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Blindfold Accomplishment Thread

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Got a sub-1 ao5 on clockBLD lol

avg of 5: 59.43

Time List:
1. 59.06=13.83+45.22 UR5+ DR6+ DL5- UL2- U3- R4+ D6+ L4+ ALL4+ y2 U1- R4+ D2- L1- ALL2- UR DR UL
2. 1:01.83=14.00+47.83 UR3+ DR2- DL1- UL5+ U3- R1+ D2- L3+ ALL2- y2 U5- R3- D3+ L5+ ALL4- UR DR
3. (DNF(1:47.76)=18.94+1:28.82) UR5- DR0+ DL5- UL1- U4+ R5+ D1- L5+ ALL5+ y2 U5- R2+ D0+ L0+ ALL2+ DR DL UL
4. 57.39=11.42+45.97 UR1+ DR6+ DL0+ UL5+ U5- R3+ D1- L2+ ALL1+ y2 U0+ R2- D6+ L0+ ALL3+ UR DR
5. (55.62=15.49+40.13) UR4+ DR3- DL5+ UL0+ U0+ R2+ D3- L3- ALL1+ y2 U4- R4- D1+ L5+ ALL0+ DR

What's your strategy for ClockBLD? Assuming you don't 1-look, that is.
 

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What's your strategy for ClockBLD? Assuming you don't 1-look, that is.

On Pochmann's page:
"I solve each single clock totally independent of all other clocks. I'll show you how you can solve a corner (2 turns), an edge (4 turns) and a center (3 turns) without changing any other clocks. I suggest you solve your clock first and then try each of the three methods to see how they work. I will describe how to set the top-left corner, the top edge and the center to three o'clock.

The overall order in which I solve the clocks is:

  1. Corners (on front side).
  2. Front side edges.
  3. Front side center.
  4. Back side edges (actually on front after flipping the whole puzzle).
  5. Back side center (actually on front after flipping the whole puzzle).
Corners:

  1. Push the top-left pin down and the other three up. Now turn the upper-right wheel three hours counterclockwise.
  2. Push the top-left pin up and turn any wheel three hours clockwise.
You can easily solve any corner clock this way without rotating the whole puzzle, but it doesn't hurt if you do (I only do it for the edges since that's a more complicated four-turn algorithm).

Edges:

  1. Push the top-right pin up, the other three down. Turn the top-right wheel three hours clockwise.
  2. Push the top-left pin up (in addition to the top-right pin). Turn the top-right wheel three hours counterclockwise.
  3. Push the top-right pin down and the bottom-right pin up. Turn the top-left wheel three hours clockwise.
  4. Push the top-left pin down and rotate the whole puzzle 90 degrees counterclockwise (now only the top-right pin should be up). Turn the top-right wheel three hours counterclockwise.
If you didn't make a mistake then the clock that was on top at the beginning should now be on the left and showing three o'clock. Automatically the next clock I want to modify is at top now. After modifying all four edges the puzzle is rotated 360 degrees and thus has its original orientation again.

Centers:

  1. Push the top-right pin up, the other three down. Turn the top-right wheel three hours clockwise.
  2. Push the top-right pin down and the bottom-left pin up. Turn the bottom-left wheel three hours clockwise.
  3. Push the top-right pin up (in addition to the bottom-left one). Turn the bottom-left wheel three hours counterclockwise."
 
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Got inspired to get back into clockbld and got a sub 1 average.
avg of 5: 56.57

Time List:
1. 55.67 UR5+ DR6+ DL5+ UL4- U5+ R6+ D1- L3+ ALL1+ y2 U6+ R6+ D0+ L5- ALL2+ DL
2. (DNF(1:02.47)) UR1- DR0+ DL1- UL2+ U5- R2+ D3- L4- ALL2- y2 U5- R1- D5+ L0+ ALL4+ UL
3. (53.03) UR2+ DR6+ DL1- UL1+ U5- R1- D4+ L2+ ALL3+ y2 U2+ R1- D3- L2- ALL6+ UR UL
4. 58.03 UR5+ DR4- DL4+ UL4+ U4+ R1- D5+ L5+ ALL0+ y2 U3+ R1- D4- L4+ ALL3- DL
5. 56.02 UR5+ DR3- DL4+ UL3- U1- R3+ D3- L5+ ALL1- y2 U5- R6+ D5- L1+ ALL3+ UL

Because I suck at bld and am good at clock my memo is like 30-35 and my exec is 20-25 lol
Although I know a lot of tricks to solve several pieces at a time and take advantage of a lot of lucky cases so that does help.


