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Why Rubik's Cubers nod their head
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- Опубліковано 2 бер 2024
- Adam Ragusea, Vanessa Hill and Stuart Ashen discuss a question about a shaky solution.
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I came up with the term "nod don" over 5 years ago and insisted that the term stick since it was a palindrome. Incredible to see it show up here of all places!
Yes! Yes you did!!!
Huge, huge fan. 4BLD GOAT!
the goat
damn the creator of the technique himself showed up
When I read this comment before watching the full video I didn't think of "don" as the verb (english isn't my first language), so I thought "Wait, this person thought some weird nickname (Like an italian mobster or something) would stick simply because it's a palindrome?" but it now actually makes so much sense and is indeed, a fine name
also fun fact: Nod'Onn is the name of the big bad villain in the book "the dwarves" by Markus Heitz (it's also been turned into both a video game and a table top game, all three are good for different reasons)
ive been cubing for 4 years how did i not notice it was a palindrome
Professional welders do the same move for same result. But they aren't short on time, they are short on free hands.
i can confirm, although i'm not a professional but i have experience.. :)
I haven't used welding goggles in ages, but with a safety thing like that I think I'd be fully clenched for a while until confident they were always landing properly, or how to tell if they hadn't.
@@adamsbja I think OP was talking about welding masks, not goggles.
@@wta1518Oh hey, that would make sense.
Same thing working with liquid nitrogen in a laboratory. Got to get that face shield down but if you touch the shield you've contaminated your gloves so nod hard.
Hey, I'm actually a seven time UK record holder for the blindfolded event as well as being the former national champion! This 'Nod-don' is actually the thing that pushed my times the final bit I needed to push them to over take the former record holder at the time!
Great to see this, love that people are becoming more aware of the blindfolded event!
omg hi ben stokes I'm your biggest fan
ive been super into cubing for ~3 years now, and this was so fun to watch. they got a couple small, nitpicky facts wrong, but it was amazing seeing tom just perfectly piece everything together and get the exact answer right at the end
For anyone wondering what facts they got wrong (Mainly Tom Scott):
1. They can't take all the time they want to examine the cube prior to solving. It's a 15 second limit.
2. Times are submitted rounded to the hundredths (e.g. 3.13), despite timers being capable of tracking thousandths.
3. World record is actually 3 seconds!
4. No speedcuber can see the ENTIRE solve before starting (Unless ofc you're using blindfolded solving method). More like a couple steps. The top cubers might be able to see halfway or so.
5. You don't start the timer then put down the blindfold, that'd be pretty stupid since you now have to optimize something unrelated to cubing for no reason. It's because you begin the timer and only then get to see the cube and memorize the solution. That's a big part of the skill so they have that factored in.
@@han-huo To add on to #1, if you go over 15 seconds "inspection time", your final solve time will get a +2 seconds penalty. If you go over 17 seconds, the solve is disqualified
hey wtf i know who you are
The welder in me knew as soon as we figured out it was blindfolded.
the blindfolded solver in me knew as soon as we figured out it was blindfolded lol
@@Scotty-vs4lfthe blder in me knew from the title lol
As a cuber, I’m so glad that we got a lateral question episode
wrong typa cube
Same
Same
Yoooo
Haha nerd
yay I sent in this question
originally it was something along the lines of "What small innovation allowed blindfolded Rubik's Cube solvers to improve their times?" but I think that David definitely edited this question for the better. also, the slightly wrong information at the end might've been a result of my poor explanation skills, sorry lol
It's fine, Tom somehow understood it better than anyone else by the end because of this 😂
I'm surprised that even though Tom is not "in the cubing circle", he is able to reason and guess the correct answer!
Just to sum up
* The cube is under a cover and put in front of the player
* In a "sighted" solve, after the cover is lifted, the player can have up to 15 seconds of free inspection before the timing of the solve begins. During the 15-second inspection period, the player can pick up the cube and inspect it from any angle they want, as long as they do not make any turns.
* In a "blindfolded" solve, as soon as the cover is lifted, the timing of the solves begins, including memorization (sighted) and solving (blindfolded)
Adding on to nodding your head, top blind solvers nod their head to bring down the blindfold
Slight correction for 2:38
The inspection only gives enough time to figure out the first few movements and algorithms (move sequences) that set up other algorithms and finishing moves which usually are figured out by split second piece finding. I do not believe there is anyone in the world that could figure out how to solve a 3x3 cube completely in the 15 seconds of inspection provided for the standard event. Also blindfolded uses a complex letter and word system for the most used method in case you're wondering how that works.
