Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

Micael said:
Hi,
After 4 days of preparation (learning algorithms) and 3 days of attempts, I did my first 4x4x4 blindfolded today. Yesterday was my birthday and I said "my gift will be to succeed to do the 4x4x4 blindfolded". I did try like 12-14 times during all the day. I finally got a headache and call it a day at 9pm. Hopefully, today I succeed at the third attempt (about 18th attempts overall). I finally succeed in 30:25 (19:25 memo + 11:00 execution).

Well, I have the video of this, but it is speeded up because I am quite slow currently:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr1e8Wxmf3I

Thanks everyone for the inspiration!

Micaël
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Nice, you are persistent. Congratulations!

It is such a nice feeling, the first one. But I wonder if not the first 4x4 was the best.
It is so much bigger than a 3x3, the step upwards later is not as big.
 
MatsBergsten said:
I just did a 6x6 in 1:24:14 (49+ min memo). Wonderful!

See what motivation does for you. I did my first attempt about 6 weeks ago.
It was very good, only 2 centres off. Guess I was really concentrated then as
it was the very first time. Then I tried one each week in the weeklies and have
been faster each time, but nowhere nearer.

Now yesterday Maarten did his first attempt. That gave me extra inspiration
and motivation, thanks Maarten :p. So I scrambled the cube last thing last
night with the intention of doing this first thing in the morning. (I memo best
early in the day). Woke 4:30 (am) and couldn't fall asleep again, so I tried
the cube instead. Went very careful and very slow on each step. Had one
memory relapse, but rememberd it was a full 23-cycle of edges and could
sort it out. So very nice! (the very same scramble as Maarten too, the first
of this weeks comp)

So I guess I am the oldest blindfolded solver of the 6x6 in the world now ;).
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WOW! Awesome. This soon all right? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swDi_R0eKbY:D
 
Mats, congratulations!!!!! I knew you'd get one soon. By the way, I had similar trouble with the 6x6x6 BLD. I did the 7x7x7 BLD on only my second try, but the 6x6x6 for some reason was much harder, and I think I remember it took me 6 attempts as well.

And as for there being a difference, it's really kind of surprising how close our times have been relative to our starting dates. You've progressed at a very similar rate to me. Except on the little cubes BLD, where you've improved significantly faster than I have. So that 2-7 relay is not too far away - perhaps in a year or so? :)
 
Mike Hughey said:
Mats, congratulations!!!!! I knew you'd get one soon. By the way, I had similar trouble with the 6x6x6 BLD. I did the 7x7x7 BLD on only my second try, but the 6x6x6 for some reason was much harder, and I think I remember it took me 6 attempts as well.

And as for there being a difference, it's really kind of surprising how close our times have been relative to our starting dates. You've progressed at a very similar rate to me. Except on the little cubes BLD, where you've improved significantly faster than I have. So that 2-7 relay is not too far away - perhaps in a year or so? :)
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Yes, but by then you'll be doing 2x2-8x8;)

Looks like you have some competition.
 
MatsBergsten said:
I just did a 6x6 in 1:24:14 (49+ min memo). Wonderful!

See what motivation does for you. I did my first attempt about 6 weeks ago.
It was very good, only 2 centres off. Guess I was really concentrated then as
it was the very first time. Then I tried one each week in the weeklies and have
been faster each time, but nowhere nearer.

Now yesterday Maarten did his first attempt. That gave me extra inspiration
and motivation, thanks Maarten :p. So I scrambled the cube last thing last
night with the intention of doing this first thing in the morning. (I memo best
early in the day). Woke 4:30 (am) and couldn't fall asleep again, so I tried
the cube instead. Went very careful and very slow on each step. Had one
memory relapse, but rememberd it was a full 23-cycle of edges and could
sort it out. So very nice! (the very same scramble as Maarten too, the first
of this weeks comp)

So I guess I am the oldest blindfolded solver of the 6x6 in the world now ;).
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Nooooooooooooo!!!! You beat me! And when I solve the 6x6BLD, I'll probably be the youngest ;)
 
I've just got my weirdest BLD solve EVER.

After 2 weeks without practicing 4x4x4 BLD, this morning I decided to do it.

8 centers were solved at the start, I said uh okay, not bad...

On halfway when I was memorizing centers, I accidentally went through the same center twice. So I had to go all the way back and memorize again.

When I was solving the centers, I popped one edge! :fp This is the first time I popped a Mefferts. I thought, without any doubt, this is going to end badly. Really bad.

