Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

[Kirjava]

inb4 derail

Looks like I should explain my result at DC Open now too:

Spoiler

First solve was something in the 40s. Why? Let's see:
Cross mistake, resulting in a 6 second cross
My cube felt different, like, really loose. Don't know why.
I was shaaaaaaaaking.
Several mistakes in F2L, and when I was "done" I found that I had 2 flipped edges, which I had to go back and fix.
Dot OLL which ended up as a slow 2 look algorithm (don't know a name for it, but back then I used f R U R' U' f' F R U R' U' F' - I switched to a faster one since) at PLL, I got an Nb perm (slow), which I popped an edge on. It turned out I put it back flipped and had to fix that at the end. Recog was slow on top of that.

It even felt faster than 40, but it did feel like forever.
All of the DNF's were just instances of my cube having a bad pop, but the 2nd one was just 1 mistake in F2L and I didn't want to continue the solve, I felt so bad about it. I probably should have continued it because it would have at least been 20.xx.

30.xx was using someone else's cube, and it was just in general a failolol. Bad LL, bad F2L, bad everything, and even a minor pop. I was able to laugh that one off though.

As for my 2x2 solves, the 6 was a normal LBL solve, on the 12, I did Ortega but forgot the PBL so had to fix the FL, luckily I knew the CLL. And the 10 was just a bad solve, I still get those occasionally. Not sure about the DNF's, don't really remember.

In other words, I ultimately jesus'd up all my solves (I think. haha)

All in all, it sucked, especially because the comp ended early (however I do know it was for the best).
It was still lots of fun, because I got to meet some cool people, and I got my FII and my Pyraminx, which is great.

I would also like to say that I am indeed sub 20, and I normally get 16 averages. Please, at least believe me about that. I was really hoping to go to Indiana Winter so I could un-lol my WCA profile, but that didn't end up working out, unless by some miracle my dad says yes by tomorrow. (hoping for that)
Anyway, I'm really sorry.
I hope you accept this explanation, as it is the best I could put everything.

I don't believe you. If you're sub20, there's no way you get 40 DNF DNF DNF. From what I've heard about people observing you, the DNFs were stopped after quite a while with not much of the cube done at all.

And as for your videos on youtube;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUZcrYLLj4c

This looks fake as hell. I can't know for sure, but it looks pretty obvious to me (and others).

And lets not forget (you've deleted the post now) when you posted a 13.xx average of 42 AND a sub10 mean of 3. Blatent lies.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Just learned BH corners. Took about a week. Surprisingly easy...

It is, isn't it? Congratulations. My times went down 30 seconds as a result of it - I hope you see similar improvement.

I didn't time it precisely, but I ran through all BH corners in about 40 minutes this morning.

 

[Zava]

YES
First sub-1 3x3 BLD!!!
56.11
My previous PB was 1:26.61 since like half a year!!!! BOOM
R2 D2 U' L' R2 D2 U B L D2 U2 R2 D2 R2 D' L B F R' U' L' B' L R2 B2
extremely lucky, Ville, you MUST sub20 on it (cct scramble)


Solution(white text colour):
Corners:
orient: y2 L'U'LU'L'U2L RUR'URU2R'
3-cycle UBL-UBR-UFL: yxL2U2L'D'LF2L'DL'
25 moves
Edges:
UF: U2M'U2M'
DR: UR2U'(M2)UR2U'
BR: UR'U(M2)URU'
RF: x U'R2U(M2)U'R2U
BU: x' UR'U'lU'RU(M2)U'R'Ul'URU'
BL: U'LU(M2)U'L'U
orient DL-DB: zx (UM')4 L (UM')3 Ul'
64 moves

Total: 89 STM.
Memorization time: 28
Execution time: 28 (3,1786 TPS)

heh, 23.00

 

[qqwref]

Bertalan did hungarian bld NR at benelux, 1:12.xx
he provided us the scramble (he generated it on his own)

here it is:
U2 F R2 F' U2 L' U' L' D2 R2 F U' B D2 L2 B2 D2 (17f)
and don't ask how fast I could do it because atm I'm exploding of anger.........

