Where to order 1000 cubes and more?

Micael said:
Mike Hughey said:
It's a crazy idea, but not necessarily impossible.
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I think it is possible too, I just suspect this to be a joke. I hope I am wrong. Look at this guy, he would be good at blindsolve. I guess he would memorize a cube in 2 seconds. I looked some videos of him and he is awesomely incredible at memorisation.
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Wow! 19 numbers in 1 second!?!?!
Yes, definitely sub-2 BLD memo! But how?!??

"1000 digits in 15 minutes and 23,200 words in order after hearing them only once."

I guess he would be able to do this multi BLD attempt easily.
 
fanwuq said:
Micael said:
Mike Hughey said:
It's a crazy idea, but not necessarily impossible.
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I think it is possible too, I just suspect this to be a joke. I hope I am wrong. Look at this guy, he would be good at blindsolve. I guess he would memorize a cube in 2 seconds. I looked some videos of him and he is awesomely incredible at memorisation.
Click to expand...

Wow! 19 numbers in 1 second!?!?!
Yes, definitely sub-2 BLD memo! But how?!??

"1000 digits in 15 minutes and 23,200 words in order after hearing them only once."

I guess he would be able to do this multi BLD attempt easily.
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Stop it guys, please!
 
tim said:
fanwuq said:
Micael said:
Mike Hughey said:
It's a crazy idea, but not necessarily impossible.
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I think it is possible too, I just suspect this to be a joke. I hope I am wrong. Look at this guy, he would be good at blindsolve. I guess he would memorize a cube in 2 seconds. I looked some videos of him and he is awesomely incredible at memorisation.
Click to expand...

Wow! 19 numbers in 1 second!?!?!
Yes, definitely sub-2 BLD memo! But how?!??

"1000 digits in 15 minutes and 23,200 words in order after hearing them only once."

I guess he would be able to do this multi BLD attempt easily.
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His site looks suspicious; only Spanish (and German) contestants in
that sport?
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He and his "World Speed Memory Championships" focus on very short fast memorization, while the "World Memory Championships" focus on much longer disciplines. In the speed version I think it's mostly himself and his disciples, others are welcome but just not interested enough.
 
If they are racing 1000 cubes multi, it doesn't mean they try to do 1000 cubes multi. Maybe they have a time limit and they see who can do the most cubes in that time. Then again, Dennis wanted more than 1000 so... I don't know, and I don't really care right now, I'll be interested when there are results.
 
I've tried these "X digits in Y seconds" (for Y a small integer) things before. They're interesting and fun, but not really applicable to BLD solving. I think my record is 12 decimal / 27 binary digits in 1 second? It's all about working memory anyway, you just glance at it and make sure you see all the numbers, and then when the numbers disappear you write down what you remember as fast as you can. So it's almost about visualizing the numbers rather than remembering them. It isn't anything like BLD solving because BLD includes the time to find out where the pieces are (so you can't just see the numbers on screen and remember them) and because in BLD you have to remember the numbers until you can execute the whole cube. I think that this would only be useful for BLD if you could somehow remember 54 base-6 numbers (i.e. colors) at a glance, because this type of very fast memory event only works properly if you don't have to think about turning the data into numbers.
 
StefanPochmann said:
Awww... the poor boy. Enjoys being the celebrity and getting the attention but never eager to really prove himself. Could turn out bad, I guess.

But yeah, that's why I said "any kind of serious memory competition or anything remotely equivalent". So... anything?
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Well, I did give something remotely equivalent. In the documentary a psychologist gives him a standard list of word sthat fit a particular category. The trick is that most people will associate all the words with another word (for example, bed, pillow, tired = sleep) even though "sleep" would not have been in the list. The list was at least 10 words but for some reason "20" is screaming out at me. Kim Peek remembered the list perfectly. Of course it wasn't done in haste, so he had a bit of time, but still, I know I would have failed.
The list was first given to him one word at a time, then the psychologist gave back the list plus other words and Kim was aksed whether they were in the list or not.
You might say "I could do that, I do it all the time when BLD solving" but of course, that would be expected as you practise it. There is no evidence to show that Kim Peek practised. There is evidence to show that he remembers a lot of stuff from books that he read when he was only a child.
 
Ok, but how does that little exercise translate to "Kim Peek would certainly excel at such a task"? (Not sure whether you were referring to the 1000 cubes multiblind or to mentally computing thousands of digits of pi on the fly)
 
I actually mean a task that involves memory in general. I'm certainly not stupid enough to suggest that he could suddenly memorise and solve 1000 rubik's cubes without any training. As for Pi, maybe...
 
I didn't expect it without training. He can train all he wants. But has he done anything like this before? Memorizing a huge amount of random data precisely? Is this documented somewhere?
 
qqwref said:
[...] It isn't anything like BLD solving because BLD includes the time to find out where the pieces are (so you can't just see the numbers on screen and remember them) [...]
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I agree. Sub10 sec memo is a more fair guess (if he would go into cubing). Anyway, I put that link because the subject here is the 1000 multi and if you go for the details about its attempt of 23 000 words you will see that the 1000 multi is humanly possible.
 
Micael said:
qqwref said:
[...] It isn't anything like BLD solving because BLD includes the time to find out where the pieces are (so you can't just see the numbers on screen and remember them) [...]
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I agree. Sub10 sec memo is a more fair guess (if he would go into cubing). Anyway, I put that link because the subject here is the 1000 multi and if you go for the details about its attempt of 23 000 words you will see that the 1000 multi is humanly possible.
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10,000 cubes multi bld is also humanly possible. I guess the only real limit is when you go mental.
 
As for the Ramón Campayo guy, check out this video... it's insaaane!

As for the 1000 cube multi, I think it is probably possible, but that does not mean I neccessarily believe that these crazy people (Tim, Dennis, Kai) are actually trying it :D
 
When you get to the level of 10000 cubes I am not so sure anymore. Using Stefan's number of 91.7 bits/cube that is 917 kbit ~= 276000 decimal digits, and recall that the WR for pi memorization is about 100000 even though people who memorize pi have as long as they want (on the order of years or decades) to memorize the number. So I am not actually completely sure that 10000 cubes would be possible.
 
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