Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

rafal said:
I decided to practice 5x5 bld, because on my last solve for weekly competition I was feeling like I could do better than sub-12. So first I got 10:32, beating my PB by over a minute and the next day I again beat my record by over a minute with a time – 9:30.64. This solve was in no way lucky: 2 wings, 2 +centers and 4 Xcenters in place. Memo took 4:05 - 4:10.
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That's pretty damn nice.
 
rafal said:
I decided to practice 5x5 bld, because on my last solve for weekly competition I was feeling like I could do better than sub-12. So first I got 10:32, beating my PB by over a minute and the next day I again beat my record by over a minute with a time – 9:30.64. This solve was in no way lucky: 2 wings, 2 +centers and 4 Xcenters in place. Memo took 4:05 - 4:10.
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You have skills!!!!!!!
 
Mike, nothing has changed in my memorization – I still make up words on the run and my stories are still far from useful. They are more like bunch of unrelated words. :) That’s why I always have to repeat everything at least once.

Sub-9 shouldn’t be that hard to get, but sub-8 with my memo “method” doesn’t seem possible.

Ville, something tells me it won’t be long when you break 10 minutes for this. :)

Istvan, I see I’m not the only one who makes an average for 5x5 bld. Good job!
 
Ville Seppänen said:
NO, SO CLOSE!

Nonlucky 3x3x3 BLD: 31.86!

It's 0.58 seconds slower that the UWR! Less that 2 sec from first sub 30!

I have the scrambe: L2 D B F2 L' F' D L2 D2 U B2 F D R' D2 U2 B' D' U L' R F L2 R' D2
I don't know if 5 oriented corners is lucky or not, but it doesn't matter for my solving. My solution:
[L' D' L, U']
y' [F' L' F, R2] y I didn't see D' R setup!
[L' D L, U]
z' [M', U' L' U] z
z U R' U' R' U' R' U R U R z'
[M, U L' U']
y R U R' U' R' U' R' U R, y' U2 M' U' R2 U M U' R2

EDIT: Headband ftw!!!
EDIT2: That's 57 moves STM btw
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I don't understand this solution. :x Is this a special way of putting the notation for BLD?
 
Lt-UnReaL said:
Ville Seppänen said:
NO, SO CLOSE!

Nonlucky 3x3x3 BLD: 31.86!

It's 0.58 seconds slower that the UWR! Less that 2 sec from first sub 30!

I have the scrambe: L2 D B F2 L' F' D L2 D2 U B2 F D R' D2 U2 B' D' U L' R F L2 R' D2
I don't know if 5 oriented corners is lucky or not, but it doesn't matter for my solving. My solution:
[L' D' L, U']
y' [F' L' F, R2] y I didn't see D' R setup!
[L' D L, U]
z' [M', U' L' U] z
z U R' U' R' U' R' U R U R z'
[M, U L' U']
y R U R' U' R' U' R' U R, y' U2 M' U' R2 U M U' R2

EDIT: Headband ftw!!!
EDIT2: That's 57 moves STM btw
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I don't understand this solution. :x Is this a special way of putting the notation for BLD?
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It's the notation used for commutators.


4/4 in 9:18 (4:40 memo) while talking to my roommate.

And a 1:13, 1:12, 1:17, 1:11(dnf) and 1:15 within the last two days.
My times dropped by about 10s within the last week, but unfortunately my accuracy dropped too (only 62%).
 
Yeah!!!! 5x5x5 BLD: 16:58.40 (8:29 memo)!!!!

For the first scramble in this week's competition. I know it's nothing compared to Ville and Rafal, but hey, this is a big breakthrough for me - about a minute and a half better than my previous PB! The thing about it is that it felt like just about my best possible solve. I maybe lost 15 seconds recalling the last few wings, but other than that I was thinking ahead really well most of the time. And that's about at my limit for memo speed - I don't think I've ever gone much faster than that. And it is a really easy scramble - I shudder to think what Rafal and Ville might get on this one! So it's likely that I won't be beating this for quite a while.
 
so I almost feel ashamed posting my humble achievement here, but an accomplishment is an accomplishment no matter how small. so here goes:

so I decided that I wanted a sub-3 bld solve by the new year, and realized that I should at least start learning the basics now. I have no BLD experience, save the 1 hour I spent reading macky's BLD guide with a scrambled cube in my hand. That didnt go so well, and I realized that maybe I was starting too big. "2x2 BLD is the place to start!" I said. and start I did. I also decided to put a bit of pressure on myself and do the weekly competition scrambles for my first ever solves. I am highly pleased with the results:

2:23.33 (1:54), 2:26.45 (2:07), DNF(2:54.46, 2:21)

the DNF was an execution mistake, I'm not sure what though.

right now I suck at CP(and EP for that matter) but CO(and EO) is easy. I dont really know a method, but I guess I use Old Pochmann. just A, E, Y, and T perms, along with sune, antisune, and the R'D'RD alg from the dan brown videos. I will keep practicing, this is fun!
 
Vault312 said:
right now I suck at CP(and EP for that matter) but CO(and EO) is easy. I dont really know a method, but I guess I use Old Pochmann. just A, E, Y, and T perms, along with sune, antisune, and the R'D'RD alg from the dan brown videos. I will keep practicing, this is fun!
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That description sounds like 3-cycle (orienting and permutating) to me. Classic(!) Pochmann doesn't involve orientating pieces.
 
Mike Hughey said:
Yeah!!!! 5x5x5 BLD: 16:58.40 (8:29 memo)!!!!

For the first scramble in this week's competition. I know it's nothing compared to Ville and Rafal, but hey, this is a big breakthrough for me - about a minute and a half better than my previous PB! The thing about it is that it felt like just about my best possible solve. I maybe lost 15 seconds recalling the last few wings, but other than that I was thinking ahead really well most of the time. And that's about at my limit for memo speed - I don't think I've ever gone much faster than that. And it is a really easy scramble - I shudder to think what Rafal and Ville might get on this one! So it's likely that I won't be beating this for quite a while.
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Yeah! Congratulations Mike! :)
Great job :)
 
Got a successful 5x5x5 BLD again: 12:04.34
Memo was over 5 min, and it was nowhere near a smooth execution, so I will get much better at this. Scramble was 2nd scramble for weekly comp.

Mike, I didn't find the 1st scramble easy, except for corners, but they don't really affect much. I got 11:51 DNF on it, about 4 min memo.
Oh, and gongrats on your fast time! I know it's a big thing.
 
Ville Seppänen said:
Got a successful 5x5x5 BLD again: 12:04.34
Memo was over 5 min, and it was nowhere near a smooth execution, so I will get much better at this. Scramble was 2nd scramble for weekly comp.

Mike, I didn't find the 1st scramble easy, except for corners, but they don't really affect much. I got 11:51 DNF on it, about 4 min memo.
Oh, and gongrats on your fast time! I know it's a big thing.
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Thanks Ville and Derrick for the congratulations.

Ville, awesome job! I can't believe you're beating Chris Hardwick's best times ever when you've only solved it 5 times ever. Now you need to work on matching his accuracy. :)

As for the first scramble, I thought it was fairly easy because there were 11 centers already solved - better than average, I think, although admittedly not much better than average. And yeah, it was nice to have a couple of corners already solved.

Vault312, congratulations on your 2x2x2 solves! Those are actually pretty good times for having just started. But now you've done it, so you should really move on to 3x3x3. It's really not that much harder - it will take a lot longer, but it's not that much harder. If you can do a 2x2x2 BLD, you certainly can do a 3x3x3.
 
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