Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

[byu]

From my tutorial, or someone elses?

 

[Faz]

Yeah, mostly your tutorial.
1:45.25, 1:42.38, (2:01.28), 1:57.20, 1:50.80 = 1:51.08
Also, a pb single of 1:31.38.
Byu - I came 3rd in the race to sub 2!

 

[byu]

Nice job! Mike, time for you to get fourth

 

[Mike Hughey]

Congratulations to McWizzle94 on your very fast 4x4x4 BLD success, and to fazrulz on your very awesome 3rd place in sub-2!

I thought I was going to get 3rd place in sub-2 today when I finished my first solve of 5 today, but then it all went bad. I really think I'm close to getting it, but it just hasn't happened yet.

I got a 17:49 solve for 5x5x5 BLD for this week's competition - it's nice to finally end the string of DNFs I've been having for competition solves lately.

 

[byu]

Wow, you're 5x5 BLD solve is faster than my 4x4 BLD solve Mike...

 

[toast]

3:57.43 3x3 solve sub-4.

This is either my 3rd or 4th bld solve.

 

[byu]

You're sub-4 after 3 or 4 solves? Took me at least 10 to get sub-4. After 3 or 4 solves I was averaging in the 5:xx range. That's good. Can't wait to see you get sub-2 someday (or even sub-1)

 

[Rubixcubematt]

anybody now of a first success quicker then mine? BTW, thanks Chris Hardwick and mike hughey on your tutorials, they were awesome.

I guess my new goal is to have a success faster then yours =]

and I agree, Chris and Mike have helped a LOT with 4x4x4 BLD. THANK YOU!!!

Im sure that u will have a faster success, and I will be disappointed if you dont, You have earnt it. I'm going to forcast your first success in the next 3 attempts.

14:12.98 =]

Finally, after a 26-DNF streak, a successful 4x4x4 BLD solve =] =] =] =] =] =] =]

YYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

EDIT: I just remembered, I started 4x4x4 BLD during spring break of last year. Therefore, it took me over a year to get a successful solve, but I'm glad I finally got one =]

yay, well done, you beat my time. Awesome job!!!!

 

[SimonWestlund]

3:57.43 3x3 solve sub-4.

This is either my 3rd or 4th bld solve.

are you kidding me!? took me forever to get to sub 4! Good job

 

[ManuK]

3:57.43 3x3 solve sub-4.

This is either my 3rd or 4th bld solve.

OMG!! It took me 16 solves to get sub-4.And, I had thought that I was improving fast(2:42 in 24th solve or so). At this rate, you could reach sub-2 by your 10th solve !!

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

Yeah, mostly your tutorial.
1:45.25, 1:42.38, (2:01.28), 1:57.20, 1:50.80 = 1:51.08
Also, a pb single of 1:31.38.
Byu - I came 3rd in the race to sub 2!

Which means that it's my tutorial that laid the base for all this.

I'm happy that my tutorial was good for something after all

 

[byu]

For the centers that is, so nce job.

But for edges and corners, I never looked at your tutorial, I used Erik's website

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

For the centers that is, so nce job.

But for edges and corners, I never looked at your tutorial, I used Erik's website

Hmm... So did I

 

[byu]

Well, thanks to Erik then!

 

[fanwuq]

3:57.43 3x3 solve sub-4.

This is either my 3rd or 4th bld solve.

OMG!! It took me 16 solves to get sub-4.And, I had thought that I was improving fast(2:42 in 24th solve or so). At this rate, you could reach sub-2 by your 10th solve !!

Attempt or success? (Count edges only or corners only as 1/2 solves)
I must have done 20 attempts to get my first success and it was 12 minutes. Then I did maybe a few more solves and gave up for a while. Then, I did 2x2 BLD for about a week, got 50 corners-only attempts each day and got that to sub-50 average with 27s single and memo under 15s. After maybe 20 more over a period of 5 months, I've gotten down to a 5-7 min average for 3x3. Last December, I switched methods many times and finally to visual corners which is still only about 1/2 as fast as my previous memo method, but works better in combination with my edge system. After maybe 50 solves that week, I finally got sub-4. It wasn't until I practiced a lot last week that I got to sub-3. So that's probably at least 100-200 attempts before I got to where you are.

I'm now going to focus on corners again. I'm going to get as good at visual as I was at my syllable method and use 1/2 TuRBo (cw cycles only). Why only 1/2? because it's just like setting up to Classic Pochmann twice, probably only around 2 moves more than full TuRBo per 2 corners on average anyway.

 

[PatrickJameson]

YEAH!
Another success
4x4 scramble R r' f' D f U2 R u2 l2 d2 L F B' R B U R2 B2 D u U2 f' D' d f2 U F' l' d2 U2 f' F d' L u2 l u2 b2 r f'

Memo: I think ~13:xx or more.
Total: 26:14.25

This isn't that hard

 

[Mike Hughey]

YEAH!
Another success
4x4 scramble R r' f' D f U2 R u2 l2 d2 L F B' R B U R2 B2 D u U2 f' D' d f2 U F' l' d2 U2 f' F d' L u2 l u2 b2 r f'

Memo: I think ~13:xx or more.
Total: 26:14.25

Very nice!

This isn't that hard

Exactly! I'm glad other people are finally starting to realize that. It's so nice to suddenly have so many people doing 4x4x4 BLD now!

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

Very true. First of all, it gives a great feeling, even after you've done it a couple of times, second, it's not that hard, indeed!

I'm going to try 5x5BLD soon !

 

[byu]

I want to try 5x5 BLD, I've already come up with a really good memo system and how I would do it. But I don't have a 5x5...

Time to get a V5 perhaps?

 

[MatsBergsten]

4BLD

Well I agree with the others. It's a very nice feeling. Today I managed 13:25 (using commutators while commuting )

It was maybe my 50:th solve but it is still a great feeling.