Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

I solved 7 3x3 + 1 4x4 + 1 2x2 blindfolded in 44 minutes. Memorization took me about 24 minutes. Unfortunately the 4x4 was off by one 3-cycle centers. I forgot one image and wasted about 2 minutes to figure out which image i forgot. In the end i had to guess and... guessed wrong.

I almost forgot to post this: 5 cubes blindfolded in 13:24 minutes.
 
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So if I need a crazy blindfolded method, I go to Germany and talk to Stefan.
If I need to see crazy single blind, I go to Germany and talk to Kai.
If I need to see a crazy multi_blind, I go to Germany and talk to Tim.

Guess where I am going tomorrow

(and I think Dan finally got a sub-2 average on 5x5x5, but 3x3x3_bf will follow next week)
 
tim said:
AvGalen said:
So if I need a crazy blindfolded method, I go to Germany and talk to Stefan.
If I need to see crazy single blind, I go to Germany and talk to Kai.
If I need to see a crazy multi_blind, I go to Germany and talk to Tim.
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For the last two points you better should go to Hungary ;).
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Actually, it hadn't occurred to me until I saw your time for this show up on speedcubing.com. Your pace on these 8 cubes is not very far off of Mátyás's. In competition, his average per cube on his 15 was around 3:05 per cube; your average here was about 3:20 per cube. You're amazingly close to that Hungarian's per-cube time!
 
Mike Hughey said:
tim said:
AvGalen said:
So if I need a crazy blindfolded method, I go to Germany and talk to Stefan.
If I need to see crazy single blind, I go to Germany and talk to Kai.
If I need to see a crazy multi_blind, I go to Germany and talk to Tim.
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For the last two points you better should go to Hungary ;).
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Actually, it hadn't occurred to me until I saw your time for this show up on speedcubing.com. Your pace on these 8 cubes is not very far off of Mátyás's. In competition, his average per cube on his 15 was around 3:05 per cube; your average here was about 3:20 per cube. You're amazingly close to that Hungarian's per-cube time!
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There are two reasons why you can't compare these times:
1.) 15 cubes are almost twice as much to memorize as 8 cubes. And you can't memorize in linear time. If i would be able to solve 15 cubes i could never solve them in less than 1.5 hours.
2.) Mátyás's attempt was an official one. I did this attempt at home listening to my favourite music. That makes a huge difference.

So i'm far away from being close to Mátyás's times.
 
Average: 19:27.77

Fastest Time: 15:16.56
Slowest Time: DNF

Individual Times: 17:18.90, 20:14.55, 21:24.34, 18:06.98, (15:16.56), 24:09.57, 22:14.30, 17:08.23, 18:11.98, 18:42.34, 17:06.54, (DNF)

4x4x4 BLD average!

Well, okay, so this really doesn't count at all, since it was over a period of nearly 2 weeks (for my 3x3x3 BLD averages, I've always done them all in one sitting - I don't think they should count otherwise). But still, I can't believe I actually got 11 in a row correct!!! I was pretty disappointed with the 12th one - I was hoping for a clean average. And it happened on Ryan Heise's competition (I got 2 DNFs in a row), so I only had one solve there. I've been tempted to comment on this streak for the past week, but I resisted until I was done because I didn't want to jinx it. The streak started with my second ever attempt using r2 + commutators. It seems to be a very high accuracy method (for me, at least).
 
Apparently there isn't a category for it at speedcubing.com yet, so it's hard to tell. Anyway, I'm not planning on trying to submit it, since like I say I don't think it should count unless it's all done together in a single session. And surely that would have been much harder than what I did (memorization is much harder when it's all in a row). (Not to mention it would take over 4 hours, including time to scramble, etc.)

Still, it was amazing during the streak having every single solve turn out good.
 
4x4x4 BLD: 14:04.64. 7:10 memorization time. I took Chris Hardwick's advice and just focused on moving as fast as I possibly could the whole time - this was the first time I tried it. I got very lucky, I think, because it was really easy to memorize (this is one of my fastest memorization times as well), and my memory was really secure. It was a little easy, but not outrageously so - 8 centers in the right place, and 2 edges in the right place; corners were maybe a little easy (2 3-cycles CP; 5 CO). There were only 2 cycles in edge permutation, so that was pretty easy as well, and the middle slice edges were clumped together, which makes it faster with an r2/commutator mixed approach like I use. It was also nice because there was just one obvious way to orient the cube, so I didn't waste any time deciding which way to go.

But even if it was kind of easy, I'm very happy that I finally cracked the 15 minute barrier!

Edit: My second attempt at going as fast as I can: 14:46.80. Again 7:10 memorization time. (I'm consistent!) Finally I'm getting respectable times at this. Still not especially good, but at least it's now respectable. Thank you so much Chris for the suggestion!
 
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Mike Hughey said:
4x4x4 BLD: 14:04.64. 7:10 memorization time. I took Chris Hardwick's advice and just focused on moving as fast as I possibly could the whole time - this was the first time I tried it. I got very lucky, I think, because it was really easy to memorize (this is one of my fastest memorization times as well), and my memory was really secure. It was a little easy, but not outrageously so - 8 centers in the right place, and 2 edges in the right place; corners were maybe a little easy (2 3-cycles CP; 5 CO). There were only 2 cycles in edge permutation, so that was pretty easy as well, and the middle slice edges were clumped together, which makes it faster with an r2/commutator mixed approach like I use. It was also nice because there was just one obvious way to orient the cube, so I didn't waste any time deciding which way to go.

But even if it was kind of easy, I'm very happy that I finally cracked the 15 minute barrier!

Edit: My second attempt at going as fast as I can: 14:46.80. Again 7:10 memorization time. (I'm consistent!) Finally I'm getting respectable times at this. Still not especially good, but at least it's now respectable. Thank you so much Chris for the suggestion!
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very nice, mike :). I also got a new PB yesterday: 8:32 minutes (about 3:30 minutes memorization). I had several sub-9 DNFs before that, but was very unlucky every time.
 
That's great Joey. I really think you and Kai are going to join the top 5 next year.

In 2007 the record for 3x3x3 dropped 34 seconds (-38%), 4x4x4 dropped 2:38 (-33%), 5x5x5 dropped 16:14 (-62%) and multi-blind increased by 10 (+200%). I don't think we will see those kind of improvements ever again.

But 2008 might be the year that blindfolded (3x3x3, bigcubes and multi-blind) become very popular?
 
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