Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

[fanwuq]

Finally tried a few solves after months without practice.

Corners only: about 30s memo, 50s execution
Edges only: about 50s memo, 40s execution
Corners are a lot worse, but edges are ok.

 

[ManuK]

Got my first BLD solve of 7:53. (after practising the corners and edges separately for two solves) !!

 

[MatsBergsten]

Got my first BLD solve of 7:53. (after practising the corners and edges separately for two solves) !!

Congratulations! Nice feeling, is it not?

 

[SimonWestlund]

Got my first BLD solve of 7:53. (after practising the corners and edges separately for two solves) !!

That's fast for a first solve! Great job!

 

[ManuK]

Thanks. It felt great; I had been postponing this for a long time.I was using M2 for edge with classic pochmann for corners.

 

[SimonWestlund]

I just got 2:42.00 on 3x3 BLD! but I counted it as lucky since 3 corners and 1 edge where solves and one edge was also permuted but oriented incorrectly.

Oh well. Really nice solve!

Learning M2 Old Pochmann atm

 

[Gparker]

sleep delayed BLD success

 

[Micael]

4/4 multi (34:27.xx). Those well juxtaposed and solved cubes were so beautiful when I open my eyes.

Thanks to practice, I begin to feel safe with M2/R2 execution.

 

[Zava]

solved a Void cube blindfolded in 2:23.41 (not sure about the .41)
Olivér Nagy has it on video, maybe he'll upload it.

 

[Mike Hughey]

3x3x3 multiBLD:
10/10 = 10 points, 54:14.99 (34:40 memorization)

For this week's online competition. I finally got one all the way! And I even got it on video. Unfortunately, it will probably be at least another week before I'll have time to upload it, because I need all my spare time to practice for the Ohio Open.

The bad news now is that I'll have to hit 2 in a row now in order to preserve my perfect competition record with multi. (I'm not planning to try multi again before the competition.) For Nationals, I peaked at the perfect time. This time, it might have been too early...

 

[byu]

Nice Mike!

I want to try this, but I only have 2 cubes.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Nice Mike!

I want to try this, but I only have 2 cubes.

When I was preparing for the US Nationals last year, I kept taking trips to Target every couple of weeks and bought two or three storebought cubes at a time. I'm sure they were amazed at the sudden increase in Rubik's cube sales at that particular store.

 

[byu]

How much do cubes cost at your local Target? For me they are $12, which is more than a DIY, but you have to include shipping from online, and tax from the store, so I would probably just get a DIY.

 

[ThePizzaGuy92]

our Walmart has them for like 8-9.

DX diys have no shipping and are like 7...

 

[Mike Hughey]

Yeah, it probably didn't make sense, but what would happen is it would come time for me to do my next multi, and I would realize the day before, "Oops - I don't have enough cubes". So I needed them immediately, so I had no choice - I had to dash to the store and buy some more. So now I have a whole bunch of storebought cubes. It's okay, though - most of them are pretty good (about 5 of them are really bad, but that leaves me with 10 good ones still).

 

[Ville Seppänen]

Chris's 4x4BLD WR kinda scared me a bit, so I felt like practicing. First solve: 3:26.39(1:35). Sub2 execution! It had 11 pieces solved so it should be nonlucky. I lost the scramble but I remember centers and edges. Centers were 2 5-cycles and 3 2-cycles. Edges were 5-cycle, 2-cycle, 3-cycle and 11-cycle.

 

[KJiptner]

YESSSSSS I finally solved the 5x5 Blindfolded in 29:43.73. I went really slow on memo and execution and I was shivering all the time. Big BLD-attempts always scare me somehow.

 

[Gparker]

very nice Kai

average of 20 coming soon. i was supposed to do it last night but i was to tired

 

[Mike Hughey]

Chris's 4x4BLD WR kinda scared me a bit, so I felt like practicing. First solve: 3:26.39(1:35). Sub2 execution! It had 11 pieces solved so it should be nonlucky. I lost the scramble but I remember centers and edges. Centers were 2 5-cycles and 3 2-cycles. Edges were 5-cycle, 2-cycle, 3-cycle and 11-cycle.

Wow! I hope Chris can keep improving, so we can see battles for a long time to come between you two. Very very amazing - good job, Ville!

YESSSSSS I finally solved the 5x5 Blindfolded in 29:43.73. I went really slow on memo and execution and I was shivering all the time. Big BLD-attempts always scare me somehow.

Awesome! Congratulations, Kai! (By the way, the secret to big cubes BLD is just to do lots and lots of them. Then you stop being scared of them - you figure you've missed a million of them already, so what's another DNF anyway? And then since you're no longer scared of them, you get more successes.)

 

[Jacco]

When I woke up today I decided to try a 4x4 BLD (which I haven't done in a loooong time). 20:41.23 which is a personal best, I even had to go back 6 edges because I made an execution mistake, but it's great to have a succesful one after such a long time of non-4x4blinding.