Some general info about Multi-Blind and how it works: All the cubes are scrambled with randomly generated scrambles. None of the scrambles are remotely similar, whatsoever. After the cubes are scrambled, I only start looking at them after I start the timer. I can't perform any moves on any of the cubes until I've blindfolded myself, and once I remove the blindfold, the attempt is over. In an official WCA competition, there's a time limit of 1 hour for this event. That 1 hour includes how long it takes you to memorize all of them before you start solving. I'm also the current world record holder for that event with 62/65 in 57:44. This 250 cube attempt, however, has no time limit. But obviously, there is somewhat of a time constraint in that the longer I take for the whole attempt, the more my ability to focus dwindles, and this can definitely end up affecting how many cubes I solve correctly. You may also wonder how it's possible for a human to memorize this much information. I'll start off by saying: I promise you I'm not gifted, and I don't have a photographic memory. Without getting into the gritty details of how one solves a Rubik's cube blindfolded: To memorize what you need to solve a single cube, you essentially need to memorize 20 letters. 20 letters can be simplified into 10 letter pair words, so 10 words per cube. I systematically break these 10 words down into 3 sentences/images, and imagine each image happening in a location in my memory palace. And then I go throughout my memory palace in a specific order (as in, I always go through the rooms of my memory palace in the same order every time) assigning the story from the first cube into the first 3 locations, the second cube into locations 4-6, the third cube into locations 7-9, etc. I also use a systematic review system where I review everything several times in a manner so I know the stories will stick as long as I need them to. If you'd like to know more about how memory palaces work, try googling "method of loci" and checking out the wikipedia page, or read up any of the relevant articles on the artofmemory forums, or if you're really interested, check out the book "Moonwalking With Einstein". Feel free to ask me any questions here as well, and I'll try to answer, as long as the answer doesn't require a full-blown essay :)
So much to love. Colossal effort in such a massive attempt. Pretty sure I’d get a brain aneurysm if I tried it. But also the thumbnail, video description and pinned comment… making cubing and mbld accessible to the non-cuber which is so important when we put videos up on TH-cam. Amazing as always Graham.
*It's just like when you are counting something and you don't want someone to interrupt you because you might forget what number you were on. Just one number and you're afraid or you might have to count all over again. *You're so focused on a single task that your mind is disregarding everything else in existence.*
Congratulations Graham. Never watched any cubing video as fascinated as this one... That's truly impressive, it really makes me wonder what we as humans are capable of!
Graham, I've always been impressed with memory skills and amazing things people can do mentally, but I've honestly never even been as close to impressed as I am with you sir! You are the most amazing it's hard to even accept that this is even possible. I don't even care that you use memory palaces, it still shouldn't be possible for a human to recall all of that!
Man, I'm trying to imagine spending over 6 hours straight just looking at all those cubes, trying to remember them, and I just don't know how you have the stamina. Congrats!
My first 3BLD solve was during a school tournment. I was bored in the stairs (where we watch the tournment) and I just said to my friend like: "hey, scramble the cube". He did, I memorized and somehow got to solve it. After that I only solved (blondfolded) 3 times, all timed, giving me a total of 4 successful solves
Congratulations! I started cubing when i was 8. 3 Years ago i finished my career without knowing how to solve a cube blindfolded. You inspired me to start again and learn to solve the cube blindfolded. Two days ago it worked. All because of you! Massive Thanks!
Super huge congrats on this Graham. I remember when I started cubing, I watched Maskows 125/150 so much and I thought it was pretty much about as good as it could get. But this is over double the points and around two hours faster than his attempt. Literally insane how amazing this is
this guy : "I don't know what to do today, I have about 8 hours..." also this guy : "I am gonna memorize and solve 250 rubik's cube blindfoldead, that would be fun."
so i calculated it and 20 letters each for 250 cubes is 5000 (thats insane) and the average amount of letters in an english word are approximately 5, so if we divide 5000 through 5 we get 1000 words! you memorised as many letters as there (approximately) are in a 1000 word essay! i am just speechless of how astonishing this is! P.S. for comparison, i remember writing an approximately 1400 word essay as homework and it took about 4 pages.
If this video doesn’t blow up my faith in humanity is gone. You never fail to amaze me bro! Stoked for you this is some legendary shizzz. Hope we can kick it again soon 🤘
i like how you solved so many cubes blindfolded in one attemp and instead of thinking about strategies for improving you worry about how to not hurt your back during the attemp itself
I have a few questions. The first is more of a curiosity: what do you use as your memory palace, and is it a place that really exists? Also, you say you break up each cube's memo into 3 sentences, placing each sentence's meaning in a location in your memory palace. How do you relate those three places in your memory palace? I.e. how do you not get confused about what sentence/object or thing in your memory palace belongs with what cube? How do you not pick three correctly memorized sentences that all belong to different cubes? Also, this is the most impressive feat of memory/the human mind that I've ever seen. Well done.
