solve ever in there.
But if I wait more than 24 hours, it's very rare that I ever have trouble with interference from previous memorizations. Maybe my "gift" at BLD solving, such as it is, is that I can forget more easily than some other people.
But seriously, I think maybe it's that my memorization isn't usually quite as vivid as most people's. There's a video out there (I don't have time to search for it now; maybe I'll go back and add it later to this post when I have time to search) of Ben Pridmore describing his thought process as he's memorizing a pack of cards. He puts 3 images together into a picture at each location. The pictures are a little bit vivid, but not nearly as much as what you and Daniel often talk about in your memorizations. Ben's "pictures" seem very much like mine, the way he describes them. I'm thinking that finding the right balance between too vivid and not vivid enough is the secret to being able to recall quickly, but being able to forget quickly after the solve. I suspect I lean on the side of not vivid enough; Chris, you seem to be on the too vivid side; I guess we'll both have to admit that Ben seems to have found the perfect balance in between.
I challenge you to beat that at nationals. If I happen to win the couple of 7x7s I expect to, I will let you keep every 7x7 you solve in a 7x7 multi attempt
Dude Mike, that's awesome! You should totally take Dan up on that offer!
Wow, that's tempting. Dan, I would really love to take you up on that. The only problem is logistics, unfortunately. If we wait until you win those 7x7x7s, that means Sunday night, and we're having to leave the apartment we're staying in on Sunday morning. I was planning on heading out of town that night, so we'd have to get a hotel room in town that night so I could do it. I'm just not sure we can afford it.
Not to mention that a 7 hour attempt (which is probably what it would take for 4 7x7x7s, which I assume is what you mean - I hope you didn't mean more than that - I can't remember how many you own) sounds rather exhausting at the end of Nationals.
