Anyone who does BLD should post here.

[darthyody]

I'm trying to decide if I should learn to do this blindfold cubing or not.
If you do blindfold cubing yourself could you post in a format similar to this:

Name:
Method(s) you use:
How long it took before you did your first BLD solve and how long of a solve it was:
What your avg is now:
How long you have been doing BLD:

 

[shafiqdms1]

Shafiq Mohammed
M2, old pochmann
around 15-20 minutes at first (I sucked bad)
5-6 minute bld (I don't practice a lot)
since 5 months, but really just started 2 months ago and learned like 5months ago.

 

[Sa967St]

-Sarah Strong
-dunno what its called, but I use one of the J perms for corners, and T perm & both J perms for edges
-a few days after I learned it, I wasn't timing it because the memo took so long
-I can usually sub-4, but I DNF about 90% of the time
-I learned it a year ago, but I've never seriously practiced it

 

[Jai]

http://www.worldcubeassociation.org...gionId=&years=&show=All+Persons&single=Single
How's this?

Edit: Sarah - you're using old Pochmann.

 

[mande]

Nikhil Mande
3 cycles for edges and corners
I got a bld solve 2 weeks after starting to try it and was doing times like 10-15 minutes.
Current average is 4-6 minutes, 50 % success.
I have been bld cubing for the last 3-4 months.

 

[rjohnson_8ball]

I'm trying to decide if I should learn to do this blindfold cubing or not.
If you do blindfold cubing yourself could you post in a format similar to this:

Name:
Method(s) you use:
How long it took before you did your first BLD solve and how long of a solve it was:
What your avg is now:
How long you have been doing BLD:

I don't see how this can affect your decision as to learn BLD or not. There was a recent topic polling why people like to BLD -- that might be more useful. Anyway,

Bob Johnson
I spent a week or 2 practicing each of the 4 phases of 3OP described at cubefreak.net, and also practicing double swaps BLD. Then I started combining phases. I guess maybe a month from when I first started reading about it I had the courage to try a full BLD solve. My 1st successful BLD solve was maybe 20 minutes of memorizing (and reciting several times), then maybe 20 minutes execution (I had some double swaps and parity).
My average is not so good, 10 min memo + 10 min execution = 20 min, but I am still trying to get comfortable with it.
Been doing BLD since Sep 3, 2008 so about 10 weeks. 52 successful solves out of maybe 150 attempts.

 

[Ville Seppänen]

Ville Seppänen
Freestyle
I learned 3OP in a day, the next day I DNF'd my first try, read some things again and got a success. didn't time it though. My next try was about 15 minutes.
45-50s, had an avg of 12 that was 49.95 but I had to be careful not to DNF which slows down a bit.
9-10 months

 

[Kian]

Kian Barry
Classic Pochmann (In the process of switching to M2 for edges)
A day or two. Probably about 15 minutes (wasn't timed)
4:30-5:30 (don't practice too much yet, will start too)
About 3 months.

 

[wryyl]

Name: Ben
Method(s) you use: pre-oriented M2 edges, 3OP corners.
How long...: Probably a week or two for my first solve. Around 9 minutes IIRC. (after lots of DNFs)
What your avg is now: I would say around 1:35~1:50
How long you have been doing BLD: About 2 months worth of BLD-ing. I had my first solve about 5 months ago, but then I took a long break after that.


I'll tell you something - getting decent at BLD isn't hard with practice. On the 2nd of October (that's when I started seriously blindsolving, and logging my successes) I was averaging 4~5 minutes. It took slightly less than a month to get down to a consistent sub-2. 250 solves logged at that time.

 

[Jason Baum]

Name: Jason Baum
Method(s) you use: Used to use pure 3OP, now I use 3OP corners and M2 edges
How long it took before you did your first BLD solve and how long of a solve it was: I think it was four or five days after I started learning, and it was about 26 minutes
What your avg is now: Probably somewhere around 1:40
How long you have been doing BLD: About 3 1/2 years

 

[darthyody]

Thank you all who have posted so far. I'd like to keep this thread going. I do want to blindfold solve, I'm just not sure where to start so this is helping me to decide which methods are more common/uncommon and about how long I should expect take on my first actual solves. By the way what does DNF stand for?

 

[Ellis]

By the way what does DNF stand for?

