Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

[Faz]

2/2 in 2:17.83

I was absolutely amazed to see they were both solved, I was fairly sure I made mistakes on both cubes

 

[Zane_C]

2/2 (3:39.27), I feel degraded awesome job Feliks. :tu

 

[Yes We Can!]

4x4 BLD: 14:30.91
Second scramble of weekly-competition 45.
So happy! First success with r2 for edges. Memo was ~9:30 and I've done 6:xy memos before, so sub-10 is definitely possible for me. 5 minutes execution feels really nice as opposed to like 7-8 minutes with my old method (therefore, also PB exec). Total PB is something around 14:25 but with parity alg for edges :fp
Really nice and fluent edge execution, I feel really secure with r2 now. I will not try the 3rd one but I got back into 4BLD and I will regularly do it from now on.
Do not open, if you want to try the scramble later:

Spoiler

Reorientation: 8 centers solved, 2 wings solved. So... pretty easy

 

[Simboubou]

Here I am ! Just did a 51.41. It took me almost three years to go from sub2 to sub1. What a long path...

 

[tim]

I decided to try some 3bld before i go to bed and i got a new pb average :
1:19.50 average of 5
(1:11.51min) 1:15.47min DNF (1:52.07min) 1:30.11min 1:12.91min

 

[Keroma12]

Another sub-5 BLD 4:49.02

I'll move up to 4x4x4 BLD next week when I get my new cube.

EDIT: Memo was around 2 to 2:30 I think. Almost 50:50.

 

[amostay2004]

wtf first BLD since UK Open

40.75 F' L' U' B' D L' B' R' F' L F' B2 L D U2 B2 D2 B R' L' F' R2 D U' L

Memo was like 17 so this is really fast exec for me! Dunno if I should categorize this as lucky or non-lucky. It does have 2 edges and a corner solved but there were 2 cycles for edges so 6 corners and 10 edges to solve

 

[cmhardw]

Wow... Been a while since I've posted one of my own pb times in this thread.

11:29.07 5x5x5 BLD solve on this week's 5th regular 5x5x5 scramble is my new pb 5x5x5BLD! Memorization on this scramble didn't feel too particularly easy, though it did feel very nice. For whatever reason my memorization was sticking so easily, it was thrilling! I used riffz's suggestion of using my auditory memory method for the central edges, and my image memory method for the corners. I think the results speak for themselves, riffz I will certainly change my memorization approach for 3x3x3 and 5x5x5 from here on out! Thanks for the tip!

 

[Mike Hughey]

Wow, congratulations, Chris!

 

[Zane_C]

Chris that is amazing, good job!

Not quite as good as yours, but I just got 19:56.43.

 

[Tim Major]

Owow, great job Zane
Also, amazing job Chris

 

[riffz]

Wow... Been a while since I've posted one of my own pb times in this thread.

11:29.07 5x5x5 BLD solve on this week's 5th regular 5x5x5 scramble is my new pb 5x5x5BLD! Memorization on this scramble didn't feel too particularly easy, though it did feel very nice. For whatever reason my memorization was sticking so easily, it was thrilling! I used riffz's suggestion of using my auditory memory method for the central edges, and my image memory method for the corners. I think the results speak for themselves, riffz I will certainly change my memorization approach for 3x3x3 and 5x5x5 from here on out! Thanks for the tip!

Awesome time! It's great to hear that my recommendation is working for you.

 

[kinch2002]

7BLD!!!
1:33:19 [44:14.55]
First attempt at anything bigger than 5bld. Just decided it was time, now that UK Open is over. Of course I went super safe on memo and execution was really slow because I was having to think carefully about the comms I'd have to do on the weird centre pieces. I also popped a centre on my very last alg (parity for outer wings) but managed to finish the alg before crawling on the floor for a while until I found it!
So happy - don't think I'll be doing it again though

 

[Toad]

O__________O

You're amazing.

If I was gay...

 

[Brettludlow]

O__________O

You're amazing.

If I was gay...

If I could like that comment...I would

 

[TMOY]

7BLD!!!
1:33:19 [44:14.55]
First attempt at anything bigger than 5bld. Just decided it was time, now that UK Open is over. Of course I went super safe on memo and execution was really slow because I was having to think carefully about the comms I'd have to do on the weird centre pieces. I also popped a centre on my very last alg (parity for outer wings) but managed to finish the alg before crawling on the floor for a while until I found it!
So happy - don't think I'll be doing it again though

You suck, you didn't even do it in a bus
Seriously, congratulations !

 

[Mike Hughey]

7BLD!!!
1:33:19 [44:14.55]
First attempt at anything bigger than 5bld. Just decided it was time, now that UK Open is over. Of course I went super safe on memo and execution was really slow because I was having to think carefully about the comms I'd have to do on the weird centre pieces. I also popped a centre on my very last alg (parity for outer wings) but managed to finish the alg before crawling on the floor for a while until I found it!
So happy - don't think I'll be doing it again though

Congratulations - awesome job!

 

[cmhardw]

Congratulations, Daniel! That's awesome! What was your reaction to the solved cube?

 

[Toad]

Congratulations, Daniel! That's awesome! What was your reaction to the solved cube?

I predict that he did a little dance in his shorts + flip flops...

 

[kinch2002]

I wasn't wearing flip flops, but I was wearing shorts. I think I did a small fist pump accompanied by a 'yes!' and then rested my head on the table for a few minutes out of mental exhaustion. Then I posted here and made dinner because I had kind of missed having it with everyone else. My mish-mash of letters/visual/journey/rooms method that I use for 4 and 5bld didn't seem to work that well for this. I tend to memo entire cycles into each location for centres but after 6 lots of centres it was becoming difficult to figure out whether I'd executed all the images in each location - if I was ever crazy enough to do this again, I'd stick to letters and journeys probably, with a set number of images in each location, unlike what I was doing. Kind of wish I'd filmed it but unfortunately my camera only has enough memory for half an hour or so.

EDIT: Oh and thanks for all your kind messages Some of you are my inspiration for bld so it means so much to make a small step towards your level of bld expertise and experience!