Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

LarsN said:
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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You probably mean T-centers, since it's those that doesn't exist on 4x4, but on 5x.

Danish Open will be great! Let's hope for a lot of 5x5 bld successes!
 
Success at 5x5x5BLD! Only 2 days after finishing learning (and getting a success at) 4x4x4BLD. Pretty much everything is the same apart from that I had to learn M2 last night for the centre edge bits (not sure of their real name). It's the quickest I've ever completed a New Year's Aim (2am in UK)
 
kinch2002 said:
Success at 5x5x5BLD! Only 2 days after finishing learning (and getting a success at) 4x4x4BLD. Pretty much everything is the same apart from that I had to learn M2 last night for the centre edge bits (not sure of their real name). It's the quickest I've ever completed a New Year's Aim (2am in UK)
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Congratulations! That was speedy development.

So it is 6x6 BLD Sunday and 7x7 BLD Tuesday then :) ?
 
I think I'm right in saying that once I've done 4 and 5 BLD I can (theoretically) do any size? The main problem with 6 and 7 is that that my memo will take so long...I'm using letters only now but it takes me ages to figure out what position is which letter because I have literally no experience at using the system! I guess that comes with practice. I decided on my letter scheme for 5x5x5 during memo, which explains why my memo was 42 minutes (luckily my seat is nice and comfortable). I might try 6 and 7 just to get the (unofficial) record of quickest development from 4-7BLD:p
 
Today I suddenly went from a 3:30 average to sub 3 :D

2:45.55,2:45.69,2:13.83,DNF, DNF,2:22.76,DNF,2:38.00

The 2:13 is my PB :D The DNFs are 2:54, 2:54 and 2:27 respectively, 2:27 had 2 flipped edges, the other 2 were 3 corner cycles.
Wow =D
 
kinch2002 said:
Success at 5x5x5BLD! Only 2 days after finishing learning (and getting a success at) 4x4x4BLD. Pretty much everything is the same apart from that I had to learn M2 last night for the centre edge bits (not sure of their real name). It's the quickest I've ever completed a New Year's Aim (2am in UK)
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Congratulations ! For the midges, I'm still using 3OP, it works well but you have to be careful about the algs you use (and during my own attempt I wasn't careful enough which partly explains my DNF: I was right in using only niklaas-like commutators but I accidentally mesed up orientation). For the corners + midges parity I simply did my usual alg for 3^3 and then corrected the wings.
 
I did think about using 3OP for midges but couldn't figure out how to use the algs (I was doing U perms) without messing up everything else! Can you link me to some niklaas comms? I can't find them anywhere! I also plan on doing corner+midge parity that way when it comes up, using (Rr)2 (Ff)2 U2 r2 U2 (Ff)2 (Rr)2 to correct FU and BU wings. Good luck in your next attempt...and hopefully see you at the French Open.
 
The principle of niklaas for midgfes is exactly the same as for other type of pieces. For example: L' U M2 U' L U M2 U' 3-cycles the LF, LU and DB midges. F2 M2 D' L2 D M2 D' L2 D F2 is a lockwise U-perm for midges only.
The good thing is that those algs are supercube-safe, which allows to perform midges before centers (assuming you use supercube-safe orientation algs too).
See you at French Open too.
 
trying-to-speedcube... said:
I did it! :D:D:D

2x2+3x3+4x4+5x5 relay: 48:35.76 (30:16 memo)!!!!

My goal for 2010 has been accomplished :D
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woow, nice one Maarten!

my part:
I got a lovely new blindfold from a friend of mine, she sewed it herself -> I decided to start the new year with blindfolded sovles, using that one :D it went like:
DNF, DNF, DNF, 1:00.27 (ended at like 58 but after pulling off the blindfold I saw the stack running:mad:) 46.08, 52.38, 59.22, 1:04.59, 1:00.77, 1:07.97, 52.65, 1:01.81, 1:03.88, 1:03.50, DNF (POP during solving the last edge, would have been an 1:10) 45.66 DNF (~58, just messup)

best avg 12: 59.29, best avg5: 57.29.
I don't know what happened, I haven't practised in ages and I'm definitely not this good. I'd even be very happy if I did an ~15 seconds slower official single than this avg12:D
 
First recorded 3x3x3 blindfold solve ever (by coincidence it also happens to fall on New Years):

13:08.15 (about 8 memo)

Methods: Old Pochmann + one edge orientation algorithm for solving, tapping for memorization.

Started the day off with two fairly close DNFs (15 and 17 minutes respectively).

My first actual blindfolded solve was 11 days ago, and was probably in the 30-40 minute range. Have done around 15 solves (maybe 30% success rate) before today.
 
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