Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

Moderately pissed about my 3 official DNF's but I gues as long as I get a succes within the next three attempts there is nothing to be ashamed off.

Last DNF was all the way at the end by Old Pochmann corner failure; messed up a Y-perm somewhere: off by corners and some misplaced (but paired up) edges...
 
Neither of these are PBs, but somehow both of them seemed worthy of mentioning here. Both are from weekly competition 2012-34.

7x7x7 BLD: 37:31.06 [20:02].
Comment: My PB is 37:21.70, so this was really close. I've discovered that to get times like this on 7x7x7 BLD, I need to: a) really have memorization sticking well, b) have a couple of early commutators where I get somewhat confused in the middle of them, so I really doubt I have a chance of getting it right, and c) decide that since I've probably missed it anyway, I'll just go as fast as I can and hope for the best. It seems like almost all of my sub-40 times have been like that.

3x3x3 multiBLD: 8/8 = 8 points, 31:10.26 [24:14].
Comment: I'm pretty sure this is my fastest ever 8/8. I'm attempting to learn to do multi as similarly to Maskow as possible; this was using his cube memorization order pattern (memorize 1, refresh 1, memorize 2, refresh 2, memorize 3, refresh 3, memorize 4, refresh 4, then refresh 1 through 4, then move on to cube 5; repeat for each set of 4 cubes, with no overall refresh at the end), and it also included hand motions like he does. The cube memorization order is exciting because it seems to be enough to make things really stick, and yet it scales linearly - 16 cubes should theoretically take exactly twice as long as 8 cubes! I find that the hand motions really help the memo to stick. Since this was so close to 30 minutes, I'm hopeful this means 16 cubes is quite possible for me.
 
Did a BLD RELAY after a long time again. And got it on the first try..

3x3, 3x3, 3x3, 4x4, 4x4 and 4x4

Just uploaded the video in the gallery..

Dennis
 
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Mollerz said:
4BLD at N8W8! 16th attempt and I finally got it. Very slow, 18:16 but whatever. I was so happy!
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Finally! Glad you pulled it off, although 18 mins is way slower than what you're capable of ... ignore my official ~24 minute PB here.

I finally got my sub-10 on 4BLD today - 9:16.73. It's like my 5th sub-10 attempt, so glad I finally managed to not mess it up. It's weird, it was a really horrible scramble (19 centre targets, 25 wing targets, corner parity). I'm going to try and get a sub-10 on Youtube soon.
 
bobthegiraffemonkey said:
Finally! Glad you pulled it off, although 18 mins is way slower than what you're capable of ... ignore my official ~24 minute PB here.

I finally got my sub-10 on 4BLD today - 9:16.73. It's like my 5th sub-10 attempt, so glad I finally managed to not mess it up. It's weird, it was a really horrible scramble (19 centre targets, 25 wing targets, corner parity). I'm going to try and get a sub-10 on Youtube soon.
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...just upload this one?
 
Noahaha said:
Did more solves today than I'd like to admit (somewhere between 130 and 160). Also, over the past week my sup-1 frequency has gone way down.
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Nice, random question, but what is your general success rate?

Accomplishment: 1:04 3BLD in the weekly comp, and a 6.something in 2BLD. (4.something +2 :()

And I think I'm slowly learning more BH...
 
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Riley said:
Nice, random question, but what is your general success rate?

Accomplishment: 1:04 3BLD in the weekly comp, and a 6.something in 2BLD. (4.something +2 :()

And I think I'm slowly learning more BH...
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I'm really streaky. When I hit the sweet spot it's like 80% even at top speed, but I go through groups of solves where it's down in the 60s. When I do lots of solves, I'm always changing it up. I usually set a goal for a group of 10-15 solves, like memo as fast as possible or pretend it's a competition or don't DNF or only use BH, so that affects accuracy as well.
 
Noahaha said:
I'm really streaky. When I hit the sweet spot it's like 80% even at top speed, but I go through groups of solves where it's down in the 60s. When I do lots of solves, I'm always changing it up. I usually set a goal for a group of 10-15 solves, like memo as fast as possible or pretend it's a competition or don't DNF or only use BH, so that affects accuracy as well.
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Noah, Try doing 300 3x3 solves/day for a couple days. Take time off of blind. This will increase your turning speed which would help your execution.
 
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