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Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

kinch2002 said:
Not really an accomplishment, but I've decided that weekly-25 will be a bld week for me. Hoping to do these bld: 2-5, 2-5bld, multibld, OH, feet, MTS, 2-4 relay, 2-5 relay, pyra, clock, FMC. Unfortunately can't have a go at sq-1 as I don't have one atm. Would like to do a megaminx sometime but probably not this week as I've not looked into it yet.
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That sounds great. Interesting timing - I was thinking about doing 6x6x6 this week BLD - all 5 solves. See if I can get an average. (yeah, right.) I did manage to get the first one right - not quite a PB, but almost - it was 28:49.38 - I was very happy.

I'm not going to try square-1 until I learn the system I want to learn for it, but I doubt I'll get to that until next year.

I suspect you won't have too much trouble with most of the rest (other than the outrageous amount of time required), except for feet. Feet is hard to do BLD. I've tried a few times, and inevitably I lose track of how the cube is positioned. But Tim Sun has done it successfully, so it certainly can be done. Good luck with it! I can't wait to see how it all comes out.
 
Mike Hughey said:
kinch2002 said:
Not really an accomplishment, but I've decided that weekly-25 will be a bld week for me. Hoping to do these bld: 2-5, 2-5bld, multibld, OH, feet, MTS, 2-4 relay, 2-5 relay, pyra, clock, FMC. Unfortunately can't have a go at sq-1 as I don't have one atm. Would like to do a megaminx sometime but probably not this week as I've not looked into it yet.
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That sounds great. Interesting timing - I was thinking about doing 6x6x6 this week BLD - all 5 solves. See if I can get an average. (yeah, right.) I did manage to get the first one right - not quite a PB, but almost - it was 28:49.38 - I was very happy.

I'm not going to try square-1 until I learn the system I want to learn for it, but I doubt I'll get to that until next year.

I suspect you won't have too much trouble with most of the rest (other than the outrageous amount of time required), except for feet. Feet is hard to do BLD. I've tried a few times, and inevitably I lose track of how the cube is positioned. But Tim Sun has done it successfully, so it certainly can be done. Good luck with it! I can't wait to see how it all comes out.
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Doing a 6x6 average sounds awesome! I really hope you get at least 4 of them because that would be incredible!

I'm really not sure about the feet one, but there's no harm in trying.
Never done relays, MTS or OH before so that should be fun.

It is going to take up a lot of time this week, but I'm just hanging around uni with nothing to do as the year has basically ended so I should be ok. I'm hoping for successful averages in everything except feet, but I'm bound to slip up somewhere!
 
kinch2002 said:
I'm really not sure about the feet one, but there's no harm in trying.
Never done relays, MTS or OH before so that should be fun.
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The relays are just more of the same; the only problem is that you have to fully memorize corners. MTS takes a little thinking about it before you start, but if you do, it's fairly straightforward to get it, and it's no more difficult than regular 3x3x3, although it takes a lot longer. OH won't be hard if you don't try to rush it.

Again, good luck - I can't wait to see your results!
 
Randomly decided to try 4BLD centres for the first time..and got a (kinda) success on the 2nd attempt! It wasn't as hard as I expected, but I probably had good scrambles.

The first was off by 2 swapped centres, and on the 2nd the centres were solved but it was a B2 away from being a solved cube so it's a +2, though if I did do the full bld it would've been a DNF since edges will be messed up (I solved edges and corners before each attempt).

Time on the 2nd attempt was 6:38 and I think the previous one was 6mins as well. I'm gonna go for more :D
 
kinch2002 said:
Mike Hughey said:
kinch2002 said:
Not really an accomplishment, but I've decided that weekly-25 will be a bld week for me. Hoping to do these bld: 2-5, 2-5bld, multibld, OH, feet, MTS, 2-4 relay, 2-5 relay, pyra, clock, FMC. Unfortunately can't have a go at sq-1 as I don't have one atm. Would like to do a megaminx sometime but probably not this week as I've not looked into it yet.
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That sounds great. Interesting timing - I was thinking about doing 6x6x6 this week BLD - all 5 solves. See if I can get an average. (yeah, right.) I did manage to get the first one right - not quite a PB, but almost - it was 28:49.38 - I was very happy.

I'm not going to try square-1 until I learn the system I want to learn for it, but I doubt I'll get to that until next year.

