Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

[Cride5]

First ever successful 3x3x3 BLD solve!
16:33.43 + 8:33.86 = 25:07.30
I think this was 5th attempt. So happy to finally get it after so many close failures
Solved using Old Pochmann.

 

[Escher]

First ever successful 3x3x3 BLD solve!
16:33.43 + 8:33.86 = 25:07.30
I think this was 5th attempt. So happy to finally get it after so many close failures
Solved using Old Pochmann.

Yes!!! Nice one

I knew you'd get it!

 

[PeterV]

3x3x3 BLD PB: 16:09.67. 3rd success of 5 or so attempts. I think my corner memo is taking up the most time. I've got to find a better way to memo corners. Sub-10 soon.

EDIT: Congrats, Cride5 on your first BLD success! I got my first success a couple days ago and it feels great. Hopefully we're both on our way to faster and faster times!

 

[Cride5]

First ever successful 3x3x3 BLD solve!
16:33.43 + 8:33.86 = 25:07.30
I think this was 5th attempt. So happy to finally get it after so many close failures
Solved using Old Pochmann.

Yes!!! Nice one

I knew you'd get it!

3x3x3 BLD PB: 16:09.67. 3rd success of 5 or so attempts. I think my corner memo is taking up the most time. I've got to find a better way to memo corners. Sub-10 soon.

EDIT: Congrats, Cride5 on your first BLD success! I got my first success a couple days ago and it feels great. Hopefully we're both on our way to faster and faster times!

Heh, cheers guys

I think I may look at learning M2 to get faster. I'd love to get success at competition ... maybe I'll give it a shot at the next UK open..

@PeterV - congrats to you as well! It's great to finally join the BLD club! What memo system are you using for corners? If you're using 3OP I'm not sure if visualisation would work so well, but certainly if its anything like OldP, R2 or BH, direct should be fairly easy. Its usually only about 8 or so sticker positions to remember..

 

[PeterV]

First ever successful 3x3x3 BLD solve!
16:33.43 + 8:33.86 = 25:07.30
I think this was 5th attempt. So happy to finally get it after so many close failures
Solved using Old Pochmann.

Yes!!! Nice one

I knew you'd get it!

3x3x3 BLD PB: 16:09.67. 3rd success of 5 or so attempts. I think my corner memo is taking up the most time. I've got to find a better way to memo corners. Sub-10 soon.

EDIT: Congrats, Cride5 on your first BLD success! I got my first success a couple days ago and it feels great. Hopefully we're both on our way to faster and faster times!

Heh, cheers guys

I think I may look at learning M2 to get faster. I'd love to get success at competition ... maybe I'll give it a shot at the next UK open..

@PeterV - congrats to you as well! It's great to finally join the BLD club! What memo system are you using for corners? If you're using 3OP I'm not sure if visualisation would work so well, but certainly if its anything like OldP, R2 or BH, direct should be fairly easy. Its usually only about 8 or so sticker positions to remember..

Hey Cride5, I'm using Old Pochmann with letters for edges and visual for corners. I'm comfortable with edge memo, but corner memo seems to take forever for me and needs to be reviewed too much. It may be too early to tell if I just need practice or if visual memo just isn't for me.

 

[joey]

PeterV&Cride5: Faster plz.

[serious]
I'm not trying to offend you here, but I don't get HOW you take so long to memo/exec? I can't understand how it takes that long to memorise 20 pieces.
Basically, it doesn't, just take ONLY 5mins to memo.. you WILL get it right. Trust me.
[/serious]

 

[Escher]

Got a 1:53 with Old Pochmann/freestyle (visual memo) this evening. Don't have the scramble, but 2 corners solved, no 'parity'.

 

[Cride5]

PeterV&Cride5: Faster plz.

Lol, will try. I guess the fact that I was watching a film at the same time didn't help my memo time. I reckon I could manage sub-10 for memo no problem, but sub-5 sounds quite a challenge! My PB for 2x2 I think is about 1-min so maybe its just a case of getting more practice. I'm only really doing BLD for weekly comps atm. For now I'm focusing on ZZ speed until I can hit that sub-20 avg of 12

@Escher that's crazy fast ... I'll need to borrow you for some tips at some point!

@PeterV I actually started with letters, but really didn't deal with it well at all. As soon as I switched to visual it just came a lot easier, requiring much less mental effort. I'm not sure if this makes much difference, but English was always my worst subject at school, so letters/words aren't as easy for me. I think I deal OK with spatial information though, which is possibly why visual feels so much easier.

A while back I came across this really interesting talk by Richard Feynman about the differences in the way we conceptualise various types of information. It may explain why individuals may naturally prefer certain types of memo systems over others.

