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6x6+ Blindfolded Rankings Thread

Mike Hughey

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I am also very excited for this! Is Mike attempting this also? I remember a debate about this a while ago (knockoffs and such) and I don't know the current status of this as I've been out of the loop for a while. Hopefully I'm not sparking up a flame war in this thread, I'm just curious.

I'm planning to start trying 9x9x9 BLD after I get a successful gigaminx solve. I figure someone else needs a chance to be first this time. :) But I'm sure I'll try eventually.
 

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Shouldn't you have categories for Memo time, Execution time, and Overall solve time? For example, the "Solve" time of people with unknown memo times is just their execution time. However, it looks like to me, that the "Solve" time, of let's say Roman's 6x6 UWR, includes both the memo and execution time.
 

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Shouldn't you have categories for Memo time, Execution time, and Overall solve time? For example, the "Solve" time of people with unknown memo times is just their execution time. However, it looks like to me, that the solve time, of let's say Roman's 6x6 UWR, includes both the memo and execution time.

The "solve" consists of both the memorisation phase and the blindfolded phase. Thus the solve time is the overall time of both memo and execution. This is how the WCA ranks blindfolded solves, so I wanted to do that too. If you want to know the execution time you can subtract the memorisation time from the solve time. I think the exec time would be too cluttered to include, and is not independent from the given information.
 

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Ahh, I see. Thanks, I was under the impression that the one's with unknown memo times just didn't time the memorization phase, and only the execution phase.
 

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if I'm not mistaken, Ville Seppänen solved 7BLD too.

Yes. I lost the UWR to him for quite a while - as I recall, it took me about a year of trying to finally catch up to him again (and it was his first and I think only successful solve). A year of heavy diligence on my part allowed me to finally beat his only successful attempt. :)

If you don't find it, I'll try to look it up sometime next week - I'm pretty positive it's somewhere in the Blindfold Accomplishment Thread.
 

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Yes. I lost the UWR to him for quite a while - as I recall, it took me about a year of trying to finally catch up to him again (and it was his first and I think only successful solve). A year of heavy diligence on my part allowed me to finally beat his only successful attempt. :)

If you don't find it, I'll try to look it up sometime next week - I'm pretty positive it's somewhere in the Blindfold Accomplishment Thread.

I had a habit of going through old pages of the Blindfold Accomplishment Thread to search for other people, but I kind of stopped. I'll see if I can find it.

Edit: Found it. I checked speedcubing.com for 6x6 BLD, but didn't think to look for 7x7 BLD results for some reason.
 
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From http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/s...tition-2011-07&p=531852&viewfull=1#post531852:
- Chris Hardwick, 6x6x6 BLD, 26:21.40[15:50]

From http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/s...mpetition-2010&p=509569&viewfull=1#post509569:
- Daniel Sheppard, 6x6x6 BLD, 39:42.06[19:42.69]
- Daniel Sheppard, 7x7x7 BLD, 1:01:29

From http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/s...tition-2012-08&p=718802&viewfull=1#post718802:
- Jacob Pratt (theZCuber), 6x6x6 BLD, 52:26.74 (but the times from his post are gone, so I'm not sure if it was real)

From http://speedcubing.com/records/recs_bf_777.html:
- Ville Seppänen, 7x7x7 BLD, 46:16.27[20:19.78]
- Mátyás Kuti, 7x7x7 BLD, 54:19.51 (if you believe his unofficial results)
 

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Thank you so much. I found the results for Ville and Matyas, but I wasn't sure If I should include Matyas due to controversy regarding his times.

Edit: I tried going through all of the Weekly Competitions in 2011, but for some weeks when I used the search function, it wouldn't give a result for the thread. I wasn't sure how to find the thread any other way, so thats probably why I missed Chris Hardwick's 6x6 BLD result.
 
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From http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/s...tition-2012-08&p=718802&viewfull=1#post718802:
- Jacob Pratt (theZCuber), 6x6x6 BLD, 52:26.74 (but the times from his post are gone, so I'm not sure if it was real)

TheZcuber is a proven fraud as far as online results go.
There have been several instances in FMC events, I also remember there were some unrealistic magic times.
I suggest to not include his claim to 6BLD.
edit: also no official attempts at any BLD event...

I think the list should also show who was 1st; 2nd etc to solve a certain size of cube.
With the new generation of fast bigbldsolves we may lose track of the golden oldies who solved them first :)
 
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I did 6BLD in 1:04:05.43. It was on November 5, 2012. No idea what the memo time was, and no video. If that's too unreliable for you, feel free not to include it.

Here was that scramble if that makes any difference:
2R U' 2U2 D2 2R' 2D' L 2U2 2L F2 R2 2F U L 2L2 2D2 B' 2D 2B' B' 2U' 3F2 2L' 3R' 2B' R2 2B' B2 U 3R2 U L 2F' D' 2B' 3U R' F' U' F2 2F2 B2 U 2F 2B' 2L' 2R' 3U 3R' F 2F 2B' U' 2D D2 2F L' 2F 2L2 3R 2D 2F' 3F' B2 2D 2F2 2D L U2 2D2 L2 2U' R2 U2 R 2D' F2 2R U' D2
 
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Mikel, consider about including megaminx (and/or, maybe, other puzzles) in ratings table :)

And what about BLD relays? If you give points to the different cubes (6x6 gives more points than a 5x5/4x4 more than a 3x3/3 3x3 ~ 1 4x4 and so on) that would be an interesting rating, too i think. And i like the idea about doing different cubes in one attempt.

Greetings, Dennis
 

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Heh, maybe this could end up being some kind of list of all really big blindfolded things people have done ;) Except multi of course. Perhaps we could give points based on the information content (logarithm of number of positions):
- 3x3x3 = 1 unit
- 4x4x4 ≈ 2.336 units
- Megaminx ≈ 3.463 units
- 5x5x5 ≈ 3.792 units
- 6x6x6 ≈ 5.918 units
- 7x7x7 ≈ 8.163 units
- 8x8x8 ≈ 11.079 units
- Gigaminx ≈ 13.422 units
- 9x9x9 ≈ 14.114 units
 

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Heh, maybe this could end up being some kind of list of all really big blindfolded things people have done ;) Except multi of course.

Does that mean I don't get a good spot to put my 10/10 square-1 multi? :(

(well, actually, :) - I'm just backhanded bragging) (and why not? it's probably the only UWR I will hold forever)
(because no one sensible would ever try it)
 
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