Graham uses several houses he's lived in, areas near where he lives, and friends' houses, as well as areas from Skyrim and Super Mario 64. The way memory palaces work is you either imagine the sentence happening *in* a specific location, or you just think about that sentence while thinking about the location, and build an association that way. It's possible to get confused, but generally your brain is pretty good at recalling locations accurately, which is one of the reasons memory palaces in general are so powerful
@@cookierobber You may have misunderstood my second question. I'm asking how, if 3 sentences are used to memorize each cube, there is any sort of association between the sentences. How can one avoid picking out a sentence that doesn't belong to a specific cube for that cube's solve?
@@beniolenio Ah right. When we construct a memory palace, we decide on a route through it. Ideally this'll be something logical (down the path to your front door, through your front door, down the hall, etc.) but even if it isn't, it's something you get used to over time. This gives us an order in which we visit our locations, and therefore an order in which we recall our sentences. So long as you don't mess up this order (by skipping a cube or something) you'll recall the correct sentences for each cube.
Just WOW ! It really motivates me to learn 3 style (I've been saying I'll learn it for at least 2-3 years) I'm done procastinating, I'm starting rn with your commutator list in the description
How long do you usually wait before reusing places of loci? I sometimes can't forget what is in some of my rooms and I can't reuse that room or I will remember the old cube better instead of the new one.
This totally depends on what kind of attempt i used the rooms for. Like if i did a 5 cube mbld with some rooms, i can easily reuse those rooms a few hours later. If i did a 1 hour mbld attempt with some rooms, i can comfortably reuse them 2 days later. With an attempt like this 250 attempt, it has taken over a week for the bulk of the memo to dissipate
@@GrahamSiggins if i asked u to recall any part of this attempt's memo, over a year later, would u be able to do it? wondering if there are still residuals this long after the attempt
@@ChrisChoi123 oh definitely not haha. I miiiiiiight vaguely remember parts of it if i saw the scrambles again, but i even kind of doubt that. I've used these palaces so many times since doing this, its completely gone at this point
Hello @GrahamSiggins I did not see that info in the comments or elsewhere - are you using the OP method for this? Or the M2 or even more advanced? I am currently practicing my single OP blindsolves with the goal of doing multiples so i want to know I have to « upgrade « my method sooner or later. Are you using letterpairs or is your memorization more fluid? Kind regards and congratulations for this amazing achievement.
And also I want to ask: do you have the same word for each letter pair every time? Or do you sometimes change it because it just works better with the story? Thanks & bb
He's using 3style, which is currently the most advanced method, but also has memorised many extra algs for special cases to make it even faster. Also, I would recommend learning M2 for edges, its a lot faster and doesnt take too much time to learn, but if ur goal is just to get 2/2 cubes, then OP for both corners and edges is still fine. Lastly, yes he's using letter pairs
@@Elias.Chong1thank you very much for your answer. It’s an interesting process and lots to learn. I will have to consider M2 sooner or later as i want increase the number Cubes as time progresses. Have a good one👋🏻
Beyond impressive! Congrats on the accomplishment. In regards to the back pain, I have zero expertise in this area, but thought I’d throw a couple ideas out there in case they might help. Maybe try a standing desk for a portion of the cubes (I don’t know how mind palaces work, but maybe you can differentiate an upstairs and downstairs depending on if you are standing or sitting. Or the other idea is to wear a posture corrector.
Thanks! The standing desk could help a bit but the problem with that is they are very expensive and it would probably break the bank to find one big enough to hold 300 cubes 🤣 I also made an effort to stand during a lot of the memorization phase, but since i still needed to bend my neck down to look at cubes I dont think that helped much. And theres not much getting around the issue of back pain during the 1.5 hours of execution. But the posture corrector seems like it could work. I may look into that 👌
without laying out the entire specific review systems, essentially i memo 1-192 (grouped into packs of 64, which are grouped into packs of 32, which are grouped into packs of 8, with different levels of review in each group) then i memo 193-250 shorter term, which is like a longer term review system for first 32 then shorter for next 16 then a short term last 10. Then i solve those 10, the previous 16, the previous 32, then 1-192 if you wanna see what i do in a normal attempt, check out the description of this video th-cam.com/video/fxIZyNVDF_8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=9BuDv7JX4QmgBi0d and for execution order just scan through the video
Dude what the actual fuck, i can barely get 50% success on 3 bld and your out here doing this. For sure the best to ever do it without a shadow of a doubt.