By the way this isn't supposed to be a "Tom is wrong" comment I just genuinely think this is more impressive than just automatically knowing the solution and wanted to share.
Unless you're Yiheng Wang and can do one-look CFOP.
World-class blindfold solvers (Tommy Cherry, Charlie Eggins) can complete inspection in around 5 seconds and execute in around 7 seconds (world record at the time of writing is 12 seconds total).
Some blindfolded solvers (Graham Siggins) have competed in the Normal "sighted" using blindfolded methods (for fun), although a standard sighted method (CFOP) will be faster in the vast majority of cases. Graham averages around 12 seconds for blindfolded execution, and high 9.xx for sighted. Charlie Eggins is maybe 2 seconds faster using CFOP than BLD.
@@zalibecquerel3463 Why isn't there an official non-blindfold event that includes inspection time? Seems like that would be an interesting event.
@@JohnDoe-ti2np Back in the 1980s, this was the way competitions were run. The reason they don't add it these days is an official event is simply the logistics of running competitions. There are already around 17 official WCA events, which is quite a lot. Many local competitions only do a few of these (2x2, 3x3, 3x3 one-handed, clock, pyraminx). Even with just those 5 events, it's a full, busy day if it's a one-day competition. Word on the street is if they add an 18th official event, "face-turning octahedron", "mirror blocks", or a "team relay" would be popular choices.
@@zalibecquerel3463 Thanks; that's at least a partial explanation. From my layman's point of view, however, it's not a full explanation of why 3x3 including inspection time wasn't included as an official event much earlier in the process. I think that if you asked a random layman whether Rubik's cube world records include inspection time or not, half would guess yes and half would guess no. The fact that blind solving includes inspection time, and is therefore "inconsistent" (in a sense) with normal solving rules, just adds to the mystery.
2:38: The only speedcubers who plan the whole solve during inspection are those who specifically train to. The fastest (normal competition) cubers in the world will plan a lot of the solve during inspection, but not the whole thing.
I believe even Yiheng and Tymon only plan up to the second layer right? I don't believe anyone is planning last layer yet. Maybe Yiheng can get there, he's kind of insane for how young he is
exactly, they will usually plan the cross and (in the top level) part of f2l or all of it. The thing is that, while they solve something, they're already planning the next thing they'll do, and their pattern recognition is so fast that to a normal person it seems like they 1-look it
@@emmanuelsifontes4467 yep if they can plan out the first f2l pairs, then plan the second and third while solving those 2 it will look like they 1 looked f2l. same for last layer
@@newsoupvialtYiheng is able to predict OLL in some cases. There's a video of him getting a 1 look 5 second solve by predicting OLL and getting a PLL skip.
@@newsoupvialtliterally no one plans the f2l, the best u can do is plan till the 2nd pair if your scramble is extremely easy
OMG, Adam Ragusea in Lateral! He just announced his semi-retirement, and now he casually drops banger after banger! First the doggo video, now collab in my favourite game show! Love it, the man is just having fun when and how he wants to. This is way better than strict, stressful schedule of food videos, not being bound by it gave him wings, looks like :)
I think the key clue was that the question said it was "a record" not " the record", which immediately makes you think it must be some variant of normal cube solving
So cool to see cubing featured here! A lot of wrong information but hey that's kinda the point of the game. As a nod donner myself I really enjoyed this video!
No way the rule cuberstache from the cubers discord!!
As a cuber I saw several inaccuracies in this but at least they were reasonable assumptions. For sighted solves you don't get unlimited time to inspect but you do get 15 seconds which is basically the same thing most of the time. For blindfolded solving, inspection time doesn't have a limit but that's because it's part of your time. Stackmats do record to the millisecond, but we always round down to the nearest hundredth of a second when recording times. The world record in 3x3 sighted is 3.13 seconds and not 4, but it's OK as this is a fairly recent World Record (it was set in July of 2023).
Also the world record average is 4.48 so that's fair enough
inspection time is limited to 15 seconds
A4d1) The competitor must start the solve within 15 seconds of the start of the inspection. Penalty: time penalty (+2 seconds).
A4d2) The competitor must start the solve within 17 seconds of the start of the inspection. Penalty: disqualification of the attempt (DNF).