I suspect you won't have too much trouble with most of the rest (other than the outrageous amount of time required), except for feet. Feet is hard to do BLD. I've tried a few times, and inevitably I lose track of how the cube is positioned. But Tim Sun has done it successfully, so it certainly can be done. Good luck with it! I can't wait to see how it all comes out.
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Doing a 6x6 average sounds awesome! I really hope you get at least 4 of them because that would be incredible!

I'm really not sure about the feet one, but there's no harm in trying.
Never done relays, MTS or OH before so that should be fun.

It is going to take up a lot of time this week, but I'm just hanging around uni with nothing to do as the year has basically ended so I should be ok. I'm hoping for successful averages in everything except feet, but I'm bound to slip up somewhere!
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For for it Mike! I believe in you :)
That would be unbelievable!
 
Finally! I finished the 4x4 edges blindfolded without any notes! After a whole lot of procrastination, I finally got the nerve to memorize all 26 targets on a cube. In my opinion, it's harder and more suspenseful than centers. This was also my first attempt at doing it all (Well, I'd try'd to memorize the edges before, but got real tangled up and never ended up getting to execution). The total time executing was 2:59.47, but I had to go through my whole memo and check whether the number of targets was odd or even at the end of execution.

Checklist:
Perform centers individually blindfolded --- Check
Perform edges individually blindfolded --- Check
Perform corners individually blindfolded --- Not check, but it's exactly the same as 3x3 corners with possible parity, right?
Finish whole cube blindfolded --- To be determined... :)
 
Feryll said:
Finally! I finished the 4x4 edges blindfolded without any notes! After a whole lot of procrastination, I finally got the nerve to memorize all 26 targets on a cube. In my opinion, it's harder and more suspenseful than centers. This was also my first attempt at doing it all (Well, I'd try'd to memorize the edges before, but got real tangled up and never ended up getting to execution). The total time executing was 2:59.47, but I had to go through my whole memo and check whether the number of targets was odd or even at the end of execution.

Checklist:
Perform centers individually blindfolded --- Check
Perform edges individually blindfolded --- Check
Perform corners individually blindfolded --- Not check, but it's exactly the same as 3x3 corners with possible parity, right?
Finish whole cube blindfolded --- To be determined... :)
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Why have you got 26 targets? There are only 24 edges on a 4x4 and one should be a buffer, so for me there's only 23 edges to memo. Anyway, great job, and go for a full attempt!
 
kinch2002 said:
Feryll said:
Finally! I finished the 4x4 edges blindfolded without any notes! After a whole lot of procrastination, I finally got the nerve to memorize all 26 targets on a cube. In my opinion, it's harder and more suspenseful than centers. This was also my first attempt at doing it all (Well, I'd try'd to memorize the edges before, but got real tangled up and never ended up getting to execution). The total time executing was 2:59.47, but I had to go through my whole memo and check whether the number of targets was odd or even at the end of execution.

Checklist:
Perform centers individually blindfolded --- Check
Perform edges individually blindfolded --- Check
Perform corners individually blindfolded --- Not check, but it's exactly the same as 3x3 corners with possible parity, right?
Finish whole cube blindfolded --- To be determined... :)
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Why have you got 26 targets? There are only 24 edges on a 4x4 and one should be a buffer, so for me there's only 23 edges to memo. Anyway, great job, and go for a full attempt!
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Cycles add pieces, so it turned into 26, since there were no solved pieces. And yeah, I was surprised myself I got it. I found it rather cheating of me. What do you average for 4bld? I use r2 and center commutators from Mike's guide, by the way.
 
Feryll said:
kinch2002 said:
Feryll said:
Finally! I finished the 4x4 edges blindfolded without any notes! After a whole lot of procrastination, I finally got the nerve to memorize all 26 targets on a cube. In my opinion, it's harder and more suspenseful than centers. This was also my first attempt at doing it all (Well, I'd try'd to memorize the edges before, but got real tangled up and never ended up getting to execution). The total time executing was 2:59.47, but I had to go through my whole memo and check whether the number of targets was odd or even at the end of execution.