No, i dont have a photographic memory (theres actually not much solid scientific evidence that photographic memories arent a myth btw) Take a look at the pinned comment for more info
@@GrahamSiggins Thanks! Interesting info! I have used a technique that is like my own Excel spreadsheet; the spreadsheet is in my head…or I have used an actual Excel spreadsheet to create my own templates to memorize. I think an actual place or “palace” I am familiar with will be useful as a memorization technique. A few more questions: How long do all of the cubes you memorized remain in your memory or mind palace? And do you do anything to purge or remove what you memorized for such a task/project once it is finished?
@@pb9240 How long they stick in my memory palaces totally depends on the length of the attempt/how much i review everything. So for a normal 1 hour multi-blind attempt, the memo usually dissipates sufficiently after 2 or 3 days. For a really small attempt, like 5 cubes, which takes me 2-3 minutes, memo sufficiently dissipates in a few hours. For this 250 attempt, it took over a week. And by "sufficiently dissipate", I basically just mean that it dissipates to the extent that it won't have any significant interference on a new multi-blind attempt. I don't do anything in particular to help purge memorization from a palace, aside from really making sure that I don't think about the memo at all after the attempt. I also have 4 memory palaces so that I don't have to wait so long between attempts
@@liamhenderson7367 I've done multi-5BLD, dont remember what my best is with that. Got a 6/9 Multi-5BLD like a year or so ago. I think that was the only time I tried that, aside from a 3/4 multi-5BLD 3 or 4 years ago. I also have done 2/2 multi-6BLD in 19:21, and 2/2 multi-7BLD in 28:01
@@liamhenderson7367 th-cam.com/play/PLN0JHA1DI70110mJsHEpInbCwSpcnhJs5.html th-cam.com/video/9tuQVTtsDLo/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/qDS_vVnFxag/w-d-xo.html he even did 6x6 mbld! (1/1)
Amazing. I can remember when Maskow's 95/100 seemed like an impossible feat. Cubing continues to he pushed in an assortment of ways by an assortment of highy talented and extremely insane people. GG
The funny thing is: Even if he were to fake this (which it isn't, he's just better), this would still be extremely impressive. Memorizing 250 faked scrambles would still be extremely hard.
I want to start working towards such a big multi blind attempt as well, can I ask what kinds of locations do you use and how many rooms do you fit in each location? My very rough thought now is to use the underground line that I have been taking since I was young, and use each stop as a location. It’s very early but I’m thinking if I should put 2/1 packs of 8 in each location. Currently I can only do 32 and I can easily fit a pack of 8 in a single building/place
well, I have enough memory palace space to do 328 cubes worth of memo at this point lmao. So it would take a while to explain all of the kinds of things i've used. But my first two memory palaces (72 rooms each palace, and each room has 3 loci) are all real life places. First palace is all the houses I've lived in, basically 4 rooms per house, then when i ran out of those, it developed to my university, and neighborhoods, paths ive walked a lot, around the neighborhoods, paths through towns that i know really well, and then skateparks, which i know many of like the back of my hand. Once again, like 4 rooms per skatepark. Its kinda just like 4 rooms per each specific place. My next palace is friends houses, and then when i ran out of those, also just more paths like the last palace. then i have two palaces, 72 rooms each, all from super mario 64, and another 40 room palace from skyrim
Out of curiosity does like, talking to yourself affect you if you're doing a normal attempt that's like 60ish cubes, or is this being so longform just completely discount talking to yourself from having a bad effect?
yeah i mean in a one hour attempt, every second counts, talking to myself and taking a little break loses a significant amount of time that often i cannot afford. but in a big attempt like this, time doesnt matter in that sense, only in the sense that wasted time means subsequent reviews might be a little more difficult. but also, in something this long, i need little breaks like that, i cant stay focused for 7 hours of memo straight lmao
I actually wrote out a whole "schedule" of how I planned memo and exec to go, and still have it lol. I can just copy paste that, hopefully it makes sense 250 plan: REVIEW SYSTEM 1-8 1-8 9-16 9-16 1-16 17-24 17-24 25-32 25-32 17-32 1-32 1-32 This = “5pass 1-32” LONG TERM 192: (1-64: my stuff palace) 5pass 1-32 (0:30/0:30) 5pass 33-64 (0:30/1:00) Review 1-64 (0:10/1:10) Review 1-64 (7pass) (0:10/1:20) (65-128: friend’s stuff palace) 5pass 65-96 (0:30/1:50) 5pass 97-128 (0:30/2:20) Review 65-128 (6pass) (0:10/2:30) Review 1-128 (8pass 1-64 7pass 65-128) (0:20/2:50) (129-192: SM64) 5pass 129-160 (0:30/3:00) 5pass 161-192 (0:30/3:30) Review 129-192 (6pass) (0:10/3:40) Review 1-192 (9pass 1-64, 8pass 65-128, 7pass 129-192) (0:30/4:10) Review 1-192 (10pass 1-64, 9pass 65-128, 8pass 129-192) (0:30/4:40) If it feels really good, thats fine, if it doesnt, do 1 more *(0:30/5:10) SHORT TERM 58 (skyrim for first 32, remainders of other 3 palaces for 33-56, skyrim for 57) 5pass 193-224 (0:30/5:40) 6pass if necessary (0:05/5:45) 4pass 225-240 (0:15/6:00) 5pass if necessary (0:05/6:05) 3pass 241-248 (0:05/6:10) 4pass if necessary (0:02/6:12) 3 or 4pass last 2, idk maybe like 3 minutes cus ill be shitting myself (0:03/6:15) 10-15 minutes just for bathroom/eating/etc throughout (0:15/6:30) Solve order: 3bld 249 241-248 225-240 193-224 1-192 high estimate for exec = 25/cube = 1:44 GRAND TOTAL : 8:14
