Big cube BLD progression

[HEART]

I'm sure edges are the hardest part to memo, but easiest to execute. Unless you already know BH or comms from other BLD solving, centers are pretty obnoxious to wrap your head around, but easy to memo. I need to work on my edges more, it really sucks when you mess up a solve because you miss memo'd one pair of edges, and at the end you only have 4 edges competely flipped like my last.

My DF and FL edge pairs where flipped :C

 

[JianhanC]

Ville learnt 5BLD before 4BLD. Chuck (WicakTP04, yt channel) has a great tutorial on center comms but it's in Indonesian. Also, I find that knowing just the Pure Comms in BH helps immensely.

 

[Ickathu]

My 4bld attempt last night was 25:11. Definitely getting faster. It could have been sub 25, maybe sub24, but my dad came in and decided to have a conversation with me even though he knew I was busy and couldn't really talk. I got all my centers this time, and was only off by a 3 edge cycle and 2 swapped edge pieces like a flipped 3x3 edge. I'm gonna review the scramble later (but I think I might have scrambled wrong) and see what I did.

 

[Cubenovice]

I do not know my # of attempts to a first solve but here are my times of my first successes:

2 BLD: 20:45.22 LOL, I just didn't have a clue about memo systems and it was at the end of a very long day (flying into the US)
3 BLD: still searching
4 BLD: 33:43.99

 

[kinch2002]

3BLD: Sometime 2009.
4BLD: 29/12/09 (1st attempt 33 minutes)
5BLD: 01/01/10 (1st attempt 1:15 maybe)
6+7BLD Sometime 2010 I think.
Other events done bld: Clock, Pyra, Sq-1 from cubeshape, domino, 2x2, 3x3x4, feet, OH, mirror blocks

 

[NevinsCPH]

What where your first few 4BLD times? Most of my 4BLD times are around 17 minutes, my initial goal is to get to 10 minutes

My first 4BLD time is around the range as yours, 15~17minutes. Tho before I actually do full attempt, I did quite a lot of sighted solves(to get comfort with setup moves and parity), then a lot of center BLD, wings BLD individually. Eventually, my memory capacity allows me to memo both and corner then I started my first attempt. However I did has a lot of DNFs at the beginning dealing with parity. Where I did PLL parity before solving center, thus messing up center most of the time. My current 4BLD time range from 7minutes to 9minutes.

My first 5BLD time is around 36minutes DNF, first success for 5BLD was 28minutes, now my 5BLD time range between 17minutes to 24minutes.

 

[JianhanC]

My first 4BLD time is around the range as yours, 15~17minutes. Tho before I actually do full attempt, I did quite a lot of sighted solves(to get comfort with setup moves and parity), then a lot of center BLD, wings BLD individually. Eventually, my memory capacity allows me to memo both and corner then I started my first attempt. However I did has a lot of DNFs at the beginning dealing with parity. Where I did PLL parity before solving center, thus messing up center most of the time. My current 4BLD time range from 7minutes to 9minutes.

My first 5BLD time is around 36minutes DNF, first success for 5BLD was 28minutes, now my 5BLD time range between 17minutes to 24minutes.

You either improved really fast or you are a natural in BLD O__O

 

[HEART]

Odd my memo is appearently at "natural BLD'er" level, but my execution is the level of a scrub :C Takes me like 2-3 mins for centers, and like 7-9 for edges.