[Unofficial] Mike Hughey square-1 multiBLD 10/10

The average person can not solve a 3x3 or a square-1, and the average cuber can not solve a 3x3 BLD (most of the time), and definitely not a square-1 BLD. This is insane.

Congratulations, and you are definitely one of the best blindsolvers ever.
 
StachuK1992 said:
How long do you suppose it would take someone to learn the method now that it's all done and developed?
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That's a hard thing to say - it of course depends on the person. It would probably take someone with my ability a few weeks to learn everything but the matrix memorization. Someone really good could probably do it much faster - someone like Ville, probably a day or two. :) As for the matrix memorization, it's about like committing 60 3x3x3 cubes worth of memorization to permanent memory. That sounds awful, but think about the fact that you can take as long as you like to do it. It's really not that hard when you have a while. To think of it differently, it's about like memorizing 900 digits of pi. Which really isn't that hard, if you have a system. (I once had 960 digits of pi memorized by rote; that was much harder than doing it with a system. Mats Bergsten has over 10,000 digits memorized!)
 
Message to everyone that thinks Mike is amazing just because he got totally lucky and accidentally solved a couple of lucky square1's I have to say phoey!

I once saw a REALLY great blindfolder solve a RUBIKS cube behind his back, blindfolded, while juggling AND while being totally awesome ;)

Seriously Mike, I missed seeing you, your wife and children this summer for US "Open" and will not be there again next year. HOPEFULLY we can meet at Worlds 2011 though, otherwise I will be there for US 2012 and then you can finally teach me big cube blind in person.

I would like to say that I will try this someday, but I still use intuitive for getting it back to square-shape. I suck, I know
 
StachuK1992 said:
Mike, I'm up for the challenge.
Count me in starting next Sunday.
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Jukuren said:
race to see who posts a vid first? :P
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Awesome - that's the best prize anyone could have given me for this.

Seriously - try it first by learning the method without memorizing the matrix - "open notes". Very close to an actual solve: (once you've learned the method and tried a few step-by-step while looking at it) scramble the puzzle, then look at my page to get the memorization for the particular case. It won't take very long to commit that temporarily to memory, or even write it down on a piece of paper. Then do the rest of the solve normally. Once you can do that, it's just a matter of memorizing the matrix - you have the rest of the method entirely learned.

When I started, what I did for a while was this: I memorized first just a few cases - 3 or 4 to begin with. Then I would do a square-1 scramble, and "solve" it to one of the cases I had learned. Then I'd start from there. A fully randomized puzzle, except for the chosen square shape. It's great for practice, and it will let you know whether or not you enjoy it enough to bother with the matrix memorization.

Please feel free to ask me questions. Remember that this is the first time anyone has actually tried to learn it from my instructions - I wouldn't be surprised if I have some big holes or even errors in it; I'm the only one who's ever proofread it at all. I can guarantee my method works, but I can't guarantee the instructions until someone else consistently succeeds from them!
 
When I read this title I literally burst out into laughter due of the sheer insanity of it. Soooo ridiculous.

Mike, I hope by now you see why I'm glad to be able to say that I was the first cuber to ask for your autograph. :3
 
That is absolutely incredible! You never fail to surprise us with your amazing creativity and skill! How many ideas have you got in your sleeve?

Also, thank you for making us better! With your world class performance, the "average" cuber will also be better. :P

(Now, I HAVE TO make it to US nats next year!)
 
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