So I assembled that one edge, and continue.

And when I was finished, I got 09:47.40. :eek:

This was my first sub-10.

Feels amazing, yet unbelievable :D

I got the breakdowns:
1. Orient: 00:08.00
2. Memo Centers: 02:24.40
3. Memo Edges: 01:25.20
4. Memo Corners: 00:28.00
5. Solve Centers: 02:24.40
6. Solve Edges: 02:13.00
7. Solve Corners: 00.44.00

TOTAL: 09:47.40 (04:26.00), new PB by 42 seconds.

@ Mats
Congratulations! You made me wanna start playing with my 6x6x6 until it loosen a bit. Well done, Mats.
 
4:45 on a offical comp. It's really good for me.
first would have been 6 minutes but it was a DNF (two flipped corners)
second was 4:45
and last would have been 5:00 but it was completely messed up.
 
And when I was finished, I got 09:47.40. :eek:

This was my first sub-10.
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I completely agree with Maarten, Stackmat!

Chuck said:
On halfway when I was memorizing centers, I accidentally went through the same center twice. So I had to go all the way back and memorize again.
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I do this sometimes too, especially when going too fast. You don't have to re-memorize centers though. If you shot twice to a center location this usually means that the location after that center (the second time around) will have that center color instead of the color it should have.

So for example the location Ful has a blue center piece (this location should be green for me). At some point I have to cycle a green center to the green face, so I memorize to send it to Ful. This means that I will now cycle a blue piece to the blue face next (because Ful has a blue piece there). Now, sometime later in my memorization I have another green piece that must cycle to the green face. I, by accident or by going too quickly, memorize to cycle it to Ful. Now, because I see a blue piece in Ful, I will next memorize to cycle this piece to the next place to be cycled to on the blue face of the cube.

But, let's think about the solving phase. The first time around I would have cycle a green piece to Ful, then a blue piece to the blue face and continued my cycle. The next time around I would have cycled a green piece to Ful (this piece, though, is already green!) and then I would have cycled the green piece that was already there to the blue face on the back of the cube.

At some point during your memorization you will discover *too many* blue centers. This is because you thought to cycle to a new place on the blue side *after cycling to Ful the second time*. This lets you know that you mismemorized centers. However, if you trace through your memorization, you can often discover which piece got cycled to twice. Here we would discover Ful.

Now to fix this we will do a sort of pick-up cycle with the center pieces. You will continue memorizing, but continue in the following way:

Once you get to the "5th" blue center that must be cycled, go back and trace through your memory to find the location that got cycled to twice. Here we would find this to be Ful. Now remember what came *after* the Ful location in your memorization when you cycled there the *second time*. This is the place where you sent the *green* center that was already solved in Ful. This is the place where you will memorize to shoot the *5th blue center*. Now, to continue your cycle, remember that the location you just shot to has a green piece in it (during your solve it will) so continue your memorization by shooting that spot on the blue face to the next available location on the green face.

The time you lose comes from tracing your cycles to discover which piece got cycled to twice. You also have to do two more cycles than you normally would (the incorrect cycle that shot to a location twice, and the extra cycle to fix it later). But, in my opinion this is much better than re-memorizing centers if you are far along in your memorization. If you are not far along in your memorization, it might be faster to just re-memorize. So it's up to you.

Congrats on your Stackmat solve, and hope this shortcuts helps for your solving! Re-memorizing is such a pain, but using a pick-up cycle to fix things is so much faster (most of the time)!

Chris
 
@ Chris
Oh, that's a wonderful tips. Thank you.
Yes, I got *too many* yellow back then. :D

@ Everyone
Many thanks!

My goal at Jakarta Open 2010 are 4x4x4 BLD & 5x5x5 BLD AsR.
So I need to be sub-9 & sub-26 to beat Tabuchi & Mondo.

It's still 3 months, so I hope it's possible.
Wish me luck.
 
and yeeeeeesss!!!!:D:D
I got my first sub15 4x4x4 BLD solve!!!:)
my time is: 12:44.42:D:D:D

I did it right after a 12:24 DNF...:)
memo was 8:30

breakdown for the memo:
5 min edges
6 min corners+edges(with refreshing)
8:30 centers (here I no refresh corners+edges visually so I just keep saying the memo of them during I memorize the centers pure visually)

execution: 4:14 wouldve been better, but whatever:)

Oh My God!!! My previous record was 17:38!!! PB by almost 5 minutes!!!
 
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