How many times did you attempt this and after like 10 or twenty in just misremember the order of one of them and so the rest 200 something all ended up being incorrect, meaning when you took the blindfold off you were devastated? I can imagine that happens to people during attempts like this. Big props to you for this, Jesus its insane
that has actually never happened to me when doing a really, really big attempt like this. It's something that scares me more than anything else when doing attempts like this, so I put an extreme amount of effort into making sure I do not do that. A lot of focus is required for this as you can imagine lol
You seem to be a bit confused here. Graham has almost sub-20 execution. The sub-20 on a single cube also includes memo. There's many more than a few dozen people who can execute 3bld on a single cube sub 20
I realize this has been posted a while ago already so no idea how much of the comments still will be read, but let's just see.. If @Graham Siggins happens to read this, or anyone who sort of regularly does blindsolving; would you mind sharing a few of the sentences that you've used to memorize a cube? I'm starting to get into 3BLD and after that possibly multi-bld and I know I need to use my own words/sentences because they will stick better than someone elses but am still curious to hear what kind of sentences people use.
I love how nonchalant you act after doing the single most impressive thing in cubing history
Some general info about Multi-Blind and how it works:
All the cubes are scrambled with randomly generated scrambles. None of the scrambles are remotely similar, whatsoever.
After the cubes are scrambled, I only start looking at them after I start the timer. I can't perform any moves on any of the cubes until I've blindfolded myself, and once I remove the blindfold, the attempt is over.
In an official WCA competition, there's a time limit of 1 hour for this event. That 1 hour includes how long it takes you to memorize all of them before you start solving. I'm also the current world record holder for that event with 62/65 in 57:44. This 250 cube attempt, however, has no time limit. But obviously, there is somewhat of a time constraint in that the longer I take for the whole attempt, the more my ability to focus dwindles, and this can definitely end up affecting how many cubes I solve correctly.
You may also wonder how it's possible for a human to memorize this much information. I'll start off by saying: I promise you I'm not gifted, and I don't have a photographic memory.
Without getting into the gritty details of how one solves a Rubik's cube blindfolded:
To memorize what you need to solve a single cube, you essentially need to memorize 20 letters. 20 letters can be simplified into 10 letter pair words, so 10 words per cube.
I systematically break these 10 words down into 3 sentences/images, and imagine each image happening in a location in my memory palace. And then I go throughout my memory palace in a specific order (as in, I always go through the rooms of my memory palace in the same order every time) assigning the story from the first cube into the first 3 locations, the second cube into locations 4-6, the third cube into locations 7-9, etc.
I also use a systematic review system where I review everything several times in a manner so I know the stories will stick as long as I need them to.
If you'd like to know more about how memory palaces work, try googling "method of loci" and checking out the wikipedia page, or read up any of the relevant articles on the artofmemory forums, or if you're really interested, check out the book "Moonwalking With Einstein".
Feel free to ask me any questions here as well, and I'll try to answer, as long as the answer doesn't require a full-blown essay :)
Are you planning to attempt a 100 cube multiblind in a future wca event?
what cube(s) did you use for this attempt?
@@nkaurum3482 no, not even close, most i can currently sub-hour is 69
@@nkaurum3482 description for cubes
hi, may i ask what available cube would you most enjoy doing 3bld with if you had to choose? thank you :)
So much to love. Colossal effort in such a massive attempt. Pretty sure I’d get a brain aneurysm if I tried it. But also the thumbnail, video description and pinned comment… making cubing and mbld accessible to the non-cuber which is so important when we put videos up on TH-cam. Amazing as always Graham.
Thanks for the kind words! Really glad you liked it all :)
Yes Indeed
I love that you can memo 5000 bits of information but can't recall how many reviews you have done 😊. Well done BTW
*It's just like when you are counting something and you don't want someone to interrupt you because you might forget what number you were on. Just one number and you're afraid or you might have to count all over again. *You're so focused on a single task that your mind is disregarding everything else in existence.*
Is ram is insane
Congratulations Graham. Never watched any cubing video as fascinated as this one... That's truly impressive, it really makes me wonder what we as humans are capable of!
