When was your first 3BLD success?

[Kit Clement]

I think it was in February 2009, maybe early March. Man, you all make me feel old. You also make me feel bad for my little improvement since then.

 

[Pi]

November, 2008. Got up early to work on blindsolving.

 

[cmhardw]

I've thought about this and I'm fairly confident that my first ever blindsolve was my December 16th speed blind solve back in 2002. At the time Dan Knights had already done this which is where I got the idea. I'm pretty sure the solve total time was just shy of 2 hours, and the solve time alone was 18 seconds.

 

[MikamiHero]

My first success was in 2008. It took a long time for me to build the confidence necessary to attempt it with the blindfold on! I actually did a 2x2 blind first to check that I knew the corner algorithms I were using at the time.

 

[typeman5]

Never

 

[CuberM]

That kind of happened to me as well, where you don't "have the confidence" to do it. But I did it anyway

 

[SpicyOranges]

September of this year, I have had 2 since then also. I've only done like 10 attempts since my success, but at least 30 before it.

 

[Sa967St]

October 2007, about a month after I learned 3BLD. My first success in competition wasn't until September 2009.

 

[MatsBergsten]

Spring of 2008, so six and a half years since I started.

 

[Altha]

December 21st 2013, 2nd attempt, took 27 minutes

 

[CuberM]

It's interesting to look at people's first successes. My first success, as I said, took around 20 minutes, and now I am at around 1 minute and 50 seconds to about 2 minutes.

 

[tseitsei]

My first success was in December 2011

I just heard from my friend that it could be done and then I googled it.

I did use some tutorial to understand how memoing and cycles work, but the solving method I came up with myself. It was a horrible horrible method

I used beginner method to orient edges first (R E R E..... + setup moves) and beginner to orient corners (R F' R' F.... + setup moves)
After that I just used A-perms and U-perms + setup moves to permute pieces...

After that I, understandably, thought BLD solving was amazingly hard and stopped practising for a while. Then I found this forum and Pochmanns tutorials and got more and more interested in BLD and noticed that it isn't that hard with the right method.

And now I have 3 BLD NRs. 2 more to go have to watch out for Olli tough...

 

[Gaétan Guimond]

I'm the first one BLD probably on the web or tv too

 

[~Adam~]

When was your first blindfolded 3BLD success?

I'm the first one BLD probably on the web or tv too


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2P3GHilsQo

Do you feel like explaining how the method works or are you happy that everyone here thinks that you are a fraud?

Also, about 4 years ago. I used OP which can be explained and replicated.

 

[JasonDL13]

And now I have 3 BLD NRs. 2 more to go

2 more to go? That's 5 NRs. There's only 4 BLD events. Don't you mean 1 more to go?

 

[Cale S]

2 more to go? That's 5 NRs. There's only 4 BLD events. Don't you mean 1 more to go?

3BLD has single and mean

3BLD single
3BLD mean
4BLD
5BLD
MBLD

 

[JasonDL13]

3BLD has single and mean

Oh, thanks

 

[Gaétan Guimond]

Do you feel like explaining how the method works or are you happy that everyone here thinks that you are a fraud?

Also, about 4 years ago. I used OP which can be explained and replicated.

Fraud, magic or official, I'm the first one and I revived the cube when he was dead. It was easy for me to buy the domain name rubikscuberecord.com because the cube was dead when I got on the web.

I placed a picture of a national championship in 1982 in Toronto exactly the same place as the first championship after 21 years in 2003. This is already good evidence of my merit .... the return of the cube and the championship. The young have the intelligence but not lived there a good reason to have an open mind.

 

[~Adam~]

Fraud, magic or official, I'm the first one and I revived the cube when he was dead.

Since is wasn't official and magic isn't real you just told us it was fraud.
If you are so delusional that you think you single handedly revived the Rubik's cube then you must feel ashamed that it was fraud instead of hard work.

 

[andrewlecubes]

just got my first success a few minutes ago! the time was 6:16. i used m2op