Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

[Moops]

Finally worked out how to memo quickly and comfortably for 3BLD, 4BLD and 5BLD. For example, 5BLD should hopefully be between 3:00-4:00 from now on.

How so?

 

[sneze2r]

3BLD: 35.45
[youtubehd]8TdC1zRqz1s[/youtubehd]
Scramble: B D' B2 D B F' D U2 R D U2 R' D L2 B' L2 D2 U L2 D2 U R'
Solution:

Spoiler

y
Corners:

• [F' y; R' D R, U2]
• [R' F R, B']
• [D'; D' L' D, R2]

Edges:

• [R2, D' M D]
• [R U' R', E]
• [x; M', U' L' U]
• [U L U', M2]
• x' U' M' U2 M U'

This is probably my 4-rd time ever because i had three sub35

 

[Ollie]

How so?

Just experimenting with some visual, changing the speed I read the cube, different letter pairs etc, how I review etc. Practicing memorizing pack of cards and random digits seemed to help too.

3BLD: 35.45
Scramble: B D' B2 D B F' D U2 R D U2 R' D L2 B' L2 D2 U L2 D2 U R'

Really nice scramble and really nice solve I even managed 38.96 on this.

 

[Noahaha]

Scramble: B D' B2 D B F' D U2 R D U2 R' D L2 B' L2 D2 U L2 D2 U R'

27.83 for me. You're getting pretty good.

 

[acohen527]

3BLD PB: 2:26.55
M2 OP
It's been a long time since I've had a blind PB...why not get one on the first solve of the day.

Lost scramble... It had 12 edge targets and 6 corners. Relatively easy.

 

[Iggy]

Finally, a decent 3BLD avg5.

1:41.44[48.09], 1:54.49[52.76], 1:46.09[47.48], DNF(56.40)[32.94], 1:31.27[37.69] = 1:47.34

Forgot edge memo on the 4th solve. :/

 

[moralsh]

first 3BLD success on a noisy train on my way home, it was a hand scramble but with 2 cycles for corners and 4 for edges. Memo was the hardest part, about 20 minutes I guess, and execution something between 3 and 4 minutes. I'll try to do a timed one tomorrow

 

[HEART]

My goal before Worlds is to average around 7-8 minutes on 4BLD. But everytime it's even sub-10 I DNF. NOT TODAY

First ever sub-10, 8:06.74. Memo was ~4:10.

Scramble L' Bw2 B2 L' Lw' F2 B Dw F2 B2 U' Dw2 D2 R' Dw' Rw R2 Fw2 D2 B2 Dw L' F' Bw2 U Dw2 Rw Bw U Uw2 Dw' Lw2 Fw' L2 R' Dw' Fw2 Bw B L

I"ve been practicing 4BLD a lot lately, i had to go through 5 DNF's to get this. New pb

 

[DrKorbin]

My goal before Worlds is to average around 7-8 minutes on 4BLD. But everytime it's even sub-10 I DNF. NOT TODAY

First ever sub-10, 8:06.74. Memo was ~4:10.

Scramble L' Bw2 B2 L' Lw' F2 B Dw F2 B2 U' Dw2 D2 R' Dw' Rw R2 Fw2 D2 B2 Dw L' F' Bw2 U Dw2 Rw Bw U Uw2 Dw' Lw2 Fw' L2 R' Dw' Fw2 Bw B L

I"ve been practicing 4BLD a lot lately, i had to go through 5 DNF's to get this. New pb

Lol, with such times you can get 4-5-6 minutes before Worlds if you practise.

 

[HEART]

my biggest issue is just having a success, for some reason my mind hates me being in the sub-10 area. Not to mention i still want to do 5BLD by worlds aswhell, and i haven't even succeeded, i've tried once and it failed

 

[Riley]

First 4BLD in probably around 2 weeks, and I got 7:13.94. PB by 2:39. It was pretty easy though, no parity, corners were all comms. 1st scramble of weekly competition.

 

[PianoCube]

3BLD PB: 3:22.81

 

[mande]

Multi: 9/10 in 44:53 [29:48]
Pretty much rushed the exec...Made 2 mistakes, luckily both of them were on a single cube
This is my first multi result with 6+ points (first sub NR)...time was really great for me (my last 2 attempts for 9 cubes took 52 minutes and 46 minutes). Very satisfied with the result too.

 

[Ollie]

Got my form back with a 4BLD 3:00.83[1:18] and a 5BLD safety of 8:23[3:19]

4BLD PB:

Spoiler

f L r2 u' F' r' u' r2 F2 U2 L F2 r' B2 r F' u2 B2 D B' f' D2 r R L' D B L f2 r u f L' D' f2 u L' U' u' F2
9 solved centers, 2 solved wings and 1 solved corner

 

[Noahaha]

Got my form back with a 4BLD 3:00.83[1:18] and a 5BLD safety of 8:23[3:19]

4BLD PB:

Spoiler

f L r2 u' F' r' u' r2 F2 U2 L F2 r' B2 r F' u2 B2 D B' f' D2 r R L' D B L f2 r u f L' D' f2 u L' U' u' F2
9 solved centers, 2 solved wings and 1 solved corner

0__0

Your execution has gotten a lot better. Race you to sub-3:00 on camera!

