Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

I just survived my first 3x3x3 BLD attempt. Time was around 20 minutes. Now that I know I can do it, I'm going to practice more and get faster. I'm using 3OP (learned from macky's site).
 
I'm in too!
5x5 bld in 22:12.79, I forgot to look at the time when finished memo :/ but it was like 13-15 mins. memo order: wings, middles, corners, X centers, + centers, solve backwards. + centers was fun, I made up U2-ish algs during the solve xD funny fact: this was my slowest attempt of all time (I had 3 before this one)
 
Pitzu said:
(I'll try 9 cubes today as it is usual recently.)
Congratulations Chuck! What's your family name?! Norris?! ;)
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I can't wait to see your official 9/9 in competition, Istvan.

I've input my WCA Profile link (hooray I got one!), there you can look at my real name :) "Wee-Chuck" is what comes out when you pronounce my nick name. Many non-Indonesian people like Mr.Ton Dennenbroek always get to pronounce my name wrong at the first time. ;)

Zava said:
hm, nice idea... race? :p
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Multi BLD 9/9 race on 09/09/09? That's a GREAT idea! :)
It's been a long time since the last time I practice multi with less than 10 cubes, so I guess 9 will be very okay. I'll post the result on the end of this day.
 
Zava said:
I'm in too!
5x5 bld in 22:12.79, I forgot to look at the time when finished memo :/ but it was like 13-15 mins. memo order: wings, middles, corners, X centers, + centers, solve backwards. + centers was fun, I made up U2-ish algs during the solve xD funny fact: this was my slowest attempt of all time (I had 3 before this one)
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mennyéhaza!!! grat:D
I'm going to try an 5x5 BLD today(I'm planning it since yesterday before I saw your posts), so maybe here, or maybe at failures you'll see result of it:D
 
Pitzu said:
Chuck said:
Multi BLD 9/9 race on 09/09/09? That's a GREAT idea! :)
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Yesssss!!!!! :D:p 9/9 in 58:09.92
Memo: 39:23.84
Execution: 18:46.08
This is not my first ever successful 9/9 but the first ever inside 1 hour! ;)
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Awesome! Nice job - maybe you can get it in competition at Worlds?

I wish I hadn't done my multi for the week before you guys came up with this idea. Maybe if Arnaud or Mats put up next week's competition before the end of the day, I can try it tonight?
 
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Pitzu said:
Chuck said:
Multi BLD 9/9 race on 09/09/09? That's a GREAT idea! :)
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Yesssss!!!!! :D:p 9/9 in 58:09.92
Memo: 39:23.84
Execution: 18:46.08
This is not my first ever successful 9/9 but the first ever inside 1 hour! ;)
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eh Pitzu, you won. :( :p
multi 8/9 in 39:25.56 (27:09)
missed an A perm (UBR-UBL-ULF) on cube #2, otherwise perfect :/ I don't know what went wrong there. it had parity, maybe I messed that up..
at cube #8 my mum came in, and that really distracted me, until that point I was uber-fluent, after that I was shaking so hard I nearly dropped the cube, also messed up the corners-though I could figure it out.
still a nice day for bld (and for speed also, but that doen't belong here ;))
edit: oh sh*t, I've forgotten I wanted to post it at 9:09 PM (now it's 9:25) :(
 
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Hi guys, sorry I'm very late to post my results.

Yesterday morning (09/09/09), my fiancee asked me to take her to her grandma's house in neighbour city. So I took her with my motorcycle to there, the distance is about 125 miles. That very night, she had finished her business and asked me to go home. So we went home and took another 125 miles. :fp

And then, I did this attempt:
6/9 in 45:50.39, with 25 minutes memorization.
- Forgot to shoot 1 corner on the 2nd cube
- Forgot to shoot 2 edges on 6th cube
- Forgot to shoot 2 edges on the last cube
This is my worst Multi BLD attempt ever. Shame on me :(

Congratulations, Istvan :)
 
Chuck said:
And then, I did this attempt:
6/9 in 45:50.39, with 25 minutes memorization.
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It's quite good! You just missed an F2. :p (If you do an F2 on '6' it becomes '9')
;)

And...
4x4 blind: 9:00.67
Memo: 3:39.68 :cool:
No lucky at all. 8 corners, 23 edges to solve. 8 centers solved.
Execution: 5:20.99 (I don't know why it became such a **** execution.)
 
Ahem, first time I've posted in this thread - well, it's the first time I've attempted a blind solve of any sort. It's a rather humble achievement: I memorised and solved 4 edges. Whooo! :o

I know, I set my sights a bit low but it's important to me to "not fail" too badly in these early stages. I just learned the second J-Perm (it has taken me a week!) and I'm doing old Pochmann edges. I still have no idea how to do corners and I'm sketchy about what to do with a new cycle. I've been reading and watching online tutorials since February and I've done sighted Pochmann edges with just a T-Perm and horrible setup moves that I'd never be able to do blindfolded. I'm now able to do both J-Perms and I've decided on some good images for most of the edge colour pairs (I borrowed spiderman for RB from Stefan's page!) and since I had a scramble that started with edges for 3 of my images and all in one cycle, I chose an image for the 4th and made up a story and went for it!

I am very happy. Next time I'll try 6 edges!

EDIT: oh, I forgot to mention - I didn't time myself but it was probably three minutes or thereabouts.
 
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msemtd said:
Ahem, first time I've posted in this thread - well, it's the first time I've attempted a blind solve of any sort. It's a rather humble achievement: I memorised and solved 4 edges. Whooo! :o
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That's so nice Michael!
I hope you had only those edges to solve (not a scrambled cube) so you had
the satisfaction to open the eyes and see a solved cube!

The thing with new cycles is a step to comprehend of course. Do it with
paper and pencil first and look upon it as a programming problem, then
you will be able to deal with it, as you are a programmer.
 
MatsBergsten said:
That's so nice Michael!
I hope you had only those edges to solve (not a scrambled cube) so you had the satisfaction to open the eyes and see a solved cube!
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Many thanks, I had planned to but I don't have a handy way of creating such a scramble (I don't want to install Wine on this Eeepc just to run Cube Explorer - is there an online source?)
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The thing with new cycles is a step to comprehend of course. Do it with paper and pencil first and look upon it as a programming problem, then you will be able to deal with it, as you are a programmer.
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Over the weekend I've been doing similar small, edge-only solves - sometimes with fails sometimes with successes - I've been working on the memorisation and I'm still choosing images for colour pairs. I just did a little solve with a 4 edge cycle followed by a 2 edge cycle then I could only remember the next edge. But that's a total of 7 so I'm real happy about that. Memo took about ten minutes though! :o I can blame that partially on the kids watching some cringeworthy program about Australian teenage mermaids on Nickelodeon! If I ever get some time to myself I'll have a go at all 12 edges :)
 
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