4x4x4 Rubik's Cube Blindfolded Solve: 23 minutes

22:52.28, done on this week's BCC4 scramble #1:
http://www.ryanheise.com/competitions/bcc4/

Video sped up by a factor of 2.5.

I backtracked 5 pieces at the end of a cycle and had a nasty parity, so I was really surprised to see this particular solve had succeeded. Even though this is my only successful 4x4x4BLD so far, I've done lots of other close solves, perhaps four or five with <5 pieces out of place.
Centers done with commutators, edges with r2, and corners like 3x3x3.
I will do 5x5x5 soon, after I get closer to 10 minutes on 4x4x4.

By the way, I got the Stanford shirt at SUMaC 2007. I was wearing it 'cause it was cold.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• 4x4x4
• Rubik's
• Cube
• blindfolded
• solve
• cubing
• speedcubing
• memorization
• execution
• r2
• method

[mebearsoft]

wow thats amazing, where did you learn to do 4x4 BLD? i really want to learn.

[CubeTalk]

he sped it up

[draculu]

omg,i didn't even think that was posible

[Mindstormscreator]

I think that timer's going a bit too fast

[killwill07]

corners very easy, edges are also dead easy. the only bad part is parity which messes up centers, so you have to be careful with those two steps for the centers. centers are easy if you have them memorized right.

[zemmajr]

nice

[killwill07]

so it is true? maybe thats why his official records on speedcubing dot com has been removed from the standings. if you look at 3x3,4x4, and 5x5 blind his records arent there.

[gamemeister27]

well you do use his last slot method.

[gamemeister27]

It has been officially proved Matyas peaks, if you examine some of the vids of him, he doesn't undo some set up moves corectly, yet just keeps on solving correctly.

[killwill07]

wow, thats crazy. not matayas's record fast (well, people are questioning it like crazy) but still an enourmous feat. i just got into blindsolving, but i am always 3 pieces off.