Did not finish

john hallmark
I use old pochmann for edges and corners because it was the easiest for me to learn. At some point I'll make the switch to M2 for edges.
I learned the method in a day with a successful solve the following day in about 8 or 9 minutes.
on successful solves (50%ish) I still average 6-7 min. Although I dont practice very much.
been doing bld on and off for about 2 months.

Edit: Actually 8-9 minutes was just my first timed solved. I didn't time my first few solves but they were probably closer to 10-15 minutes

 

[KJiptner]

Kai Jiptner
I started with 3OP (or just "3-cycle" back then) and got my first success (30 min) months later (March 07 I think, Didn't try often)
Later M2 came up so I learned that. I used M2+3OP corners with my own CO approach (but i only re-invented what other people had already invented before me), and all CP algs to avoid setups besides U/D moves. Combined with my sillable edge memo I improved a lot espeacially August/September 07. I've had quite some success (ranked 7th in the world for BLD officially and 2nd in the UWR list) I avged about 1:15 I think.
That method however didn't guarantee high accuracy. That's why I swiched to Letterpair-Memo plus Turbo-Corners. Later I added Mackys M2 Suggestions. Developing and Memorizing the stuff took me the first half of this year. Now, I'm in the middle of practicing to get fast with this system. (My accuracy has already improved a LOT!) Avg is around 2:00 with a PB of 1:19 though.
oooops. too much Information.

 

[cookingfat]

Name: Peter Harpham
Method(s) you use: Classic Pochmann
How long it took: less than 24 hours using paper then about a week to lose the paper. First success was about 25 minutes.
What your avg is now: between 8 and 10 minutes. (best time 7:54)
How long you have been doing BLD: 15 weeks (but not been practicing much lately)

 

[Sebastien]

Name: Sébastien Auroux
Method(s) you use: I started with Macky's 3-cycle (but i would never recommend that to anyone) and switched to M2-Edges/Pochmans-Corners later.
How long it took before you did your first BLD solve and how long of a solve it was: Lol, my first successful BLD solve was my first try ever, it started 30 minutes after i had started learning it and was finished 30 minutes Later. 3-cycle is very easy but very slow. I just had to learn how to orient pieces in place, to see when pieces are misoriented (which is very easy too) and to try if I can perform my 3-cycles blindfolded (what I was able to).
What your avg is now: My average is around 2:30 now I guess, I'm not doing enough BLD to be more precise here.
How long you have been doing BLD: I learned BLD that February and learned the other system in July.

 

[aegius1r]

Method(s) you use: 3OP (and other algs)
How long it took before you did your first BLD solve and how long of a solve it was: 9 months ago ; 381.36
What your avg is now: got 2 sub70 avg of 3 (but i think the real avg is 70~75)
How long you have been doing BLD:[/QUOTE]started to practice since about 5/15

 

[Fusty]

Name: Alex Sterling
Method: Classic Pochmann
How long it took to first success: It took 4 weeks and 3 days till i reached complete success. Took me 12 minutes and 26 seconds.
Average Now: It still takes me over 8 minutes every time. I'm working on it though...
How Long have you been doing it: 2 months.

My advice would be that you absolutely should dive into blindfolding. Before blindfolding making sense of algorithms and how they actually worked was very difficult. Even though it still takes endless repetition to "get it" I feel like I've unlocked an entire world of intuitive cubing. Blindfolding has impacted my view of cube theory more heavily than anything else.

Hope this helps you decide to go for it.

 

[Zava]

Name: Balázs Bernát
Method: Started with Pochmann, switched to M2, and corners freestyle-ish, since then I switch methods in every 2-3 months, currently using freestyle for edges and OP for corners.
How long it took to first success: I succeeded after 1 week practice of edges, time was 4:44.89
Average Now: sub1:20 on good days (sometimes very sub1:20 ), sub1:30 on bad days - varies a lot.
How Long have you been doing it: 1 year maybe.

 

[Lt-UnReaL]

Name: John-Michael Clay
Method: M2 with 3OP corners
How long it took to first success: Around a week? About a 15 minute solve
Average Now: ~3:00
How Long have you been doing it: Couple months (around 40ish BLD solves ever done)

 

[KConny]

Name: Daniel Lundwall
Method: M2 Old P-corners.
How long: From when? From when I was born, started cubing, heard of BLD, started looking at a method, knew a method, tried my first time? The answers are: Years, 2 months, 2 months, 2months, 1.8 months, 15 mins.
Avg: 1:45
How long: 18 months. With a lot of diffrent methods. 300-400 solves with my current method or 6 months.