[Unofficial] Graham Siggins WB 10BLD 54:43

[Fred]

After two dozen or so (recent) attempts, he finally got it!

 

[abunickabhi]

Finally we have a sub-hour 10BLD solve

Well done Graham!
The grind took 80ish attempts and 7 years yo!

 

[bldcuber314]

Great to see after so many fails, congrats Graham!

 

[Puzzle Maniac]

7 years of trying is insane, congrats again Graham! (I'm sure he has an account but I can't remember it)

 

[bldcuber314]

7 years of trying is insane, congrats again Graham! (I'm sure he has an account but I can't remember it)

@sigalig

 

[Abram Grimsley]

Wow!!! what an achievement!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats Graham!!!!!!!!11

 

[bldcuber314]

Also- Woah is that a 10x10?!

 

[anorax]

Someone knows how many letters, signs or other things on average does he need to memorize?
This question obsesses me.

 

[BVCuber13]

Someone knows how many letters, signs or other things on average does he need to memorize?
This question obsesses me.

Inner centers - 24
First oblique layer centers - 72
Second oblique layer centers - 120
Third oblique layer centers - 168
Edges - 96
Corners - 8

Total: 488

DISCLAIMER: this is the upper bound for how many he needs to memorize, so the number is probably closer to 400. This is about equivalent to a 20-25 cube MBLD

 

[AndrewT99]

Someone knows how many letters, signs or other things on average does he need to memorize?
This question obsesses me.

In terms of number of targets, the breakdown is approximately as follows (assuming he orientates to solve as many innermost X-centers as possible, which may or may not be his philosophy for finding an orientation):

Corners: ~8 targets
4 x Wings: ~4 x 24 = 96 targets
4 x X-centers: ~3 x 20 + 1 x 16 = 76 targets
12 x Obliques: ~12 x 20 = 240 targets
Total: 8 + 96 + 76 + 240 = 420 targets

Inner centers - 24
First oblique layer centers - 72
Second oblique layer centers - 120
Third oblique layer centers - 168
Edges - 96
Corners - 8

Total: 488

DISCLAIMER: this is the upper bound for how many he needs to memorize, so the number is probably closer to 400. This is about equivalent to a 20-25 cube MBLD

Which agrees with BVCuber13's disclaimer about it probably being closer to 400

 

[anorax]

@BVCuber13 and @AndrewT99
Thank you guys
I'm very impress by this huge number.
If "this is about equivalent to a 20-25 cube MBLD" as @BVCuber13 said, so… for his 65 cube MBLD, he memorizes over 1,000 targets?! It's insane.
As I understand it, The real achievement for 10x10 BLD is to make no mistakes.

 

[anorax]

A gif I made for fun.
I like so much the way Graham disappears

 

[sigalig]

@BVCuber13 and @AndrewT99
Thank you guys
I'm very impress by this huge number.
If "this is about equivalent to a 20-25 cube MBLD" as @BVCuber13 said, so… for his 65 cube MBLD, he memorizes over 1,000 targets?! It's insane.
As I understand it, The real achievement for 10x10 BLD is to make no mistakes.

Yes 95% of the challenge of things like 10x10 blindfolded is making no mistakes in tracing the 16 different types of center pieces, and going through all of execution without making a single mistake with nearly 1k slice moves

 

[bldcuber314]

Yes 95% of the challenge of things like 10x10 blindfolded is making no mistakes in tracing the 16 different types of center pieces, and going through all of execution without making a single mistake with nearly 1k slice moves

Do you have any tips for finding specific slices in hugeBLD? I wanted to try it this year(with the goal of 7BLD), but couldn't when I realised I can't actually feel apart the layers on a 7x7(and even 6x6). Is a lot of it just by feel, or do you have a specific technique?

 

[sigalig]

Do you have any tips for finding specific slices in hugeBLD? I wanted to try it this year(with the goal of 7BLD), but couldn't when I realised I can't actually feel apart the layers on a 7x7(and even 6x6). Is a lot of it just by feel, or do you have a specific technique?

It mostly just comes from a lot of practice I think. I used to be a lot slower at it but slowly gained confidence after doing hundreds of hours of 6x6+ BLD stuff over the years. I used to have to meticulously count layers but now its more of a muscle memory thing