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Aw. I was hoping you wouldn't do it again because of the whole "longest time taken for any solve in any event by anyone ever" thing.

Also, it cannot actually be broken anymore.
 
But he'll still have that record - it just won't be a personal best anymore. And there have been longer solves in old multi, which were successful solves despite not having all cubes done.

Are there actually any current time limits on 4BLD or 5BLD? Could an organizer theoretically let you remove the blindfold, wait four hours, and then stop the timer? (The regulations say the competitor has to notify the judge that the solve is over, so in theory, before putting down the cube, they could explicitly tell the judge that when they put down the cube the solve will NOT yet be over, and the judge would have to wait until the competitor changed their mind.)
 
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Kirjava said:
Aw. I was hoping you wouldn't do it again because of the whole "longest time taken for any solve in any event by anyone ever" thing.

Also, it cannot actually be broken anymore.
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(assuming the thing you're saying can't be broken is the "longest time taken for any solve in any event by anyone ever") Why not? I don't think there's any time limit required by the rules for any event other than multiBLD and fewest moves. The limit is at 10 minutes by default unless otherwise specified by the organizer, but that can be changed by organizers, and often is, even for things other than big cubes BLD. It doesn't even have to be a BLD event. People have recently gone over 10 minutes for 6x6x6 and 7x7x7 solves (even last weekend!); why not over 3 hours, if the organizer allows it? (Of course, I don't personally recommend that organizers allow 3 hours for solves, but I'm just saying it is possible according to the rules.)

Edit: Ninja'ed by qq.
 
Oh. When they changed multibld I assumed it applied to all BLD.

I do recall seeing some 30 min 7x7x7 solves in the past :)

But ya, I thought it was cool as a personal best.
 
Well, the trend for Big Cube BLD at big competitions seems to be the 2 hour time limit for your solves per event. I assume this will eventually, if it hasn't already, become standard. So even if you did sit there in your chair with a solved cube, but you haven't yet removed the blindfolded, after 2 hours you would (or at least should) be DQ'd unless you chose to finish the solve by saying "done."

Chris
 
Slash said:
4x4 BLD had only 1 until 2004 and 2005, but in 2006 Chris Hardwick already had a 8 minutes solve which now could be e.g a Hungarian NR. in 2008 we had 25, until 2009 35, and now we have 66 (and they're getting more and more). By the end of the year I think that the number of it will be more than 75
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lol
 
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