Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

[Karthik]

I tried to do an average of 12 cubes blindfolded.Couldn't succeed.
114.76, 172.29, 111.77, 132.62, DNF, 115.14, DNF, 110.62, 147.04, 146.57, 151.95, 114.70
Both the DNFs were sub-2.
Still I am happy and I got a PB!
My head was reeling by the time I finished doing this.

 

[cmhardw]

Yay! I just got a successful 5x5x5 BLD solve in 13:34.16 including the memorization! I was using my new hybrid memorization method with images for centers and wings, and 1 syllable words for the inner 3x3x3 pieces. I think with more practice, and once I finish breaking in my new 5x5, that I might soon break 13 minutes.

Sub-10 minutes feels like such a long way away right now, but I'm one step closer now that I'm starting to get used to my new memorization method!

Chris

 

[Mike Hughey]

Congratulations, Chris - that's great!

While we're on the subject of 5x5x5 BLD, I had my best ever solve last night, 32:50.64 including the memorization. I recently switched to incorporating breaking into new cycles into my memorization for r2 (which I use for the wings, except using commutators for pairs that include a middle slice piece), and it seems to help a bit, since execution is so much faster. I think that with more practice, I might soon break 30 minutes.

Sub-25 minutes feels like such a long way away right now, but I'm hoping to take a step closer next by quitting being lazy and going ahead and learning a permanent list of images for all my letter pairs.

 

[cmhardw]

Congratulations, Chris - that's great!

While we're on the subject of 5x5x5 BLD, I had my best ever solve last night, 32:50.64 including the memorization.

Hey Mike,

congrats on the 32 minute solve! It sounds like you are working really hard on big cubes BLD, I can easily see you breaking 30 minutes soon at your current pace. It seems at this point you already have a good method, it's just getting to the point where it is second nature will decrease the times.

Sub-25 minutes feels like such a long way away right now, but I'm hoping to take a step closer next by quitting being lazy and going ahead and learning a permanent list of images for all my letter pairs.

I would definitely recommend learning fixed images for each letter pair. It saves on a lot of thinking time, and in my opinion makes recall a lot easier too. Also, with a good memo method you should blow right through the sub-30 barrier easy, and probably will be knocking on sub-20's door. I really think using fixed images is that much faster.

Also I just got a successful 1:07.07 3x3x3 BLD solve today, which is my new 3x3x3 pb! I was using my hybrid memorization method with letter pair images for edges and letter pair words for corners. I love this new memorization method, it's so easy to use! I still solve the 3x3x3 using strictly my 5x5x5 commutators, except for in certain very easy cases like already having a U perm or something.

Keep it up Mike, and we'll certainly have to talk big cube BLD again at the next competition we are both at!

Chris

 

[Mike Hughey]

Also I just got a successful 1:07.07 3x3x3 BLD solve today, which is my new 3x3x3 pb! I was using my hybrid memorization method with letter pair images for edges and letter pair words for corners. I love this new memorization method, it's so easy to use! I still solve the 3x3x3 using strictly my 5x5x5 commutators, except for in certain very easy cases like already having a U perm or something.

Awesome job!

Keep it up Mike, and we'll certainly have to talk big cube BLD again at the next competition we are both at!

Thanks Chris, I look forward to it! And thanks very much for your encouragement. I'm really looking forward to seeing what memorizing images for each letter pair is going to do with my times. I'm hoping it will make a big difference. At the very least, it should smooth out the differences between my good and bad solve times. I just had a 4x4x4 BLD last night that was over 22 minutes, and a really bad one that was a DNF over 25 minutes; in both cases they were due to bad memorization problems, which were largely because I started memorizing the wrong wing piece in a couple of places and had to rememorize everything, but was made harder by my having some letter pairs I really had trouble thinking of an image for. So I suspect having a fixed set will really help me on the bad solves, especially.

 

[tim]

3x3x3 blindfolded: Average of 12: 1:36.xx

1:25.66 1:30.41 1:30.73 1:26.61 1:51.57 1:49.19 1:53.32 1:19.75 (DNF) 1:43.87 1:33.31 (1:16.51)

And: 3/4 cubes blindfolded in 9:36. I'll try to get a successful one tomorrow

 

[MiloD]

3x3x3 blindfolded: Average of 12: 1:36.xx

1:25.66 1:30.41 1:30.73 1:26.61 1:51.57 1:49.19 1:53.32 1:19.75 (DNF) 1:43.87 1:33.31 (1:16.51)

And: 3/4 cubes blindfolded in 9:36. I'll try to get a successful one tomorrow

holy crap

that is amazing.

seriously, congratulations.

 

[cmhardw]

13:25.97 successful 5x5x5 blindfolded solve tonight, which is my new personal best. I think the breakdown was roughly 6:55 memorizing and 6:30 solving. Sub-13 feels closer, sub-10 still feels miles away. Training for Chattahoochee 2008 and the US National record.

