Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

[MatsBergsten]

Nice average Mike !!
But you ought not to make so much progress, if you do I'll never catch you .

But as of today, right now, I have actually closed the gap a little (first solve in the weekly):

7x7 BLD in 1:27.36 , memo 49:37. Third try.

And Lars: 120 days left

 

[Mike Hughey]

But as of today, right now, I have actually closed the gap a little (first solve in the weekly):

7x7 BLD in 1:27.36 , memo 49:37. Third try.

And Lars: 120 days left

Oh, wow - Congratulations, Mats!!!!!! That's so cool!

 

[04mucklowd]

Over my holiday I took the time to practice some 3x3 BLD
The best time I could get was 5:31.55
This is my PB!

 

[kinch2002]

7x7 BLD in 1:27.36 , memo 49:37. Third try.

And Lars: 120 days left

Congrats 120 days left for me too. It is on my New Years Aims after all.

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

7x7 BLD in 1:27.36 , memo 49:37. Third try.

And Lars: 120 days left

Congrats 120 days left for me too. It is on my New Years Aims after all.

Congratulations Mats!

And good luck to Daniel and Lars (and me, just put it on my New Years Aims too )

 

[Pixel 6]

I started learning blind a few weeks before Nationals.

Been really diligent at practicing it and learning more about memorization, and was with pjk today practicing and getting some well needed help. 2 tries with him, but no dice.

Sitting at a coffee shop late at night, and decided to do a memo... and what do you know, SUCCESS!

My memo time is like 20 minutes lol. Patrick jokes that I'm storing it in my long term memory...

Hit the stackmat, and at 5:38 took off my blindfold, and voila! Solved cube.

I'm uber amped. Can't wait to get it again now!

- Pixel -

 

[kinch2002]

I started learning blind a few weeks before Nationals.

Been really diligent at practicing it and learning more about memorization, and was with pjk today practicing and getting some well needed help. 2 tries with him, but no dice.

Sitting at a coffee shop late at night, and decided to do a memo... and what do you know, SUCCESS!

My memo time is like 20 minutes lol. Patrick jokes that I'm storing it in my long term memory...

Hit the stackmat, and at 5:38 took off my blindfold, and voila! Solved cube.

I'm uber amped. Can't wait to get it again now!

- Pixel -

Congrats! There's nothing quite like a first success, so enjoy the feeling Patrick may be saying it in an amusing way, but it's not really a joke! You can probably still remember the whole memo several hours later right? If so, you're memoing a bit too much. Once you've got a few successes, try to risk a fast memo and see what happens.

 

[LarsN]

7x7 BLD in 1:27.36 , memo 49:37. Third try.

And Lars: 120 days left

Congrats 120 days left for me too. It is on my New Years Aims after all.

Congratulations Mats!

And good luck to Daniel and Lars (and me, just put it on my New Years Aims too )

Congrats Mats I've tried twice so maybe third try is lucky for me too

Looks like a race is starting

 

[Yes We Can!]

~25 DNFs in a row AWESOME! So encouraging

EDIT: FINALLY! FINALLY! A success, after around 35 DNFs

 

[qqwref]

3x3 BLD on the simulator in 1:59.44, first sub-2 11th place

 

[Pixel 6]

Got another one today, but it was kinda weak sauce I think...

I've been doing ok with the memo, but I usually mess up a T-Perm somewhere, and insert my edges in the wrong order. Because of this, I've been doing scrambles from Dan Cohen's iiTimer, and taking a screen shot so that I can do the same solve again if I make a mistake.

Today I did a memo, and went for a solve... after OE and OC, I start permuting corners, and get most of the way thru them, and realized I forgot to do my setup move for the first corner. So stopped that solve, and did the scramble again, and went straight into the solve again. Solved it, but I don't know...

I did a successful solve on that one, but it feels kinda like a weak solve since I technically did it twice. What do you think? Don't count it?

anyway, I'll try another one tonight after I'm done DJing, and see if I can make it legit. =]

And I'm taking the advice to speed up my memo. It still's like 10 minutes, but the solve I got was in like 3:38 or something like that once I started moving the pieces. (Can't use my timer until I'm under 10 minutes.)

I also put one piece in place in the wrong order, and caught it... undid that move, and put in the correct one. And almost got lost at the end too lol.

So yea. BLD is fun. It'll be nice to start doing them faster.

- Pixel -

 

[Pixel 6]

Dang... Placed my Left- Back- U & D corners in the wrong order... (flip flopped) which caused my t-perm corners to be off at the end too. So all orientation right... But 4 bad corners all said and done.

Was pretty close though!

17 minutes memo and solve.

- Pixel -

 

[joey]

15:55.99 4x4 BLD DNF.
6 corners wrong.. weird, I think there may have been an exec mistake during edges that threw them off.

11 edges wrong. The UR dedge is at LU, which is weird, and also makes me think something went weird with exec. (But it could also be a coincidence)

ALL centres correct, YEEEEAAAAH.

 

[kinch2002]

15:55.99 4x4 BLD DNF.
6 corners wrong.. weird, I think there may have been an exec mistake during edges that threw them off.

11 edges wrong. The UR dedge is at LU, which is weird, and also makes me think something went weird with exec. (But it could also be a coincidence)

ALL centres correct, YEEEEAAAAH.

Nice accomplishment - at least you got the centres You'll get there soon. When I see edges and corners wrong but centres right I just assume it's an edge exec mistake.

 

[Pixel 6]

Ok. Did another one today. Memo in 10, solve in 3 something. I think I now know what the mistakes were I was making learning. Thanks to Patrick!

Now to get faster =]

Edit:
Here's my solve from yesterday. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMZRHvbu_eo

 

[buelercuber]

starting to learn blindfold, can do the edges and corners, while looking, when i do attempt to blind solve it, i use a pad and paper, to write down the pieces. only two successful solves with blindfold so far.

 

[Mike Hughey]

15:55.99 4x4 BLD DNF.
6 corners wrong.. weird, I think there may have been an exec mistake during edges that threw them off.

11 edges wrong. The UR dedge is at LU, which is weird, and also makes me think something went weird with exec. (But it could also be a coincidence)

ALL centres correct, YEEEEAAAAH.

Success today - gogogo joey!

 

[Slash]

5/5 in 39:03 at Hungarian Open.
We did NOT have those f***in boxes
Thank you Hubi for being my judge
Although, I only became 4th because István, Bence (Barát) and Zava were on the podium:S (btw congratz to them)

 

[MrMoney]

3/3 MBLD in 20min 38sec (memo: 16min) first 3 scrambles from weekly 36. Went really smooth, although my memo needs some work. I just cant find images for some letter pairs. VQ and in general anything with a Q. Should maybe change that letter...

 

[x-colo-x]

9:38.40 4bld