The 5 Cube Challenge (MultiBLD)

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The goal of this thread is to add 5 cubes to your MBLD result in a month. I think that the problem right now with MBLD is that most people are too lazy to practice, so hopefully this thread will motivate some people, including me, to practice some multi. The only requirements are that you can do at least a 2 cube multi and that you have a bunch of 3x3s.

Here's how it works:
1. Figure out how many cubes you can realistically fit into an hour (or how many you can do at all if you can't do 6 yet).
- I somewhat recently did 15/16 in just under an hour, so for me this number is 16. Some of you may have to do an attempt or two to figure this out.

2. Add 5 to that number to get your goal.
- My goal is 16 + 5 = 21

3. Do one attempt a day for a month. The important part about this step is to do small attempts. Most people lose heart in multi because they think they have to spend an hour to practice it. This is false. You can improve by just as much if not more by doing attempts of less than half your goal. Set mini goals for yourself. For example, if your overall goal is to be able to do 15 cubes, you could set a mini goal of being able to do 5 cubes in under 15 minutes, and attempt 5 cubes every day until you get it under 15 minutes. Look at big attempts as "evaluations" that tell you where you are, and do your real practice in small attempts. It's better to do two 7 cube attempts in a day than one 14 cube attempt. Only do big attempts every once in a while.

4. At the end of the month (or different goal period), see how many cubes you can fit into an hour. I'm pretty sure a lot of people will have gone up by more than 5.


Again, the most important thing to do is to force yourself to do at least one attempt a day. Even if that attempt is only 2 or 3 cubes, it will help.

Post at least your start date in this thread, and edit your post every day with whatever attempt(s) you did.
 
Start number: 16
Goal number: 21
Start date: February 12
Goal date: March 9 (MIT Spring 2013)

2:14.99[45.19 2/2], 4:25.78[2:22.87 3/3], 5:43.99[3:18.68 4/4], 9:46.58[5:07.37 5/5]

Very successful day!

1/2 in 39.45 :/

13:16.56[6:44.59 3/6], 1:50.81[43.10 2/2], 3:55.71[1:48.86 1/3], 1:59.10[50.53 2/2]

5:09.46[2:27.06 3/3], 5:56.52[3:24.15 4/4]
 
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Start - 2 Cubes
Goal - 7 Cubes
Begin - Feb 14th
End - March 14th
PB before Feb 14th - 1/2 (22:16)
PB after Mar 14th - 2/2 (16:29)


Attempts:
Feb 14th - 0/2 (33:20), Memo = 26:14
Feb 15th - 1/2 (25:48), Memo = 17:46
Feb 16th - No Attempt
Feb 17th - 2/2 (22:19), Memo = 15:05 PB
Feb 18th - No Attempt
Feb 19th - 1/2 (17:02), Memo = 10:46
Feb 20th - 2/3 (43:56), Memo = 32:27
Feb 21st - No Attempt
Feb 22nd - No Attempt
Feb 23rd - 1/2 (18:54), Memo = 13:16
Feb 24th - No Attempt
Feb 25th - No Attempt
Feb 26th - No Attempt
Feb 27th - No Attempt
Feb 28th - No Attempt

Mar 1st - 0/2 (11:53), Memo = 7:10
Mar 2nd - No Attempt
Mar 3rd - No Attempt
Mar 4th - No Attempt
Mar 5th - No Attempt
Mar 7th - No Attempt
Mar 8th - No Attempt
Mar 9th - No Attempt

Mar 10th - 2/2 (16:29), Memo = 9:47 PB
Mar 11th - No Attempt
Mar 12th - No Attempt
Mar 13th - No Attempt
Mar 14th - No Attempt
 
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Start: February 12
End: March 12
Limit now: probably 11, since I got 10/10 in 52:32.
Goal: 16

Attempts:
2/12:
2/2 in 2:36.51
Comments: PB

2/13
3/3 in 5:10.16

2/14:
2/4 in 7:40.00

2/15:
1/2 in 2:47.19, 0/2 in 3:15.41, 1/2 in 4:05.43, 2/2 in 3:20.21

2/16:
2/2 in 3:02.62

2/17:
2/2 in 3:05.43
2/3 in 6:17.33

2/18:
3/5 in 10:08.05

2/19:
3/3 in 4:55.12

2/20:
Forgot to do one... At least did I did multiple other attempts other days.

2/21-3/7: NO attempts, lol

3/8:
7/10 in 34:22

3/9: No attempt, comp day

3/10:
7/10 in 40:22
 
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start: February 13th
end: March 13th
limit: 8
goal: 13

attempts:

11:57.53[0/3], 10:56.47[2/3], 11:27.48[2/3], 13:02.45[2/3], 12:38.98[2/3], 13:48.74[2/3], 9:59.74[2/3], 11:30.17[2/3], 8:12.30[2/3]

Can you believe it, 8 (2/3) in a row
 
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im already doing a multi or big blind attempt everday until august/september so im all for this. but i wont be able to update everyday :/ so ill have to update like every 2-3 days on what i get
start: February 13th
end: March 13th
limit now: 7
goal: 12
2/2 in 8:45.56 feb 13th
2x2-4x4 relay blind 19:27.53 very happy (sorry for not being a multi but i wanted to try this for a bit now) feb 14th
 