So... how is the inspection timed?
@@tcxd1164A judge who is sitting at the competitor's table has a stopwatch, which they use to time from the moment they remove the cube cover. They then call out both at 8 and 12 seconds into the inspection (unless the competitor has already started the solve).
@@kyh148What is the maximum time between inspection, hands on and starting? For the lower levels, I can imagine looking at the cube after the inspection can help on three four sides, and extrapolate the other two ( back and bottom)
@@PianoKwanManthe inspection ends when you lift your hands from the timer, which starts the solve
@@kvarts314 ah. So, inspection time includes the time that the hands are on the timing mat? So, the solve must start 15seconds after revealing the cube?
4:41 - Alright, so peeking with the blindfold actually does have a history of happening in the world of cubing.
Back in 2007, at the World Championships, the winner for the blind events was Mátyás Kuti. It was found out though that he simply looked under/through his blindfold for the event. This lead to one of the Biggest Scandals of Cubing's History, and as a result Mátyás Kuti was banned from competing for 3 years, & his Blindfold solve records were all expunged.
This is actually why they now stick a sheet of paper between the face and cube while people do blindfold solves, to prevent any peeking from happening again.
Hi! Decent cuber here (take that with a grain of salt). I just wanna talk about some things in this video:
2:38 Sorry but this is only true for 2x2 and maybe clock (I don't do clock), but this is definitely not a thing on 3x3 or bigger. Professional cubers use something called 'look-ahead' which is what it implies, in that they look ahead to the next step. Most cubers use the CFOP method, which is what I will thus be talking about, as I too use it. At most, a professional cuber might look to the 3rd pair of F2L and in some rare instances very maybe full F2L, it only looks like they know precisely what to do because they are just that good at looking ahead. On bigger cubes (which I again don't really practice too much) I believe most cubers would only look to centers and how to solve those as quickly as possible, and I believe that starting edge pairing and seeing that within 15 seconds is as good as impossible, maybe not on 4x4 with a lucky scramble, but definitely with 5x5 and up.
4:12 Thats true! I'm not going into details about blindfold cubing, as it is very impressive and equally as extensive and treacherous to learn, but people do actually nod their heads with enough force to get the blindfold on. It saves at most a second but it is pretty cool to know as a small time save, with the added plus of it looking cool!
Again I'm only an intermediate cuber at best, so please if I got anything wrong just notify me, no need to start a war over something we both enjoy! Have a good day!
I was surprised none mentioned that the blindfold nod would be the same as when welders make their welding mask drop down in front of their face, since they usually got the tools in their hands before dropping the mask.
Not much welder in them :)
as someone who is a "cuber" (my best time with my cube is 12 seconds), anyone can learn how. you dont need 10000 hours. you could just take a good hour or so and learn with a tutorial ( i like the j perm one for beginners)
Why is the guy in the thumbnail holding a 3x3x4?
To see if anyone would notice.
3x4x4 👀
@@TheYorkRose right right
@@TheYorkRose let's say I just put it that way to see if anyone would notice 🙄
😂
I'm a cuber. We do not plan out the whole solve. Not even close.
Woohoo cubing related lateral question!!!
omg are you rinbork
@@prabhavcubes omg are you prabhav
@@akashsreedharan omg are you akash
Tom Scott and Adam Ragusea in the same video about Rubik’s cubing? This is the crossover I never knew I needed until today.
“I dont have the patience for it, it requires learning.”
that's a new idea for tom scott plus episode. speedcubing and magic tricks
You mean like Sir Ravi's video: K_gHa2x2OQA (solving 3 cubes while juggling)?
also for blindsolving the memorisation is also timed, the cube is in a cover until you start the time, only after which you memorise, so the fact that the world record is 12.00 is insane.
I did not expect to see this here! Blindfolded solving is memorization time + solving time so someone did realise they could save about a second by just nodding the blindfold down. Slight correction: there is a 15 second limit on inspection time for non-blind events.
I’m so glad to see Tom here (haven’t watched this channel before) and even more glad to know Tom got the answer right!
A small correction though: in regulating speed solving, the inspection time is 15 seconds, so we don’t actually get all the time we want. Also, even for top cubers like Yiheng, Max, and Tymon, they still need to look at the cube when the solve begins in regular (non-blindfolded) speedcubing.
Great video! So happy to see cubing and Tom Scott in the same video!
ADAM!!! So fun to see you here!
