Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

finally i can write a post here. Tonight I completed my first cube blindofolded, after 4 DNFs (old pochmann both for edges and corners).
Edges memo was difficult for me, 4 cycles, 20 minutes :( Corners were easier, ony 2 cycles, and there was parity too.

Started 11:45 pm, ended 00:16...happy!
 
otsyke said:
finally i can write a post here. Tonight I completed my first cube blindofolded, after 4 DNFs (old pochmann both for edges and corners).
Edges memo was difficult for me, 4 cycles, 20 minutes :( Corners were easier, ony 2 cycles, and there was parity too.

Started 11:45 pm, ended 00:16...happy!
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A funny thing is that in a year, you'll probably not understand how it took you more than an hour, or how you had the ambition to spend that much time on only one solve.

But hopefully you'll remember how happy you are, and that it certainly was worth the time! Congratulations!
 
7:30.80 2/2
No routes, just 2 normal 3bld cubes (with more refreshing).
Beats my previous pb of about 13 minutes... :p
Also, a very frustrating 4BLD DNF.
23 memo, but it should've been more like 12 memo, but I noticed at 12 minutes when I was going over everything for the last time, that my first edge target was wrong, and I made quite a few big edge memo mistakes.
On first centre target, cube slipped while setting up, had no idea what had happened, kept going with that target, then took of blindfold. Corners were off by D2, so it definitely would've been a DNF D:<
 
3:18.60 3BLD. I realized I'm not doing enough solves, and I really need to get back into it. Listening to Mike and Chris' Cubecast episodes gave me a bit of motivation, too :)

I suppose I'm in training for 4BLD now. I'll be buying a 4x4 some time in the next 2 weeks, and I'm trying BLD on it as soon as I can. Is there any good way to work up the memo ability, other than brute force? Should I just start going for 2- and 3-cube multis?
 
qqwref said:
Nice 7/7 :D

Now all the 6/6 records look really bad :p I wonder why nobody does 6-cube attempts...
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Thanks :), generally any even amount of cubes >3 is awkward for me due to the way I memorise:

Memorise 2, rehearse. > Memorise next 2, rehearse just those. > Rehearse all 4. > Repeat process and then memorise the last cube with either visual/audio or rushed images.
 
Zane_C said:
Thanks :), generally any even amount of cubes >3 is awkward for me due to the way I memorise:

Memorise 2, rehearse. > Memorise next 2, rehearse just those. > Rehearse all 4. > Repeat process and then memorise the last cube with either visual/audio or rushed images.
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Have you tried memorizing 2, 2, ..., 3 and then rushing the last one? Or maybe 3, 2, ..., 2?
 
qqwref said:
Have you tried memorizing 2, 2, ..., 3 and then rushing the last one? Or maybe 3, 2, ..., 2?
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Yes, I have tried memorising 3 at a time. However, I find that often when I memorise >2 at a time, my images can go very loose.

I will try 4 cubes now in this format: Memorise 3 and rehearse, rush last one.
EDIT: 3/4 in 7:26, very bad recall. I gave up on the last one, as I couldn't recall the first images.
 
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Got my first full 4x4 centers solve without messing up commutators, albeit sighted and with rotations.

With commutators in BLD (Especially centers, since they are harder to visualize imo), is it best to not rotate at all, or do you guys rotate to make comms easier to see/more fingertricky.
 
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Xishem said:
With commutators in BLD (Especially centers, since they are harder to visualize imo), is it best to not rotate at all, or do you guys rotate to make comms easier to see/more fingertricky.
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Yes. I rotate. But never to recognize the comms, just to fingertrick them. You should always be able to recognize a comm from your execution angle.
 
Wow, we've had a number of first time BLD solvers recently, as well as some veterans setting pb singles. Congrats to everyone who recently either got their first ever 3x3x3 BLD solve, or broke their pb single! :tu :D

ben1996123 said:
7x7 bld method sighted ~2 hours :3

5555th post
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Hey, now that you have a method that you know will work, next step is to work on your memory method that you'll use, and then the solve for real :D
 
cmhardw said:
Wow, we've had a number of first time BLD solvers recently, as well as some veterans setting pb singles. Congrats to everyone who recently either got their first ever 3x3x3 BLD solve, or broke their pb single! :tu :D



Hey, now that you have a method that you know will work, next step is to work on your memory method that you'll use, and then the solve for real :D
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Yeah, but I'm slow :3

Just tried 4x4 centres bld and was off by 3 pieces. Time was 18:29.98 <_<

I dont really have a method for memo, kinda. I use letters, but no story... So all I memorised for the 4x4 centres bld was QVRNLFSKPLH then swap some pieces at the end, since I dont know how to solve the buffer piece or the one that is "behind" it with r2:

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EDIT: oops helper is 1 piece below where it is on the drawing
 
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Also just tried 4x4 centers bld. 12:16.92, off by 4 centers :/ Memo was about 2:30.

Weird... Next try 12:16.14 (Memo 3:15). Less than a second off the first. 5 centers off this time.

I was stuck on T->X->W (Speffz) for about 2 minutes. Still not sure if I did it right.
 
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