[Unofficial] Video: "3x3x7 solve in 1:20.07" and "Memorizing a deck of cards"

[Jakube]

I recorded two videos this weekend.

The first one is a 3x3x7 solve. I got this puzzle some days ago, figured out a nice method and did some solve. The solve on the video is my PB: 1:20.07. Also the fastest solve on Youtube, I think.

 

[Jakube]

The second is about another hobby of mine. I am in the middle of a BLD-pause, so I decided to strain my brain with something else: Memorizing cards.
In the video I memorize a shuffled deck of cards (52 cards) in 1:48.63 and bring a second deck in the exact same order as the memorized one. This is a fun hobby, it's called "speed cards". I started about 3 weeks ago. In recent days I practised really hard to get a sub 2 on video.

With the right method, memorizing cards is really simple. Everybody can learn this!

 

[5BLD]

Awesome stuff! What's your card memo method?

 

[Jakube]

I have for each card a picture. For instance: Ace of spades is a tree, 8 of heart is some glasses, ...
While memorizing I translate the cards to this pictures and place them along a route (method of Loci). In this case i imagine a big tree with glasses in front of my front door, a juggling bee in the next room, ...

 

[Julian]

How do you fit 26 locations in your house? (or did you use less? It looked like you did something different with the last cards.)

 

[Jakube]

I use rooms with 4-5 locations. For instance the kitchen has 5. 26 locations in only half of the house.
I actually only used 24 locations, for the last 4 cards I was memorized Ace - 3 - 5 - 10.

 

[Ickathu]

Nice! Make a 3x3x7 tutorial please, or at least a method overview. I take like 15 min for that thing
As for the cards, why did you sort them into separate piles instead of just one?

 

[Maskow]

sub2!
Very nice. What next? 1000 digits and 10 decks in one hour?

 

[Ickathu]

sub2!
Very nice. What next? 1000 digits and 10 decks in one hour?

You should try! I'm sure you could do pretty well with a little practice once you get used to the memo scheme (not really right word, but whatever) given how good you are at multi

 

[Maskow]

You should try! I'm sure you could do pretty well with a little practice once you get used to the memo scheme (not really right word, but whatever) given how good you are at multi

Me? I tried it only few times. Deck of card in ~4 minutes and ~150 digits in 5 minutes. Nothing special ;]
But It's not bad idea to start train it. I love memorising digits

 

[Jakube]

Nice! Make a 3x3x7 tutorial please, or at least a method overview. I take like 15 min for that thing

1st step: Orient all piece, mainly just solve cross (only orientation, you can use every white and every yellow edge), F2L and OLL.
2nd step: Connect the white pieces. My cube orientation: white center left, yellow right. On the yellow side I connect a corner, then put it with U2 onto the white side (anywhere, not necessarily the right place), and the next 3 corners the same way. Then connect the white edges and put them in the correct spot.
3rd step: Solve all except PLL. The white cross is done already, so just solve the 4 F2L-pairs and do the OLL-alg.
4th step: Solve the yellow corners. This is a fast step. I will call this a block, if there are 2 matching corners (colors) on one layer. It's not a block if all corners match. If every layer is in this block format, just bring all 3 blocks into the back and do: R' F R' B2 R F' R' B2 R2 (A-perm). This will solve all corners. If there are other formats, just bring the blocks onto the left side and do the alg. Now you'll get the first case.
5 step: Solve edges. This is a very intuitive part. Normally I do a U-Perm and solve the rest with Commutators. Sometime I also use the H-Perm, this alg can be applied to only one or two layers also.

As for the cards, why did you sort them into separate piles instead of just one?

I memorize the cards along a route. If I forget the cards on one location, I start a new pile. When I remember the cards again, I close the gap.

sub2!
Very nice. What next? 1000 digits and 10 decks in one hour?

Thanks, I guess I can do these with a bit of practice, but I doubt that I'll try it. I want to start practicing multi again this summer, so you will get some rivals. And this requires a lot of preparation, because I'm changing my letter-pair list to a topic-picture-list.