A misunderstanding that comes up in this video is, for competition, you usually only get 15 seconds to inspect the cube after it's reviled and then you have to put your hands on the mat, you can take longer but you get a deducted score for it. So Tom saying you get all the time you want to look at it is false, but 15 seconds is a lot for a speed cuber
I dont have anything insightful to add except speedcubing is cool
Very cool 😎
Yes, we do count the examination time on blindfolded solves, and yes that's why some people nod they gead to put it on (nod-don), why we are not allowed to turn the cube before fully nodding the blindfold and there is a paper beetween us and the cube. When the examination time doesnt count it is called "speedblind" but is NOT an official event.
tom is right but a little correction, when not solving blindfolded, you get 15 seconds to examine the cube in competition before starting the solve, if you pass that it's a 2 second penalty to the solve and if it takes you more than 17 seconds the solve is disqualified. so you don't get as much time as you need, just 15 seconds
As a cuber, I tough at the beginning that they are gonna say something stupid, but they actually answered the question correctly.
I had the pleasure of meeting Tom Scott at the royal institution Christmas lectures! I hope some of his knowledge came from what I told him in 2019 :)
I thought Adam's idea that it was to peak at the back of the cube was extremely clever! I am only a novice cuber (sub 30) but I'm constantly trying to peak around the cube especially since I use Roux method and try to minimize rotation. Adam and Tom are both incredibly smart, I love them!
1:32 Nope. They don't have as much time to examine as they want. They have 15 seconds inspection time.
But that's only for speed solving.
I never expected a Rubik's Cube episode to be in lateral
As a cuber they only get 15 seconds to inspect in competitions except solving blind so the only people who really plan their full solution before starting are fibers who solve blindfolded i’m surprised nobody called this out
The timer mats Tom's talking about were originally made for speed stacking of cups. An earlier question in earlier question in the show involved triangular numbers. Was mildly disappointed that link wasn't made since one involves making LITERAL TRIANGLES.
But I also get that it wasn't an obvious link.
Yeah, welders and others who have to put down a visor learn to balance the friction (it's adjustable for that reason) so it doesn't drop down inadvertently but only requires just the right amount to go down into place. It's a common enough action that you see them all do it. As for cubing the timing mats are actually used for cup stacking which is why you have to start with two hands on the pad. You then lift your hands off the pads, do your cup stacking routine and when you're done, put your hands back down on the pads to stop the timer. This is OK for cubing though dropping the cube is somewhat risky as it can lead to a corner bouncing and twisting the cube to disqualify you.
That was my thought but I was thrown off by the phrasing of the question, since I have not realized this would count towards the time. But it very much makes sense, since it's between inspection and solve which both count.
Tom summoned the entire WCA with this one
Competitions are pretty wild. I'm pleased just to solve a cube at all, let alone in seconds.
Tom, you can learn to solve the cube in like a day. It’s really not as hard as you think it is. Obviously I’m not talking about breaking records but I’ve spent maybe 100 hours learning and practising and can solve a cube in about three minutes. And no, I’m not trying to brag. I’m saying that getting to time below five minutes is easy.
I think he knows how to solve a cube, he's talking about speedcubing specifically being very hard to learn.
I can solve a 3x3 cube in 2-3 minutes and with the way I do it I'm never going to get significantly better than that. I know a limited number of moves that mostly put one piece into place or, for a few of the moves, cycle three pieces around their positions. For the three-piece moves I only know one variation of them, so I often end up doing them twice in a row rather than the mirror-image move once.
He could ask Sabrina; she knows how to do it.
@@Michael75579If you know the PLLs for T-Perm, J-Perm, Y-Perm and R-Perm, that's enough to be able to solve a cube blindfolded using the method known as "Old Pochmann".
i assumed this would be like speedbridging in minecraft where you not your head to keep the rhythm
This is an incredible group of people
cuber here. you dont have as much time as you want to inspect the cube, you only have 15 second to look at it and if you use more than that at competitions they add 2 seconds to your time in normal solveing. in blindfolded solving inspection is included in the solve time but you dont have infinite time, there is a time limit, if you take longer than the limit it is a dnf (did not finish)
Im a cuber. I can surelly say that nodding the head gives no practical advantage while solving (except solving blindfolded, to put the blinfold on without touching it). But in normal speedsolving nodding the head would mess look ahead a lot.
Finally a question I knew the answer to!