 

[PeterV]

PeterV&Cride5: Faster plz.

[serious]
I'm not trying to offend you here, but I don't get HOW you take so long to memo/exec? I can't understand how it takes that long to memorise 20 pieces.
Basically, it doesn't, just take ONLY 5mins to memo.. you WILL get it right. Trust me.
[/serious]

[serious]
Give us a break. We've just started and will get better with time and practice. At this stage of learning BLD, getting a successful solve is priority in my mind; speed will come with practice.
[/serious]

 

[joey]

But that's the thing, just go faster.

 

[PeterV]

But that's the thing, just go faster.

If I could hit a magic switch and get faster right away, believe me, I would. Rest assured that I will be practicing and I will get my times way down before long.

 

[joey]

I think I'm not portraying what I mean correctly, or you're not taking it the way I hoped.

For you next attempt, I think, you should get a stopwatch and give yourself 5mins or 7 or something and memo ONLY for that amount. Just *push* yourself to do it.

I'm not being horrible or something, or maybe I am, but I have good intentions; which are to show you that you don't need to take the amount you do.

ps I hate writing

 

[PeterV]

I think I'm not portraying what I mean correctly, or you're not taking it the way I hoped.

For you next attempt, I think, you should get a stopwatch and give yourself 5mins or 7 or something and memo ONLY for that amount. Just *push* yourself to do it.

I'm not being horrible or something, or maybe I am, but I have good intentions; which are to show you that you don't need to take the amount you do.

ps I hate writing

I appreciate your good intentions, and I'll give this a try. My only concern is, what do I do if I can't complete my memo in the alloted time?

Thanks for the advice, I'll start working on this

@ Cride5: interesting video. Also, it's funny that you talk about letters not working for you because of English being your worst subject @ school. It was easily my best subject, so maybe that's why letters works for me.

 

[Mike Hughey]

I appreciate your good intentions, and I'll give this a try. My only concern is, what do I do if I can't complete my memo in the alloted time?

I was slower than you when I started. And Joey's done this to me several times in the past, and it really helps. When he says give yourself 5 or 7 minutes to memorize, he really means it. Here's what you do: start memorizing, but be aware of the time. Make sure you can clearly see the timer: a stackmat or even better a computer with a big display. Then hurry through, making sure you get done in time. Try 7 minutes first - it will be more reasonable. Figure out how much of that time you need to use for edges: probably 4 1/2 minutes or so. I memorize edges first, so I'd try to memorize them by 4 1/2 minutes. If you get to 3 1/2 minutes and you're still a long way from memorizing the edges, just hurry through the rest and figure out what they are, without working hard to commit them to memory. Then start committing them to memory, until the 4 1/2 minutes are up. Then start working on corners. Again, if you're getting close to the 7 minutes and still aren't finished, hurry through them, even if you don't have time to cement the memory. If you do get done before 7 minutes, start going over the memory to see if you've got it. But no matter what, pull on the blindfold at 7 minutes. Then if you can't remember some of it, try hard to dredge it up. For sure, you should be able to get through the memorization in time, and then it's just that you might not have it all there for quick recall. But that's okay - pushing yourself will make you faster. By the second or third time you try this, you'll probably find that 7 minutes is actually pretty easy, and you won't have any trouble moving to 5 minutes.

This is certainly approximately what Joey would have said too, but like Joey said, he doesn't like to type. I do.

 

[joey]

so like i fink mike jus sed wut i ment.

Spoiler

Thanks Mike! That's a good explanation, and I hope that PeterV gets it more now

 

[Feryll]

Just got a 5 minute 55 second solve. I know, it's very slow, as per my signature, and I will continue to practice. It just seems too much like work to practice it in bulk when I spend 3 minutes harshly working my mind to remember, and then to only have to restart when I slip and do an extra move on the last corner, and don't know how to fix it.

 

[blah]

Chris Hardwick, Mike Hughey, Mats Bergsten, and Istvan Kocza. I have something in common with them.



2 successful 4x4x4 BLD attempts in competition.

 

[ManasijV]

Chris Hardwick, Mike Hughey, Mats Bergsten, and Istvan Kocza. I have something in common with them.



2 successful 4x4x4 BLD attempts in competition.

Congratulations! Excellent results.

 

[Ville Seppänen]

Sub6 memo for 3x3. Time was 31.80. U F D2 F2 D2 F2 L2 R' D L2 R2 B D2 L2 R2 D F' D' L2 R' D2 U' B R B

 

[joey]

nice exec time ville.

Time to learn to SGVJ.