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Literally found you in the comments lol🤣. I’m learning bld rn hoping to do bld at the championships!
@@Tito_decorazon7771 ahaha! Good luck with your bld training!
@@PietroFurbatto thanks!
Graham, I've always been impressed with memory skills and amazing things people can do mentally, but I've honestly never even been as close to impressed as I am with you sir! You are the most amazing it's hard to even accept that this is even possible. I don't even care that you use memory palaces, it still shouldn't be possible for a human to recall all of that!
Man, I'm trying to imagine spending over 6 hours straight just looking at all those cubes, trying to remember them, and I just don't know how you have the stamina. Congrats!
Staying focused is for sure the hardest part haha, it is rough
@@awelotta Good memory, as I've not been there in ages!
Incredible man. I just recently did my first single 3x3 bld solve in 9:36, so this is bonkers to me
thats a nice time for first success, i got 11 for my first one.
Still impressive too me!
@@udinkun7051 how you all remember that
@@al-karimdaily582
For one cube you "just" need to remember 20-ish letters. Atleast with the method I use. In theory that's not too bad
My first 3BLD solve was during a school tournment. I was bored in the stairs (where we watch the tournment) and I just said to my friend like: "hey, scramble the cube". He did, I memorized and somehow got to solve it. After that I only solved (blondfolded) 3 times, all timed, giving me a total of 4 successful solves
Congratulations!
I started cubing when i was 8. 3 Years ago i finished my career without knowing how to solve a cube blindfolded. You inspired me to start again and learn to solve the cube blindfolded.
Two days ago it worked. All because of you! Massive Thanks!
Wow that’s so cool to hear. I’m glad I could be of inspiration :)
Super huge congrats on this Graham. I remember when I started cubing, I watched Maskows 125/150 so much and I thought it was pretty much about as good as it could get. But this is over double the points and around two hours faster than his attempt. Literally insane how amazing this is
Praying the algorithm picks this one up
Congrats, extremely impressive result! Can't wait for 300!
this guy : "I don't know what to do today, I have about 8 hours..."
also this guy : "I am gonna memorize and solve 250 rubik's cube blindfoldead, that would be fun."
so i calculated it and 20 letters each for 250 cubes is 5000 (thats insane) and the average amount of letters in an english word are approximately 5, so if we divide 5000 through 5 we get 1000 words! you memorised as many letters as there (approximately) are in a 1000 word essay! i am just speechless of how astonishing this is!
P.S. for comparison, i remember writing an approximately 1400 word essay as homework and it took about 4 pages.
This is insane. You’re part of the reason I was inspired to learn 3BLD. Keep on amazing us!
If this video doesn’t blow up my faith in humanity is gone. You never fail to amaze me bro! Stoked for you this is some legendary shizzz. Hope we can kick it again soon 🤘
My mind is completely blown, this is beyond my comprehension. EASILY one of the most impressive things I've ever seen in my entire life. Speechless
Insane job Graham, probably the most impressive cubing feat. Thumbnail its perfect by the way
This is amazing!! Congratulations!! This is beyond impressive.
worth staying up past 3 am for! Congrats again Graham
Huge respect! Congrats on the result!
Magnificent, stupendous, amazing, wonderful, marvelous.
Now, what hilarious sentences did you make for the lines?!?!
i like how you solved so many cubes blindfolded in one attemp and instead of thinking about strategies for improving you worry about how to not hurt your back during the attemp itself
it was all i could think about after the attempt, my entire body hurt so bad lmao
10/10 content great edits and amazing solves. (I do wish the music was a bit quieter, but that's a really small complaint compared to the performance)
Bro now has the skill to remember an entire library
It was amazing to be there ! You're a legend and a inspiration to everyone who likes mbld !
I have a few questions. The first is more of a curiosity: what do you use as your memory palace, and is it a place that really exists?
Also, you say you break up each cube's memo into 3 sentences, placing each sentence's meaning in a location in your memory palace. How do you relate those three places in your memory palace? I.e. how do you not get confused about what sentence/object or thing in your memory palace belongs with what cube? How do you not pick three correctly memorized sentences that all belong to different cubes?
Also, this is the most impressive feat of memory/the human mind that I've ever seen. Well done.
Graham uses several houses he's lived in, areas near where he lives, and friends' houses, as well as areas from Skyrim and Super Mario 64.
The way memory palaces work is you either imagine the sentence happening *in* a specific location, or you just think about that sentence while thinking about the location, and build an association that way. It's possible to get confused, but generally your brain is pretty good at recalling locations accurately, which is one of the reasons memory palaces in general are so powerful
@@cookierobber You may have misunderstood my second question. I'm asking how, if 3 sentences are used to memorize each cube, there is any sort of association between the sentences. How can one avoid picking out a sentence that doesn't belong to a specific cube for that cube's solve?
