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Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

You memorised more digits of Pi! :)

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By the way, Mike: there are about one thousand better reasons than blindfold cubing to go veg. ;)
 
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F.P. said:
You memorised more digits of Pi! :)
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Perhaps, but that did not take five hours. I do think I could do 50 cubes blindfolded, but it would take a day or so to memorize them. And as Mike says, it is so easy to make a little mistake somewhere along the way.

That is exactly what happened to me and the pi decimals. I knew almost 16 000 but never got to 10 000 correctly when trying to publicly read them out loud. No less than four times I get between 9-10 000 and it was not the memory that faltered (most of the times at least) but just something other coming out of the mouth than the brain ordered.

So fifty cubes correctly is astounding!
 
Yeah, I know what you mean; I also messed up at 6099, even though I knew about 8000 digits back then.

Concentration is the most important thing...and it can be improved easily with a healthy diet.
 
at last, after 13 DNFs I got my first official blindsolve, though it is a bad time: 2:03.52 (like 1:15-1:20 memo) so Mike, you beat me :p
also I did OK in multi, 4/5 in 26:30. the 1st and 2nd cube's memos were similar, so I forgot, then messed up the 2nd one. memo was around 18 minutes, so I went really safe (at home I had a 12:12.22 3/5 with two silly execution mistakes, like not doing an y' before CO, and ending with 4 bad corners)
still waiting for an official 4x4 bld :p
 
Yeah, Zava, I saw you got the successful BLD solve but I forgot to post a congratulations. Now that you've gotten that off your back, you can have a good fast one next time! And congratulations on your multi - that was a nice attempt. Your one at home was amazingly fast - I can't go that fast!
 
Mike Hughey said:
Yeah, Zava, I saw you got the successful BLD solve but I forgot to post a congratulations. Now that you've gotten that off your back, you can have a good fast one next time! And congratulations on your multi - that was a nice attempt. Your one at home was amazingly fast - I can't go that fast!
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yeah, that was exactly the same thing that I thought of. next time I'll be sure that I can do it, and maybe I'll be able to do it more fast. now I swear that I'll practise a lot for worlds, maybe I'll mainly focus on bld (oh well, and 5x5 speedsolve, absolute favourite event) for it.
 
So I finally decided to get back into BLD cubing tonight. Forever I have put this off and really haven't even done any single BLD solves, no multi BLD attempts, or any BLD cubing practice whatsoever really for such a long while. I remember it was discouraging awhile ago but then just got bored of it really and decided tonight I MUST start again :P
so practiced with a few BLD solves not timing and all succesful.

and then tried my first multi BLD/BLD related thing since I can't remember when and I attempted a 2x2 + 3x3 + 3x3 BLD relay.

and after taking off the BLD for my first attempt...

9:16.92 solved! :)

so I am very happy and think this is a great way to start off BLD cubing again and is very encouraging to help me keep going. Next I shall try 4 cubes tommorow. :)
 
:):):)

Yesterday, I posted this in the Blindfold Failures Thread:
Multi BLD, my first attempt ever: 0/2, 20:51.36, about 16 minutes memo.
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I can't wait for my next attempt! Tomorrow, for sure!
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And I retried today.

2/2: 20:48.94 + 2 = 20:50.94, about 13 minutes memo.
Execution was very very slow, because one of the cube often makes pops...
I forgot to undo a setup move. Fortunately, this setup was D, so the second cube is +2, not DNF.
Second attempt, 2/2, I'm very happy, even if I must be faster in memo to be sure I'll be sub-20 for my next competition.
 
Hooray!

For the second time* in my life I've successfully did 4x4x4 BLD.
The memorization took 15 minutes and the execution is around 15 minutes :p
It's the second attempt, though.

*) The first successful solve was with the same scramble as on my "Road to 4x4x4 BLD" failure attempt video, solved it on the 7th attempt. Hehe :p
 
Congratulations Maarten and Chuck! I feel bad I had to get my idea for the surprise challenge right around the time you both posted (the BLD relay was just a ruse to get people to click on the thread link). I wasn't trying to intentionally steal anybody's thunder so to speak. Congratulations guys!

Chris
 
Chris, it's okay :)

I was very very surprised when I read your "2x2-7x7 BLD Relay", you got me :p

Today's accomplishment:
New PB on 4x4x4 BLD : 11 minutes memorization, 14 minutes execution.
It's the third time I have a successfull 4x4x4 BLD. After a lot of scrambles, sighted
solves, attempts, DNFs, hard cases, and forgetting parity (duh :fp), I finally know
how things work. Owww... Big cubes BLD is soooo much fun!

Special thanks to Mike, Brian, and Maarten.
 
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