Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

[Mike Hughey]

yeah, but that stands for single bld too (although I got an 1:44, with 1:06 memo, on my 3rd try at french open, but after the attempt Olivér told me we only had 2 tries. )...

Wow, I'm sure that was heartbreaking! I would have been so sad.

I was veeery upset, but when I saw I wouldn't win the competition with that time, I got a bit calmer. nowadays I'm just laughing about it - it must be my destiny, not having an official bld. I think I have a streak of 10 dnfs in 3x3, and a streak of 6 dnfs in 4x4

Don't lose faith! I think we can all draw inspiration from this. I'm so glad I was there and saw it.

I wish I had been there. It must have been wonderful to see.

 

[SimonWestlund]

yeah, but that stands for single bld too (although I got an 1:44, with 1:06 memo, on my 3rd try at french open, but after the attempt Olivér told me we only had 2 tries. )...

Wow, I'm sure that was heartbreaking! I would have been so sad.

I was veeery upset, but when I saw I wouldn't win the competition with that time, I got a bit calmer. nowadays I'm just laughing about it - it must be my destiny, not having an official bld. I think I have a streak of 10 dnfs in 3x3, and a streak of 6 dnfs in 4x4

Yeah, from your WCA page, I see it, and a dnf in 5x5x5, and a dnf in multi. (And I see you have that old-style multi 4/7, meaning your only successful BLD solves in competition got taken away by a rules change. Just astounding bad luck, huh?)

I hope at your next competition you get a classic successful day where you can't miss, and suddenly get them all at once!

I am so angry with my BLD in competitions. You probably don't want to hear the full story, but I've been to two competitions, and here is my story for each of the three solves:

COMPETITION #1 (San Francisco Open 2009) :
Solve 1: I'm really nervous, because I learned BLD in the past week, and am completely new. Back then I'm averaging around 3 to 4 minutes (and I was using a really slow version of 3OP that I found randomly on the internet). I mess up on Edge Orientation and end up with two edges flipped. DNF.
Solve 2: I'm even more nervous, because I really want a success, and I drop the cube halfway through, pick it up, and now it's in the wrong orientation (Red top Yellow front instead of White top Red front). DNF.
Solve 3: I'm too nervous to do anything because of my previous 2 DNFs. I don't know what went wrong, but it was as far off as possible, and it looked completely scrambled. DNF.

COMPETITION #2 (Stanford Winter 2009) :
Solve 1: I'm much more confident in my M2/Old Pochmann skills, average 2-3 minutes now. On the last turn, an edge piece pops out, just as I put down the timer. I didn't know, but I was "supposed to repair the cube blindfolded". DNF.
Solve 2: I forget the memo as soon as I put on the blindfold halfway through because I was too nervous. DNF.
Solve 3: When I start execution, I suddenly remember the memo from Solve 2 and think that that's what Solve 3 is supposed to be, so I apply the Solve 2 solution to the Solve 3 cube. DNF.

As you can see, I'm terrible at competitions.

pretty much the same things have happened to me except I havn't popped yet. I will hopefully get a successful solve in 1½ weeks (västerås open)

 

[Gparker]

this is unbelievable!!!!!!! almost a sub 2!!! lolwut?

2:02.72

i used derricks scramble from the UWR page. he has his memo on there but i dont use his memo method, but it was non lucky!!! one corner permuted and it was misoriented and i only think there was one edge done!

im now officially in the race for sub 2

 

[SimonWestlund]

this is unbelievable!!!!!!! almost a sub 2!!! lolwut?

2:02.72

i used derricks scramble from the UWR page. he has his memo on there but i dont use his memo method, but it was non lucky!!! one corner permuted and it was misoriented and i only think there was one edge done!

im now officially in the race for sub 2

why weren't you officially in the race for sub 2 before this?
And the race is to get a sub 2 average of 5, or was it to get an average of 5 without a sup 2? I can't remember..

Good luck, you might beat me to sub 2 My record is 2:23 Though yesterday I got 2:24 twice and a 2:26

 

[Gparker]

this is unbelievable!!!!!!! almost a sub 2!!! lolwut?

2:02.72

i used derricks scramble from the UWR page. he has his memo on there but i dont use his memo method, but it was non lucky!!! one corner permuted and it was misoriented and i only think there was one edge done!

im now officially in the race for sub 2

why weren't you officially in the race for sub 2 before this?
And the race is to get a sub 2 average of 5, or was it to get an average of 5 without a sup 2? I can't remember..

