Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

[Swordsman Kirby]

7:38.38 4x4 blind!!!!!! It's on Cubemania, too!

It seems like you're posting something here every few hours. Ridiculous. I think you're going to be ready this weekend.

Good job! I'm jealous!

Oh crap, I didn't realize it was so soon. In the meantime:

L2 B' L' F2 U' L R' B' U' B2 L D U R2 U2 L R' U' B F D' U' B' D' B'

52.52 omg

 

[Mike Hughey]

At the rate you're improving, Alex, you'd take both Chris' WRs by the end of the month (no offense to Chris)

That's about right - pity there's only a few more days before Nationals. A few more weeks, and I bet he'd really be ready to do it. (Of course, Chris might beat his own records, too!)

And Tim, that's just outrageous. I can tell I'm going to feel like a total amateur at the 3x3x3 BLD finals.

 

[alexc]

Thanks everyone for the compliments! I can't wait for this weekend!

 

[Mike Hughey]

Thanks everyone for the compliments! I can't wait for this weekend!

I'm relieved that this was just a thank you. I saw you posted here again and I was wondering, "Oh no, what did he do THIS time?"

I'm sure you'll be back in a few hours with another one, though.

 

[alexc]

Thanks everyone for the compliments! I can't wait for this weekend!

I'm relieved that this was just a thank you. I saw you posted here again and I was wondering, "Oh no, what did he do THIS time?"

I'm sure you'll be back in a few hours with another one, though.

You're right! 7:09.81 LUCKY 4x4 blind. 7 centers, 3 wings, and 2 corners permuted.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Thanks everyone for the compliments! I can't wait for this weekend!

I'm relieved that this was just a thank you. I saw you posted here again and I was wondering, "Oh no, what did he do THIS time?"

I'm sure you'll be back in a few hours with another one, though.

You're right! 7:09.81 LUCKY 4x4 blind. 7 centers, 3 wings, and 2 corners permuted.

I knew it!

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

Thanks everyone for the compliments! I can't wait for this weekend!

I'm relieved that this was just a thank you. I saw you posted here again and I was wondering, "Oh no, what did he do THIS time?"

I'm sure you'll be back in a few hours with another one, though.

You're right! 7:09.81 LUCKY 4x4 blind. 7 centers, 3 wings, and 2 corners permuted.

I knew it!

Ouch!

 

[Mike Hughey]

A silly one:

3x3x3 BLD OH: 3:15.52.

I couldn't believe it when I looked at the time. I think my previous best was somewhere around 3:30. It was fairly easy, but definitely not lucky - only one edge was in the correct place. The luckiest thing about it is that there were no edge pieces in place but flipped - flipping takes the longest one-handed. All 8 corners needed permuting - two 3 cycles and parity.

The solve was fast, but not that fast; I must have really memorized quickly, but I didn't check the time after memorization so I don't know how fast it was.

 

[Ville Seppänen]

4x4x4 BLD: 7:48.39 probably 5th successful solve.
Also had 52.68 3x3x3 DNF, undid last setup wrong

 

[alexc]

43.34 3x3 blind! But it was lucky. Two 2-cycles of corners, 4 permuted corners. One edge cycle, but I can't remember if any edges were permuted. Two misoriented corners. 17 memo and 26eek execution.

 

[alexc]

14/14 multi bld in 1:38:02.

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

14/14 multi bld in 1:38:02.

That's ridiculous...

 

[alexc]

14/14 multi bld in 1:38:02.

That's ridiculous...

Thank you!

 

[Mike Hughey]

I agree - awesome job on the multi, Alex. Great result, really good time. (Well, amazingly good time if it had been me - I guess it was a little slow by your current standards. ) I wish I could be practicing as much as you, but I can't - it's pretty obvious I'm no longer in your league. Good luck to you this weekend!

I can't believe the way you've gone from being about the same as me at big cubes BLD a couple of weeks ago to now averaging under 8 minutes on 4x4x4 (which I've never done!) and 18 minutes on 5x5x5 (which is the best I've ever done). You're amazing, and I can't wait to see you in action. It will be fun to watch you try 7x7x7 BLD.

 

[fanwuq]

14/14 multi bld in 1:38:02.

Wow! I didn't notice that you increased by so many cubes!

I think the last time I recall, you did 7 or 8.

 

[blah]

Alex's rate of improvement in BLD makes Yu Nakajima's improvement in speedsolving look amateur (no offense to Nakajima). But seriously, it does, that's undeniable. And considering the fact that it's BLD, it's even more amazing!

I wish I had as much time to practice as you do I'm probably gonna stagnate where I am for a very long time to come.

 

[alexc]

Alex's rate of improvement in BLD makes Yu Nakajima's improvement in speedsolving look amateur (no offense to Nakajima). But seriously, it does, that's undeniable. And considering the fact that it's BLD, it's even more amazing!

I wish I had as much time to practice as you do I'm probably gonna stagnate where I am for a very long time to come.

Actually, the truth is that I'm not practicing as much lately. A couple multi blds and some 3x3, 4x4, and 5x5 bld is all I've done in the past week, and only for maybe an hour at the most.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Alex's rate of improvement in BLD makes Yu Nakajima's improvement in speedsolving look amateur (no offense to Nakajima). But seriously, it does, that's undeniable. And considering the fact that it's BLD, it's even more amazing!

I wish I had as much time to practice as you do I'm probably gonna stagnate where I am for a very long time to come.

Actually, the truth is that I'm not practicing as much lately. A couple multi blds and some 3x3, 4x4, and 5x5 bld is all I've done in the past week, and only for maybe an hour at the most.

Well, between the solves on CubeMania and the solves you've reported here, it's still substantially more practice than I can manage. But I'd probably be keeping up with you if I hadn't wasted all that time on the 6 failed 6x6x6 BLD attempts in the past two weeks.

Regardless, you're improving at an amazing rate.

 

[Ville Seppänen]

3x3x3 BLD 42.00 seconds! I think it was lucky, atleast way too easy. 1 corner and 3 edges in place, no need to flip anything. Unfortunately, I scrambled from a non-solved state so I don't have the scramble, but edge cycles were: UF->UB->RU->LB->LU, FR->DR->, DL->DB. Corners were 27 moves. Awesome!

 

[Mike Hughey]

3x3x3 BLD 42.00 seconds! I think it was lucky, atleast way too easy. 1 corner and 3 edges in place, no need to flip anything. Unfortunately, I scrambled from a non-solved state so I don't have the scramble, but edge cycles were: UF->UB->RU->LB->LU, FR->DR->, DL->DB. Corners were 27 moves. Awesome!

You and Alex are both on the fast track. Amazing!