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Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

I guess I'm spamming on this thread now :D
I recently got back into MBLD practice after a seven month break. My current PB is 12/13 in 57:44. Yesterday, the second attempt after the break was pretty fast (7/9 in 25:56). So I decided to try 17 cubes today. Unfortunately, I really struggled with memo and recall, so I went 4:31min over the hour and didn't expect too much. But when I removed the blindfold and found all (!) cubes solved, the time was the least of my concerns. It is such an amazing experience to get a perfect MBLD attempt with so many cubes. I can't wait so see how far more practice will take me in the coming weeks.
 
Starting a few weeks ago, I finally started to put some practice into 4BLD, getting my times down from around 15 minutes to 10-11 minutes, and have even managed a few sub-9 minute times (all unrecorded except for this one: 4BLD - Sub-9 (YouTube)). For comparison my official WCA comp PB is 22 minutes :p
But I've never been able to get any sort of consistency, and so getting a mean-of-3 has continued to elude me. Until today... I wasn't specifically going for the mean, but was still going slower and safer I guess. I messed up my memo on the 2nd cube with 2 centres from the same face coming one straight after the other. But during execution I was able to figure out which was the bogus letter and repair the memo. When I saw the 3rd successfully solved cube, I was so relieved. Finally I have my 4BLD Mo3 - 11:17.05.

x: VI BR KN EU PG YH LZ
w: OD ZC GH UM KP AR LE JN FI BY AT WT
c: HC EK WU O
x: SM TJ WK NL ZF PU HB OB (mis-memoed as ...ZF OP UH BO B)
w: CM OR SA UT LA BJ DH ZK BF WE GF NI YN
c: MH OL CW PS Y
x: MI VL RY TN BK EC PG OD Z
w: CR FD HA WB IY UP OE GN PZ KJ TM LZ
c: BI TL KO
 
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Ok so I've been stuck around the 2:20 mark with 5 cube multi-blinds for literally over 2 years, and I just got a 2:09.38[1:05.94] 5/5 and I didnt even film it lmao. Punching myself for that :(

anyway, i'm posting it here to preserve my accomplishment lol

Stupidest scramble set ever, 46 algs and one float so 45 total

1. D F2 L' U2 R2 D B2 L2 D R2 U B2 L2 U2 B' U' F' R' D L2 R Rw' Uw
2. R U D' R' F2 U B R2 U' L2 F2 D F2 U2 D R2 L2 B' U Fw
3. R F U' R' U2 D2 F L F L2 U2 B' U2 F2 R2 B D2 U Uw
4. D2 B D2 F U2 F D2 L2 D2 F2 R2 B' U R' D2 U F L' D' U' B2 Fw' Uw2
5. D2 R2 F R2 U2 B R2 F' R2 U2 R' D2 U' R2 F' L D' R' B' Fw Uw'

scrambled all in my orientation

Solve 1 (3bld cube, scramble #5, 8 algs)
x' y
[U'D : [S, R' F' R]] // 12/12
[u R' : [S, R2]] // 7/19
[S' : [L E' L', U]] // 10/29
(M U M' U)2 // 8/37
[U'D R' : [E, R2]] // 9/46
[R D : [R D R', U]] // 12/58
[U : [R U' R', D]] // 10/68
[D R D : [R' D' R, U]] // 14/82

Solve 2 (1st cube memo'd, scramble #1, 9 algs)
z y'
[U' : [S, R' F2 R]] // 10/92
[L' E' : [L U L', E']] // 11/103
[U' : [R E R', U']] // 9/112
[M' : [U R' U', M']] // 9/121
[U : [U M U', L]] // 9/130
[R' D' R : [R U' R', D]] // 13/143
[R' D' R, U'] // 8/151 (missed 6 move cancel :'( )
[D R : [U, R D' R']] // 12/163
U R U' R U R' F' R U R' U' R' F R2 U' R2' U' // 17/180

Solve 3 (2nd cube memo'd, scramble #2, 10 algs)
z'
[R' U' R : [E, R2]] // 9/189
[U M' U : [M', U2]] // 9/198
[u L : [E', L2]] // 7/205
U R U R' U' R' U' R' U R // 10/215
[F' : [E', L2]] // 6/221
[M2 U' : [M, U2]] // 7/228
[R : [U2, R D' R']] // 9/237
[R' U : [D', R U' R']] // 12/249
[R' U : [R' D' R, U]] // 11/260
[R U' : [R' D R, U2]] // 11/271

Solve 4 (3rd cube memo'd, scramble #3, 9 algs)
y'
U2' L' U L U L U L' U' L' U // 11/282
[U' : [S, R' F' R]] // 10/292
[U'D' R' : [E', R2]] // 9/301
[R' F R : [S, R2']] // 9/310
U2 R U' R' U' R' U' R U R U' // 11/321
[D R' : [D, R' U R]] // 11/332
[U' R' : [R' D' R, U2]] // 11/343
[R : [U', R D' R']] // 9/352
U R2 U' R U R' F' R U R' U' R' F R2 U' R U' // 17/369

Solve 5 (4th cube memo'd, scramble #4, 10->9 algs)
z' y2
[L U L' U', M] // 9/378
[R U' R', E] // 8/386
[u' R : [E, R2]] // 7/393
[R' F : [R' S' R, F2]] // 11/404
[U R : (M D' M' D')2] // 12/416
[R' : [R' D' R, U']] // 9/425
[R : [R D R', U]] // 9/434
[R U R', D] // 8/446 (missed another huge cancel here lol)
[R U' R' U' : [R D' R', U2]] // 15/461

461 moves in 63.43 = 7.27 STPS :)
 
Mark 2 of "How to put some magic in a 15puzzle+ blindfolded" that I posted there:
This time I did a magic square blind without the additional 16. (If you want to know how I "found" that magic square, just read the description in the vid.)
 
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