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Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

@EDDDY Désolé!

Congrats to Eddy Deturche for completing his 4bld-mean on 8th October 2022! He is the 22nd with an Ao5 or Mo3 in all actual official events!
(Ao5 or Mo3 including the blindfold accomplishments in 4bld, 5bld and multi and therefore posted here)

Now we have:
Jan Bentlage (2017-02-12)
Mark Boyanowski (2018-02-04)
Hanns Hub (2018-02-10)
Kit Clement (2018-07-15)
Sukant Koul (2018-07-27)
Yunqi Ouyang (2018-10-04)
Nevins Chan Pak Hoong (2019-02-16)
Callum Hales-Jepp (2019-07-27)
Walker Welch (2019-08-02)
Stanley Chapel (2019-11-10)
Jason White (2019-11-10)
Hill Pong Yong Feng (2019-12-27)
Ng Jia Quan (2019-12-28)
Oleg Gritsenko (2020-01-01/2017-07-21)
Mengfei Shen (2020-01-01/2019-03-09)
Daniel Wallin (2020-02-02)
Gabriel Alejandro Orozco Casillas (2020-02-08)
Helmer Ewert (2020-09-26)
Paweł Duraj (2021-09-12)
István Kocza (2022-06-04)
Wong Chong Wen (黄崇文) (2022-07-24)
Eddy Deturche (2022-10-08)
Adrian Dębski (2022-10-16)
 
At my competition this saturday I did ny first official MBLD attempt ever and got a Dutch NR with a result of 24/25 in 56:58! This places me first in the world for 'best first single', so in some way it is even a WR! I will continue to improve my MBLD attempts, and try to be capable of 30 cubes sub hour in my next comp, depending on when it will be.
I have a video of the attempt, which I will probably upload sometime this week.
 
Jorian Meeuse said:
At my competition this saturday I did ny first official MBLD attempt ever and got a Dutch NR with a result of 24/25 in 56:58! This places me first in the world for 'best first single', so in some way it is even a WR! I will continue to improve my MBLD attempts, and try to be capable of 30 cubes sub hour in my next comp, depending on when it will be.
I have a video of the attempt, which I will probably upload sometime this week.
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Congrats Jorain!


Good attempt, what's your next goal?
 
Futurechamp77 said:
How do you solve blindfolded? I'm trying to learn but I don't get it. Can someone pls help?
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So, when you solve a Rubik's cube blindfolded, you have memorized where the pieces need to go, not where the pieces are currently on the puzzle. You do this by assigning each sicker of each piece a certain letter. Then you choose one piece to be the buffer sticker. For example, in Old Pochman, the buffer letter for the edges is B, ironically. The way you want to swap pieces is through one piece at a time. So basically the buffer is the storage system. When the buffer gets back to the correct spot on the cube, but no other pieces are solved, you have to start a new cycle, which means you choose which piece you want to solve next that isn't the buffer. Make sure what you do ends up with the other edges solved, and the buffer is in its right place. There are other concepts you have to understand as well, but overall, the things you should get out of this are:
1. How blindfolded Rubik's Cube solves work
2. Lettering for each sticker on each piece.
3. How solving each piece into its correct spot works.
4. The buffer, and cycle restarts.
J-perm has a really good 3-BLD tutorial on Old Pochman. If you are familiar with him, you can go onto YouTube and check out his channel.
 
EthanMCuber said:
I know how to solve blindfolded, but I’ve never had a success. My memo also takes forever. Do you have any tips?
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Just keep trying, that's the main thing. Make sure you're able to use the blind method while looking at the cube, to make sure you understand everything correctly. It might help to record solves and try to figure out what exactly your errors were so that you can correct them.
 
EDIT:
Congrats to Álvaro Aguilar Salobreña for completing his 7x7x7-mean on 11th of December! He is the 24th with an Ao5 or Mo3 in all actual official events!

