"They memorize numbers much the same way. Cooke converts every two- digit number from 00 to 99 into a familiar object or person, so that every six digits form a sentence. When he sees 342102, Cooke imagines Frank Sinatra crooning the Britney Spears' song " Baby One More Time" to an obelisk. When he's doing well, this translation is happening instantaneously. At his best, he can store about 300 digits, or 50 sentences, in his head in five minutes."
This is about a digit per second. Now, digits are all of the same nature. The cube is a little kinder in the sense that it is already divided up into four elements which we solve (EO, EP, CP, CO). Taking the total number of pieces to memorize at the maximum (8 corners to orient, 8 to permute, 12 edges to orient, 12 to permute), this is 40 pieces of data, a far cry from something as large as 300. Not only this, but 40 is assuming everything needs solving during execution (even then it would be easy to know that a Superflip would be needed to solve 12 bad edges, but let us assume that more pieces = harder to solve), AND these 40 pieces of data are already chunked into 4 different elements -- these advantages far outweigh the delays of turning the cube around to actually inspect the data. --- In [email protected], cmhardw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Read this: > > > > http://www.slate.com/id/2114925/?GT1=6208 > > > > http://c1blog.blogspot.com/2005/03/memory-olympiads.html > > Oh my god..... > > Memorizing a deck of cards in 45 seconds is effectively memorizing > two 4x4x4 edge permutations (with 4 pieces solved already, very > likely) in 45 seconds. > > I take about 3:00 for one 4x4x4 edge permutation. > > Even with my centers, where I average about 17 pieces unsolved, I > still take 1:30-2:00. > > Oh my god......... > > Blindfolded cubing is nowhere near it's limits... not even close by > far.... Hardly even beginning to catch up to what it could be.... > > Seriously that's depressing, I feel like a complete newb to BLD > memorizing now.... Man, that is at once inspiring, and also kinda > dream crushing. > > If I could memorize a 4x4x4 in 2:30 and solve in my usual 5:30- 6:30 > that would be amazing. Wow..... so much to learn.... > > Chris > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/speedsolvingrubikscube/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
