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Dogmafood
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Message 1 of 15 (751593)
03-04-2015 10:08 AM


My son showed me this video and asked if it was even possible. I didn't have a good answer for him.
This guy looks at 50 Rubik's cubes for about 37 minutes and then puts on a blindfold and solves them all from memory in about 21 minutes.
What do you think? Is this bs or does it show something truly remarkable about the capacity of the human brain?

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Message 2 of 15 (751595)
03-04-2015 10:19 AM
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03-04-2015 10:08 AM


I can imagine a few different ways that this could be faked, none of which would be apparent in the video.

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Message 3 of 15 (751597)
03-04-2015 10:22 AM
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03-04-2015 10:08 AM


Heh, I could never solve the thing with my eyes open.

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Message 4 of 15 (751600)
03-04-2015 10:37 AM
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03-04-2015 10:08 AM


He could be legit. I've seen amazing simultaneous chess exhibitions, was one of the losing boards in one of them, and I've read stories of simultaneous blindfold chess exhibitions, so I believe what he did is possible.
On the other hand, according to the Amazing Randi, the most common cheat when blindfolds are involved is a tiny vision avenue. With people attempting to win his challenge it happened over and over and over again.
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Message 5 of 15 (751601)
03-04-2015 10:43 AM
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03-04-2015 10:22 AM


Heh, I could never solve the thing with my eyes open.
There's a technique. I had someone explain it to me in college, and it opened my eyes (heh) to a whole new way of approaching the problem.
Before I was focusing on the surfaces, and just moving the colored squares around on them trying to get them closer together.
But if you approach it as a three-dimensional problem, and realize that the faces on the corner blocks have to guide you to what color each side must be, then you can start to realize that there's a process involved in getting the right colored faces to the sides that they must end up on for the whole side to be the same color.
You always start with the corners...
For example:
In this one, the top corner closest to the screen shows that the top side must be white, while the right side (facing us) must be green and the left side orange.
Going to the very bottom closest corner, you're going to have to find the corner piece that fits where the right face is green and the left face is orange. There's only one piece that will fit there in that spot and make it work, so you have to find that one piece that will work and then figure out how to get it moved in that only position that will solve the puzzle.
You keep going around the corners until you get all those in place and the you can start moving to the other faces.

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Message 6 of 15 (751606)
03-04-2015 11:52 AM
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03-04-2015 10:43 AM


Arrrrgghhh! ok. Im off to Toys r us after work today.
Thanks Cat!

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03-04-2015 11:58 AM
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Arrrrgghhh! ok. Im off to Toys r us after work today.
Thanks Cat!
You're welcome.... but you're still not gonna solve it
Just because you know how doesn't mean you can. Even with the technique it is still incredibly difficult.
If you really want to be able to solve it, look up hints online on how to get a piece from one particular place to another. There are particular movements you need to employ to move a piece to its desired location.
It'll be like: To go from here to there, spin this side twice, then this other top part once, then go back to the other side and spin it backwards three times, and then move the bottom part over one, and viola, the piece will be where you wanted it to be.

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Message 8 of 15 (751615)
03-04-2015 12:27 PM
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03-04-2015 10:43 AM


That's odd. I always thought the key to it was the center pieces, since they never move relative to one another.

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson
We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat
It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate
Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung

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Message 9 of 15 (751618)
03-04-2015 12:54 PM
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03-04-2015 12:27 PM


That's odd. I always thought the key to it was the center pieces, since they never move relative to one another.
You know what, you're right. I forgot that step.
The center pieces determine which face must be which color. THEN you go to the corners and match up those sides with what color that face is going to be.

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Message 10 of 15 (751629)
03-04-2015 1:29 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Dogmafood
03-04-2015 10:08 AM


What do you think? Is this bs or does it show something truly remarkable about the capacity of the human brain?
I can't do that, but it seems possible if you want to go to the trouble.
There's nothing really remarkable about it. Studying a Rubik's Cube, you can reduce the solution to a small number of steps. Each of those steps might take 10 moves or so. But you only have to remember the small number of steps. By the time you have mastered the cube, you already have the 10-move sequences at you disposal and could do those sequences blindfolded without any difficulty.

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Message 11 of 15 (751722)
03-05-2015 5:58 AM
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03-04-2015 10:08 AM


I just know how i would fake this roll back the film, and start with the assembled cubes and just mess them up then roll it backwards.

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Dogmafood
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Message 12 of 15 (751725)
03-05-2015 7:16 AM
Reply to: Message 4 by Percy
03-04-2015 10:37 AM


I've seen amazing simultaneous chess exhibitions,
Yes like Magnus Carlsen. He plays 10 blind games simultaneously and wins them all. http://youtu.be/cTeDkyQUbyY
His brain must work differently than mine.
the most common cheat when blindfolds are involved is a tiny vision avenue.
That was my first suspicion. I guess this guy holds the world record for doing one RC blind in 21 sec. Looks more controlled in this video.
http://youtu.be/0RfJbcydNJ0
I guess that not every unbelievable thing that you might see is actually unbelievable.

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Dogmafood
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Message 13 of 15 (751726)
03-05-2015 7:18 AM
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03-04-2015 1:29 PM


There's nothing really remarkable about it.
Yeah I don't know about that. I suspect that it is not as difficult as it looks but I wouldn't agree that it is not remarkable.

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Message 14 of 15 (751730)
03-05-2015 9:05 AM
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03-04-2015 10:43 AM


Subbie's right. The key is the center.
The image shows that the top color must be yellow.
There are a few techniques for solving the cube, but since the center cross is the stationary piece of the cube, and the faces move around it, it is that center cross, and the squares connected to it, that determine where each color will be: the same cube will always have the same colors in the same positions relative to one another when solved.
The method I use involves solving a single face and then solving 'down' the cube until you get to solving the face opposite the starting one. But that is a slower method, and I've never gone faster than about one minute.
Google it and you will see how it's done There are also tips on doing the faster methods; they take more thought, so I've never bothered with them.

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Message 15 of 15 (751820)
03-06-2015 8:32 AM
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03-04-2015 10:43 AM


Algorithm
The rubiks cube can be solved by applying a handful of algorithms repeatedly.
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The algorithms themselves are second nature to anyone who solves cubes regularly.
Whilst I am not saying that what this guy does is not impressive I do think that with a good enough memory it would be possible for a rubiks expert to view a bunch of cubes and then just decide which algorithms to apply to each one before donning the blindfold.
Then all he has to remember is a long sequence of algorithms, the individual steps of each algorithm having already been well learned, to solve all the cubes and let his well practised hands do the rest.
Not easy. But not impossible for those with that sort of mind.

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