[Unofficial] Ravi Fernando - 3x3 while juggling, OH (partial video)

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I did this after the awards ceremony at Berkeley Winter. It was hard.

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Thanks to Nan Ma for filming. This was the first time I've even completed a solve while juggling OH, so I might try to make an unabridged video later, perhaps of a less frantic-looking attempt.
 
Hi Ravi, I'm Nan Ma. This was awesome and I've never seen anything like this before. I also posted it on a Chinese video website. A lot of people are admiring you there, too. Good job!
 
It took about 17 minutes. The hard part about this (as opposed to, say, this) is that I can't actually control the rotation of the cube in this pattern. So here my strategy is basically "Throw the cube in the air. If it looks like it's coming down in the right orientation to do a move, do it; otherwise, try again." Also, my right hand is safer for juggling, but even worse than my left at cubing OH, so I can really only do moves as U (with my index finger) or L' (with my ring finger). This explains the ~0.06tps.
 
Ravi, I also noticed that you were not using your OH hand to do it. And that was puzzling me. So it seems like here, juggling is a bigger problem than cubing. Is it hard to learn juggling? How can I learn it? How long does it take so that I can also do this?
 
So Ravi, does that mean that when you're doing two-handed juggling-solving, you DO control the rotation of the cube? Do you always catch it in the same orientation (and reorient if necessary while holding it), or do you actually throw it so as to take a new orientation if you want to reorient the cube? That whole concept really had me puzzled. I would think it would be so hard to control the spin of the cube that well. It's not so hard with clubs, but a cube? Amazing.

This seems outrageously hard to me; I'm totally amazed. Nice job.

For anyone who would like to appreciate just a little of how hard this is, try doing this: solve as Ravi does in the video, but without the extra ball. In other words, start with a scrambled cube, toss the cube in the air repeatedly, and each time you catch it, if you think you can make a move in a quarter second or less, make the move, then toss it again. Each time, make sure you toss the cube at least a couple of feet in the air. The pattern should feel like his in the video. I found that it took me over a minute just to do an H perm that way (which is probably my easiest alg one-handed). Now once you try that, consider the fact that if you add the ball, your focus has to stay high, at the top of the pattern, to maintain the juggle. Like I said, this seems outrageously hard to me - Ravi, you're amazing.

@schuma: A two-ball pattern like this really isn't all that hard to learn. But it does take quite a bit of practice to get really solid at it so you can focus on other things while doing it. You can search for "Juggle 2 in one hand" and find lots of videos that will show you how.
 
I was expecting to see you juggling with one hand and solving with the other. But this, omg it's incredible. I'm really amazed by that older video you posted too. They should make this an official event, see if anyone can beat your record ;)
 
So Ravi, does that mean that when you're doing two-handed juggling-solving, you DO control the rotation of the cube? Do you always catch it in the same orientation (and reorient if necessary while holding it), or do you actually throw it so as to take a new orientation if you want to reorient the cube? That whole concept really had me puzzled. I would think it would be so hard to control the spin of the cube that well.

Yeah, I'd say I can throw the cube into the right orientation about 80-90% of the time when cube-juggling two-handed, although sometimes I have to contort my left wrist a little to catch it from the correct angle. Failing that, there's often enough time to do a quick z' U' or something before the next left-handed throw.
 
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