[Unofficial] Mike Hughey OH BLD behind back while juggling 2 balls

[Kian]

what's next, mike? blindfold feet solving? while juggling? haha. it's tough to imagine what you do for an encore, this is just so incredible!

 

[Mike Hughey]

what's next, mike? blindfold feet solving? while juggling? haha. it's tough to imagine what you do for an encore, this is just so incredible!

You're right - I feel kind of sad, because I know I'll probably never outdo this one. It's because, in a way, I've been practicing for years for this, but I just didn't know this was what I was practicing for. For years I've practiced juggling multitasking: juggling while stairstepping, juggling while reciting digits of pi, juggling while playing a pipe organ pedal solo - silly things like that. And also, I've always really enjoyed OH blindfold solving, so I've worked hard on that for over a year. So then when guys on here came up with this idea, I realized it should actually be easy for me to do it. So I tried it, and it was!

By the way, I've tried blindfold feet solving. (I'm sure you probably already guessed that, though. ) It's VERY hard. I gave up on my first attempt when I lost track of the orientation of the cube on the very first step. I'll have to try it again someday, though.

 

[tim]

This is just... uhm, crazy . I think i'll try that soon, but i'll probably fail, since my juggling is not as good as your's.

 

[Rubixcubematt]

thats insane, you can do a rubik's cube faster OH BLD while juggiling 2 balls quiker than i can do a normal BLD solve. u r a ledgend

 

[hdskull]

Beyond incredible!!!

 

[F.P.]

awesome!
Can't even juggle like that.

 

[MTGjumper]

Awesome. Really incredible.

Aside: regarding background noise again, I'm pretty sure I can hear something going "bu-ding"; what's that from? because I'm pretty sure it's from a game, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

 

[KJiptner]

Wow, that was awesome! Great job. One of the best videos I've seen recently.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Aside: regarding background noise again, I'm pretty sure I can hear something going "bu-ding"; what's that from? because I'm pretty sure it's from a game, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

It's my oldest daughter's Nintendo DS. From listening to it, I can't place what particular game she's playing though - sorry.

 

[badmephisto]

I am seriously impressed wow... just wow.
ok no sorry my mind rejects it.
Now I have to go back and figure out what video editing magic you used to make it look like you did it!

just kidding. very cool

 

[DennisStrehlau]

YEEHAAAAAAA, awesome

 

[Tyson]

This is cool! Macky is staying in my apartment until tomorrow when he leaves for Princeton. I'm going to make him try this.

 

[Mike Hughey]

This is cool! Macky is staying in my apartment until tomorrow when he leaves for Princeton. I'm going to make him try this.

Ugh. Macky - the one person in the world who could probably easily (easily meaning without any real practice) break my "unofficial world record" for this.



But seriously, that's very cool - I'm looking forward to hearing how it goes! (I hope I get to meet Macky someday.)

 

[Garmon]

Very Impressive.

 

[Tyson]

The real question is can he OH BLD in about 4 minutes. The juggling shouldn't add much to this for a juggler of his caliber. I think it takes me about 6 minutes to do OH BLD but I've only tried once.

Your BLD solve OH seems very good!

 

[Mike Hughey]

The real question is can he OH BLD in about 4 minutes. The juggling shouldn't add much to this for a juggler of his caliber. I think it takes me about 6 minutes to do OH BLD but I've only tried once.

Your BLD solve OH seems very good!

I was about to add that - the one thing I don't know about Macky is how well he can do OH BLD. But he's a lot faster than me at regular OH. My advantage is I practice OH BLD fairly often.

My best time with OH BLD is a little over 3 minutes. The big slowdown for me with juggling is the memorization time - I think I was about 1:45 memorizing, which is MUCH slower than usual for me. The solving time for me is really about the same whether juggling or not.

 

[fanwuq]

Mike,

You are now famous! I sent this video to some of my friends and teachers and they are all very impressed! Most amazing achievement ever!

 

[Ryanrex116]

First of all, good job!

If I were doing it 2 hands behind my back, how similar would it be to in front of me? Is it harder to turn?

 

[Mike Hughey]

If I were doing it 2 hands behind my back, how similar would it be to in front of me? Is it harder to turn?

It's really very similar. It throws you a little at first because the angle "seems" different, but it doesn't take long to get used to it.

You should just try it and see for yourself!

 

[JBCM627]

Wow, Mike this really is impressive. I am pretty much speechless...