Good luck, you might beat me to sub 2 My record is 2:23 Though yesterday I got 2:24 twice and a 2:26

yea i know but i entered it when i was averaging over seven minutes O.o. and its an average of 5 with 1 dnf and no times over 2 minutes. so basicly a time over 2 minutes is a dnf and its a non rolling average.

and im sure youll beat me since you already are. these good times are just coming out of nowhere all of a sudden i still think i average in the 3's-4's

 

[Micael]

If you fix first, isn't it messes up by the other algs for corners and edes?

Good remark, Byu. I use M2/R2. Some algs cannot be used because they rotate one or two centers: M slice alg, edge orientation alg, the parity alg of M2/R2. For M slice, I do U or B' then shoot the piece (that now go in the L or R slice). Then I shoot the next piece before restoring with U' or B. This is very efficient, exept when two consecutive pieces go in the M slice.

 

[byu]

If you fix first, isn't it messes up by the other algs for corners and edes?

Good remark, Byu. I use M2/R2. Some algs cannot be used because they rotate one or two centers: M slice alg, edge orientation alg, the parity alg of M2/R2. For M slice, I do U or B' then shoot the piece (that now go in the L or R slice). Then I shoot the next piece before restoring with U' or B. This is very efficient, exept when two consecutive pieces go in the M slice.

Ah, I understand now. That makes more sense, because if you use Old Pochmann, Y-Perm messes up center orientation.

 

[McWizzle94]

1:07 BLD, new pb. I lost the scramble, but it was non-lucky.

Nice man!!! I gotta practice more so I can catch up to you now =]

 

[Xtian]

Got my first successful 3x3 BLD solve on my first try.

16:18.34 U' L R2 B F2 R B2 F L2 R' D B' F2 L R B' F2 R2 U' L R2 D U' F2 D'
Memo: 10 mins Execution: 6 mins
(Took my time )

And that's still not being sure how to handle flipped/twisted edges/corners and breaking into a new cycle. :/

2 edges and 1 corner in place, 1 flipped edge.

 

[aegius1r]

3x3BLD Average of 12 : 58.52
Results:
52.80, 52.55, 55.67, 52.25, (47.18), 48.29, (DNF), 1:06.14, 1:17.60, 54.23, 1:09.60, 56.09

And the RA of 5 (from 2~6 solves), 51.03

the first 6 solves, cases are easy. (but non-lucky)
Finally got my 12 solves average sub1.
Will keep improving.

 

[Micael]

Got my first successful 3x3 BLD solve on my first try.

16:18.34 U' L R2 B F2 R B2 F L2 R' D B' F2 L R B' F2 R2 U' L R2 D U' F2 D'
Memo: 10 mins Execution: 6 mins
(Took my time )

And that's still not being sure how to handle flipped/twisted edges/corners and breaking into a new cycle. :/

2 edges and 1 corner in place, 1 flipped edge.

On your first try! Man, that is cool.

 

[Pitzu]

FINALLY!!!
Megaminx blindfolded: 41:28.57
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6th attempt!!!
1st: 50:xy - 3 edges wrong
2nd: 51:xy - 3 corners wrong
3rd: 38:xy - 1 corner to twist on place (and of course my slot).... after doing everything else i changed my hand on the megaminx to twist the corner.... and took another one... - so the result was: 2 corners twisted. :confused:
4th: after 10 mins of solving I realized that I made a mistake with my first move. Didn't want to roll back everything, so gave up.
5th: Some scrambled cube... don't know what happened.

6th: SUCCESSFUL
Memo: 24:31
Execution: 16:56

 

[byu]

Wow, nice job! Must be hard.

 

[Mike Hughey]

FINALLY!!!
Megaminx blindfolded: 41:28.57
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Wow, István - fast solve! I sympathize with your difficulty getting a successful solve - it was hard for me too. I still find it very hard to do one, and very easy to make some small mistake.

Congratulations!

 

[cmhardw]

FINALLY!!!
Megaminx blindfolded: 41:28.57

Congratulations István! I still think megaminx BLD is simply madness. Nicely done!

Chris

 

[Slash]

gratulálok, Pitzu!
(In English: Congratulations)

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

Ya, I can imagine setups are pretty hard to keep track of... But once, I will do one too

Memo cant be that hard anyway

 

[CanadaCube]

First BLD solve!!! 4/15/09!! 8:30

 

[byu]

Today is the 17th.... or did you do this 2 days ago?

 

[Sakarie]

I did my first succesfull solve with a finishing move. With that I mean that I solved as if the UR-piece, instead were going to BR, and FRU to UBR, and then I finally made a R-move. It wasn't faster or smoother or anything, but it was fun, and I'm glad it worked.