Yesterday, the cubing community was shook with the news that Graham Siggins had reclaimed the world record for solving multiple 3x3s blindfolded.
In Multi-blind, the solver has 10 minutes per cube, up to one hour, so at a high level we can basically say that everyone has one hour to memorize and then solve as many cubes as possible. The scoring works by subtracting the number of unsolved cubes from the number of solved cubes, if the timer goes over the hour then the solver must stop right away and any cubes not yet solved (and any cubes unsuccessfully solved) will be subtracted from the solved cubes.
The previous world record was held by Rowe Hessler with 63/66 cubes solved in 59 minutes, this gives a score of 60 points as 3 cubes were not solved and 63 were solved.
Graham Siggins achieved 63/65 in 58 minutes, so this gives a total of 61 points as only 2 cubes were not solved. This breakes the 60 point barrier for the first time and it will be exciting to see if it can be pushed further, Rowe Hessler has congratulated Graham Siggins on his new World Record but also commented how they will continue to have a rivalry in this, however, other competitors such as Krzysztof Bober from Poland, Ezra Hirschi from Switzerland and more recently, Simon Praschi from Austria are all improving and may challenge the world record soon.
Graham Siggins put in the YouTube description some information about what else he has been learning, he says that he has learnt full floating with a separate letter pair word list for every floating buffer, in standard blindsolving, you consider one edge and one corner to be the buffer piece which you swap with, however, with floating, the buffer can constantly change depending on where is best. He has also learnt full LTCT for all 252 cases, LTCT solves the last target and twists a corner at the same time, allowing for greater efficiency.
Many non-cubers will see incredible results like this and automatically assume it is fake, but the reality is that there are incredible cubers out there who have dedicated years to learning advanced techniques both so that they can memorize loads of cubes and so they can execute the algorithms to solve them very quickly, I have made a basic tutorial to solve the cube blindfolded, however, I only know the very basic method, what the top blindfolded solvers do is way beyond that, however, they all started with the basic Old Pochmann method which you can learn right here
