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!!!!!!
 
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!!!!!!

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
 
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! :)

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
 
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!
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.
 
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! :)

Nice one, Michael. You're one step further now. Believe me it will be worth it when you finally solve a full cube.
 
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! :)

Nice Michael. That's about half of it.... On to the rest :)
 
Nice Michael. That's about half of it.... On to the rest :)
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
 
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

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
 
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

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 :)
 
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 :)

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 :)
 
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 :)

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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