Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

[Mike Hughey]

Mike, that's crazy! I think we'll be seeing sub-50 sometime?

Sub-50 shouldn't be hard. I think sub-45 should actually be fairly easy to do with a little more practice. Even for me.

If Rafal ever tries it, I'm guessing he'll be sub-30 by his second or third solve.

It's just not that much harder than a 5x5x5. But obliques are fun, so it's more fun than a 5x5x5.

 

[alexc]

1:07.83 blind on heise blind sim. I also got a lucky 51 and 1:04.

 

[blah]

Mike, is your 6x6x6 cube clucking at you already?

 

[Pitzu]

Congratulations Mike! Now your 7x7 is better than the marathon WR and your 6x6 is better than the halfmarathon WR.

 

[Ville Seppänen]

48.55 3x3x3bld. Absolutely non-lucky, even had parity. I did it after 52.xx and 58.xx. Good day.

1:07.83 blind on heise blind sim. I also got a lucky 51 and 1:04.

Damn, you're taking my title. Race to sub50?

 

[alexc]

48.55 3x3x3bld. Absolutely non-lucky, even had parity. I did it after 52.xx and 58.xx. Good day.

1:07.83 blind on heise blind sim. I also got a lucky 51 and 1:04.

Damn, you're taking my title. Race to sub50?

Sure, but I doubt I'll get it anytime soon.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Congratulations Mike! Now your 7x7 is better than the marathon WR and your 6x6 is better than the halfmarathon WR.

Thanks! Now I want to see you run a marathon while solving a 7x7x7 BLD. No?

(I did think your cube marathon was great, by the way. Saw the video.)

 

[shelley]

For some strange reason this evening, my brain went "Why not do a 5x5 BLD?" 43 minutes later I opened my eyes to a solved 5x5.

~20 minutes of memorization, still using straight visual memo because I'm too lazy to come up with some kind of mnemonic scheme.

 

[tim]

For some strange reason this evening, my brain went "Why not do a 5x5 BLD?" 43 minutes later I opened my eyes to a solved 5x5.

~20 minutes of memorization, still using straight visual memo because I'm too lazy to come up with some kind of mnemonic scheme.

Congrats, but with pure visual memo? That's just insane .

btw. was that your first attempt?

 

[blah]

@shelley: Congrats! That's waaay faster than my first attempt And I had a lettering scheme (stolen from 4x4x4) Sub-30 for your next attempt?

@tim: I think Lucas does pure visual for 5x5x5 BLD too. And Rowe too, probably, but I'm not sure...

 

[Mike Hughey]

Wow, Shelley, very nice! And I agree with Tim that pure visual memo on a 5x5x5 is just insane, even if it is true that quite a few people have done it.

 

[cmv0116]

Yeah! I just did my first 3x3 blind solve. After missing a few by two flipped edges and another by simply a cycle of edges, I finally did one!

 

[not_kevin]

After hovering at 4:30 for the past... 2 months-ish, I got my first sub-3:30 time (so what if it was 3:29.97? It's still sub-3:30!).

 

[joey]

01:10.91 01:04.11 (00:53.94) 01:15.28 (DNF) => 1:10.10
Felt a bit rubbish after that 4x4 BLD attempt for the weekly comp, so I'm happy to do this.

 

[Pitzu]

Wow, Shelley, very nice!

I agree!
And also the solving is very nice! Congratulations!

 

[Hubdra]

I just did my first successful BLD of 9:23.08 (of a 3x3, that is.) Reaaally slow but I got it! I used T perm for corners and M2 for edges. It was SO exciting to see it solved when I brought it out under the table. The memo took a while because there was multiple cycles, which I'm not quite used to yet.

I'm not sure what 'attempt' this is, I've been taking a scrambled cube and tried to memorize as much as I could until I hit something I didn't understand. Then I did it and tried to learn from there. Eventually I just got it, I guess. Or got lucky. I'm gonna go try another one!

 

[Lucas Garron]

Why is everyone amazing now? I still remember teaching Shelley r2 (edges and centers) in the back of Leyan's car before Berkeley Spring, and now she's gotten a 5x5x5 success before me.

Congratulations, really.

Uh, some discussion:
I'm still comfortably in the 20s for a slow 5x5x5 BLD attempt, but lately my accuracy is so terrible that I can never tell what I did wrong (except 4x4x4 BLD at Nats, that was just annoying). After I get back home, I'm going to try r2, R2, and U2 for centers, and see if I can do something to work on avoiding having to do so many memo corrections.

 

[shelley]

Haha, it seems like if I really want to learn something, I should get in the back of a car. Leyan taught me 3x3 BLD in the back of Tyson's car during a long road trip back in 2005.

I don't see myself doing 5x5 BLD too often. 40+ minutes per attempt is just too much.

 

[Mike Hughey]

I don't see myself doing 5x5 BLD too often. 40+ minutes per attempt is just too much.

That's why I anticipate being one of the top 6x6x6 and 7x7x7 BLD solvers for quite a while in the future. Because most people seem to feel the same way about a 40+ minute attempt. Everybody except me and István.

(When I was at 40+ minutes per attempt on 5x5x5 BLD, I was typically doing 4 or 5 attempts per week. Just crazy, I guess.)

 

[Dene]

In 40+ minutes I could cut a few seconds off my 5x5x5 speedsolve times, so I think doing bigcubes BLD is not worth it for me yet