Memo, Sleep, Solve!

[cookingfat]

I tried this overnight. I was successful! I didn't measure the time, though.

I've also tried a "minor" variation of this a few times. Memo, solve, sleep. More specifically:

1. Memorize cube.
2. Turn off lights. (too dark to see cube)
3. Solve cube.
4. Sleep.
5. Wake up in the morning. (now enough light to see cube)
6. Check that cube is actually solved.

Yeah, it's pretty much like an ordinary BLD solve, but you go to sleep in suspense.

I couldn't do that to myself.

 

[Odin]

I tried this overnight. I was successful! I didn't measure the time, though.

I've also tried a "minor" variation of this a few times. Memo, solve, sleep. More specifically:

1. Memorize cube.
2. Turn off lights. (too dark to see cube)
3. Solve cube.
4. Sleep.
5. Wake up in the morning. (now enough light to see cube)
6. Check that cube is actually solved.

Yeah, it's pretty much like an ordinary BLD solve, but you go to sleep in suspense.

I couldn't do that to myself.

Dang! BLD solving is sick! i would try it but im to lazy to memo the alg.'s

 

[cookingfat]

I tried this overnight. I was successful! I didn't measure the time, though.

I've also tried a "minor" variation of this a few times. Memo, solve, sleep. More specifically:

1. Memorize cube.
2. Turn off lights. (too dark to see cube)
3. Solve cube.
4. Sleep.
5. Wake up in the morning. (now enough light to see cube)
6. Check that cube is actually solved.

Yeah, it's pretty much like an ordinary BLD solve, but you go to sleep in suspense.

I couldn't do that to myself.

Dang! BLD solving is sick! i would try it but im to lazy to memo the alg.'s

try classic pochmann. All you need to know is about 6 PLLs the rest is set up moves.

 

[Derrick Eide17]

Im trying this myself now. I memoed the cube earlier today. and im gonna wait a whole week
i have the cube stuffed away in my dresser (this is gonna be SO HARD waiting)

 

[not_kevin]

I tried this overnight. I was successful! I didn't measure the time, though.

I've also tried a "minor" variation of this a few times. Memo, solve, sleep. More specifically:

1. Memorize cube.
2. Turn off lights. (too dark to see cube)
3. Solve cube.
4. Sleep.
5. Wake up in the morning. (now enough light to see cube)
6. Check that cube is actually solved.

Yeah, it's pretty much like an ordinary BLD solve, but you go to sleep in suspense.

I couldn't do that to myself.

Dang! BLD solving is sick! i would try it but im to lazy to memo the alg.'s

try classic pochmann. All you need to know is about 6 PLLs the rest is set up moves.

6? I only use 4 (T, Y, both J's)... what am I missing?

 

[qqwref]

try classic pochmann. All you need to know is about 6 PLLs the rest is set up moves.

T perm counts as six?

 

[Mozza314]

I've thought about doing this a fair bit actually. I've only just started blindfold cubing, but I'm looking forward to trying multi-bld when I get decent accuracy. I was thinking I could study like 50 cubes (more like 50 scrambles on the same cube, it'd be much cooler to do it on 50 separate cubes though) for a month or something and then solve them all in one go. I'm surprised this hasn't come up in this thread. Has it been done?

 

[AvGalen]

I still have my first ever "trial" cube memoed. I have tried it so many times that I know both the scramble, the normal memo and the execution by heart.

I have been practising blind a lot lately and as an experiment I tried to do "add-1-a-day" multiblind. Every morning I performed a new scramble and memoed it for as long as needed. I tried not to go back to the memo, but that turned out just as difficult as "don't think about a black horse". Yesterday I executed all 12 of them succesfully, except for 1 POP.

It feels weird to perform a scramble, close your eyes and solve a cube without any inspection once. It started to feel natural after the 7th cube. When I tried some more regular speedsolves later I closed my eyes directly after the scramble and only realised that I needed to inspect it and look at it while solving a couple seconds later.