Edit: Just beat got a super good sub 50 average + 46 single (on cam, might upload)
avg of 5: 46.35

Time List:
1. 47.49 UR5- DR2- DL3- UL3- U1- R1+ D1- L1- ALL3- y2 U4- R4- D2+ L6+ ALL0+ DL UL
2. 48.21 UR4- DR5+ DL5- UL2- U1- R1+ D5+ L2- ALL3- y2 U1- R4+ D3+ L1+ ALL6+ UR
3. (56.77) UR2+ DR3+ DL1- UL1+ U6+ R3+ D0+ L3+ ALL2- y2 U2- R6+ D3- L4- ALL5+ DR
4. (36.82) UR3- DR4+ DL1+ UL1- U4+ R1- D6+ L3+ ALL0+ y2 U0+ R4- D5+ L0+ ALL4- UR DL UL
5. 43.34 UR5- DR4- DL5+ UL5- U2+ R0+ D1- L4- ALL3+ y2 U2- R5- D2+ L1- ALL5+ UR DR DL

36 was a super lmao scramble, I just reviewed the memo like 5 times lol, could have been wb if I didn't review but whatever.
 
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clockBLD: 43.07 ao5 and 41.19 mo3 :)

avg of 5: 43.07

Time List:
1. (49.71=11.75+37.95) UR2- DR4+ DL5- UL5+ U0+ R5+ D5+ L3+ ALL2- y2 U4- R5- D4+ L2- ALL6+ UR DR
2. 40.88=10.73+30.14 UR4- DR2+ DL3+ UL0+ U3+ R5- D4- L3- ALL4- y2 U1- R2+ D3- L0+ ALL1- DR UL
3. (39.97=11.33+28.63) UR0+ DR3+ DL5+ UL6+ U0+ R1- D1+ L2+ ALL2- y2 U2- R1+ D3+ L0+ ALL2- UR
4. 42.71=9.71+33.00 UR0+ DR3+ DL4- UL4- U1- R2- D3+ L4+ ALL2+ y2 U2- R6+ D1+ L4- ALL0+
5. 45.61=11.11+34.50 UR3+ DR2- DL1- UL3- U3+ R4- D2- L4- ALL3- y2 U3- R3- D0+ L1+ ALL5+
 
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Just got an epic Ao5, and also finally the WB single after like 4 sub WB singles that had very small mistakes

avg of 5: 41.19

Time List:
1. 41.17 UR4- DR2- DL2+ UL1- U6+ R6+ D3- L3+ ALL1+ y2 U3+ R2+ D1+ L5+ ALL2+ DL UL
2. 39.87 UR1- DR1+ DL4+ UL3+ U5- R4+ D4- L4- ALL0+ y2 U3- R1+ D5- L6+ ALL1-
3. (DNF(48.33)) UR1+ DR4+ DL4+ UL4+ U2+ R0+ D1+ L6+ ALL1- y2 U4- R4+ D1+ L4+ ALL6+ UR
4. 42.53 UR6+ DR1+ DL2- UL4- U3- R4+ D1- L3- ALL2- y2 U6+ R1+ D3+ L0+ ALL5+ UL
5. (39.81) UR3+ DR2+ DL5- UL0+ U3- R6+ D2- L3+ ALL3- y2 U4+ R5+ D0+ L5+ ALL1+ DL


28.29 UR2- DR3+ DL1+ UL1- U0+ R1+ D6+ L0+ ALL1+ y2 U0+ R0+ D3+ L6+ ALL5+ DL UL

Ao5 vid:
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Just got an epic Ao5, and also finally the WB single after like 4 sub WB singles that had very small mistakes

avg of 5: 41.19

Time List:
1. 41.17 UR4- DR2- DL2+ UL1- U6+ R6+ D3- L3+ ALL1+ y2 U3+ R2+ D1+ L5+ ALL2+ DL UL
2. 39.87 UR1- DR1+ DL4+ UL3+ U5- R4+ D4- L4- ALL0+ y2 U3- R1+ D5- L6+ ALL1-
3. (DNF(48.33)) UR1+ DR4+ DL4+ UL4+ U2+ R0+ D1+ L6+ ALL1- y2 U4- R4+ D1+ L4+ ALL6+ UR
4. 42.53 UR6+ DR1+ DL2- UL4- U3- R4+ D1- L3- ALL2- y2 U6+ R1+ D3+ L0+ ALL5+ UL
5. (39.81) UR3+ DR2+ DL5- UL0+ U3- R6+ D2- L3+ ALL3- y2 U4+ R5+ D0+ L5+ ALL1+ DL


28.29 UR2- DR3+ DL1+ UL1- U0+ R1+ D6+ L0+ ALL1+ y2 U0+ R0+ D3+ L6+ ALL5+ DL UL

Ao5 vid:
Single vid:
Wow nice Aeden, you and Graham have brought back the interest into the unofficial event of Clock blindfolded.

