[Unofficial] Maxim Chechnev - Ukraine's Got Talent 5 (MBF 100 cubes)

[Maskow]

Stage is stage and I won't believe that he really memorised 100 cubes if he won't say it

A quick analysis of how much memorization this is: assuming each cube uses three-four locations in the Journey method.

100 cubes would result in ~350 locations. Using the same technique, a grandmaster of memory would use 350 locations for 3150 digits / 10500 binary digits / 38 to 39 decks of cards.

Some world records for these feats:

1-hour Digits: 2660
1-hour Cards: 28 decks
30-minute Binary: 4140
1-Day Cards: 59 decks

Certainly it could be challenging to someone without memory training to do it in a day, but a week would be very easy to do.

I use loci method and for me 1 cube = 2 places, so 100 cubes = 200 places. (one place for edges and one place for corners)

You can't compare cubes with digits or cards, there are many reasons for it, really.
Look, I'm a speedcuber, I didn't spent much time on memorising digits but:
I can memorise cube in ~10 seconds (~10 words!) 1 word/sec
I can memorise 40 digits in 8-9 seconds (20 words!) 2.5 words/sec
I can memorise 37 cubes in ~32 minutes (~370 words) 11.56 words/minute
I can memorise 1000 digits in ~35 minutes (500 words!) 14.29 words/minute

Conclusion: Digits are much more easier in reading Digits always will be faster.

 

[Rnewms]

Stage is stage and I won't believe that he really memorised 100 cubes if he won't say it




I use loci method and for me 1 cube = 2 places, so 100 cubes = 200 places. (one place for edges and one place for corners)

You can't compare cubes with digits or cards, there are many reasons for it, really.
Look, I'm a speedcuber, I didn't spent much time on memorising digits but:
I can memorise cube in ~10 seconds (~10 words!) 1 word/sec
I can memorise 40 digits in 8-9 seconds (20 words!) 2.5 words/sec
I can memorise 37 cubes in ~32 minutes (~370 words) 11.56 words/minute
I can memorise 1000 digits in ~35 minutes (500 words!) 14.29 words/minute

Conclusion: Digits are much more easier in reading Digits always will be faster.

Absolutely. Scanning a cube to create the images is more work than reading organized lines of numbers.

I knew it wasn't going to be very accurate, but I didn't appreciate the idea of it being a completely unreasonable feat so I stepped in. I wouldn't be surprised if he used some sort of trick that would make it easier, such as repeated edge/corner scrambles.

 

[Benyó]

noone noticed that he screwed up the second cube probably quite badly?
at 7:32-33 there is a camera switch and when it focuses back to his hands at 7:40 the cube is only off by a niklas, which means he had 7 seconds for solving at least 3 edges but maybe more (i could not see them perfectly in the video) and all of the corners but his tps is very far from this speed, i am not sure even the top bldcubers are able to do it.

 

[Renslay]

noone noticed that he screwed up the second cube probably quite badly?
at 7:32-33 there is a camera switch and when it focuses back to his hands at 7:40 the cube is only off by a niklas, which means he had 7 seconds for solving at least 3 edges but maybe more (i could not see them perfectly in the video) and all of the corners but his tps is very far from this speed, i am not sure even the top bldcubers are able to do it.

Note that on television, they like to cut out scenes (seconds) in whole, especially those parts that they claimed to be "boring". Heck, even they like to mix up the order of the cuts.