Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

blah said:
Guess who's in the two-for-two 5BLD club? :D

So like:
August 6, Nationals: DNF DNF DNF.
... No 5BLD ...
October 1, day before DeVry: Re-learn 5BLD, DNF(12:57).
October 2, DeVry: 15:xx 18:xx.
October 2, after DeVry: Back to retirement.
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Wow, congratulations, Chester! I'm impressed, but not surprised. By the way, I think that means you now tie me for the most sub-20's (and with far fewer attempts, so it's really much more impressive).
 
Mike Hughey said:
I'm impressed, but not surprised.
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I'm surprised, but not impressed ;)

My reaction after the first one was more of a "what are you serious?" than a "yay I got it" simply because the last time I had a success was before Nationals. I tried to do reorienting but couldn't remember how to swap two pairs of centers so I gave up after about 30 seconds and just went back to my normal color scheme.

Second one was funny. I wasn't going for a success. I was going for sub-Rafal because I was super pumped after my first success so I kinda rushed memo. I was so sure I made some fatal mistake at centers, but apparently I didn't. And then there were those 5 minutes I wasted sitting there doing nothing, trying to recall wings - I actually didn't recall them at all :p The first 3 letters of my sextuplet were ARB. I used the process of elimination to figure out that the other 3 were I, K, and T. From there, I reasoned that if it was TIK or KIT, then I would've remembered it because it was pronounceable; if it was ARBIKT or ARBITK, then I would've remembered all 6 letters as one pronounceable word. So it was down to TKI or KTI, neither of which struck a chord, but I just went with TKI on impulse and it turned out to be right. That whole reasoning process was so bizarre that I just couldn't believe that I got it when I pulled off the blindfold - I could care less that it was 18 minutes :D It was awesome. Now back to school and life.
 
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Finished creating/memorizing my memo method. I had been using visual for the last year, but when I do more than 1 or 2 solves at a time, I get the paths mixed up, and get horrible DNFs.

So I created a PAPA (Person doing an Action to a Person while having an Action performed on them) system. One successful solve, and one DNF (off by two twisted corners >.<).
 
I guess this is a new PB for me; I did it a few days ago for weekly competition 2010-40.

Square-1 BLD average 3/5: 4:55.11 [2:36], 5:26.11 [3:10], DNF [7:05.28, 4:05], 5:05.78 [2:51], 6:54.30 [4:36] = 5:48.73

I'm getting successful averages less often now because I'm trying to go as fast as I can on each solve. But for the weekly competitions, I go a little slower because I want a successful average.

Oh, and I've now had successful solves with 46 of the 90 possible shape cases. Over halfway there!
 
Just managed to rebuild a scrambled cube from a failed (2 tries on same scramble) BLD solve from more than 24hours ago.

Seems to confirm my BLD failing is all about wrong execution of set ups / algs.
 
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Got a 5BLD success in the bus today. In 21:02, not a PB but still a nice time. And I opened my eyes about 15 seconds before reaching my destination :D
 
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