The Nod Don has been a big subject of discourse in the cubing community, and many people think it should never have been allowed at all. It causes a problem where people want to start turning the cube as fast as possible, and they start turning a split second before they put the blindfold on. It turned into a really gray line, and we can't go back now. One time Gianfranco Huianci almost got a world record, but he started turning a split second before the blindfold fully covered his eyes, this the record didn't count.
Lol as a cuber I litteraly laughed by watching this. I avg about 10 secs, and a while ago tom said he was making his last few vids, I emailed him to make a vid about cubing!
I clicked this bc I cube and didn't think I nodded lol, this makes more sense.
2:36 not really, thats mainly for blindfolding solves, regular solvers get 15 seconds inspection, most only use about 8-12 to make sure they can start their timer in time
"The world record is like 4 seconds?
Max Park with 3.13 WR: Yep! 4 seconds!
World record average is 4.48 so that's fair enough
Speedcubing mentioned 💪💪💪
So the theme song for this could've been 2002 Will Smith rap song from the soundtrack of the MIB 2 movie, "Nod ya head"
i understood it at around 3:10, this was fun !
Is there a reason why the cube in the thumbnail is a non-standard 4x4x3?
you can save about half a second using the nod don which is a lot when the solves are under 20 seconds. my blindfold is too tight so i cant do it tho.
I thought that nodding just helped to touch the timing mat faster at the end, since you move not only just your hands, but the whole body
we do also nod our heads to make the time slower.
if we nod our heads and stop the timer with our forehead, it's a +2 second time penalty
Initial thoughts: to look at the faces over and under the cube by changing the angle of vision on it, without moving it? But don't they plan it all before starting any manipulation? So, it's to have a third actuator (hand) to rotate a part up or down, while the other hands cover other movement types. More done without moving hands results in faster solve time.
3:12 One nod at the start, eh? Use mouth to lift the cube, or perform another manipulation, while both hands are still on the mat, and thus not starting the timer? That would be a shady rule loophole that could be patched quite quickly. And by the way the question is phrased, it seems to indicate that it wasn't fixed, as many are doing this trick.
3:30 Very specific record? Are they not able to see it (blind, blindfolded, etc.), and must touch the cube to read it? And they're using their heads to feel/read/see the cube before starting the timer? That doesn't make any sense as to why only one nod, and why a nod specifically.
It could be about the fewer number of movements record rather than pure time. Thus a free move without starting the timer could be a cheesy way to skirt the rules.
But it's not about circumventing the start timer, or they would solve it all with their chins only. And all those are not lateral enough, just a straight explanation of a possible edge.
So, it may be just a cheap quick move first, by having the chin right next to the cube while the hands are farther away, which WOULD trigger the timer, ... or the record is about solving the cube while disoriented. They could be spun around, upside down, getting in weird orientation before solving the cube, or needing the put a specific side "up"; and the nod is to help appraise the situation/orientation.
Results: that was way more evident and simple than I thought.
The "cube" in the thumbnail is 4x4x3 apparently
It’s so cool to see cubing featured here!
I’m not much of a blder myself, but I’ve tried doing nod don before. I’m too slow for it to make a difference and it feels like I’m giving myself brain damage every time I do it lol.
2:37 interesting tom would say this because it is obviously true for blindfolded solving, but he didnt know thats what he was talking about. what he thought he was saying is false. there is not a single person who has ever been able to "one look" an entire solve (apart from the much slower blindfolded event) Yiheng Wang from China is probably the closest, who can occasionally pull off "one look F2L" which is kind of like two thirds of the solve.
iirc Yiheng did a one-look official solve (somewhat, he one-looked F2L and predicted OLL, then got a PLL skip)
@@JudeStradtner oh wow, thats ridiculous lmao
In the circles of people who went to my school, this is known as the Mr. Wilhelm nod. Because that's how he changed into "reading mode", normaly his glasses would rest on his forehead. I now wonder, if he was any good at cube solving.
Cuber here! Tom Scott, if you're ever interested I can teach you to solve a cube and get good times without rote memorization aside from perhaps 2 very short length sets of moves. Like, 4 moves long.
