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When was your first 3BLD success?

Maskow

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April 2011.
over13 minutes, over10 minutes memo

One week later I did my first MBLD ever. 2/3 in ~45 minutes with 33 minutes memo. Then I started train MBLD instead of single BLD. Results?
April - 4/4 47 minutes
May - 4/4 29:28 [sub21]
June - 5/6 45:13 [30:30]
July - 7/8 54:56 [~38 minutes]
August - 7/9 56:05 [~39 minutes]
September - 9/11 59:07 [sub40]
October - 16/16 58:34 [35:26]
October - BLD avg5 1:26

Then I started to learn TuRBo edges :cool:
I did 16/16 in 1 hour limit in 6-7 months, with Old Pochmann only. And I really think it can be done much much faster than 6 months.
Why so big improvement from September to the October? I changed memo system from single words to the pairs.


It's over 3 years now. I feel so old ^ _ ^ And I'm so lazy now. 2011 was a good year ;)
 

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August 2010.

I decided to learn how to do BLD, try until I got one success and then forget about it.
Old Pochmann. I didn't even read a full tutorial, just learn the fundamental ideas (cycles, parity, swap pieces with PLLs) from one.
It took me about one week to get my first corner-only success (untimed). I was so excited.
After another week I did it. YEAH. I have also used a 3-cycle in my first solve (one move setup + U-perm iirc). Time was about 20 minutes total, 15 memo I think.
"OK, I'll never try this again".

I started practising like crazy in October that year, by January I was sub-2, by march sub-1:30 and sub-1 by the end of the summer.
Now I haven't done any BLD solve in days, even when I have a comp next week :(
 

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Mine was in March 2013.. I used some weird 2OP kind of method.. The success was around 11 minutes or so.. Then I forgot about BLD before I regained enthusiasm early this year. Learned M2 but still struggled to get a consistent success. Was around 5-7 mins with M2/OP in March. Got sub 1:30 after close to a month of mad practice by end of April. Started learning 3-cycles in June beginning. And still learning now :) average around 50-55 now..
 

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my first success was in March,2013.At that time i'd used 4-step method(i don't know what it's called in english),time was more than 6 mins.
It was tiring because i didn't know how to memorize lots of numbers and letters,then i gave up using 4-step method and turned to use m2r2...
 

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22/6/13. It was my first attempt... I'd never even done a sighted solve for corners before. Everything was done with T perms. I also got a Mo3 that day... and haven't had a Mo3 since then. My accuracy isn't very good.
 
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Tao Yu

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My first BLD solve was on Wednesday 4th May 2011, a time of 10:33.55 using OP/OP. Second attempt. sceenshot

Memo was 7:28
Corners: dhuscrq
Edges: 3mubtd1jqf651 (I used numbers for the M slice because I couldn't put my fingers on each of the pieces. Later I switched to letters again)

With a small bit of practise, I got to an average of around 2 mins, and I stayed there (for a loonng time) because I didn't really care about BLD.

I started seriously practicing in July 2013 though, because I decided that I wanted to get fast at BLD. You can see my progression on my youtube channel starting with this. Got down to a minute pretty quickly and learned 3 style. At my fastest, I got sub 40 avg5s.

I haven't improved since then though. Got bored and frustrated at BLD this year and stopped practicing.
 
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Mine was my 3rd attempt, in a time of exactly 13 minutes. Memo was ~8 min I think. The next attempt I did, I wanted to do it outside on my porch (no clue why) and I almost got stung by a bee. Again, time was exactly 13 minutes.

I want to do BLD again now after seeing this thread, I took a break from BLD for a while after some disappointing comp failures. (especially bigBLD, stuff tires you out, you know?)

Inb4 first 4+5BLD success gets posted
 
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I don't remember what day, and I wasn't timing it, but I was walking home from school Freshman year. That was all I did when I walked home so it was bound to happen eventually!
 

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September 2008, can't remember more precisely. Time was 9:30 or so.

After that, it took me 9 months to get an official success, mainly because I didn't practise.
 
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In December 2013 I got my first success in about 15 minutes. In January 2014 I went to my first bld comp and got 6:34
Now my official single is 1:31 and at home I have many sub 1 minute solves including a 48 sec one also. I have also done 10/12 bld at home. :)
 
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