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Blindfold Accomplishment Thread

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...and multi-blind increased by 10 (+200%). I don't think we will see those kind of improvements ever again.

It's not very unlikely, that the record will increase by another 200%. There are a few people on this planet who can do 30 or more cubes.

So I am now learning an image system, so I can do multi-bld!

You improved a lot over the last few weeks, i feel like holding you off from learning an image system ;).
 
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I just broke my personal best 3x3x3 BLD time for a non-lucky solve, 1:14.71! I was using my new hybrid memorization method using letter pair images for edges and letter pair 1 syllable words for corners. I think with more training, and on a nice solve, that sub-60 might be possible for me! I never thought I would ever say that! :-D

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- 16 cubes blindfolded in 1:10h, 40 minutes memo.
Awesome.What is your accuracy?Can you pull out one such performance in a competition?
Just in case tim missed this, I believe it was his second attempt at 16 cubes. The first was 15/16 If I remember correctly.

Yep, joey is right, 15/16 was my first attempt. And my accuracy is bad, i get only 4 out of 10 multi bld attempts right.
 

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I was getting quite embarrassed about the fact that I'm the only person to ever solve a big cube BLD in competition without having ever managed a 3x3x3 average (sighted) in less than 30 seconds. So I have been working on it to try to get a little better. I finally learned all the OLLs. I know I seem slow to be worrying about that, but I think it has really helped me. I'm still over 30 seconds average, but I'm having a lot more sub-30 solves, and I think it's just a matter of a few more weeks before I start to average sub-30. I haven't been practicing BLD so much lately because I've been working on the 3x3x3. Very strange for me. :)

8:11 4x4 bld
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12 cubes blindfolded in 35 minutes (19 minutes memorization). I'm quite happy about the time :).

You're just amazing.
 

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I was getting quite embarrassed about the fact that I'm the only person to ever solve a big cube BLD in competition without having ever managed a 3x3x3 average (sighted) in less than 30 seconds. So I have been working on it to try to get a little better. I finally learned all the OLLs. I know I seem slow to be worrying about that, but I think it has really helped me. I'm still over 30 seconds average, but I'm having a lot more sub-30 solves, and I think it's just a matter of a few more weeks before I start to average sub-30. I haven't been practicing BLD so much lately because I've been working on the 3x3x3. Very strange for me. :)

mhh, i think you shouldn't care too much about learning full OLL. Speedcubing is all about going slow and looking ahead. I think you should practice your F2L first. You lose only 1-2s with 3LLL. (I'm sub-20 with 3LLL :))
 

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Speedcubing is all about going slow and looking ahead
Lol, just made me laugh for a bit.

anyway, Mike, how did you learn all your OLLs?!
Thats crazy, I'm not that much of a person for algorithms, only PLL's and some 3 look last layer OLL's(ones with edges oriented).
Algorithms take me a LONG time to get used to, but in the end they are fast.(except G Perms).

Well congratz and help :)
 

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mhh, i think you shouldn't care too much about learning full OLL. Speedcubing is all about going slow and looking ahead. I think you should practice your F2L first. You lose only 1-2s with 3LLL. (I'm sub-20 with 3LLL :))

I know that you're right. But I had tried a good bit working on my F2L, and I just couldn't seem to make progress on it. And going for the OLLs was something I was able to do in a straightforward manner. And I found that by watching the cubies as they go through the OLLs, I actually learned some tricks that I can use for the F2L. And also, when I was learning the OLLs, I'd start by learning the first 6 or 7 moves, and then figuring out the last ones, and that seemed to help my "cube vision". I'm still over 30 seconds average, but I can tell I'm close to a big breakthrough - it's just a matter of practice now. Oh, and now that I've learned the OLLs, I can't use that as an excuse to put off working on my F2L. :)

Lotsofsloths, I learned the OLLs using Kenneth's suggestion (although I had been doing it before he made the suggestion). I printed them all out, and then started doing solves. Whenever I got to an OLL I didn't know, I would look at the sheet and execute it. And after I solved the cube, I would then execute that OLL again on the solved cube as many times as were necessary to get it back to solved again. (Most are 3 or 4 cycles; some are a lot, though, so I probably know those better.)

One other reason why I learned all of the OLLs is so that I can use them for fewest moves. I know that a good fewest moves solution almost never needs them, but I have enough bad fewest moves solutions that knowing the OLLs can really help. Hopefully I'm starting to get good enough that I won't need them anymore, but it's nice to have them just in case.
 

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Yea, unfortunately Mr Hughey, progress from where you are is very slow, and will only get better with a lot of practise. Basically, the time it takes to execute algorithms is going to get you down to 23-24 seconds, then the rest is lookahead.
 
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