Checklist:
Perform centers individually blindfolded --- Check
Perform edges individually blindfolded --- Check
Perform corners individually blindfolded --- Not check, but it's exactly the same as 3x3 corners with possible parity, right?
Finish whole cube blindfolded --- To be determined... :)
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Why have you got 26 targets? There are only 24 edges on a 4x4 and one should be a buffer, so for me there's only 23 edges to memo. Anyway, great job, and go for a full attempt!
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Cycles add pieces, so it turned into 26, since there were no solved pieces. And yeah, I was surprised myself I got it. I found it rather cheating of me. What do you average for 4bld? I use r2 and center commutators from Mike's guide, by the way.
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Ah ok. I thought you meant that every time it's 26 different edges. Makes much more sense now. I don't actually rememorize pieces at the end/beginning of cycles - I just remember where cycles start and end. I average about 6 with 2:30 memo I think. That's using r2 and center comms just like you (and 3OP corners which are really slow but nice and safe for me). Once you know how everything works (which is now) there's no reason you shouldn't go for a full attempt. Speed doesn't matter much to start with - I think I took 35 mins on my first attempt
 
18:34.18 [2:14 memorization]

Guess the event.
Hint 1: It's not 5x5x5 BLD or 6x6x6 BLD.
Hint 2: I got inspired by Daniel in his decision to do a BLD week for the competition this week. I'm trying to more or less keep up with him. I'm looking forward to seeing who wins on points with nothing but BLD attempts. :)
No more hints - you've gotta guess now. :) (Well, I mean, assuming you even care... but if you didn't care, why did you bother opening the spoilers?)
 
Mike Hughey said:
18:34.18 [2:14 memorization]

Guess the event.
Hint 1: It's not 5x5x5 BLD or 6x6x6 BLD.
Hint 2: I got inspired by Daniel in his decision to do a BLD week for the competition this week. I'm trying to more or less keep up with him. I'm looking forward to seeing who wins on points with nothing but BLD attempts. :)
No more hints - you've gotta guess now. :) (Well, I mean, assuming you even care... but if you didn't care, why did you bother opening the spoilers?)
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Sq1?

Just a guess :)

Chris
 
cmhardw said:
Mike Hughey said:
18:34.18 [2:14 memorization]

Guess the event.
Hint 1: It's not 5x5x5 BLD or 6x6x6 BLD.
Hint 2: I got inspired by Daniel in his decision to do a BLD week for the competition this week. I'm trying to more or less keep up with him. I'm looking forward to seeing who wins on points with nothing but BLD attempts. :)
No more hints - you've gotta guess now. :) (Well, I mean, assuming you even care... but if you didn't care, why did you bother opening the spoilers?)
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Sq1?

Just a guess :)

Chris
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Good guess (and I would be really excited if I had done it), but no.
 
Mike Hughey said:
18:34.18 [2:14 memorization]

Guess the event.
Hint 1: It's not 5x5x5 BLD or 6x6x6 BLD.
Hint 2: I got inspired by Daniel in his decision to do a BLD week for the competition this week. I'm trying to more or less keep up with him. I'm looking forward to seeing who wins on points with nothing but BLD attempts. :)
No more hints - you've gotta guess now. :) (Well, I mean, assuming you even care... but if you didn't care, why did you bother opening the spoilers?)
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Just glancing through you memo times its the only thing that I found that works. But not the execution.
4x4? or some amount of 3x3 multi?(wild guess)
 
ThatGuy said:
Mike Hughey said:
18:34.18 [2:14 memorization]

Guess the event.
Hint 1: It's not 5x5x5 BLD or 6x6x6 BLD.
Hint 2: I got inspired by Daniel in his decision to do a BLD week for the competition this week. I'm trying to more or less keep up with him. I'm looking forward to seeing who wins on points with nothing but BLD attempts. :)
No more hints - you've gotta guess now. :) (Well, I mean, assuming you even care... but if you didn't care, why did you bother opening the spoilers?)
Click to expand...

Just glancing through you memo times its the only thing that I found that works. But not the execution.
4x4? or some amount of 3x3 multi?
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Again a nice try, but still no.
 
Zane_C said:
MTS???
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Again, no. (I've managed sub-6 at MTS before.)

ThatGuy said:
Just glancing through you memo times its the only thing that I found that works. But not the execution.
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Another hint (related to this comment):
It's surprisingly harder to memorize this way than it is the normal way, so my memorization time is significantly slower than you might expect.
 
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