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Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

StefanPochmann said:
Admit it Mike, you're just still afraid of the 6x6. You're such a chicken.
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I keep trying to come up with a good comeback, but all that seems to come out is ... cluck?

But seriously, I really don't have that many opportunities for the really big attempts, so I'll probably base it on the amount of time I have. A 2-6 relay will only take 2 1/2 hours or so, whereas a 7 multi will take about 5 hours. So I'll try whatever I have time for. A 2-7 relay will also take about 5 hours, but I don't want to waste so much time with the boring little cubes (2-5), so I think I'd prefer to do the 7 multi if I have that much time. And the fact that a 6x6x6 would be included has nothing to do with that. Cluck. Honestly. Cluck cluck.
 
InternetTom said:
God you guy's are sitting here talking about 7x7 6x6 bld and I'm happy I did the 2x2 bld. 7 Minutes and I managed to hold it out of frame of my camera the whole time, took along time because I had so many dnf's prior I had to make sure I had it right.
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Tom, we all had to start somewhere. My first ever 3x3x3 blindfolded solve was in 2003 and took me well over 90 minutes. It took me a couple weeks to finally get my 3x3x3 BLD time down under 1 hour.

Tom, I say congratulations on your achievement! I know exactly how you feel when you open your eyes and see that, yes, the cube is indeed solved (just as you thought) :-D Keep up the good work! A BLD solve is a BLD solve regardless of the size of the cube. That rush of knowing you successfully solved it doesn't go away either. So, welcome to your new addiction my friend ;-)

Chris
 
Mike Hughey said:
Finally conquered my nemesis!!!

6x6x6 BLD (first solve on this week's weekly competition): 1:06:50.96 (34:45 memorization)!
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Mike congrats sir! Your time completely shatters mine haha, so my hat is definitely off :-)

Don't feel bad about being afraid of a cube. The 7x7x7 still scares me. I practiced some blindfolded commutators on it today, trying to get a feel for how I will execute. I'm totally, not in the least bit, afraid to try a BLD solve on it yet either..... cluck....

Chris
 
(a little late - I don't have access to the Internet)

Congratulations on the blindfold results at US Nationals!

Mike - 100% accuracy on such number of cubes in competition is no small task. I can say it from experience :)

Chris, Alex, Mike - nice times on 4x4 bld. Wish I had the opportunity to do 3 attempts someday.

5x5 bld - only one succesful solve??? :)

And congrats Mike on 6x6 and 7x7. Wish I had those bigger cubes...


Ok - I will post some results, just to write something on the subject:

5x5 BLD mean of 5: 13:42
Times: 14:21 13:24 13:58 12:56 13:49

My first attempts after not practicing this for a month. My accomplishment here is the accuracy. I don't remember having more than 2 succesful solves in a row before.

4x4 BLD mean of 3: 5:16,xx
Times: 4:48,xx 5:30,xx 5:29,xx

Just to see if I can still do it after Czech Open. Next one was DNF.
 
cmhardw said:
Mike congrats sir! Your time completely shatters mine haha, so my hat is definitely off :-)

Don't feel bad about being afraid of a cube. The 7x7x7 still scares me. I practiced some blindfolded commutators on it today, trying to get a feel for how I will execute. I'm totally, not in the least bit, afraid to try a BLD solve on it yet either..... cluck....
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I'm sure it won't take you long to go sub-hour on 6x6x6 BLD. I just hope you'll give it some more tries. I'm really enjoying 6x6x6 BLD (even if I have had so much trouble with it) - I hope to do 3 tries per week for the competition. I really like doing the obliques - it gives you a new perspective on commutators. What's fascinating is that you can think of them like they're + or X centers (I mostly like to think of them as + centers, since I like them better), and then you just have one slice turn to make as part of the commutator where you have to get the slice right. Other than that, you can think of them like they're just + centers (or X centers if you prefer).

rafal said:
5x5 bld - only one succesful solve??? :)
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I was surprised by that too - must have been the fact that it was the second day and everyone was tired. I was disappointed I didn't get both of them - the second one was off by a 3-cycle of centers because I memorized the wrong letter for one piece.

rafal said:
5x5 BLD mean of 5: 13:42
Times: 14:21 13:24 13:58 12:56 13:49
4x4 BLD mean of 3: 5:16,xx
Times: 4:48,xx 5:30,xx 5:29,xx
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You're so amazing. I hope you can someday get results like this in competition.

Ville Seppänen said:
Finally: 4x4x4BLD 6:35.01. It was lucky, 10 centers, 2 wings, 3 corners permuted. I memorised most wings visually, because they were pretty easy shapes.
Alex, how about getting sub-6 now? :P
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You guys are getting so good. I hope I can get sub-8 someday soon; I just can't keep up. Awesome job, Ville!
 
Phew! I thought you posted something more insane than Rafal's accomplishments when I saw your name... :p
 
I just did my second 4x4 BLD ever and I didn't DNF it, yay. The time was 29:54, fairly good considering these two factors (2nd try, no DNF).
The first one was 31:xy and was off by two edges...-.-.
 
Gratz Kenny! I got my first one after 8 DNFs, and my second one after a lot of DNFs again. But of course, with so many DNFs to practice on, my first and second timings were way better than yours :p My first and second DNFs were about the same times as yours though, so you're on the right track, and hopefully you'll improve as quickly as I did :)

I see there are more and more people doing 4x4x4 BLD already, that's great, but at the same time it makes the event less and less "godlike" (i.e. less impressive), maybe I should move on to 5x5x5 BLD myself... But I need a good cube :(
 
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