Message #3671

From: Melinda Green <melinda@superliminal.com>
Subject: Regarding blindfold solves
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 15:46:12 -0800

The Mathologer’s video has inspired at least one brave soul to try though it remains unsolved. If you or anyone else wants to attempt it, please film yourself doing it and upload the result to YouTube as proof. It should give a clear view of the screen (including the twist count) and yourself, and of course it should be shot in one, unedited cut without you ever leaving the frame. You should definitely turn on video timestamps. That will also establish solution times for future speedsolvers.

Good luck!
-Melinda

On 2/18/2017 6:39 AM, ‘Jelle Aalberts’ jelle.aalberts@kpnmail.nl [4D_Cubing] wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
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> I recently found out about this cube online, and thought “well it can’t be that hard, can it?”, and so I went ahead and tried to solve it. After a few weeks, I solved it for the first time (with a couple of hours per week spent on it), using Mathologer’s method involving commutators to solve every piece individually.
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> I’m an 18-year-old guy from the Netherlands, and I am doing my bachelor in physics & astronomy at the University of Amsterdam. I developed an interest in cubing in November 2016, inspired by a friend of mine. I’ve also juggled for a long time, but unfortunately stopped a few years ago, due to lack of time. I used to do tra mpolining, ice skating and competitive tennis, and have been doing gymnastics for a year now. Besides obviously being interested in physics and the universe and stuff, I also like maths, though I don’t really know much about it (relative to probably a bunch of people here).
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> About my cubing experience, I semi-regularly do 3x3x3 speedsolves (averaging around 35 seconds, using CFOP), and have solved the 4x4x4 and 5x5x5 a couple of times as well. Another thing I like to do is 3BLD, solving a 3x3x3 blindfolded. I enjoy doing this more than just speedsolving, because of the extra mental challenge. I am really curious to whether anyone has looked into blindsolving the 3x3x3x3, because I would love to try that as well!
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> -Jelle Aalberts
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