Congrats on the WB!
 

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continuing the 3-style grind.
Got my 100th succes with 3-style today, took me exactly 400 attempts. The final 30 solves or so I finally felt like I kinda new what I was doing. Still getting used to the comms, but it's gotten a lot better.


3-style seesion so far:

Generated By csTimer on 2021-03-02
solves/total: 100/400

single
best: 1:15.18
worst: 3:51.74

mean of 3
current: DNF (σ = 68.20)
best: 1:31.76 (σ = 14.62)

avg of 5
current: DNF (σ = 73.98)
best: 1:43.40 (σ = 19.37)

Still solving around 30 seconds slower as I was a year ago with M2/3-style right before my break from cubing.
I really hope to achieve a sub-1 solve this month and be consistently sub-1 by summer.
If this keeps up I'll try to get into multi again as well after another 100 3bld attempts or so.
 

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Continuing the spam here.

Finally broke an actual pb with 3-style.
If I didn't dnf the 1:04 it would've also been mo3 pb :/
Generated By csTimer on 2021-03-12
avg of 5: 1:16.07

Time List:
1. 1:14.32+=27.86+44.45 L B2 D B' D B2 R' D' F D F2 L2 D' B2 D F2 L2 U R2 D2 B2 Fw
2. (1:08.69=27.05+41.63) B' R' B2 U2 B2 F2 L2 F2 U2 R D B U' F' U L' F' U' L Rw' Uw2
3. (DNF(1:04.70)=28.80+35.89) F R U' B U B L' F2 R F U2 F2 L2 D2 R2 D2 F2 B' D2 F Rw
4. 1:22.89=37.43+45.46 L D' U2 L2 B2 U' B2 D' F2 U' B2 L U2 F L' B2 F' U' B' Fw' Uw
5. 1:11.00=35.15+35.84 D' B' U2 F2 L F2 D2 U2 L' U2 L2 D2 L' B L B2 R D U B Rw2 Uw
 

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PB's left and right broken :D

Generated By csTimer on 2021-03-14
avg of 5: 1:13.58

Time List:
1. 1:16.72=28.50+48.21 U R2 U2 F2 L2 B2 D' L2 D' B2 U2 F' L' D2 F2 U' F R2 B' L' Rw'
2. (DNF(1:15.63)=30.59+45.04) L R2 B2 L' D2 L U2 L' B2 D2 B2 F' L2 U' L R2 B2 D B R Rw Uw'
3. 1:14.70=25.81+48.89 L D' F' U R' L F2 U2 F' D2 B2 R2 B' U2 R2 B L2 B U F2 Fw' Uw
4. (1:03.31=21.34+41.97) U2 R F' B' R' D' R2 L' F' R2 U2 L2 U' L2 F2 U2 B2 U' R2 U' F2 Rw2 Uw2
5. 1:09.32=30.44+38.87 L2 U2 L2 R2 F2 R2 U' B2 D R2 D2 B F' U B2 L' U2 R2 F' R2 Rw' Uw2

Also a 1:09.11 pb mo3 in the average
Really happy about this.
Really wanna grind to sub-1 now.

I'm going to stop spamming pb's here until that happens :p
 

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avg of 5: 59.13

Time List:
1. 1:00.76=28.66+32.10 F2 D2 L2 B2 L R2 F2 R2 U2 B2 D2 B L B U' B L R2 F2 D Fw Uw
2. 57.19=22.69+34.50 R2 F' U' F2 L2 U2 B2 U' B2 R2 B2 D' L' F' L2 F2 U' L B F2 Fw Uw
3. (DNF(1:06.72)=24.39+42.32) D L R2 B2 U L2 R2 B2 U' F2 D2 F2 U B F R' U B' F2 U2 Fw Uw
4. (56.02=27.40+28.62) U2 R' U' B2 R' D' R B' U2 L2 B' R2 F2 B' L2 D2 R2 D2 F R Fw Uw
5. 59.45=23.49+35.95 F B' D' F R B' U2 L F' U2 R2 L2 F' R2 F2 U2 B' D2 R2 D' Rw' Uw

Continuing the grind.
first sub-1 ao5
Still need to get an mo3 :p
 
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