Very nice scramble, wow o_0 I got 2:25.32, quite good for me.

 

[Micael]

Zava, can you try with all your 25 cubes? Just for fun.

uhhh.
not sure it's a good idea, as I said I'm using my single bld memo, which is ok for 9, but fails at larger amounts (reason#1 I'm not capable of wr even at home)
but we'll see. I'll need a friday for that as I don't have any lessons on that day, and the house is empty until ~4 pm. next free friday is 2 weeks from now on, I'm having a trip to München next week so if you remind me before the 26th of feb, I think I'll do a big attempt.

Just a reminder for your big attempt of tomorow.

 

[Zava]

Zava, can you try with all your 25 cubes? Just for fun.

uhhh.
not sure it's a good idea, as I said I'm using my single bld memo, which is ok for 9, but fails at larger amounts (reason#1 I'm not capable of wr even at home)
but we'll see. I'll need a friday for that as I don't have any lessons on that day, and the house is empty until ~4 pm. next free friday is 2 weeks from now on, I'm having a trip to München next week so if you remind me before the 26th of feb, I think I'll do a big attempt.

Just a reminder for your big attempt of tomorow.

grrrr, I hoped you'll forget ok, we'll see how am I next morning, and I'll try between 15-20.

 

[KJiptner]

Bertalan did hungarian bld NR at benelux, 1:12.xx
he provided us the scramble (he generated it on his own)

here it is:
U2 F R2 F' U2 L' U' L' D2 R2 F U' B D2 L2 B2 D2 (17f)
and don't ask how fast I could do it because atm I'm exploding of anger.........

i can confirm this is correct but for me this was a rather normal scramble. the third one was actually much easier (i screwed it up hard though)

 

[PeterV]

Got another 3x3 BLD solve (2nd success) Time was much slower than my first success, but I did the first 3 edges before realizing i executed the wrong memo letters, so I undid them and redid them correctly :fp This was also the first solve I've had with parity, so it's good to know that I handled it correctly.

A question to those more experienced in BLD solving: I'm happy with memoing letters for edges, but I visually memo the corners and it seems to take forever. Can someone suggest a better memo system for corners (using Classic Pochmann for edges and corners)?

 

[Faz]

nlCuber22, can you clarify your bld time? In weekly comp it looks like you can do bld in 1:10, but here it looks like it is a fast time for edges only. ???

Sure. Normally, assuming I get a success, get 3.xx.xx.
The 1:26 memo was quite rushed and looking back, I overreacted. I probably forgot to do something in that solve, but I remember that I did a setup move wrong and then couldn't remember. Rest assured I don't get anything close to those times, ever. One of the other DNFs was a pop, and the other one my mom started talking to me and screwed up my memo so I stopped those two. >_>

Looks like I should explain my result at DC Open now too:

Spoiler

First solve was something in the 40s. Why? Let's see:
Cross mistake, resulting in a 6 second cross
My cube felt different, like, really loose. Don't know why.
I was shaaaaaaaaking.
Several mistakes in F2L, and when I was "done" I found that I had 2 flipped edges, which I had to go back and fix.
Dot OLL which ended up as a slow 2 look algorithm (don't know a name for it, but back then I used f R U R' U' f' F R U R' U' F' - I switched to a faster one since) at PLL, I got an Nb perm (slow), which I popped an edge on. It turned out I put it back flipped and had to fix that at the end. Recog was slow on top of that.

It even felt faster than 40, but it did feel like forever.
All of the DNF's were just instances of my cube having a bad pop, but the 2nd one was just 1 mistake in F2L and I didn't want to continue the solve, I felt so bad about it. I probably should have continued it because it would have at least been 20.xx.

30.xx was using someone else's cube, and it was just in general a failolol. Bad LL, bad F2L, bad everything, and even a minor pop. I was able to laugh that one off though.

