Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

Yes said:
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!
YES! YES YES YES!!!! :D !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally! On my 12th try or so....

Success! My fastest time ever including DNFs, first time sub-9:

8:17.38 :D

And I even filmed it! I am unbelievable happy right now!!!!!

Scramble: B' D' U' R F U R2 F' D U2 R' D2 L R2 D' R' F D B L2 D U' L2 R2 B
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Very, very nice.
 
Started picking up BLD again on a plane ride home from Costa Rica. Got pretty close to a 3x3 BLD success ~6:00.

And: I understand commutators for 4x4 centers :) I still need to figure out how to do the memo. I'm thinking letter pairs. Any suggestions?
 
2 3x3 BLDs today.

#1 at BK, probably about 15 mins total
#2 I was going for multi, but decided on just one. Memo was 8:12 and execution was 3 mins, so about 11 mins total. I'm getting faster. Yay! =p
 
Did 5x5BLD: 20:50.65 :)

I really want that sub20 solve...

Dropped using BH for cornes (back to 3OP) instead I'm forcing myself to speed up execution. This one was sub8 min execution.
 
Wow, Lars - very fast!

I have one to report too - it's only 3 seconds better than my previous best, but it is still a new PB, and it's my first success in 2 months (after 8 DNFs in a row :(), so I'm pretty happy about it:

7x7x7 BLD: 48:26.20 [24:46 memorization]

It was the fifth 7x7x7 scramble in the weekly competition. I reoriented, but still wound up with only 27 centers solved (if I counted correctly), so it was not a very lucky scramble at all. I probably spent too long memorizing, but as a result the memorization was more secure than it's been for me on a 7x7x7 in a long time. I was moving as fast as I could through most of the solve, although I did get a little stuck when I came to recalling the inner wings. I switched to the outer wings and came back to them later, though, so it probably only slowed me down a few seconds.
 
Mike Hughey said:
Wow, Lars - very fast!

I have one to report too - it's only 3 seconds better than my previous best, but it is still a new PB, and it's my first success in 2 months (after 8 DNFs in a row :(), so I'm pretty happy about it:

7x7x7 BLD: 48:26.20 [24:46 memorization]

It was the fifth 7x7x7 scramble in the weekly competition. I reoriented, but still wound up with only 27 centers solved (if I counted correctly), so it was not a very lucky scramble at all. I probably spent too long memorizing, but as a result the memorization was more secure than it's been for me on a 7x7x7 in a long time. I was moving as fast as I could through most of the solve, although I did get a little stuck when I came to recalling the inner wings. I switched to the outer wings and came back to them later, though, so it probably only slowed me down a few seconds.
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Oh!:eek:
 
Yeeehaa! :D That is how BLD gives me joy :)
I want extra slow on the memo of edges to avoid DNFs by tiny, tiny mistakes.

A few examples of today:
- 3 times 2 flipped corners
- 2 times 2-flipped edges
- and a huuuge amount by 3 edge / 3 corner cycles

But here it is:
My 4 Success today and 8th success in general (I had my first successfull BLD solve only 3 days ago!)

4:41.62 R' L2 D F2 L2 R2 F2 U2 F' L2 D2 U2 R' U F2 B' R2 D' R F2 U L U' R' L2

Second sub-5, previous PB was 4:54.66 :)
I LOVE SEEING A SOLVED CUBE WHEN REMOVING THE BLINDFOLD! <3
 
First attempt at 4x4x4BLD. SUCCESS! 33:01.74 (18:30.06). Commutator centres (thanks Chris H!) learnt last week and r2 for edges (thanks Erik!) learnt yesterday. Usual 3x3x3 method (3OP) for corners. I tried BLD centres a few times and only succeeded 1 out of 4. Never tried BLD edges before but went for the whole cube and got it! Not sure whether my method consisting of memorizing numbers from 1-24 for edges is a good one...!
 
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Olivér Perge said:
kinch2002 said:
Commutator edges (thanks Chris H!) learnt last week and r2 for edges (thanks Erik!) learnt yesterday. Usual 3x3x3 method (3OP) for corners.
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Centers, right? Anyway, congratulations! :) Nice to get it on the first try!
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Yep...centres - edited! Thanks. Seeing as no-one from the UK has managed it in competition (although Jude got rather close in Bristol) I thought I might as well try.
 
MatsBergsten said:
LarsN said:
5x5x5BLD: 19:21.13 :D

That finished my 2009 goal :)

2010: 7x7x7BLD and sub15 5x5x5BLD :)
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Wow again! Make that goal happen in competition and you'll get a WR!
(as I am sure you know :))

And how will you memo the 7x7? Pure visual again?
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I'm practising for Danish Open in late february I will have two tries of 5x5x5BLD there. I would be extremely happy to get a sub20 in that competetion.

I'm sticking with visual memo. My first (and only attempt so far) went well with visual and I think most of my mistakes were execution mistakes (I need to get used to those oblique(?) centers :)
 
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