Video of the Blindfolded WR

[KJiptner]

Hey guys,

I'm sorry for the two weeks delay.
I'm very happy, that I'm finally able to share this with
you.

Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqZWVT82Ekc

The video also includes his second solve at the
competition.
The ending of both clips turned out a bit bad.
I'm sorry that you can barely see the solved cube. On the
second solve my girlfriend even pressed 'stop' too early.
But at least we have some footage of this. I hope you
still like it a bit.


Enjoy.
Kai.

 

[joey]

Thanks alot! I'm glad you found our charger!

 

[Mike Hughey]

Thanks for this! It's very inspiring. I'm going to work extra-hard on decreasing my memorization times after seeing that. If he can do it in 14 seconds, surely I can do it in a minute, right? (I'm usually about 1:30 now.)

 

[Jason Baum]

Thanks for posting this! Matyas is amazing to watch. I love how he paces back and forth during his memorization. It is also crazy how he can memorize the cube in 13 seconds. o_O

 

[hait2]

i am in awe.. screw my sub60 memo goal, aiming for sub 30 now (sad that it's still twice as slow as matyas, and looks nearly impossible for me)

 

[tim]

Thanks for this! It's very inspiring. I'm going to work extra-hard on decreasing my memorization times after seeing that. If he can do it in 14 seconds, surely I can do it in a minute, right? (I'm usually about 1:30 now.)

Me too . I memorized 20 cubes a few hours ago and timed myself every time. And i'm really getting faster. I also tried to improve my recall times, but that's not as easy as improving the memorization time.

And thanks Kai. You saved my weekend .

 

[Karthik]

i am in awe.. screw my sub60 memo goal, aiming for sub 30 now (sad that it's still twice as slow as matyas, and looks nearly impossible for me)

Before you started Cubing,if you had seen someone solve blindfolded you must have thought even that is nearly impossible right?

 

[hait2]

Before you started Cubing,if you had seen someone solve blindfolded you must have thought even that is nearly impossible right?

yes but mostly because I didn't know how/what's involved. At this point I know the information needed to memorize a 3x3x3, and while it's not a lot, I can't see myself doing it in 15 seconds ;( I mean, let's say I memorize my permutations at 3 pieces every 5 seconds (which, while not lightning fast, is pretty damn quick, at least for me). Assuming a standard non-lucky case, that would probably be about 25-30 seconds of memo. Then I glance over the orientations in about 5-10 seconds, so that would give me a roughly 35sec memo time

to memo something like matyas, you'd need to memorize permutations in 9-10seconds and orientations in like 2-4sec. i don't even wanna think about it >_<

 

[Karthik]

Well yes I agree with you up to some extent.But thats not all that impossible unless Matyas has some sort of photographic memory.
Matyas are you listening?

 

[hait2]

i am going to work on another way of memorizing.. i am not sure if you guys have ever experienced this, but sometimes when i BLD, i can't say what the cycles are, but i can execute them because my mind knows it. it's like a complete blank during that time and i don't think, it just happens.

i am thinking this is some sort of short-term muscle memory.. so i will try to use my hands such that i will remember what movements they made while memorizing and do the entire solve in that 'blank state'. this should get rid of all the nasty business of imagining/converting pieces to images/recall/etc.

i don't even know if it's possible, but hell, i am sure going to try it

 

[tim]

I think you are not able to execute as fast as Matyas does with a photographic memory.

It's really possible to memorize that fast. You guys know speed cards? It's a memory sport, where you have to memorize a deck of cards as fast as possible (and recall it in the correct order). The world record is under 30s. This means you have to memorize more than 1.7 cards in a second. And all this is done by converting each card into an image and putting this image at a location of your routing system.

And in order to memorize a Rubik's Cube you "only" have to memorize 20 (12 edges + 8 corners) pieces of information. If people can memorize 52 cards in 30 seconds. 20 cubies in 30 seconds should be really easy.

hait2: That's what i did for edge orientation. I often didn't know which pieces were unoriented. And it worked pretty well.

 

[pjk]

You think he has a photographic memory? I doubt it. Just good method, lots of practice, and efficient. Very impressive nonetheless. He shattered the WR.

 

[AvGalen]

Is there any scientific prove that a "photographic memory" actually exists? I personaly don't believe anyone is born with the ability to "just remember" anything they see.

 

[tim]

Is there any scientific prove that a "photographic memory" actually exists? I personaly don't believe anyone is born with the ability to "just remember" anything they see.

dito . The only times i read about "photgraphic memory" is at the comments to a bld solve at youtube...

 

[pjk]

Not sure... but from what I understand, some people can visualize things very well with no practice at all. They can look at something and then recall it all very easily. Those are the people referred to with a "photographic memory".

 

[Mátyás Kuti(shaipo)]

Photographic memory? NO!

No, I don't have photographic memory.
Just practice, practice, practice...

 

[gillesvdp]

If I were to practice BLD, would solving 20 cubes per day be enough ?

(Damn that's about 1 hour for just BLD cubing..how am I gonna practice OH cubing now)

 

[AvGalen]

20 cubes blindfolded in only 1 hour sounds like you already had a lot of practice

 

[joey]

No, I don't have photographic memory.
Just practice, practice, practice...

When recalling what do you do? Some use shapes, some use 'lights' etc

For me, I dont really know what happens. I just know the next piece, its not always right though

 

[tim]

He once said, that each edge has a category and he tries to make funny stories out of them.
A few days ago, i also started to use a memory system. If you recall your story/routes/... you see the image and just know to which piece it belongs. At first it takes some time, but then recalling isn't a problem with a memory system. But memorizing is one - for sure :/. It takes me about 100s to memorize 11 images/cubies. That's about 9 seconds per image. For recalling all those 11 images i need about 20 seconds. And that's faster than my execution time .
I think i should also give 20 bld solves a day a try .