
To get to 80%, maybe another 4 hours and to get to close to 100% eight times in a row (the number required to take a deck and return it to its original order) probably another 8 hours. To do it 50% of the time, maybe another 2 hours. To do a perfect faro once, maybe another hour. You can learn to do an imperfect faro in less than an hour. There are versions of a tabled faro shuffle that look a lot like a riffle shuffle to the casual observer. you could interpose eight perfect faros between two sets of up the ladder cuts and still end up back in new deck order. You can also set up a deck to arrive in a stack after one or two perfect faros. You can also use perfect faros to get into Mnemonica stack from new deck order (with some minor alterations if you are using Bicycle new deck order). When you deal out five poker hands, the first hand will get the royal flush. A simple effect is if you can borrow a deck, stack a royal flush as the top five cards and then do four perfect in-faros (top card remains top card). I disagree, there are a number of effects that use a perfect faro and a perfect faro is not that difficult to learn. With that said, it isn't as difficult as you would think to get the deck cut exactly in half as preparation for a perfect faro. Yes, but the practice needs to be directed so that you can associate what a cut feels like with a number of cards.

If you are using a memorized deck, being able to cut a certain number of cards is a helpful skill.

Just think of being able to cut to a 15 card stack that is in the middle of the deck. There are resources on estimation (cutting to a certain location) and a number of effects that rely on that principle.
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It will happen eventually and there are two reasons that there aren't any resources on how to do any of that: It is possible even that you take some cards in your hand and legitimately can say how many cards are in your hand with no gimmicks, sleights or anything magic-y necessary. Don't kill me) but though I don't remotely care about doing perfect riffle shuffles, once a girl asked me how I divide the pack into perfect halves (which I hadn't), so be careful that what you're looking to achieve is worthy enough of YOUR time and EFFORT. Why would you want to do that? Is it one of those things you can just tell people happily that "I can cut a deck into perfect halves"? That, in my opinion, is often a worthy enough goal (sort of the reason cardistry exists. So those who, having put a lot of time handling cards, suddenly realise that they split the deck into perfect halves, even they don't care enough to actually map out the actions and movements which helped them do that. However, perfect riffle shuffles and often, even perfect faro shuffles end up being not worth the time. Maybe if you're banking on some magic effect performed by a perfect faro shuffle, then it might be necessary. It is the amount of time they've spent handling cards, and NOTHING else, and very often, no factors other than the time.Ģ) There's no reason for anybody to be bothered with that. It will happen eventually and there are two reasons that there aren't any resources on how to do any of that:ġ) It is gradual, and depends solely on the performer and the amount of practice they put in. Giobbi provides a good way to get to the 26 cards that allows you to adjust based on the look of the packet.Ĭlick to expand.It is possible.

As you pick the deck up, use your thumb and middle finger. So if you picked the 2 of Hearts, you would know you were at 24 cards where the 2 of Spades would be 27 cards. and the black cards counting down from the middle, Ace of Spades, 2 of Spades, 3 of Spades, etc. Ace of Hearts, 2 of Hearts, 3 of Hearts, etc. Set up the cards so they are half red and half black with the red cards counting up from the middle - e.g. To split the deck perfectly in half just takes practice. The best resource of learning the perfect in the hands faro is Card College Volume 3 by Roberto Giobbi (the first two volumes are great if you want to learn any card magic). You can also do a tabled faro that looks a lot like a riffle shuffle. However, you can relatively easily learn a perfect in the hands faro shuffle which gets the same effect as a perfect in the hands riffle shuffle. So, a perfect tabled riffle shuffle is possible but very difficult and I've not heard of a perfect in the hands riffle shuffle.