@@beniolenio Ah right. When we construct a memory palace, we decide on a route through it. Ideally this'll be something logical (down the path to your front door, through your front door, down the hall, etc.) but even if it isn't, it's something you get used to over time. This gives us an order in which we visit our locations, and therefore an order in which we recall our sentences. So long as you don't mess up this order (by skipping a cube or something) you'll recall the correct sentences for each cube.
@@cookierobber I see. Thanks for the answer!
@@beniolenio No problem!
Just WOW ! It really motivates me to learn 3 style (I've been saying I'll learn it for at least 2-3 years) I'm done procastinating, I'm starting rn with your commutator list in the description
completely insane, i can’t believe someone would even attempt something like this, you are very impressive
Actually insane. What a mad lad. 1000 Respekts
This is so impressive! By the way, the music is Liszt's mephisto waltz no. 1
THANK YOU I was wondering what it was, seemed familiar
a comp organisers worst nightmare...
Imagine if this was a comp event😈
@@Tito_decorazon7771 My point was that this attempt took longer than a typical day of a a comp so it would be really difficult to organise
An absolute legend! I can't believe you topped it again! Great job
Never heard of you before this. Came for the blind solving of rubix cubes, stayed for the music 🤗
Congrats Graham!
How long do you usually wait before reusing places of loci? I sometimes can't forget what is in some of my rooms and I can't reuse that room or I will remember the old cube better instead of the new one.
This totally depends on what kind of attempt i used the rooms for. Like if i did a 5 cube mbld with some rooms, i can easily reuse those rooms a few hours later. If i did a 1 hour mbld attempt with some rooms, i can comfortably reuse them 2 days later. With an attempt like this 250 attempt, it has taken over a week for the bulk of the memo to dissipate
@@GrahamSiggins if i asked u to recall any part of this attempt's memo, over a year later, would u be able to do it? wondering if there are still residuals this long after the attempt
@@ChrisChoi123 oh definitely not haha. I miiiiiiight vaguely remember parts of it if i saw the scrambles again, but i even kind of doubt that. I've used these palaces so many times since doing this, its completely gone at this point
I think the hardest part about this is being able to buy 250 rubik's cubes that have acceptable turning 😆
Hello @GrahamSiggins
I did not see that info in the comments or elsewhere - are you using the OP method for this? Or the M2 or even more advanced? I am currently practicing my single OP blindsolves with the goal of doing multiples so i want to know I have to « upgrade « my method sooner or later. Are you using letterpairs or is your memorization more fluid? Kind regards and congratulations for this amazing achievement.
And also I want to ask: do you have the same word for each letter pair every time? Or do you sometimes change it because it just works better with the story? Thanks & bb
He's using 3style, which is currently the most advanced method, but also has memorised many extra algs for special cases to make it even faster. Also, I would recommend learning M2 for edges, its a lot faster and doesnt take too much time to learn, but if ur goal is just to get 2/2 cubes, then OP for both corners and edges is still fine. Lastly, yes he's using letter pairs
@@Elias.Chong1thank you very much for your answer. It’s an interesting process and lots to learn. I will have to consider M2 sooner or later as i want increase the number Cubes as time progresses. Have a good one👋🏻
Beyond impressive! Congrats on the accomplishment. In regards to the back pain, I have zero expertise in this area, but thought I’d throw a couple ideas out there in case they might help. Maybe try a standing desk for a portion of the cubes (I don’t know how mind palaces work, but maybe you can differentiate an upstairs and downstairs depending on if you are standing or sitting. Or the other idea is to wear a posture corrector.
Thanks! The standing desk could help a bit but the problem with that is they are very expensive and it would probably break the bank to find one big enough to hold 300 cubes 🤣
I also made an effort to stand during a lot of the memorization phase, but since i still needed to bend my neck down to look at cubes I dont think that helped much. And theres not much getting around the issue of back pain during the 1.5 hours of execution. But the posture corrector seems like it could work. I may look into that 👌
I WAS THERE
GRAHAM YOU’RE A LEGEND
What memo/execution order did you use? And is it different from how you do it for normal 1h attempts?
without laying out the entire specific review systems, essentially i memo 1-192 (grouped into packs of 64, which are grouped into packs of 32, which are grouped into packs of 8, with different levels of review in each group) then i memo 193-250 shorter term, which is like a longer term review system for first 32 then shorter for next 16 then a short term last 10.
Then i solve those 10, the previous 16, the previous 32, then 1-192
if you wanna see what i do in a normal attempt, check out the description of this video
th-cam.com/video/fxIZyNVDF_8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=9BuDv7JX4QmgBi0d
and for execution order just scan through the video
This is juste incredible ! Congrats !
wow
hello cheetahh
"Incredible!" is an understatement. Congratulations! 😀
That it insane! If only there was a full day multi-blind competition
That's insanely impressive
Dude what the actual fuck, i can barely get 50% success on 3 bld and your out here doing this. For sure the best to ever do it without a shadow of a doubt.
