Everyone said their item once, and we had to memorise it in order. In psychology a week ago, our teacher asked everyone to think of something. However, the exaggerated claims of what people typically associate with "photographic" memory he also dismisses as myth. He gives several examples of people with eidetic memory, either through autism or stroke, or through birth, but this is extremely rare and is usually accompanied by deficiencies in other areas. Josh spends a good bit of time talking about exactly this issue in his book "Moonwalking with Einstein". Competitive memory experts generally also claim that photographic memory is a myth, with Joshua Foer being one example. In short, most BLD cubers think that photographic memory is a total myth.
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Assuming they equalled the solving speed of the world class BLD cubers now, then that would be an improvement of around 5-8 seconds. For argument's sake let's say that someone with perfectly efficient eidetic memory could memorize a Rubik's cube in 2 seconds (1 second glance at UFR sides, 1 second glance at DBL sides) they would still need to be a world class speedsolver to beat the current record times. Memorizing a Rubik's cube in less than 8 seconds by someone with eidetic memory would not really give them much of an advantage over the current world class people. There does exist eidetic memory, however. Maybe my idea is completely wrong, but I think having a photographic memory and a fast turning speed would result in a really fast BLDer.Īs a general rule, what most people refer to as "photographic" memory is a complete myth. But I was thinking that maybe when he got older I could teach him normal 3x3, and then the basics of blind. So, as he is only 5, he is a little too young for me to start teaching him.
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#EXAMPLE OF EIDETIC MEMORY HOW TO#
(Meanwhile my 6 year old brother is barely just now learning how to read.) He's only 5 now, but he could almost completely read when he was 4 - his parents would show him a word on a card, tell him what it said, and then several hours and even days later they could show him the card and he knew exactly what it said immediately. 6 second memo is pretty fast.Īnyway, I know a kid, and he (probably) has a photographic memory. If someone did have a photographic memory, would they be great at blind? Look at 6 sides for 1 second each and you can just refer to that during execution. So, as you may or may not have guessed by the title, I was wondering if there are any BLDers who have photographic memories? i.e., look at something for a few seconds and then the image is memorized.