@yoinneroid
Congrats to Vincent Hartanto Utomo for completing his 5bld-mean today! He is the 25th with an Ao5 or Mo3 in all actual official events!
(Ao5 or Mo3 including the blindfold accomplishments in 4bld, 5bld and multi and therefore posted here)

Now we have:
Jan Bentlage (2017-02-12)
Mark Boyanowski (2018-02-04)
Hanns Hub (2018-02-10)
Kit Clement (2018-07-15)
Sukant Koul (2018-07-27)
Yunqi Ouyang (2018-10-04)
Nevins Chan Pak Hoong (2019-02-16)
Callum Hales-Jepp (2019-07-27)
Walker Welch (2019-08-02)
Stanley Chapel (2019-11-10)
Jason White (2019-11-10)
Hill Pong Yong Feng (2019-12-27)
Ng Jia Quan (2019-12-28)
Oleg Gritsenko (2020-01-01/2017-07-21)
Mengfei Shen (2020-01-01/2019-03-09)
Daniel Wallin (2020-02-02)
Gabriel Alejandro Orozco Casillas (2020-02-08)
Helmer Ewert (2020-09-26)
Paweł Duraj (2021-09-12)
István Kocza (2022-06-04)
Wong Chong Wen (黄崇文) (2022-07-24)
Eddy Deturche (2022-10-08)
Adrian Dębski (2022-10-16)
Álvaro Aguilar Salobreña (2022-12-11)
Vincent Hartanto Utomo (2022-12-16)
 
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Congrats to Viktor Zenk for completing his 5bld-mean today! He is the 26th with an Ao5 or Mo3 in all actual official events!
(Ao5 or Mo3 including the blindfold accomplishments in 4bld, 5bld and multi and therefore posted here)

Now we have:
Jan Bentlage (2017-02-12)
Mark Boyanowski (2018-02-04)
Hanns Hub (2018-02-10)
Kit Clement (2018-07-15)
Sukant Koul (2018-07-27)
Yunqi Ouyang (2018-10-04)
Nevins Chan Pak Hoong (2019-02-16)
Callum Hales-Jepp (2019-07-27)
Walker Welch (2019-08-02)
Stanley Chapel (2019-11-10)
Jason White (2019-11-10)
Hill Pong Yong Feng (2019-12-27)
Ng Jia Quan (2019-12-28)
Oleg Gritsenko (2020-01-01/2017-07-21)
Mengfei Shen (2020-01-01/2019-03-09)
Daniel Wallin (2020-02-02)
Gabriel Alejandro Orozco Casillas (2020-02-08)
Helmer Ewert (2020-09-26)
Paweł Duraj (2021-09-12)
István Kocza (2022-06-04)
Wong Chong Wen (黄崇文) (2022-07-24)
Eddy Deturche (2022-10-08)
Adrian Dębski (2022-10-16)
Álvaro Aguilar Salobreña (2022-12-11)
Vincent Hartanto Utomo (2022-12-16)
Viktor Zenk (2022-12-29)
 
Garf said:
So, when you solve a Rubik's cube blindfolded, you have memorized where the pieces need to go, not where the pieces are currently on the puzzle. You do this by assigning each sicker of each piece a certain letter. Then you choose one piece to be the buffer sticker. For example, in Old Pochman, the buffer letter for the edges is B, ironically. The way you want to swap pieces is through one piece at a time. So basically the buffer is the storage system. When the buffer gets back to the correct spot on the cube, but no other pieces are solved, you have to start a new cycle, which means you choose which piece you want to solve next that isn't the buffer. Make sure what you do ends up with the other edges solved, and the buffer is in its right place. There are other concepts you have to understand as well, but overall, the things you should get out of this are:
1. How blindfolded Rubik's Cube solves work
2. Lettering for each sticker on each piece.
3. How solving each piece into its correct spot works.
4. The buffer, and cycle restarts.
J-perm has a really good 3-BLD tutorial on Old Pochman. If you are familiar with him, you can go onto YouTube and check out his channel.
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I managed to do my first "non blind" solve with old Pochman 😋
I still mess this up quite often because I forget where to put the pieces back after swapping :rolleyes:

I also know the lettering scheme. I printed out a paper cube and have it on my desk where I always see it.

So in theory I know what to do but I think it's still a long way to a first successful solve.
But one day I will make it 😎
 
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