Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

Today I did a demonstration for a group of about 40-50 people made up of parents and students at the math tutoring center I work at. We periodically do game nights, where we bring out different games and try to show them how you can use math to build strategies, or also to solve puzzles. I usually set up a Rubik's Cube station and show people simple patterns, and how to solve them. For those who are already doing well on the patterns I teach them the solution to the cube from scrambled. At the end of each night I do a 3x3 BLD demo, and tonight I got one in about 2:30-2:45 (someone timed the solving phase only on a stopwatch at 1:24.xx). I tend to shoot for success and not speed on an attempt like this, but I am very happy to be sub-3 minutes under pressure when going for success! The parents and kids enjoyed it and I told them how really anyone can BLD solve, it just takes practice and a little bit of knowledge of things like permutations and that's about it (which really in a sense is true).

Anyway I had a good time, and it felt good to get the solve in relatively fast time under pressure, where I only had 1 attempt at it.

Chris
 
YES!!!!!!!!! I CANT BELIEVE I DID IT. today i got my first successful multi BLD solve 2/2 :D. im so happy, especially since i momenatrily forgot a bit of the edge memo on the first cube and had to keep undoing the cycle that i thought was right, lucky i spent a lot of time at that stage and eventually remembered the edge cycle. I'm so happy, now i need to learn a method like roman rooms or journey. can any1 help me with it?
 
I got my second 4x4 BLD yesterday. I think I understand how to shoot to U pieces with U2 now. The time was 25 min, so now I will start going for speed instead of success. :D
 
4x4x4 Bld: 18:59.59

My first successful! The timer didn't stop correctly (turned off my screensaver, not timer) and the timer showed 19:01.10. Since I didn't notice for several seconds (I was too excited while checking the cube to notice the timer), so I just gave myself enough to be sub 19.
 
ShadenSmith said:
4x4x4 Bld: 18:59.59

My first successful! The timer didn't stop correctly (turned off my screensaver, not timer) and the timer showed 19:01.10. Since I didn't notice for several seconds (I was too excited while checking the cube to notice the timer), so I just gave myself enough to be sub 19.
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Try 18:59.99. ;)
 
Swordsman Kirby said:
ShadenSmith said:
4x4x4 Bld: 18:59.59

My first successful! The timer didn't stop correctly (turned off my screensaver, not timer) and the timer showed 19:01.10. Since I didn't notice for several seconds (I was too excited while checking the cube to notice the timer), so I just gave myself enough to be sub 19.
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Try 18:59.99. ;)
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Ahh, damn. There are 100 milliseconds aren't there? Well...too late. when I glanced at the time when I was finished it was 8:57.xx anyway, so it's okay.
 
ShadenSmith said:
4x4x4 Bld: 18:59.59

My first successful! The timer didn't stop correctly (turned off my screensaver, not timer) and the timer showed 19:01.10. Since I didn't notice for several seconds (I was too excited while checking the cube to notice the timer), so I just gave myself enough to be sub 19.
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Wow, Shaden - congratulations! So awesome! I'm very happy to see you got one. And as seems to be the case these days, such a fantastic time for your first solve! Maybe you won't need the extra minutes at the Indiana Open after all, huh?

I see this was for the weekly competition - very nice. Now I hope to see you do them there every week. Lexington is going to be fun!
 
Mike Hughey said:
ShadenSmith said:
4x4x4 Bld: 18:59.59

My first successful! The timer didn't stop correctly (turned off my screensaver, not timer) and the timer showed 19:01.10. Since I didn't notice for several seconds (I was too excited while checking the cube to notice the timer), so I just gave myself enough to be sub 19.
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Wow, Shaden - congratulations! So awesome! I'm very happy to see you got one. And as seems to be the case these days, such a fantastic time for your first solve! Maybe you won't need the extra minutes at the Indiana Open after all, huh?

I see this was for the weekly competition - very nice. Now I hope to see you do them there every week. Lexington is going to be fun!
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Yes, I'm very excited for it Mike. I have to thank you for all your help with all of this, I'd never have been able to do this without you. I hope you're practicing for Lexington, I've improved a lot these past days. I just got my 3x3 bld pb of 2:52 today. Several 2:30's, but DNF's.
 
I just got a sub-40 on video (39.06). It's my 2nd best nonlucky. I will upload it today.
5x5x5 DNF 15:02 off by 2 wings, Sub-6 memo. I spend about 1 minute trying to remember last pieces (which went wrong).

Some older things: sleep delayed 3x3x3BLD: 10h 30min. It was fun :).
little lucky 4x4x4BLD 4:54 it had 12 pieces solved.
I had 3 sub-43's in one day, one of them was little lucky.

We'll see what happens 25th October when I have a comp. ;)
 
Ville Seppänen said:
I just got a sub-40 on video (39.06). It's my 2nd best nonlucky. I will upload it today.
5x5x5 DNF 15:02 off by 2 wings, Sub-6 memo. I spend about 1 minute trying to remember last pieces (which went wrong).

Some older things: sleep delayed 3x3x3BLD: 10h 30min. It was fun :).
little lucky 4x4x4BLD 4:54 it had 12 pieces solved.
I had 3 sub-43's in one day, one of them was little lucky.

We'll see what happens 25th October when I have a comp. ;)
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Wow, just wow. And i can't wait for the video :).
 
I finally tried a full 3x3 BLD in months. It was a success!
I actually memorized edges, ate dinner, went back to memorize corners and solved.
I like my new edge memo plan. It's so fast and easy! It's just my regular corner method, except that I actually made an easy noun/verb list to make 3 word/piece sentences. That works pretty well so far. Parity isn't necessary to memo, you can just count the number of words. Generally, the 3x3 takes up 3 sentences and a little bit more. So you know that 3 sentences, 3sentences +2 words or 4sentences+1 word are pretty much the only situations with parity.
 
Only a rubbish-mini-accomplishment, but I got a sub-60 again. I've been a bit rubbish, and it has been a while since I got one.
58.96 B' R D2 F D U F D U2 L' B F' L F' D2 U2 L D' U' B F2 L2 R2 F R
 
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