Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

Joey's actually right, you know. If you turn faster, you can't possibly take 10 minutes to recall. You might wind up with a hopelessly scrambled cube, but you won't take 10 minutes to recall. :)

And that's exactly what I think Joey wants me to do, so that's exactly what I'm going to do. I'm going to believe I can beat 30 seconds memo, and so I'm going to beat 30 seconds memo. Then I'm going to solve it as fast as I can. If I get stuck, I'll just make myself unstick. Or I'll take a DNF and try again. And again. I will get a sub-30 memo tonight, for certain. And I'll probably even get a non-DNF one. :) (And if it's still a 3-minute solve, at least I'll have my sub-30 memo.)
 
Mike.. you just said it all. That's exactly what I mean.. I'm just not as succinct as you!

I'll check this thread tommorow, I hope to see a post from you Mike :)
 
Well, I know you won't be satisfied, Joey, and I'm sure you'll say, "Okay now, sub-25!" But I did it - 3 times! (Out of 15 tries.)

The first success was 29 seconds memorization, 4:29. I had a horrible time remembering it, but I forced myself to do it, and I got it. It was great to see it solved.
The second one was 29 seconds memorization, 1:38. That was pretty good - a couple of recall delays made it so slow.
The third one was 29 seconds memorization, 1:33. It was a really good solve - it was a hard scramble with 3 edge cycles and corners that needed twisting, so I'm actually quite happy with it. Probably the fastest I've ever done a scramble that hard for me.

I also had a 28 second memo, 1:36 attempt with a 3-cycle of edges and two corners twisted. I really wanted that one - I was so disappointed. The 3-cycle of edges were due to a mistake I often make when I have to shoot to BD - you'd think I'd eventually learn not to do that! The corners were probably a memo mistake.

Overall, I got 8 DNFs. The DNFs were mostly pretty bad - it's shocking how bad a solve can be when you're rushing memo. My memo was sub-45 on all but one, which was 55 seconds. And about half were sub-35 memo.

I've gotta quit for now, but I will try this again someday. Next time, sub-25 memo!

@Joey: I was just mentioning to Chris the other day that I've missed you pushing me like this - it always seems to help when you do. Thank you.
 
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