 

[Ollie]

This felt lucky. MultiBLD 3/3 2:55.87[1:19]

1) D F2 D F2 D2 L2 U' L2 B2 D2 U2 F' D2 R B2 F U' B' L' B F2
2) F2 D B2 L2 B2 D2 F2 U B2 L2 U2 R' D2 U2 F U F U' B R2
3) R2 U R2 U2 L2 B2 L2 D' L2 D2 F2 L' U2 B2 U' L2 F2 L R2 B' D

Spoiler

1) D F2 D F2 D2 L2 U' L2 B2 D2 U2 F' D2 R B2 F U' B' L' B F2

(KE,HC,PV,AX,RN) Schoolfriend (KE) building a House (HC) on the PaVement. He has an AXe, RuN!
(KB,GC,WB) Jumping onto a KeBab covered in grease (GC) with Welcome Back written on (+2 visual corners flips, chicken flying from ULF corner to DBR corner)

2) F2 D B2 L2 B2 D2 F2 U B2 L2 U2 R' D2 U2 F U F U' B R2

(DL,KQ,MH)(BF,VS,CN) Noel Edmonds (DL -> DeaL or No Deal) is the new King/Queen of Market Harborough. A BuFf man drives by on a VeSpa and shouts "C*N*"
(JB,TH)(DO,SQ) Your JoB is to bite with your TeetH DOSQ (just memorized 4 large foam letters spelling DOSQ.)

3) R2 U R2 U2 L2 B2 L2 D' L2 D2 F2 L' U2 B2 U' L2 F2 L R2 B' D

(FV,EG,TA,BL,A) Your FaVourite EGg is on the TABLe, Ahh! (visual edge on C, whole image is taking place on the Ceiling.)
(UD,MB,W) "UDder, MoB, Waaah" (+2 visual corners, chickens in DFR and DRB corners.)

This particular memo felt ridiculously easy to remember (plus I've has a LOT of energy drink tonight, otherwise would've been around 1:30ish) and a few really nice corner cycles came up that I'd been practicing today. I have it on video but I forgot to turn the camera on before scrambling and it's dark in my room I'll try and fix it.

0__0

Your execution has gotten a lot better. Race you to sub-3:00 on camera!

Yay

 

[Riley]

29.73 3BLD PB, first sub 30. D2 L2 D2 B L2 B2 D2 L2 F D2 B' L D' L' D B' R D2 L' D' B Not on camera. But still very happy.

z2 y // Memo

Corners
[R U2 R', D] // 8/8
y [L, D R2 D'] y' // 8/16
L2 D L' U2 L D' L' U2 L' // 9/25

Edges
U [M2, R' B' R B] U' // 10/10
z' [U' R U, M2] z // 8/18
[M', U L' U'] // 8/26
B2 [B' R' B, M2] B2 // 10/36
y x [M2, U' L' U] // 8/44

 

[Zane_C]

Nice, Ollie! sub-1 per cube deserves much respect. :tu

For your last cube, I like it how you combined the letters TABL into 'table'. I mean, when the letters are in front of you typed out like that, the derivation of 'table' from those letters is rather trivial. But in such a memo rush I would've thought you would be quite systematic and automatically treat TA and BL as separate pairs without even bothering to consider the possibility of combining them. So when you're memorising, do you always look at four letters at a time, then decide whether they will take the form of 2 words or 1? Do you think of your sentences as being systematic and having a common structure (besides pairing letters) - or would just 'freestyling' your sentences on the fly be an appropriate description?

Sentences for memorisation have always intrigued me a little. When I dabbled with them a tiny bit back in early 2011, I found it remarkable how people could construct such sentences so fast, without it sounding like incoherent audio.

 

[Ollie]

Nice, Ollie! sub-1 per cube deserves much respect. :tu

For your last cube, I like it how you combined the letters TABL into 'table'. I mean, when the letters are in front of you typed out like that, the derivation of 'table' from those letters is rather trivial. But in such a memo rush I would've thought you would be quite systematic and automatically treat TA and BL as separate pairs without even bothering to consider the possibility of combining them. So when you're memorising, do you always look at four letters at a time, then decide whether they will take the form of 2 words or 1? Do you think of your sentences as being systematic and having a common structure (besides pairing letters) - or would just 'freestyling' your sentences on the fly be an appropriate description?

Thank you! I'm not likely to be repeating sub-1 per cube soon, unless memo presents itself as nicely as it did earlier!

'Freestyle' sentences is a lot more accurate description. I picked up the idea from one of Dan Sheppard's 4BLD video descriptions where his memo occasionally made images out of 3/4 letters. I will generally make sentences from 2 letters at a time, but if the letters arrange themselves into something that could be a 'TABLe' or something else then I'll make a longer word (especially if two difficult letter pairs come up OR if when I pronounce the audio sounds and they happen to sound like a longer word.) However, I don't ever make letter triplets and I'll usually try to add extra details to a sentence until it gets messy. This system comes from big cube BLD where I review quite a bit to make sure I have all the details rehearsed before executing I have on occasions memorized an entire set of wings in one locus in ~20s by doing this.

I think Aron did this too, but I still don't understand how he could do it so quickly (PS he's deleted all his cubing videos :/ any idea why?)

I have a video now, will download it to Dailymotion (because it's not great quality) until I can replicate the solve with different scrambles

 

[Noahaha]

Omg wtf???

Those videos were my inspiration.