Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

Chuck said:
I see :)

Well, my dream is to have a video of myself doing the Ultimate BLD Relay.

2x2x2, 3x3x3, 4x4x4, 5x5x5, 6x6x6, and 7x7x7.

I wonder when it will come true... :rolleyes:
I guess it's all up to me.

Let's learn! :)
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Oops - someone else is actually contemplating it. Maybe I should get to work on it. :)

Of course, what I really want to do is the True Ultimate BLD Relay:
2x2x2
3x3x3
4x4x4
5x5x5
6x6x6
7x7x7
3x3x3 one handed
3x3x3 with feet
megaminx
pyraminx
square-1
clock
magic
master magic

In other words, one for every event in official competitions. I still need to work on the following to get it, though:
3x3x3 with feet (very very hard, but Tim Sun has done it, so I know it's possible)
pyraminx (easy)
clock (easy)
square-1 (hard, but not nearly as hard as 3x3x3 with feet)
 
I had to try the big cubes anyway. And of course I can turn them, it just is not real
fun because the 7 is too big and the 6 is too stiff. In spite of that and my statement
yesterday I have now actually solved the 6, not blindfolded but with bld methods looking. That was an accomplishment too I think.

No new algorithms needed, or am I wrong? It took about an hour, no memo involved then of course. But I have a hard time with the obliques, to tell one sort from the other. It comes with practise when you get accustomed I guess.

Do you have a name for the different sort of obliques, Mike? Inner and outer +/x-centres seem like obvious names, but north-east / south-west obliques does not sound so good. It is how I think of them now at least. (I need a name to think about them :))

Another fun was to decide orientation :). There were too many centres to actually count I think. I took the side with the most yellow (D for me) and then rotated horizontally to get many blue on the B side. That had to suffice.

We'll see if I get to actually trying to solve one bld. Memo seems like more than two 4x4 (which I have actually done once) but less than two 5x5. So a lot but not so you faint at the mere thought of it.

So fun, but for the actual turning :mad:
 
trying-to-speedcube... said:
Mike, are you sure you can do the Magic and Master Magic? You do know that there's 20 tiles and 40 strings to memo?!
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Yes, I know it's really tough, but I learned from the master - thanks to him, I can handle it (the ring-tracing method is particularly helpful!):
http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3191
(This is still my favorite cubing-related video ever!)

MatsBergsten said:
No new algorithms needed, or am I wrong? It took about an hour, no memo involved then of course. But I have a hard time with the obliques, to tell one sort from the other. It comes with practise when you get accustomed I guess.
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The obliques are technically different algorithms, I guess, but they work exactly the same as the others, with just turning different layers. The method I use with the obliques is to think of them as a "bar" of pieces around the + center, and then I decide which class they are in the couple of slice turns where it matters.

MatsBergsten said:
Do you have a name for the different sort of obliques, Mike?
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Actually, I do. Technically, they're not good names, but they work well in actual practice. I call them left obliques and right obliques. I name them based on the top ones. So they work like this (just the centers of a 6x6x6):

X L R X
R X X L
L X X R
X R L X

Mathematically, it's a terrible naming scheme. But practically, it works really well.
 
I FINALLY GOT A 4BLD SUCCESS!!

15:08.56, the first scramble from the weekly comp. This feels sooooooooo good after all of those DNFs. It actually could have been sub13, but I had a huge stall on one of the centers cycles that I am most familiar with (I totally blanked on which direction to go), and I messed up my 6th edge and didn't realize it until I got to the 10th. I was shooting to rBD and did r2 F R U R' d R U' R' d' F' instead of F R U R' d R U' R' d' F' r2, so it wasn't too hard to undo, but it wasted a lot of time since I had to backtrack by quite a few edges.

All on video btw, should be up soon :D

Edit: haha looking at the video it took me a little over 3 minutes each for edge and center execution. So that means it took me the same amount of time to solve 10 centers as it took to solve (counting undos/redos) 28 edges. Man I suck at centers.
 
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Mike Hughey said:
DavidWoner said:
I FINALLY GOT A 4BLD SUCCESS!!
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Nice! Congratulations!

Erm, except now that means you'll be getting even more points in the weekly competitions - that's not good. :) :) :)
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Heh, that's only if I can consistently get successes, which is doubtful.

So will you be trying 5x5x5 BLD next week??? :)
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HAHAHAHAHA! No.

The idea of adding 24 more centers is horribly unpleasant. I've read your centers guide like 5 or 6 times and the idea still hasn't really clicked. You can see in the video that I spend a disgusting amount of time on centers just figuring out wtf I am supposed to do.
 
2/2 in 8:03.42

Man, today is my day for BLD. I decided to go full speed with memo and only make one pass. Both cubes very pretty easy to memo, and the story from the first cube was related to the second, which helped speed up memo and recall. This one's on video too, it'll be up in a bit.

Chuck has actually inspired me to do more BLD, and since I don't have any competitions in the near future, I figure it can hurt. I'd like to try 5 multi sometime in the next week, but I need to figure out a better memo system first. I have a feeling visual won't really hold for 5 cubes.

Waris: Nice! We definitely need to race BLD this weekend.

Edit: video is up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP-C7nN3v-E
 
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DavidWoner said:
Chuck has actually inspired me to do more BLD, and since I don't have any competitions in the near future, I figure it can hurt. I'd like to try 5 multi sometime in the next week, but I need to figure out a better memo system first. I have a feeling visual won't really hold for 5 cubes.
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Congratulations, David :)

Yes, visual on 5 cubes Multi BLD will be very hard to recall back.
 
Mike Hughey said:
happa95 said:
2/2 4:20.49
My second attempt at multi.
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Wait - didn't you just say yesterday that you were temporarily quitting cubing? That was a short break! :)

But congratulations - that's unbelievably fast for just your second attempt.
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BLD is one variation of cubing that's worth practicing every once in a while, even if I'm not doing any other forms of cubing. :D
 
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