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Start: February 13th
End: March 13th
Limit now: 7 I think
Goal: 12

Day 1:
2/3 in 5:59.58[2:53.28]
1/4(lol) in 11:41.95[6:59.82]

Day 2:
1/2 in 4:21.22[1:58.11] (lol I suddenly suck so much)

Day 3:
6/6 in 32:34.82 (Super safety solve and new PB. At this rate, I might reach my goal in a few days :P )
3/3 in 8:35.47[5:22.74]

Day 4:
3/3 in 8:10.02[4:59.84]

Day 5:
1/2 in 4:07.65[2:08.34]

Day 6:
2/2 in 4:19.66[2:13.29]

Day 7:
3/3 in 6:46.10[3:41.43] (PB by almost 2 minutes :eek: )

Day 8:
6/7 in 38:57.31 (Could've been 7/7, memoed wrongly)

Day 9:
1/2 in 3:06.18[1:15.61] (So close, 2nd cube had 2 flipped edges)

Day 10:
8/8 in 44:12.70 :D (PB)

Day 11:
1/2 in 4:17.14[1:44.37]

Day 12:
0/2 in 4:13.61[2:06.76]
1/2 in 3:44.82[1:52.80]

Day 13:
2/2 in 3:28.98

Day 14:
2/2 in 4:16.87

Day 15:
3/4 in 11:17.31

Day 16:
4/5 in 16:59.55 (2 flipped edges :fp )

Day 17:
4/5 in 18:49.68 (I just can't get 5/5 :( )

Day 18:
4/5 in 20:15.61 (Off by a corner cycle :fp )

Day 19:
4/5 in 20:31.36 (This is getting annoying :mad: )

Day 20:
4/6 in 23:37.92

Day 21:
2/4 in 15:16.61

Day 22:
3/4 in 15:04.xx (2 twisted corners :fp )
 
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lol ok
start: February 13th
end: March 13th
limit: 18
goal: 23

Feb 13: 8/9 = 7, 22:55[16:00] (exec error)
Feb 14: 9/9 = 9, 26:33[20:27] (memo sucks)
Feb 15: 5/5 = 5, 10:00.42[5:31.32] (y u no sub?)
Feb 16: 8/9 = 7, 22:08[16:05] (exec error)
Feb 17: 9/9 = 9, 21:16[15:08], 9/9 = 9, 20:03[14:48] goddamnit, Y U NO SUB?
Feb 18: 17/18 = 16, 58:01[40:00] (blindfold race)
Feb 19-21: break for big cubes
Feb 22: 5/5 = 5, 7:09.55[4:12.52] (compared with Feb 15, great!)
Feb 23: 17/18 = 16, 46:41[33:32] (blindfold race, PB!)
Feb 24: 9/9 = 9, 21:29[15:28]
Feb 25: 4/5 = 3, 9:07.93[6:04.37] (exec error; at least it is sub)
Feb 26: 5/5 = 5, 10:07.99[7:01.27]
Feb 27: 7/9 = 5, 23:01[16:16]
Feb 28 - Mar 02: Ummm...
Mar 03: 10/10 = 10, 26:22[19:00]
Mar 05: 20/21 = 19, 58:48[41:09] (PB! Also, my first attempt with more than 18 cubes)
Mar 06: 5/5 = 5, 8:22.41[5:23.60]
 
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Start: February 13th
End: March 13th
Limit now: 5
Goal: 10


0/2 12:20.47
1/2 10:02.11
1/2 10:35.29
0/2 11:00.50
2/2 9:45.03 Yesss, sub 10!
3/4 26:04.86 Off by 3 edges, otherwise good.
0/3 23:36.95 Off by 12, 10 and 4 pieces. Just terrible.
3/3 20:13.32 I must be tired, as I wasted several minutes figuring out why I had an even number of edge targets and odd number of corner targets on one of the cubes. The answer was that I for some reason memorized one solved and one twisted corner as a 2 cycle :fp
1/2 8:26.02 3 corners and 3 edges wrong. Very good time.
2/2 18:55.59 Took forever to recall some of the images. Difficult to concentrate because of a lot of noise.
1/2 12:28.58
4/7 1:00:00.00 (5/7 1:00:55.72)One off by two twisted corners and one off by two flipped edges. The last cube was just not finished after one hour. I have never attempted more than 5 cubes before this.
3/4 26:12.94 Good time, 5 wrong corners. I want a new PB now.
3/3 17:35.91
3/4 20:24.06 VERY good time. Off by 3 corners :(
1/2 9:02.33 6 corners and 5 edges -_-
4/6 55:38.08 a 3-cycle and two twisted corners
2/3 16:48.28 the last cube had 9 unsolved pieces. Otherwise a good time
6/6 42:27.98 PB!
 
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I'll do a multi later and see. I think I can theoretically do 8 cubes in an hour. when I tried 12 on 12/12/12 it took me like 1:28, so if I subtract 1/3 of each, I get 8 in right around an hour.
 
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