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1:00:18.83 Gigaminx! I was hoping for sub-hour, but I had a weird pop that took me 5 minutes to fix. The screw on one of the sides must have been super loose, because the spring shot the screw into the center cap! Not only did the center cap come off, but the screw also shot out of the puzzle! That was one of the strangest pops I've ever had!
I'm glad to say simply that I can solve the thing!
Ah, but... can you do it blindfolded?![]()
Wow! Um... why?!?! ;-)
Haha, in all seriousness, accounting for the "average" number of solved pieces at the scramble I could memorize a gigaminx using about 110 images or 37 journey locations. This would be roughly equivalent to doing a multi with three 5x5x5's and two 3x3x3's for me.
So to answer your question, I suppose I would be capable of solving it BLD, but why?!? ;-)
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Whoa big error in reasoning above! I was assuming I could use my base-24 memo method on a base-60 gigaminx, which wouldn't do so well haha. In that case, I would need a memo method were I would encode the face and the location on the face for each piece, so instead of each image representing two pieces, each image would represent one piece. This would effectively double the number of images I would use. I that case to memorize a gigaminx I would need 220 images or around 73-74 locations. Let's say 75 in case some orbits don't have a lot of solved pieces. For me this would be equivalent to a multi attempt of six 5x5x5 cubes and probably one or two 3x3x3's thrown in too!
Chris
Yeah, that's about what it would be for me, too - same number of images. So not too different from the 2-7 relay I tried a month ago. But of course, the catch is:
a. how hard the gigaminx is to turn;
b. the fact that the crazy encoding method makes it a lot harder to execute
That all adds up to it taking me a lot longer to do a megaminx-type puzzle than it does to do do a cubic puzzle. Here's how I figure it in terms of time:
It takes me about 2 minutes to do a 3x3x3.
It takes me about 15 minutes to do a 5x5x5.
It takes me about 45 minutes to do a megaminx.
If megaminx:gigaminx as 3x3x3:5x5x5, it would take 5 1/2 hours to do a gigaminx.
But since the gigaminx is so hard to turn, I'd say double it to 11 hours.
So the upshot is, I'll not be trying gigaminx BLD anytime soon. But if I ever got one that turned as amazingly as a V-cube 5, I might change my mind pretty quickly - 5 1/2 hours probably wouldn't stop me.
ObAccomplishment: 32:14 gigaminx solve last night. Still not quite sub-30 yet - maybe next solve.