Daniel Wu
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If that's true I give him points for patience. That would drive me crazy.
Magic prediction with the Rubik's Cube! How?
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Zarxrax
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I don't believe that is the answer. First of all, he said he thinks he can do it 3-5 times in a row. Who really has the ability to stop a timer with hundredths of seconds accuracy like that?
But maybe he was lying about that? Still doesn't make sense, because he writes the times down on a clean folder. This would mean that he had TONS of folders that he used for every single attempt. If he was attempting something like this many times, wouldn't he use plain, cheap paper?
jms_gears1
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maybe it wasnt a continuous shot
Cyrus C.
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Clock.
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That seems unlikely to me. I'd expect that to take many, many attempts. But it is certainly possible and I don't know how long he could have tried it for.
jms_gears1
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that wouldnt be hard to set the time.
Cyrus C.
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Yes it would.
jms_gears1
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no?
Zarxrax
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There are no signs of a cut in the video footage anywhere.
Cyrus C.
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Have you ever tried to synchronize a watch? It takes a lot of work, & to make there not even be less than a second of pause is nearly impossible by a human.
kutuan
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my guess :
the timer is not legit, like Patrick said
so he input the result he desire first... so let's say he want the timer to stop at 14.98, all he need to do is press the stop the timer before the time reach 14:98
and, to make sure he finished the cube at the time he desire, i believe the solution is available in the upper screen of the monitor where we can't see from the video
the timer is not legit, like Patrick said
so he input the result he desire first... so let's say he want the timer to stop at 14.98, all he need to do is press the stop the timer before the time reach 14:98
and, to make sure he finished the cube at the time he desire, i believe the solution is available in the upper screen of the monitor where we can't see from the video
Olivér Perge
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I was thinking the same for a second, but that would be ok for only one solve. In my opinion it is almost impossible to do this 2 in a row, predicting the time only by the cross. It would be very risky to try that and would take a lot of time.
Looking through his WCA profile these times seems to be good for him, so I don't think he "waited" to the timer (which I don't think was set before).
The bizarre thing for me that everything seems OK about the video, so I'm assuming the trick is actually quite simple, we just cannot see it. Yet.
richardzhang
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If he didnt show us the unsuccesful attempts he must of wasted a of paper.
Dene
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Personally, I'm with Mr. Pochmann on this. I don't see how it can be so outrageous to roughly guess what the time will be, and then drag the solve out to the desired result. The rest is just luck.
Of course, it might just be a pre-set timer.
Of course, it might just be a pre-set timer.
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I'm not sure buttt...
I think it has something to do with the crappy timer making it easier to guess the right time.
I think it has something to do with the crappy timer making it easier to guess the right time.
Zarxrax
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I was thinking this same thing, because the timer only seems to update every few frames, but then I checked it again, I noticed that although the timer updates slowly, it still keeps time at a full hundredths of seconds.
For instance on the first solve, we can see on the timer:
0.02, 0.12, 0.24, 0.34, 0.45
And then on the 2nd solve, it displays:
0.03, 0.14, 0.25, 0.36, 0.47
So, we can take this to mean that the timer has FULL accuracy, and isn't making it any easier on him.
One thing that I do find to be very fishy, is that if I measure the time elapsed in the video, the time of the first solve (displayed in a video editing application) is EXACTLY 14.98, and the time of the 2nd solve is EXACTLY 16.11.
What does this mean? I have no idea. I'm 95% certain that the timer wasn't created digitally after the fact. So its probably just a weird coincidence.
goatseforever
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OP is a master troll, 10/10.
dannyz0r
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He's actually Dialga and he's manipulating time.
Johan444
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He spends 20 seconds just showing the clock and opening the web browser before the scramble + writing down the time. Doing that before every solve until he got a streak of two would be too time consuming.
And to everyone who thinks there is no trick to it, try to stop the timer yourself, two times in a row at a specific time to realise how unlikely that is.
Not only that, he's solving a cube in the meantime and he would probably need to throw away one paper each time he did not succeed.
I'm surprised that people actually thinks he did this by chance.
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