Do you just have a photographic memory? It seems to be so much more than just that alone; fantastic!
No, i dont have a photographic memory (theres actually not much solid scientific evidence that photographic memories arent a myth btw)
Take a look at the pinned comment for more info
@@GrahamSiggins Thanks! Interesting info! I have used a technique that is like my own Excel spreadsheet; the spreadsheet is in my head…or I have used an actual Excel spreadsheet to create my own templates to memorize. I think an actual place or “palace” I am familiar with will be useful as a memorization technique. A few more questions: How long do all of the cubes you memorized remain in your memory or mind palace? And do you do anything to purge or remove what you memorized for such a task/project once it is finished?
@@pb9240 How long they stick in my memory palaces totally depends on the length of the attempt/how much i review everything. So for a normal 1 hour multi-blind attempt, the memo usually dissipates sufficiently after 2 or 3 days. For a really small attempt, like 5 cubes, which takes me 2-3 minutes, memo sufficiently dissipates in a few hours. For this 250 attempt, it took over a week.
And by "sufficiently dissipate", I basically just mean that it dissipates to the extent that it won't have any significant interference on a new multi-blind attempt.
I don't do anything in particular to help purge memorization from a palace, aside from really making sure that I don't think about the memo at all after the attempt. I also have 4 memory palaces so that I don't have to wait so long between attempts
Do you think you'll ever try mbld with anything larger than 3x3?
He's done multi with at least 4x4s, possibly higher
abhijeet im pretty sure has 4bld multi and 5bld multi on his channel!
Do you have a link?
I tried looking for both, but couldn't find them.
@@liamhenderson7367 I've done multi-5BLD, dont remember what my best is with that. Got a 6/9 Multi-5BLD like a year or so ago. I think that was the only time I tried that, aside from a 3/4 multi-5BLD 3 or 4 years ago. I also have done 2/2 multi-6BLD in 19:21, and 2/2 multi-7BLD in 28:01
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he even did 6x6 mbld! (1/1)
Amazing. I can remember when Maskow's 95/100 seemed like an impossible feat. Cubing continues to he pushed in an assortment of ways by an assortment of highy talented and extremely insane people.
GG
Oh shit he going to the moon with this thumbnail
commenting for the alg
Equivalent to solving around 12 9x9x9s
Blindfolded in a row
and here I am racking my brains to assemble two cubes blindfolded
I wish I could just take a walk around your memory palace and see all the cool shit there is
Huge accomplishment well done!
Inspirational. Congratulations!
Astonishing as always.
Wow man congratulations that's really just...greater than great you ARE amazing
who's playing this interpretation of mephisto waltz? great choice
great video!!
How do you feel while playing? do you enter in flow state and time just happens?
I respect people who do multi blind so much it's crazy how he is just boosting though all the cube like nothing 😮
Most impressive feat in cubing
would this be considered a multi blind old style attempt?
Yep! Old style is basically anything that follows the guideline of having the total time divided by # of cubes = under 10 minutes
now THAT is a thumbnail lol - Nice one graham x
Good job Graham!
S tier thumbnail
What would be cool is if you solved all of those cubes blindfolded into a mosaic pattern
How much time did you use to scramble ?
I think it took like an hour, or maybe an hour and a half. Just guessing as I dont remember now
About the back thing, can you raise the table a little?
Congrats!
Congratulations!
This is incredible.
Bros took multi blind to a whole new level
Absolutely incredible!!
this is 10 times better than the last record in old style multi-blind
Incredible result.
Reviewed while peeing 💀
This is insane dude can't wait for 300
I didnt forgor 💀
The funny thing is: Even if he were to fake this (which it isn't, he's just better), this would still be extremely impressive. Memorizing 250 faked scrambles would still be extremely hard.
Niccee, do it on a wr
Wow, just wow, insane skill Mr
I want to start working towards such a big multi blind attempt as well, can I ask what kinds of locations do you use and how many rooms do you fit in each location? My very rough thought now is to use the underground line that I have been taking since I was young, and use each stop as a location. It’s very early but I’m thinking if I should put 2/1 packs of 8 in each location. Currently I can only do 32 and I can easily fit a pack of 8 in a single building/place
well, I have enough memory palace space to do 328 cubes worth of memo at this point lmao. So it would take a while to explain all of the kinds of things i've used. But my first two memory palaces (72 rooms each palace, and each room has 3 loci) are all real life places. First palace is all the houses I've lived in, basically 4 rooms per house, then when i ran out of those, it developed to my university, and neighborhoods, paths ive walked a lot, around the neighborhoods, paths through towns that i know really well, and then skateparks, which i know many of like the back of my hand. Once again, like 4 rooms per skatepark. Its kinda just like 4 rooms per each specific place. My next palace is friends houses, and then when i ran out of those, also just more paths like the last palace. then i have two palaces, 72 rooms each, all from super mario 64, and another 40 room palace from skyrim
O.M.G. hope this goes viral
Out of curiosity does like, talking to yourself affect you if you're doing a normal attempt that's like 60ish cubes, or is this being so longform just completely discount talking to yourself from having a bad effect?