4:41 you actually cant do this, because hte judge (the preson who's supervising your solve) puts some sort of surface between your face and the cube so that you can't peek from the edges of the blindfold
I nod my head before the solve to tell the judge I’m ready. Just so the judge knows I’m ready. Besides that, there’s no reason to nod during a solve. (Except blindfold of course, surprised y’all figured it out)
4:50 There is an event in the Paralympics that is a team sport especially designed for those who are visually impaired. Called net ball, because there are different levels of blindness every player, regardless of how little they can see (even people hi do not have eyes at all wear a blindfold) so everyone is sure to be on the same level.
In each blind fold is a light sensor so they will know if light is getting into the blindfold.
That is called Goalball, netball is the weird semi-basketball-like played primarily by women in Commonwealth countries
My first thought was they're headbutting the start/stop button on the timer with each nod :D
Why is the cube in the thumbnail 4x3?
i dont really watch this tbh but damn tom was on the spot with pretty much everything
2:41 was a bit wrong, you only have 15 seconds to inspect and top cuber will have looked through about 50% of the solve for 3x3, but for 2x2 its true.
Um, tom? We only get 15 seconds to examine the cube.
Wow! I just looked up the world record attempt and it stands currently at 3.13 seconds!
Blindfolded Rubix cube solving world record is currently at 12.10 seconds!
In both cases, they are seriously impressive! I can't even begin to try and fathom how on earth they do it so fast.
In all the clips I've seen of the blindfolded attempts, they all use the so called 'nod don' Really cool question.
No they do not do it in theire head, they only do the start of the cube in they head and then examin what is forward while solving, that is called "look ahead".
as a person who knows speedcubing ,I'm annoyed by the things that aren't completely correct. but still a good video.
Current world record for a rubix solve is 3.13 SECONDS. Crazy
Actually you can only inspect the cube for a maximum of 15 seconds (in any discipline except blind-solving), and not an indefinite amount of time as Tom mentions.
Tom discussing speedcubing :D :D :D
lol this is the first one that i figured out just by the title
I don't nod don because I'm not really good enough for it to give meaningful improvement in time.
0:14 - Is this the rule that they can end a solve with the final turn being less than a quarter rotation?
One full rotation is +2 seconds, a rotation less than 45 degrees is considered solved
Tom please let me teach you how to solve the cube! Please!
Go nuts! Teach him 3-style.
@@zalibecquerel3463 let’s start with Layer by Layer 😂
@@zalibecquerel3463nah teach him ZZ or heise
No cubers dont plan out the entire solve in the inspection (one look) they just plan the first 2 steps based on their method usually cross first pair and second pair.
unless you're tymon sometimes lol
He said "its timed in thousands of secound". That is wrong. Even tho the timer gives thousands of secound precise times it is only counted the hundreds of secound (rounded down)
1:34 a speedcuber has 15 seconds of inspiration time else it's a +2 seconds and anything over 17 is a DNF or did not finish.
Edit: the information above is correct for normal 3x3. But for blind time starts as soon you see the cube. By nodding you don't have to use your hands to take on the blindfold after you memorized the whole cube.
I always wondered why some snooker players flutter their finger when bridging. Still a mystery to this day.
Smooth cueing
As a 19 second cuber i usually dont "nod" my head, i look around the cube to see peices so i don't need to rotate since that wastes time, also toms understanding of blind cubing and normal cubing is completely wrong, ALL cubers no matter how good cant one look a whole solve with the method used in non blind comp, blind solver label peices with letters and solve every peive individually (where as we solve multiple peices at once in non blind), usually they memorize the letters by putting them into sentences
For some strange reason "Alatreon" kept popping up in my head while watching.
Why don’t they modify the rules so that they set the cube down after looking at it put on the blindfold and put their hands down. Then the timer starts once they lift their hands off the table to solve.
How quickly you put on the blindfold should be part of the record IMO.
You need 10k hours spare if you want to get the world record, if you want to be fast you need like a few weeks. It’s like any other skill; a curve
I honestly feel that my speedcuber/nerd status is confirmed, knowing the answer from just reading the video's title 😅
Damn, and just when my sd card ran out
ADAM RAGUSEA HI FROM HARDIN VALLEY!
I was with Vanessa regarding the peeking out of the blindfold because of the recent videos on the allegedly fake blindfolded videogame play. I know that the episode was recorded way earlier, though.
Standard practice in competitions is for a judge to hold an additional barrier such as a piece of paper in front of the competitor's blindfold in order to prevent this.
1:03 10,000 hours!? Paging Mike Boyd!
It’s not all the time they want to analyse its 15 seconds. Different rules for blindfolded.