Roman Strakhov: answering your questions

[Roman]

Hello fellows! My name is Roman, I'm assuming you know me as a bigBLD lover xD
I thought it would be quite a nice idea to shoot sort of "Q&A" video in english, as I receieve lots of questions from people of speedcubing community (many of them are pretty similar though), and I almost never spoke to speedcubers personally/verbally (there are none of them within a radius of 1500 kilometers from me). So, if there is something you would like me to answer, related with speedcubing or not, feel free to ask it, I think I will make a video in a week or two.

Spoiler: contacts

FB: https://www.facebook.com/roman.strahov.96
Skype: mr_salik
VK: http://vk.com/up_zz
also, comments to this post

Inb4: YES I am doing a 1-hour video tutorial on 6x6+ BLD in english and NO I will no do any 10BLD attempt in near future (I'll explain).
See ya

 

[Cale S]

Sounds awesome
My questions:
What solving order do you use on big cubes BLD (piece type order)?
What center buffers do you use?
Which size cube is your favorite to solve BLD?
Why did you decide to do 9BLD before 8BLD?
What inspired you to do 6x6+ BLD?
About how many 6BLD successes do you have?
How many targets do you usually have to memorize in 8BLD and 9 BLD?
How much do you think BLD has improved your memory?
Do you reorient the cube to have centers already solved in 6BLD? What about 8BLD?
I'll edit this post as I think of more.

 

[megaminxwin]

Why you so good?

 

[Ollie]

Will you ever practice other non-events? Maybe 2x2x2 (one-looking = BLD )

EDIT: polylines tutorial please

 

[mati1242]

Where do you live if you don't have any speedcubers in the radius of 1500km?
That's quite a big distance.

 

[TDM]

EDIT: polylines tutorial please

this pls

Where do you live if you don't have any speedcubers in the radius of 1500km?
That's quite a big distance.

Tomsk, Russia.

 

[goodatthis]

Yes!!! I love things like this, and am looking forward to this and the 6BLD+ tutorial!!!

My questions:

If a 4BLD is ~2 cube MultiBLD, and 5BLD is ~4 cube MultiBLD, what would 6x6+ be in terms of number of 3x3s?
What is your greatest cubing accomplishment?
What do you think is the limit for 7BLD?
What inspires you?
What is the most difficult BLD thing you have ever done?
Will you try to get the 5BLD WR in a competition?

 

[supercavitation]

Do you ever do Big Cube Multi BLD?
What tips would you give someone just starting out at Multi BLD?
What tips would you give someone just starting out at 4BLD?

 

[ollicubes]

How did/do u practise your memo?

 

[bobthegiraffemonkey]

polylines tutorial please

What are polylines? Is that some BBLD thing I should know?

 

[Cale S]

What are polylines? Is that some BBLD thing I should know?

Look at his latest posts in the 2x2 example solve thread. He says it is a method he created and no one else has any idea how it works, but it seems really cool and I would like to understand it.

 

[10461394944000]

Look at his latest posts in the 2x2 example solve thread. He says it is a method he created and no one else has any idea how it works, but it seems really cool and I would like to understand it.

he's told me what it is and I'm learning it at the moment, it seems really fast (definitely sub2able)

 

[TDM]

he's told me what it is and I'm learning it at the moment, it seems really fast (definitely sub2able)

How many algs are there? Is it more than 21? Because if it then I'll probably never learn it...

 

[Ulbert]

Tomsk, Russia.

dem stalkers
loljk

and now I noticed it said it under his profile picture..

 

[kcl]

polyline explanation please please please

 

[uberCuber]

polyline pls, I need to prepare for my win at 2x2 at next year's nats

 

[AlexMaass]

polyline pls, I need to prepare for my win at 2x2 at next year's nats

meh I have a feeling ben and roman might just keep it a secret and get 2x2 wr average

 

[goodatthis]

What if roman is the ultimate troll and just finds optimal solutions and splits them up into steps and calls it polylines? O.o

 

[kcl]

What if roman is the ultimate troll and just finds optimal solutions and splits them up into steps and calls it polylines? O.o

dammit you have me paranoid now

 

[uberCuber]

What if roman is the ultimate troll and just finds optimal solutions and splits them up into steps and calls it polylines? O.o

This wouldn't be hard to believe, but the solutions he posted weren't optimal: they were all longer than the given scramble