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Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

Finally understand commutators :) and they're so simple really. Going to try a 4x4 later today or tomorrow to try and get used to them.
Also just learnt M2 for 3x3. First try was a DNF, 8:30.88, because of a 3-cycle of edges, I think I got the DB alg mixed up with the UF alg. But it had parity and I'm using a new lettering system, so my times should go down quickly. Still an accomplishment for me :D

Edit:
DNF 9:30.99 missed a cycle of edges
DNF 7:15.13 undid setup move wrong
6:05.15 success :D
It gets easier every time. And they all had parity

Edit:
5:03.19 success no parity

Edit:
4x4 Success :D 55:31.63
Memo was 27 min. Yes, it's a really bad time, even for me, but that's because of my new lettering system and my first attempt with commutators for centers and edges. I spent about 3 min on one commutator, I think it was LDf LUb RUf. Plus it took me 5 min to memo corners :fp Anyway I am really addicted to bld now
(3/7 success rate for 4x4)
 
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Keroma12 said:
I spent about 3 min on one commutator, I think it was LDf LUb RUf.
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It's the Per's Special case. You can solve it by zy[U2, r U2 l' U2 r']y'z'.
A slower but more intuitive way is to use DF as a setup to get a nice 8-move case.
 
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I'm away and don't have access to my camera to even take a picture, so I'll summarise it in text:
At 11:30pm I began memorising, had some issues with cycles that wasted quite a bit of time. Fortunately I overcame my problems and finished memorising after 1 hour and 35 minutes, triple checking everything. I didn't want any chance of peeking so I turned the lights out and remained in total darkness. After being blindfolded for approximately 1 hour and 11 minutes, I removed my blindfold and stopped the timer on my watch. On my watch light I could see that the finishing time was 2:46:40.
I stood up and searched for the light switch, I looked into my hand and pressed the switch. That's sides done, THAT SIDES DONE...

:D :D :D 7BLD :D :D :D
 
Congratulations, Zane!!! That's incredible.

A few minutes ago I achieved the biggest BLD accomplishment in my life.
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I am soooooo happy :D
It was my second ever attempt at 5x5 BLD, the first one was in March 2010. After that I decided to quit because I'd never get a success anyway :p

Memorization for this was 42:53.2 minutes. I was originally going to memorize it in little sections with breaks in between but sooner or later I decided to just do everything in one sitting.
I memorized everything very, very slowly in order to make the memo stick in my head perfectly. I think I checked everything about 7 times.
Even though my execution felt fairly safe and my memo was easy to recall I really didn't expect to see a solved cube when I took the blindfold of.
Then, after about 58 minutes, I pulled of my blindfold.
First sight: "No unsolved pieces on the visible sides" *turns cube around* "YEEEESS!!!!!!! YEES!!!!!"

I used the first scramble of weekly competition-52.

I memorized in the following order:
+ Centers
x Centers
Wings
Midges
Corners

I solved in this order with the following methods:
Corners: Old Pochmann
+ Centers: U2 (parity)
x Centers: T-Perm with Rw instead of R
Wings: r2 (parity)
Midges: m2

In case anyone is interested in my memorization (it's in German anyway) :p, here it is:
+ Centers: Mein Sack unternimmt immer ochsenartige Greif-Vögel. Jeder andere will Karsten zum Tanzen planen. Leider erben beide Häuser die richtigen Dinge.
x Centers: Qualle nimmt viele Opfer der im anderen Erbe bleibenden Wichser. Richtige Freunde jagen sich. König Gunther leckt heute probeweise Kacke (<--my favourite part xD)
Wings: V HURLPO quält bald meinen Cube. Donkey Kong arbeitet ja trotz guter im National-Sozialismus jagender.
Midges: SIAF DJD HUN flip UL midge [visually]
Corners: I already forgot :p But I remember that I had to flip the DFL corner anti-clockwise :D

This feels so unreal. I reached my ultimate BLD cubing goal. Wow.

On a random site note:
365 days ago I solved the Rubik's Cube blindfolded for the first time.

EDIT: The video will follow soon ;).
EDIT2: Oh, and in case anyone is not able to view the attached photo to this: It's 5x5 BLD :p
 
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That should work fine. You'll start by learning to solve it from square. Then the one-mover is pretty straightforward; of course you can just do that one by imagining it already solved, but I do use the decoding for that case as if it were a normal case. From there, it will be easy for the 2 and 3 movers to apply a scramble, solve it to that shape, and try it out, if you want to see if it's working for you.

I still say it's worth testing out your knowledge of the method (perhaps after you've done a 0 move case) by applying a full scramble, looking up that shape in my table and quickly memorizing it, and then trying to solve it from there BLD. If you can do that just once with a case that's not too close to square, you know you've got the method down.
 
Mike Hughey said:
That should work fine. You'll start by learning to solve it from square. Then the one-mover is pretty straightforward; of course you can just do that one by imagining it already solved, but I do use the decoding for that case as if it were a normal case. From there, it will be easy for the 2 and 3 movers to apply a scramble, solve it to that shape, and try it out, if you want to see if it's working for you.

I still say it's worth testing out your knowledge of the method (perhaps after you've done a 0 move case) by applying a full scramble, looking up that shape in my table and quickly memorizing it, and then trying to solve it from there BLD. If you can do that just once with a case that's not too close to square, you know you've got the method down.
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Alright, I'll do so shortly. (a full test scramble)
Then I'll continue about solving into a square shape and solving, then a 1-mover then solving, etc.
 
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