Blindsolving Failure Thread

kinch2002 said:
A wrong setup move would surely leave you 4 corners and 4 edges out? Or do you mean that once you corrected the setup move afterwards there was a 3 cycle left?
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I can upload the video. Technically 4 corners would be out of place (on the U layer) but I AUFd after I took the blindfold off to better see what I had, and it was a 3 cycle of edges (up until that point in the video it was perfect, then I did the last few edges wrong because of that)
 
tim said:
14/15 in 43:40 (26 min memo).

memorization speed and execution fail (shot at the wrong target).
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Awesome attempt! I assume you're simply saving your successes for competition? Gotta be at least 20! :)

tim said:
Card memorization: 3:03 minutes (sub-3 fail)
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Wow, that's fast. You could compete in speed cards now!

For those who have never seen it, here was the world record a year ago (I think it's been broken since then):

Edit: here's the current WR:

It's kind of fun to watch them using stackmat timers now. :) A little weird to see them hold the cards while starting the timer, though.
 
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Mike Hughey said:
I think it might be in the comments to the videos, but I know for sure Ben Pridmore uses one image per pair of cards. There is a nice video out there of him demonstrating his memory technique on a pack of cards.
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Oh ok, I'll take a look. Learning pairs for cubing is effort enough, but for pairs of cards the dedication must be insane!
 
Mike Hughey said:
I assume you're simply saving your successes for competition? Gotta be at least 20! :)
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Sure! It'll still require some hard work, though :/.

Mike Hughey said:
Wow, that's fast. You could compete in speed cards now!
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It's not really fast, since i can memorize 3 cubes in under 3 minutes. And that's 60 pieces. So i really should get faster times than that. But i like my success rate which is 100%. I did 18 attempts so far and 5 of them were under four minutes.

kinch2002 said:
Does anyone know whether he's just using image pairs?
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Like Mike said, Ben uses image pairs, but i'm not sure about Simon. I talked to him a few weeks ago, but i forgot to ask him that. I only know that he's using 10,000 images for numbers (0000-9999). So i assume he's not using one image per card.
 
riffz said:
o_O

How would he go about associating all his images to random numbers? It's taken me long enough to memorize my ~500 images for cubing...
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I have absolutely no idea. I watched him memorizing about 60 numbers in a restaurant. He went damn quickly over the numbers and drew lines after each four digits. It was amazing to watch! I'm probably just as fast as him if i only have to draw the lines o_O. He definitely needed less than a second to decode four digits.
On the other hand memorizing images for numbers is much easier than doing the same for cubies. You can just use flash cards to learn them.

btw. I doubt that the relationship between his images and numbers is completely random. That would be too hard.
 
tim said:
Sure! It'll still require some hard work, though :/.
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Sorry if sometimes I take your achievements for granted. I realize it's not simple to get from 14/15 in 44 minutes to 20/20 in under an hour. I really am impressed.

And your cards speed seems really fast to me, even if it's not fast to you. It's all a matter of perspective, I guess.
 
Mike Hughey said:
Sorry if sometimes I take your achievements for granted. I realize it's not simple to get from 14/15 in 44 minutes to 20/20 in under an hour. I really am impressed.
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Nah, i'm just a pussy who's too lazy to practice.

Mike Hughey said:
And your cards speed seems really fast to me, even if it's not fast to you. It's all a matter of perspective, I guess.
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I notice that I was a bit arrogant. Sorry for that. But i'm sure you can also reach times under 3 minutes with just a bit practice since your 4x4x4 memorization times are faster than mine.

Here's another nice speed cards video (you might spot Stefan in it ;)):
 
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It's interesting to watch the process. Obviously the goal is to cram the information into your head as fast as possible, then take advantage of the time after you stop the timer to refresh your memory. It's nice compared to BLD solving because you can take pretty long refreshing your memory, but of course the catch is you can't double-check any of it if you forgot or got confused. It's all very interesting.

All this watching of videos means I'll have to try a few. Maybe this week, but I can't guarantee anything because I have a lot of catching up to do with the Christmas Competition. Maybe it'll have to wait until that's done (probably the end of the year).
 
6/7 = 5 points in 13:29.58

Off by a 3cycle of corners on the third cube.

; w;

7:50 memo => 67 seconds per cube
5:40 memo => 48 seconds per cube
 
Multi: 3/8 in 58:01
First attempt at 8, the missed cubes are mainly stupid mistakes. The good thing is that it's still under an hour :)
 
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