Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

[SimonWestlund]

Tried two 4x4 BLDs today. Both for weekly competition 2010 05. The first one was a DNF at around 18 minutes. The second one was a success at 16:37!

I get PBs pretty much every time I succeed!

The memo on the 16:37 was 10:40.

 

[Novriil]

Learned M2 -.-

Now lets try to do some PB-s.. After I can memorize those 4 algs :S

 

[Novriil]

First M2/Old Pochmann success while using a blindfold and not looking at the algs..

bad time.. I know.. 7:30.25 +2 (forgot to do R2 in the end)

But it's my first success on M2 edges. With only Old Pochmann I've gotten almost sub-3 but with M2 I need to do it.. Now I started to practise BLD again.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Pyraminx BLD single: 36.87

Not bad considering I've been doing this less than a week. I think I can probably get to sub-45 average pretty quickly using my BH edges method. Jude and Charlie, I'm catching up! It really is quite fun.

It's hard to judge lucky. By the normal definition of "lucky = more than 20% solved", this was lucky, but I'd say well over half of all pyraminx scrambles are lucky by that definition. If you count tips (4), centers (4), and edges (6), that gives 14 pieces, so any more than 2 pieces solved would be lucky. Which just means that you really need to be able to do averages with pyraminx BLD or it's not worth much. I like the idea of pyraminx BLD avg of 5.

 

[Kian]

4 straight Multi Attempts Successful!

4/4, 4/4, 5/5, 4/4. Times vary a lot, and some are cutting it close, not sure if I should try 4 or 3 at DC on Saturday...

 

[DavidWoner]

Try 6.

 

[blah]

Or 16.

 

[Yes We Can!]

YES!!!!!!!
First 4x4 BLD success!
It was the second scramble of the weekly competition 05.

This is feeling so good
I am using Alberto Bosia's 2-cycle Method, which is very slow, but easy.

My time was 34:53.25.

This was my 4th try.
And I have it on video!

 

[Kian]

Try 6.

That would be disastrous. Not sure I'd have enough time. I cut it close sometimes as it is.

Or 16.

But yeah, that should be np, I'll just do that.

 

[Yes We Can!]

3x3 BLD PB avg5:

Average of 5: 2:19.67
1. 2:22.88 U F L2 U B' R2 B L2 R2 F2 B L2 F2 D2 R U B R' B L2 D' F2 D' U B
2. (2:12.06) L U L2 U2 F' R' D' B' L2 B L B2 F2 R U D2 B R' D L R' U2 B2 L F2
3. (2:29.21) F' B2 L' R U' B F2 L U F' R2 U2 B2 D B' F R' L2 F' U2 B' D' R' U2 F'
4. 2:18.88 R B D L D' B' U' L2 R2 F R' B' D L2 U' L B F U2 R F2 D B' U2 L'
5. 2:17.26 R F B D U' R U L F B R2 L2 D2 F' L2 B2 D B D' U' L' U R' D2 R2

Standard Deviation = 2.36

EDIT: First attempt on 3 cubes multiBLD and I got them all

3/3 in 14:53.05 (9:55)

LOL, faster than my first 2/2. I think this attempt was just really fast, since the limit for 3 cubes is 30 minutes ^^
Scrambles were from weekly competiton 05.

 

[Chuck]

Just a simple accomplishment today.

Official 3x3x3 BLD in 1:44 minutes.
It's 2nd place, beaten by Muhammad Iril in 1:01 minutes.

Iril is so GOOD!
Even though he failed on all three 4x4x4 BLD attempts, he got 5x5x5 BLD AsR.

 

[Yes We Can!]

2nd success in 4x4 BLD and it's a new PB!
I cut off almost 8 minutes from my old record
Feels really good, to see the cube solved when removing the blindfold.

My time was 28:07.30.

EDIT: Cool to see, that I got 4 big accomplishments on this page
EDIT II: Btw, yesterday I got 3 sub-2s, one is on tape on my youtube, it was 1:59.06 and my non-lucky PB, then I beat it with a 1:55.21 non-lucky later
The 3rd sub-2 was lucky and the time was 1:51.

Yay, 5 accomplishments!

 

[peterbat]

First 4x4 BLD success in competition at Berkeley Winter '10!

Time was 19:51.00, memo was around 9 minutes.

This is a PB by around 2 minutes, too. Hooray!

 

[Hyprul 9-ty2]

I just had 14 DNF's in a row
haha, what a streak, its an accomplishment, I've never gotten more than 5 DNF's in a row.
And all were sub 2:20 With 3 sub 2's

Edit, make that 15
15/15 DNFs, WR anyone?

 

[Mike Hughey]

I just had 14 DNF's in a row
haha, what a streak, its an accomplishment, I've never gotten more than 5 DNF's in a row.
And all were sub 2:20 With 3 sub 2's

Edit, make that 15
15/15 DNFs, WR anyone?

I seem to remember a couple of the great BLD solvers with something like 75/75 DNFs. Perhaps one of the awesome Germans (Kai, Dennis, or Tim, if I remember right), and/or Rowe (I think I remember Rowe talking about something like this once).

Of course, all of those guys have had very long strings of successes as well, so it's just a matter of having a bad day.

 

[Hyprul 9-ty2]

Aww, oh well i'm actually pretty disappointed with solve no 15 because I forgot there was a flipped edge in my DL slot Woulda been a PB

 

[PM 1729]

Best average of 5: 1:54.24 = (1:43.83), 1:57.64, 1:50.95, 1:54.13, (DNF)
The last two solves might have been successful, but I went full speed and got both sub-1:45 .Unfortunately , they were DNF's.
Fortunately, I actually managed an average of 5.First attempt at any sort of average for bld.

Spoiler

2:04.44(1:07.41), 1:36.86(45.21), DNF(59.41), 1:52.49(48.72), DNF(51.40), 2:09.03(1:11.71), 1:43.83(43.93), 1:57.64(58.88), 1:50.95(52.26), 1:54.13(51.06), DNF(48.10), DNF(41.26)

 

[Yes We Can!]

New 4x4 BLD PB!
3rd success.

23:47.70. I hope to get sub-20 soon, I already had a 19:40, but it was off by 4 centers.

 

[joey]

First BLD avg5 in ages.. I don't know what happened.
1:07.44, (DNF(1:24.21)), 1:21.36, (43.47), 55.58 => 1:08.12
43: R2 U2 F L' B2 L' D U L2 B' U' R L2 U2 R2 U2 B2 D' F2 R' L F2 B R' F
55: F B L' B D2 R2 U2 L2 B F2 R2 L' F' L' F' D2 L2 R' U B F R2 L2 F' D2
Both easy.

 

[Mike Hughey]

First BLD avg5 in ages.. I don't know what happened.
1:07.44, (DNF(1:24.21)), 1:21.36, (43.47), 55.58 => 1:08.12
43: R2 U2 F L' B2 L' D U L2 B' U' R L2 U2 R2 U2 B2 D' F2 R' L F2 B R' F
55: F B L' B D2 R2 U2 L2 B F2 R2 L' F' L' F' D2 L2 R' U B F R2 L2 F' D2
Both easy.

Wow on the 43! And nice average!

I got 1:33.46 on the first one and 1:39.24 on the second one, so yeah, they were pretty easy. I had some big pauses because I still don't know my new algorithms well enough.