Stanley Chapel broke his own 5x5 blindfolded world record today and finally broke the 2 minute barrier which he has been trying to push for a long time. This is almost certainly the last minute barrier for 5x5 blindfolded and this means that Stanley Chapel is the only person to have ever solved a 4x4 blindfolded in under 1 minute and a 5x5 blindfolded in under 2 minutes.

This was done at a streamed competition for an upcoming documentary called 'Blindfolded Ambition'. Stanley's memorization time was about 46 seconds which is obviously not safe at all, Stanley is known for not reviewing memorization at all, he is possibly the only person in the world to be capable of one-passing big-blind memorization. In the interview afterwards, Stanley confirmed the scramble was correct and talked about how he was memorizing very aggressively in the hope of doing something good, he also stated that he felt he had accomplished something that was long overdue (after zero celebratory reaction at the competition).

Stanley then proceeded to show how crazy some of his optimizations are, to the extent of discussing the possibility of deliberately not doing the last move of multi-blind algorithms in order to save time by +2ing all the cubes, however, he concluded that was probably not feasible.