bldcuber314's Road to 5BLD NR- Quitting cubing?

[bldcuber314]

4.35 single and 8.43 average in Skewb, made next round but I won't be here tomorrow anyway. In 5x5 I got a 1:50.22 overall PB single by 9 seconds and still missed cutoff lol(1:45 cutoff). Now my PR single is more than a minute faster than my PR average

 

[bldcuber314]

Pyra R2 was decent, 4.16 average. Would have been 3.7-3.8ish but on the last solve my cube locked up really badly and it took me a little over a second to fix it(not a normal lockup).

3BLD finals was really good, I think this was my first proper fixed seating final, where they assign seats for all the finalists(I was next to Luke Garrett lol). Also they called out all the names of the finalists by seed order so that was cool, never had that before(this is a pretty huge comp so it makes sense ig).

In finals, my first solve was a 36.55 with 9 sec memo(a few lockups but still a solid time). My only goal for finals was sub 40 single, so even though I DNFed the next two solves and didn't get a mean I don't really mind.

No PRs in finals but that's OK, I also got 4th place in 3BLD which was insane. 3BLD is my weakest BLD event so I didn't expect it to be my highest placement in this comp. I'm really happy with 4th, especially since this comp had 277 competitors, was a regional championship, had 93 3BLD competitors and a bunch of top players/WR holders. There was also pretty much no way I could have podiumed in 3BLD, 3rd place was a 30.33 and the scrambles were pretty bad.

This comp was really good, I didn't do great in 5BLD or MBLD but I still got a lot of nice results and had a good time!

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

you gotta stop +2ing or else you will face major consequences

 

[bldcuber314]

This took me way too long but I finally got a 4BLD mean lmao(and it was really slow bc I safetied). 4:12.34 mean in weekly comp(3:30, 4:27, 4:39).

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

you gotta stop +2ing or else you will face major consequences

@bldcuber314 i meant in your other events (like skewb and 2x2) you said you got a bunch of +2s right?

 

[bldcuber314]

@bldcuber314 i meant in your other events (like skewb and 2x2) you said you got a bunch of +2s right?

I got 4 +2s in my last 3x3 round lol

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

I got 4 +2s in my last 3x3 round lol

how??

 

[bldcuber314]

how??

Two normal +2s and a +4

 

[bldcuber314]

DNFed out of cutoff in Clock, 4:55 single and 5:13 mean in 6x6(both overall PBs bc I don't do 6x6 at home). Then 5BLD-

First solve was a 10:22[4:48] which is slow but a success.
Second solve I DNFed a 10:13 by 2x.
Third solve was just bad, 8:55 DNF(didn't safety).

4BLD-

First solve was 3:42 DNF by 2x.
Second solve was 3:46(safety).
Third solve was 2:51[59] DNF by 2w

3 big BLD DNFs by 2 pieces rip

At least I qualified for 4BLD in UKC though, and also I'm a WCA Silver Member now(averages/means in all sighted events and singles in every event)

 

[bldcuber314]

5x5 was OK(2:04, 2:06, didn't make cutoff), 39.80 PR average in Squan

 

[bldcuber314]

Overall PB average in Mega(sub 1:45 I think, only got this bc they extended cutoff lol)

 

[bldcuber314]

MBLD update-

So I thought I qualified for MBLD in UKC then on the last day of registration for UKC somebody registered and I'm down to 17th. It sucks that I'll lose 2 attempts, but I'll just have to move past it and focus on big BLDs. I registered for Corby Autumn 2025(Sep 20-21) which has one attempt of multi, so that'll be my next chance to do MBLD officially.

I did a 24 cube attempt today to try for my first weekly comp event win, the time was good but the result wasn't, 19/24 55:47. Hopefully I still come 1st.

Splits-

37:22 memo(1:33.41 per cube)
18:25 exec(46.04 per cube)
55:47 total(2:19.45 per cube)

DNFs-

One exec error
2 cubes off by 2c
2 cubes off by 2e

 

[bldcuber314]

Generated By csTimer on 2025-08-11
single: DNF

Time List:
1. DNF(28.81)[7 memo, slice error] R2 D2 L2 U R2 D' L2 U2 F2 R' B R D2 R U R B' R2 Uw'

 

[bldcuber314]

PB Skewb single(also got 25.54 PB OH ao5 and 26.69 PB ao12)

Generated By csTimer on 2025-08-11
single: 2.35

Time List:
1. 2.35[2 moves into sldege y sledge] U' R L' B L' U L U'

Downsolved to 1.74

 

[bldcuber314]

PB Skewb single(also got 25.54 PB OH ao5 and 26.69 PB ao12)

Generated By csTimer on 2025-08-11
single: 2.35

Time List:
1. 2.35[2 moves into sldege y sledge] U' R L' B L' U L U'

Downsolved to 1.74

@CubeLite can you try it(you'll probably beat my 1.74 downsolve first try lmao)

 

[CubeLite]

PB Skewb single(also got 25.54 PB OH ao5 and 26.69 PB ao12)

Generated By csTimer on 2025-08-11
single: 2.35

Time List:
1. 2.35[2 moves into sldege y sledge] U' R L' B L' U L U'

Downsolved to 1.74

Did you 1 look it?
Got 1.35...+2 first try lol, then 1.38

 

[bldcuber314]

Did you 1 look it?
Got 1.35...+2 first try lol, then 1.38

I didn't one look bc I couldn't be bothered lol, I should have

 

[bldcuber314]

First 4BLD solve of the day-

Generated By csTimer on 2025-08-13
single: 2:38.26

Time List:
1. 2:38.26[54 memo, pb single] U' F R B2 U2 R2 B2 U2 R L2 B2 R F' D R B U' B D2 F2 Uw2 R' U' D Uw2 R2 L U Fw2 D' Rw2 B2 Rw2 F' Fw' R2 D' L2 Uw Rw2 F' Fw' L Uw' R2 x2

 

[bldcuber314]

As part of a lost Worlds bet I had to learn Clock BLD. Did that today(for like the 3rd time lmao) and finally got my first success on my 10th attempt-

Generated By csTimer on 2025-08-13
single: 2:07.49

Time List:
1. 2:07.49[44 memo] UR5+ DR4- DL4- UL1- U5+ R1- D5+ L4+ ALL1- y2 U5+ R2- D5- L4- ALL4-

I've solved 7/11 WCA puzzles BLD now, not sure if I'll go for 6/7, Mega or Squan. (I don't think I can even turn specific layers blindfolded in 7x7 and Squan seems so hard it probably isn't worth it)

 

[bldcuber314]

So I was compsimming 3BLD for UKC(I'm doing a compsim of most events I qualified for every day), in R1 I got a 1:04, 39, 34(got a mean but rip the 1:04 lol). Then in finals I got overall PB single(first 3BLD PB single since January)!-

Generated By csTimer on 2025-08-17
single: 28.31

Time List:
1. 28.31[7 sec memo] L' U B R' F2 U2 L' R2 F2 U2 R' U2 B2 D F' L U2 L2 B' L2 Rw2 Uw2