Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

I've finally solved all 12 edges on the 3x3x3 for the first time. The middle solve of the weekly competition. It took 12:45.52 :o and I didn't check the clock to see how long the memo was but it took a while! I'm using Old Pochmann and memorising a sequence of colour-pair objects. There were two cycles: GY OY RB WR OG WG BY / WB WO OB GR YR. I didn't do any sort of parity fix as I'm still unsure how that works so I just stopped after the two cycles and the edges were all in place! I was quite confident during the solve that I was recalling the objects in the right order and also with the execution of the T and J perms so I was hopeful of completion but I've been prematurely hopeful before! Well done me! :)
 
Past two days I have tried MultiBld.
I got 2/2 last night after four tries. (40 letters)
I got 3/3 tonight on my first try. (64 Letters)
I am going to try four tomorrow night.

MULTIBLD IS A LOT OF FUN!!!!!!
 
wrbcube4 said:
Past two days I have tried MultiBld.
I got 2/2 last night after four tries. (40 letters)
I got 3/3 tonight on my first try. (64 Letters)
I am going to try four tomorrow night.

MULTIBLD IS A LOT OF FUN!!!!!!
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YES IT IS!

Well done. If you keep progressing like that, by the end of next week you'll have a 16/16 and it's enough for breaking the WR :D
 
msemtd said:
I've finally solved all 12 edges on the 3x3x3 for the first time. The middle solve of the weekly competition. It took 12:45.52 :o and I didn't check the clock to see how long the memo was but it took a while! I'm using Old Pochmann and memorising a sequence of colour-pair objects. There were two cycles: GY OY RB WR OG WG BY / WB WO OB GR YR. I didn't do any sort of parity fix as I'm still unsure how that works so I just stopped after the two cycles and the edges were all in place! I was quite confident during the solve that I was recalling the objects in the right order and also with the execution of the T and J perms so I was hopeful of completion but I've been prematurely hopeful before! Well done me! :)
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Congratulations that's awesome! Have you given thought as to when you will attempt only corners, or have you done so already? If not, I recommend to also try corner only BLD. If you're done this already, try F2L BLD (scramble a cube and solve the first layer, then memo and solve the remaining pieces). That is a lot of fun, and a good way to work closer to a full solve!

Keep up the good work!
Chris
 
cmhardw said:
Congratulations that's awesome! Have you given thought as to when you will attempt only corners, or have you done so already? If not, I recommend to also try corner only BLD. If you're done this already, try F2L BLD (scramble a cube and solve the first layer, then memo and solve the remaining pieces). That is a lot of fun, and a good way to work closer to a full solve!
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Thanks Chris. I haven't yet tried corners - I'll have to revisit badmephisto's tutorial to work out how and I'll have to brush up on my Y-Perm which I hardly use! The F2L BLD is a great idea - I shall definitely try as soon as I have the corners concepts understood.
 
msemtd said:
I've finally solved all 12 edges on the 3x3x3 for the first time. The middle solve of the weekly competition. It took 12:45.52 :o and I didn't check the clock to see how long the memo was but it took a while! I'm using Old Pochmann and memorising a sequence of colour-pair objects. There were two cycles: GY OY RB WR OG WG BY / WB WO OB GR YR. I didn't do any sort of parity fix as I'm still unsure how that works so I just stopped after the two cycles and the edges were all in place! I was quite confident during the solve that I was recalling the objects in the right order and also with the execution of the T and J perms so I was hopeful of completion but I've been prematurely hopeful before! Well done me! :)
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Nice one, Michael. You're one step further now. Believe me it will be worth it when you finally solve a full cube.
 
msemtd said:
I've finally solved all 12 edges on the 3x3x3 for the first time. The middle solve of the weekly competition. It took 12:45.52 :o and I didn't check the clock to see how long the memo was but it took a while! I'm using Old Pochmann and memorising a sequence of colour-pair objects. There were two cycles: GY OY RB WR OG WG BY / WB WO OB GR YR. I didn't do any sort of parity fix as I'm still unsure how that works so I just stopped after the two cycles and the edges were all in place! I was quite confident during the solve that I was recalling the objects in the right order and also with the execution of the T and J perms so I was hopeful of completion but I've been prematurely hopeful before! Well done me! :)
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Nice Michael. That's about half of it.... On to the rest :)
 
MatsBergsten said:
Nice Michael. That's about half of it.... On to the rest :)
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Thanks Mats. I have just spent a couple of hours doing sighted corner-only solves with only a Y-Perm but after watching badmephisto's tutorial again I see the simpler setup move opportunities when also using the J-Perms. I've played with that a little and I'm exhausted! Sleep, work, then I'll be back in 18hrs to do some more :D
 
First sub-1! And it's nonlucky :D Done with 50mm Type C ;)

59.52(21.14) F D F2 D' R2 D L' D2 B F2 R2 B' F D2 F' D' U' B' D U L F D' F
 
blah said:
First sub-1! And it's nonlucky :D Done with 50mm Type C ;)

59.52(21.14) F D F2 D' R2 D L' D2 B F2 R2 B' F D2 F' D' U' B' D U L F D' F
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Congratulations!

That was a nice scramble - I got 1:28.14 on it. That's one of my five fastest solves ever. I also actually looked at memorization time on that one (I don't usually do that) - it was 31 seconds. (So it took me about the same amount of time for execution that it took you for memorization + execution.)
 
It was just a very average scramble for me (3OP + M2).

10 letters for edges. 7 numbers for corners. 2-look CO. 2 edges to flip at the end.

If anything, the 2 edges I had to flip actually made it a bad scramble :p
 
blah said:
It was just a very average scramble for me (3OP + M2).

10 letters for edges. 7 numbers for corners. 2-look CO. 2 edges to flip at the end.

If anything, the 2 edges I had to flip actually made it a bad scramble :p
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A single 11-edge cycle like that is always helpful to me. No parity. No in-place flipped edges or twisted corners. For BH corners, it was 3 8-movers and a 9-mover. So this is a really nice BH + M2 scramble.

Edit: I just noticed that one of the corners was twisted in place. But that didn't count for me because it just happened to be my buffer piece. This was just a really fortunate scramble for me.
 
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Today is just plain awesome :)

55.56(20.77)

I don't have the scramble anymore because of some stupid bug with my timer, but it was nonlucky :)
 
blah said:
Today is just plain awesome :)

55.56(20.77)

I don't have the scramble anymore because of some stupid bug with my timer, but it was nonlucky :)
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Nice! Too bad; I was hoping to get a chance at another nice scramble. :)

And I'm realizing now that my dream still won't happen - I've gotten so much better that I was hoping I might have a chance at winning a 3x3x3 BLD event for the first time at my next competition (I've never won one before - I've come in 2nd six times, but never 1st), but now it dawned on me that you're going to be at Thankscubing. Oh well, maybe the competition after that... :)
 
You don't even know what my accuracy is like. Let's just say I haven't had a non-DNF average of 5 for more than a week ;) :o :)
 
blah said:
You don't even know what my accuracy is like. Let's just say I haven't had a non-DNF average of 5 for more than a week ;) :o :)
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That may be true, but I still suspect I need to worry about you more than Dan. :) (He DNFs all 3 solves about 3/4 of the time in competition, but when he hits them, he's awesome.)
 
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