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Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

piemaster said:
I know this is probably off-topic, but can anyone post their words that they use for memorizing if you use the story method?
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Zava said:
fánk, naftalin, fűző, zafír, fapina, pufi, fika, kifli, néző, zenész, zeppelin, pázli, pókember, kőpy, kincs, nyak, sín, naspolya, síző, zászló, sapi, pisi, síkos, késő. I dont think you can do anything with these though :D
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Can anyone equip me with a list of words that I can actually use? lol
 
Hah! :p:p

I did 8/8 3x3BLD solves during a 40 minutes jogging exercise.
That's a new PB. And I probably will not be able to better it in
any other way than to run longer and I don't think I'll do that.
So I (probably) won't bother you with more of this. :D
 
trying-to-speedcube... said:
My second sub-2 on 3x3BLD! 1:59.60. My first was 1:50.00, so nowhere near PB. It feels great to finally memo sub-60 all the time!
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Nice Maarten! I have had three, I see that this 1:59.60 of yours is from the weekly.
I had 1:59.02 :) in the weekly. I think it is a little funny that we are so evenly
matched in 2x2BLD, 3x3BLD and 4x4BLD. And so very far away in all normal
events :o
 
I must tell about this mornings 5x5BLD solve from the weekly forum contest.
While memoing you can take a little mental break, but during the actual
solve I have felt that you have to have total concentration while the solve
lasts. If you let your mind wander away only for half a second and no longer
know where you are (in the solve) you're lost = dnf. I have been a strict adherent
to Mike's principle of counting 1, 2, 3 ... 8 during centre and edge commutators.

But this morning once I noticed that when I got to seven I knew that I was ready
with that particular commutator. I knew I counted faulty, not turned wrong. My fingers
knew it. Then only a little while later I noticed that my fingers solved a centre
commutator, I did not figure it out. I recalled e.g D L O from the solve cycle (or
whatever letters the memo actually was), but I did not actively had to "think it out"
I had turned the cube and started solving a correct commutator before I realized
what I was doing.

Both of those were very nice insights/feelings. I'm beginning to comprehend this :p.

How the solve actually ended? Well, sorry to say there was a 3-cycle centres wrong.
But none of those two from above.

So now I have to figure out a way to still be in control but also let the fingers do their
job uninterrupted. More practise perhaps :D:D
 
MatsBergsten said:
trying-to-speedcube... said:
My second sub-2 on 3x3BLD! 1:59.60. My first was 1:50.00, so nowhere near PB. It feels great to finally memo sub-60 all the time!
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Nice Maarten! I have had three, I see that this 1:59.60 of yours is from the weekly.
I had 1:59.02 :) in the weekly. I think it is a little funny that we are so evenly
matched in 2x2BLD, 3x3BLD and 4x4BLD. And so very far away in all normal events :o
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Wh... What? You can't be serious that you think we're evenly good at 4x4BLD?! I've had one lucky sub-15, and I normally get around 22 minutes. My accuracy isn't good either...
 
New PB on Multi BLD
11/11 in 1:00:31.89 hour, with 35:53.69 minutes memorization.

Eww... I guess it's too risky if I go for 11 cubes on Indonesian Open next week.
Kai Jiptner's record has been driving me crazy for the last few weeks...
I want to beat his record soooooo much.

And then, out of the blue, some guy named Tong Jiang broke the WR by 15/15. What the.. :fp
He's not just made it impossible for me (right now) to get the Multi BLD WR,
he's also made it impossible for me to get Asian Record!!!!!

Oh well let's just practice more :D
 
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MatsBergsten said:
I have been a strict adherent to Mike's principle of counting 1, 2, 3 ... 8 during centre and edge commutators.
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I never read this post by Mike, but I do like the idea of keeping track of the turns during those commutators.

I do something a bit different to keep track of where I am in the commutator. This approach is probably more like a hybrid of Mike's method and your Zen no thinking / just turning experience you described (which is really cool by the way!). I mentally, and sometimes actually, say only the turns in the B and B' parts of the commutator.

For example if I was doing the center commutator: r' U r d r' U' r d'
I would execute: r' U r
Now I say "inner d" as I execute d
now I execute: r' U' r
Now I say "inner d prime" as I execute d'

If I think I'm done with my commutator, but I haven't said two things yet, then most likely I was doing an A B A' B' commutator and I haven't done the last B' part of the commutator. If I don't think I'm done with the commutator yet, but I have said two things already, then most likely I was doing a B A B' A' commutator and I've already executed both the B and the B' parts already.

This has helped save me from many-a-DNF.

MatsBergsten said:
knew it. Then only a little while later I noticed that my fingers solved a centre commutator, I did not figure it out. I recalled e.g D L O from the solve cycle (or whatever letters the memo actually was), but I did not actively had to "think it out" I had turned the cube and started solving a correct commutator before I realized what I was doing.

Both of those were very nice insights/feelings. I'm beginning to comprehend this :p.
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That's a very neat experience, I don't think I've ever experienced that to be honest! I look forward to having such a Zen moment one day, it must feel very cool!

I have felt something very similar to what you describe during my speedsolving for 3x3x3. Sometimes when I am just in "the zone" and am getting very fast times, for me, I notice that I feel like an observer to my solving. It's as if I am watching someone else solve, but not really actively doing the solving myself, if that makes any sense.

That sounds like a very cool experience to have during BLD! Also, I agree with your statement that I feel like I must be at 100% concentration throughout the entire duration of the solving phase of any BLD solve, or else risk a DNF!

Chris
 
cmhardw said:
I never read this post by Mike, but I do like the idea of keeping track of the turns during those commutators.
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It is the post from 2007 where he explains his way of doing centre commutators.
cmhardw said:
I do something a bit different to keep track of where I am in the commutator.
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The important thing obviously is to keep track in some way.

cmhardw said:
I have felt something very similar to what you describe during my speedsolving for 3x3x3. Sometimes when I am just in "the zone" and am getting very fast times, for me, I notice that I feel like an observer to my solving. It's as if I am watching someone else solve, but not really actively doing the solving myself, if that makes any sense.

That sounds like a very cool experience to have during BLD! Also, I agree with your statement that I feel like I must be at 100% concentration throughout the entire duration of the solving phase of any BLD solve, or else risk a DNF!
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I might have called it being in the zone. For me it's not like I was a spectator, rather
it is like I forget myself and everything else in the environment. It is just the cube and
the solve, the pieces are floating around following tracks in my mind. Not seeing them
but "knowing" them, where they are and how they must move.
 
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