yeah i mean in a one hour attempt, every second counts, talking to myself and taking a little break loses a significant amount of time that often i cannot afford. but in a big attempt like this, time doesnt matter in that sense, only in the sense that wasted time means subsequent reviews might be a little more difficult. but also, in something this long, i need little breaks like that, i cant stay focused for 7 hours of memo straight lmao
*_I've solved 20 cubes blindfolded on my first try. But I'm not sure if my BATMAN MASK counts as a blindfold?_*
insanity
This guy basically created a whole book in his head while solving 😮
He actually uses a skyrim map to memorize the cubes.
Which Technique of memorizing do you use?
WAIT WHAT???? broo that's insane!!!! congrats, you're amazing
"I succesfully reviewed these, while peeing"
hey man, amazing to see this result. could you maybe share the review system you used for this?
I actually wrote out a whole "schedule" of how I planned memo and exec to go, and still have it lol. I can just copy paste that, hopefully it makes sense
250 plan:
REVIEW SYSTEM
1-8
1-8
9-16
9-16
1-16
17-24
17-24
25-32
25-32
17-32
1-32
1-32
This = “5pass 1-32”
LONG TERM 192:
(1-64: my stuff palace)
5pass 1-32 (0:30/0:30)
5pass 33-64 (0:30/1:00)
Review 1-64 (0:10/1:10)
Review 1-64 (7pass) (0:10/1:20)
(65-128: friend’s stuff palace)
5pass 65-96 (0:30/1:50)
5pass 97-128 (0:30/2:20)
Review 65-128 (6pass) (0:10/2:30)
Review 1-128 (8pass 1-64 7pass 65-128) (0:20/2:50)
(129-192: SM64)
5pass 129-160 (0:30/3:00)
5pass 161-192 (0:30/3:30)
Review 129-192 (6pass) (0:10/3:40)
Review 1-192 (9pass 1-64, 8pass 65-128, 7pass 129-192) (0:30/4:10)
Review 1-192 (10pass 1-64, 9pass 65-128, 8pass 129-192) (0:30/4:40)
If it feels really good, thats fine, if it doesnt, do 1 more *(0:30/5:10)
SHORT TERM 58 (skyrim for first 32, remainders of other 3 palaces for 33-56, skyrim for 57)
5pass 193-224 (0:30/5:40)
6pass if necessary (0:05/5:45)
4pass 225-240 (0:15/6:00)
5pass if necessary (0:05/6:05)
3pass 241-248 (0:05/6:10)
4pass if necessary (0:02/6:12)
3 or 4pass last 2, idk maybe like 3 minutes cus ill be shitting myself (0:03/6:15)
10-15 minutes just for bathroom/eating/etc throughout (0:15/6:30)
Solve order:
3bld
249
241-248
225-240
193-224
1-192
high estimate for exec = 25/cube = 1:44
GRAND TOTAL : 8:14
@@GrahamSiggins thats excactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
Good job yo!
A man listening Mephisto waltz is a man of taste
do you know whose interpretation is this?
Amazing yo!
How many times did you attempt this and after like 10 or twenty in just misremember the order of one of them and so the rest 200 something all ended up being incorrect, meaning when you took the blindfold off you were devastated? I can imagine that happens to people during attempts like this. Big props to you for this, Jesus its insane
that has actually never happened to me when doing a really, really big attempt like this. It's something that scares me more than anything else when doing attempts like this, so I put an extreme amount of effort into making sure I do not do that. A lot of focus is required for this as you can imagine lol
The almost sub-20 per cube is astounding.
Only a few dozen people in the world can do that....
... solving only one cube.
You seem to be a bit confused here. Graham has almost sub-20 execution.
The sub-20 on a single cube also includes memo. There's many more than a few dozen people who can execute 3bld on a single cube sub 20
I realize this has been posted a while ago already so no idea how much of the comments still will be read, but let's just see.. If @Graham Siggins happens to read this, or anyone who sort of regularly does blindsolving; would you mind sharing a few of the sentences that you've used to memorize a cube? I'm starting to get into 3BLD and after that possibly multi-bld and I know I need to use my own words/sentences because they will stick better than someone elses but am still curious to hear what kind of sentences people use.
If I put this much effort in my study, definitely i will become a topper😂
I struggle with just 1 cube blindfolded... this is mad impressive!!!!!!!!!
Good job yo.