> > Maybe I'll try to post a serious message there tomorrow morning. > > - Joël.
I posted this message there, and it is currently waiting for approval. ------------ Hi, I'm new to this group, I just joined today. My name is Chris Hardwick and I'm posting here about a memory sport that has only been around since the invention of the Rubik's cube, but in recent years has gained a lot of popularity. I'm a competitive speedcuber, and a number of us speedcubers have also picked up the event of solving a Rubik's cube blindfolded. The procedure in an official competition works like this, you start the timer and begin memorizing your scrambled cube. You then put on the blindfold and solve and at the end of the solve stop a timer. The overall time is considered the time for your attempt and we rank each other for the fastest times. The current world record for doing this is 1 minute 46.47 seconds. The top blindfolded solvers can memorize a 3x3x3 Rubik's cube in around 40 seconds or less on a good run, and probably average 40-50 seconds given distractions or a sub-optimal solving environment. Our unofficial record for fastest time to memorize a cube on a successful solve is 27 seconds. We do not have an official record for this. There is a lot of discussion going on about how to improve blindfolded cubing. We have alread developed a number of very efficient and sophisticated solving techniques, but memorization for most of us is not our strong point. After hearing that some people can memorize a deck of cards in around 45 seconds or less, I personally think that us speedcubers are not memorizing very well, and that much time can be dropped by using a good technique. If you are interested in reading about speedcubing, our main resource site is www.speedcubing.com and if you are interested in blindfolded cubing please check out our yahoo group at http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/blindfoldsolving-rubiks-cube/ I personally have a theory that if either a blindfold cuber learned to truly train their memory, or if someone who had already mastered their memory learned one of our very efficient methods for solving a Rubik's cube blindfolded, that greats things could be done in this developing competitive memory arena. Again blindfolded cubing has had most of its popularity in the last 5 years or so, but already 30 people have officially solved a Rubik's cube blindfolded in competition at least once in 2005 alone. This is up from 9 in 2004. So go easy on us! We are an up and coming memory sport, and I would personally like to wish a warm welcome from the blindfolded cubing community to the memory sports community. I have lots of questions to ask about memory training technqiues, and if anyone here is interested in this new area for showing off your memory I would be personally willing to show you a very efficient way to solve a cube blindfolded via e-mail coorespondence, or I can point you to a number of good online resources that show this too. I hope we can help each other out in some way, and if nothing else I feel I have so much to learn as far as my memory goes, and I would love this opportunity for a memory expert to help our blindfolded cubing community. Regards, Chris ------------------------------ 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/