Chris

 

[Mike Hughey]

A nice followup to Chris's entry: 13:03.50 successful 4x4x4 BLD solve, which is my new personal best. 6:10 memorizing. I feel like I made a real breakthrough - my 5 most recent attempts have been sub-15, and either solved or VERY close to solved. I suspect it has something to do with memorizing images for the letter pairs, even though I'm far from finished with it (a little less than halfway through the list).

I'm determined now to stay as fast with my 4x4x4 solves as Chris is with his 5x5x5 solves. That should be a realistic goal.

 

[cmhardw]

A nice followup to Chris's entry: 13:03.50 successful 4x4x4 BLD solve, which is my new personal best. 6:10 memorizing. I feel like I made a real breakthrough - my 5 most recent attempts have been sub-15, and either solved or VERY close to solved. I suspect it has something to do with memorizing images for the letter pairs, even though I'm far from finished with it (a little less than halfway through the list).

I'm determined now to stay as fast with my 4x4x4 solves as Chris is with his 5x5x5 solves. That should be a realistic goal.

Hey Mike,

Congrats on the new pb! I'm glad to hear that using memorized images is speeding up your times, I think having a set list of images makes it so much easier to both memorize and recall. I say stick with it and keep going till you have 100% of them prepared.

As for the staying pace with our times, I think your 4x4x4 times will pass my 5x5x5 times very quickly, especially since you're learning fixed images for each letter pair I really think having a completed and well developed memory method like you're learning will make sub-10's fairly common for you for 4x4x4.

Congrats again on the pb, and keep BLD cubing!
Chris

 

[joey]

Good work Mike and Chris, on your big-cube-blindfolded-news!

I got a 1:03 BLD two days ago!

Then I got a 1/3 multibld yesterday, with 2 misoriented edges on each cube. It was a memo error, because I just forgot to memorise those flipped edges. Total time was 13:10.10, I will get 3/3 soon, hopefully!

 

[Mike Hughey]

Good work Mike and Chris, on your big-cube-blindfolded-news!

I got a 1:03 BLD two days ago!

Then I got a 1/3 multibld yesterday, with 2 misoriented edges on each cube. It was a memo error, because I just forgot to memorise those flipped edges. Total time was 13:10.10, I will get 3/3 soon, hopefully!

Great job, joey! With your regular BLD speeds, it's probably only a matter of time before you're competing with Tim on multiBLD.

 

[joey]

Good work Mike and Chris, on your big-cube-blindfolded-news!

I got a 1:03 BLD two days ago!

Then I got a 1/3 multibld yesterday, with 2 misoriented edges on each cube. It was a memo error, because I just forgot to memorise those flipped edges. Total time was 13:10.10, I will get 3/3 soon, hopefully!

Great job, joey! With your regular BLD speeds, it's probably only a matter of time before you're competing with Tim on multiBLD.

Woaooah, easy tiger

I'm only just starting out! I'm no way comfortable with using images yet! And I still don't have corner images, so I've just been using visual for corners.

I might just bite the bullet, and go for 4 cubes this competition, we'll see!

 

[MiloD]

3:09.56 Bld

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

Hey I managed to get two successes at BLD... It's been awhile. 1:41, 1:55.

 

[joey]

1:04.38 BLD, non-lucky.

http://www.speedcubing.com/records/recs_bf_333.html

 

[cmhardw]

1:04.38 BLD, non-lucky.

http://www.speedcubing.com/records/recs_bf_333.html

Joey it sounds like you'll be sub-1 very soon with all these low 60's times! I've managed to get 1:07.xx twice successfully, but lately I've been closer to 2:00 on 3x3x3 (1:55-2:05 range). I've been trying to improve my 5x5x5 BLD lately, and it has been paying off.

Joey I think you will be sub-60 within the next week or so ;-) If you push yourself I think you can do it, especially with the times you have gotten already.

Good luck!
Chris

 

[joey]

Thanks for the words of encouragment chris. I have this week off, so maybe your predicition will come true. I certainly hope so!

I have been watching your 5x5 BLD times, I hope you get closer to 10 minute times!

 

[Dene]

Thanks for the words of encouragment chris. I have this week off, so maybe your predicition will come true. I certainly hope so!

I have been watching your 5x5 BLD times, I hope you get closer to 10 minute times!

Yea I don't think Alex (from Stickam) would stand much chance of getting top in America with you around! Your times are almost a match for Krazy Kuti now!

 

[Mike Hughey]

I finally finished memorizing my letter pair images! Some of them are still a bit shaky for me to recall, but I'm quite confident I'll have them all solid in the next week or so. The hard part is coming up with the list - the easy part is actually memorizing them. (I hate U's - they're the worst.)

Unfortunately, I've been going through a horrible run with big cubes BLD for the past week despite this, missing over 75% of 4x4x4 and not getting a single 5x5x5 right. But I've been doing more attempts per day than usual - maybe that has something to do with it. Anyway, hopefully I'll get back on track and the complete image list will start helping me.