Magic prediction with the Rubik's Cube! How?

[Owen]

Maybe he's just really really really constant.

 

[ben1996123]

He's actually Dialga and he's manipulating time.

 

[Zarxrax]

I think there's no trickery and that he really did it, the only "secret" being that he didn't show us all the unsuccessful attempts.

He spends 20 seconds just showing the clock and opening the web browser before the scramble + writing down the time. Doing that before every solve until he got a streak of two would be too time consuming.

And to everyone who thinks there is no trick to it, try to stop the timer yourself, two times in a row at a specific time to realise how unlikely that is.

Not only that, he's solving a cube in the meantime and he would probably need to throw away one paper each time he did not succeed.

I'm surprised that people actually thinks he did this by chance.

Yea, I was trying to stop it even ONCE at a specific time, and I couldn't get it within 20 tries (though i was off by a hundredth of a second a few times). And that was while I had my mind 100% focused on getting the timer perfect. If the guy is sitting there solving a cube, there is just no way he could do it twice in a row.

 

[Rune]

He is very anxious to get white in top and green in front; apparantly he has the scrambles on the left of the screen , executed many, many times. With a crappy timer, who knows after a some trials?

 

[Muesli]

He is very anxious to get white in top and green in front; apparantly he has the scrambles on the left of the screen , executed many, many times. With a crappy timer, who knows after a some trials?

I hope you realised that white top/green facing is the default orientation for scrambling the cube?

 

[ben1996123]

He is very anxious to get white in top and green in front; apparantly he has the scrambles on the left of the screen , executed many, many times. With a crappy timer, who knows after a some trials?

I hope you realised that white top/green facing is the default orientation for scrambling the cube?

I never do white top green front, well, only when the cube is already oriented like that.

 

[Diniz]

4d) Cube puzzles must be scrambled with the white (or the lightest colour by default) face on top and green (or the darkest adjacent face by default) on the front.

 

[Rune]

He is very anxious to get white in top and green in front; apparantly he has the scrambles on the left of the screen , executed many, many times. With a crappy timer, who knows after a some trials?

I hope you realised that white top/green facing is the default orientation for scrambling the cube?

Yes?

 

[Mike Hughey]

He is very anxious to get white in top and green in front; apparantly he has the scrambles on the left of the screen , executed many, many times. With a crappy timer, who knows after a some trials?

I hope you realised that white top/green facing is the default orientation for scrambling the cube?

I never do white top green front, well, only when the cube is already oriented like that.

I always do white top green front, and I'm constantly surprised when I find out other people don't. If I start scrambling and realize I didn't have white top green front, I'll solve it and restart the scramble, since I consider it invalid.

I'm funny that way, I guess.

By the way, to the OP, I think this is a great illusion, and I really hope I eventually find out how you did it. It's brilliantly done.

 

[PatrickJameson]

Personally, I'm with Mr. Pochmann on this. I don't see how it can be so outrageous to roughly guess what the time will be, and then drag the solve out to the desired result. The rest is just luck.

I invented an interesting trick

 

[ben1996123]

4d) Cube puzzles must be scrambled with the white (or the lightest colour by default) face on top and green (or the darkest adjacent face by default) on the front.

I know...

But it dosent affect my solve times because I'm fully colour neutral.

 

[Stefan]

Personally, I'm with Mr. Pochmann on this. I don't see how it can be so outrageous to roughly guess what the time will be, and then drag the solve out to the desired result. The rest is just luck.

I invented an interesting trick

trick - the art or knack of doing something skillfully

 

[PatrickJameson]

trick - the art or knack of doing something skillfully

Going all the way down to the 6th definition, eh?

 

[dbax0999]

Personally, I'm with Mr. Pochmann on this. I don't see how it can be so outrageous to roughly guess what the time will be, and then drag the solve out to the desired result. The rest is just luck.

I invented an interesting trick

trick - the art or knack of doing something skillfully

trick - a prostitute's customer.

 

[Aksel B]

Listen to the sound.. There is some background noise - but it disappears just as he stops the timer. Just for a second

Don't know, if someone noticed this already

 

[Zarxrax]

Listen to the sound.. There is some background noise - but it disappears just as he stops the timer. Just for a second

Don't know, if someone noticed this already

I think this is his camera trying to normalize the volume levels. When he hits the spacebar to stop the timer, this is the loudest moment of the video, so the camera compensates by lowering the volume, and then it gradually comes back up in the absence of any other loud sounds.

 

[whauk]

i just tried out stopping exactly 2.00 on qqtimer. i took me 38 tries to get it. so consiedering i am bad and you can do it after 20 times the chance to get 2 in a row is 1 in 400 (i know its a really bad calculation)
but that just sounds impossible.

 

[Dene]

Since when did 1 in 400 become impossible?

 

[Stefan]

trick - the art or knack of doing something skillfully

Going all the way down to the 6th definition, eh?

Some earlier ones would've fit as well, but this one was nice and short. And the point was just that that word doesn't necessarily imply some sort of cheating. And him probably not being a native English speaker adds to it.

That said, I admit that a fake timer certainly is the easiest way and thus most likely explanation.

Listen to the sound.. There is some background noise - but it disappears just as he stops the timer. Just for a second

Don't know, if someone noticed this already

I think this is his camera trying to normalize the volume levels.

Yeah, my camera does that, too. I did notice it but right away thought it's the volume normalizer.

 

[ben1996123]

i just tried out stopping exactly 2.00 on qqtimer. i took me 38 tries to get it. so consiedering i am bad and you can do it after 20 times the chance to get 2 in a row is 1 in 400 (i know its a really bad calculation)
but that just sounds impossible.

I just tried stopping 1.86 on my stackmat, and got it in 7 tries. 1 in 49 dosent seem to be anywhere near impossible, and thats more likely than getting a 3x3 PLL skip (1 in 72).