P.S. total time for memo and execution was much more than 10 minutes per cube

 

[tim]

I still have my first ever "trial" cube memoed. I have tried it so many times that I know both the scramble, the normal memo and the execution by heart.

I have been practising blind a lot lately and as an experiment I tried to do "add-1-a-day" multiblind. Every morning I performed a new scramble and memoed it for as long as needed. I tried not to go back to the memo, but that turned out just as difficult as "don't think about a black horse". Yesterday I executed all 12 of them succesfully, except for 1 POP.

It feels weird to perform a scramble, close your eyes and solve a cube without any inspection once. It started to feel natural after the 7th cube. When I tried some more regular speedsolves later I closed my eyes directly after the scramble and only realised that I needed to inspect it and look at it while solving a couple seconds later.

P.S. total time for memo and execution was much more than 10 minutes per cube

Wow, 12 cubes, great job . You shouldn't care too much about the time, since you've done the attempt over 12 days. That requires much more memo time.

 

[Jude]

I memorised a cube last night. Since then, I've solved 12 more cubes blindfolded and the first one is still solidly in my head. I memod it with purely visual (in 2:12.69, slower than normal as I was making sure there were no mistakes), and I WAS intending to solve it in a couple of weeks but I might go crazy and wait a few months

Sounds fun, but I won't try it.

Sometimes I can't fall asleep because I think of cubes. If I tried this I would never fall asleep

Heh, I had this problem last night

In addition to the "longest time between memo and solving" challenge, you could also do "most BLD solves between memo and solving" as a separate/additional challenge!

I had this idea last night and that's why I'm recording the amount of cubes I solve BLD before I finally solve my original cube (12 so far)

I think the reason I've never particularly enjoyed doing this is that it feels like cheating when you think about the memorization after you've stopped memorizing. I can't help thinking through the whole memorization while going to sleep (it's actually a pretty good way to put myself to sleep, actually), and then by morning, it just plain feels like cheating because the memorization is so outrageously secure (much more secure than for a normal solve).

I agree, when I finally do solve my cube (it's tucked away in a corner of my room) my execution will be much faster than normal as I expect to have no pauses at all when recalling the memorisation. However, on this note, does it count as cheating to set up the cube (blindfolded) from how you memorised it, then without opening your eyes solve it again? It seems like this should be ok to me as long as you don't actually start looking at the cube once it is set up.

Sorry for the huge post

 

[cookingfat]

try classic pochmann. All you need to know is about 6 PLLs the rest is set up moves.

6? I only use 4 (T, Y, both J's)... what am I missing?

sorry, it's 5

T, Y, both Js, and Ra for parity fix.

 

[Mozza314]

I just tried this. Memoed last night, close DNF with just 3 corners out of place this morning. I realised that I had tried to fix (1 2) (3 6) with setup moves B2 D B2, E perm, as though it were (1 2) (4 6)! I tried the same scramble again and had 2 corners and 2 edges out of place. Finally I got it on my third try.

EDIT: I just realised the numbering scheme is not any kind of standard. For me, (1 2) (3 6) = (UFL UFR) (UBR DFR) and (1 2) (4 6) = (UFL UFR) (UBL DFR)

 

[qqwref]

I've thought about doing this a fair bit actually. I've only just started blindfold cubing, but I'm looking forward to trying multi-bld when I get decent accuracy. I was thinking I could study like 50 cubes (more like 50 scrambles on the same cube, it'd be much cooler to do it on 50 separate cubes though) for a month or something and then solve them all in one go. I'm surprised this hasn't come up in this thread. Has it been done?

I think Ryosuke Mondo did some largish number of cubes by memorizing over the course of a couple days and then executing on a different day. I don't think anyone's done anything on the order of a month though...

 

[Jacco]

First try was succesful. Memo about 2 minutes, 9.5 hours sleep delayed, 1.5 minit execution. It's not really hard.