As for my 2x2 solves, the 6 was a normal LBL solve, on the 12, I did Ortega but forgot the PBL so had to fix the FL, luckily I knew the CLL. And the 10 was just a bad solve, I still get those occasionally. Not sure about the DNF's, don't really remember.

In other words, I ultimately jesus'd up all my solves (I think. haha)

All in all, it sucked, especially because the comp ended early (however I do know it was for the best).
It was still lots of fun, because I got to meet some cool people, and I got my FII and my Pyraminx, which is great.

I would also like to say that I am indeed sub 20, and I normally get 16 averages. Please, at least believe me about that. I was really hoping to go to Indiana Winter so I could un-lol my WCA profile, but that didn't end up working out, unless by some miracle my dad says yes by tomorrow. (hoping for that)
Anyway, I'm really sorry.
I hope you accept this explanation, as it is the best I could put everything.

Kian has your solves on tape. You say you had 2 pops. Kian, can you verify this?

 

[Zava]

Bertalan did hungarian bld NR at benelux, 1:12.xx
he provided us the scramble (he generated it on his own)

here it is:
U2 F R2 F' U2 L' U' L' D2 R2 F U' B D2 L2 B2 D2 (17f)
and don't ask how fast I could do it because atm I'm exploding of anger.........

i can confirm this is correct but for me this was a rather normal scramble. the third one was actually much easier (i screwed it up hard though)

eh, for me it is super easy.. if Milán or me got that scramble in comp I pretty much think the NR wouldn't be 1:12 but a safe-solve sub1
could you provide us the other scramble?

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

But, didn't Mátyas have a sub-1 in competition? :confused:

 

[Zava]

But, didn't Mátyas have a sub-1 in competition? :confused:

I meant bld solve

 

[KJiptner]

could you provide us the other scramble?

Sorry I DNFed it and don't really remember much of it. I could probably recognize it though. Maybe Tim can help out.
What's your Method btw?

 

[Zava]

if corners are easy to orient, then I do that and then A perms / R'FRF'*3 things (this scramble was easy to orient, then an A and an E perm on U/D sides...cormer memo was like 2-3 seconds) if they're not, then I just do freestyle
edges is M2, I just had to remember 8 pieces and a separate (and no orientation parity) 3 cycle of edges

 

[mande]

3x3 BLD 1:33.42 R' L U D' R2 D' R2 F2 L' D L F B' L B U2 R' U2 F2 D2 U F' L2 D2 U

EDIT: I continued to do an avg 5 BLD, and I got the following:

Spoiler

Session average: 2:23.18

1. (1:33.42) R' L U D' R2 D' R2 F2 L' D L F B' L B U2 R' U2 F2 D2 U F' L2 D2 U
2. 2:24.53 B R' F2 R' B' D2 U B' F' L' U L2 F' L D2 U' B R F2 D2 L' D B F D2
3. 2:24.13 R D2 L' R2 B R' U L2 D B U2 L2 R2 F' U2 D B2 D2 F2 L D' B' R2 B' D
4. 2:20.88 R U B' U D R' B2 L R' D U L' F' B U' L' U R D' F D' U L2 D F2
5. (2:28.57) L' U' L F2 B L2 B R2 F2 D' F' L2 B2 L U2 L' B' U2 F B D F B2 L' U

 

[Zane_C]

Solved the cube BLD at school today, because apparently rubik's cubes got brought into confersation yesterday and my brother said I can do it blindfolded.
A guy didn't believe him so I went to the year 12 common room today and did a successful BLD solve .

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

Ah, finally, a timed full BH success (Although not all algs were optimal)

3:15.72

D' L D2 U' L' R2 U2 R2 F L2 U2 B2 R L U2 R2 F2 L' F D' U2 R2 D' U' B'

Solution:

y R' U' R U M U' R' U r y'
B' L' U' L U M' U' L' U l B
R' y' M' U2 M U2 y R
U' x' M2 U R2 U' M2 U R2 U' x U
z' D M' U M D' M' U' M z
D R2 D L' D' R2 D L D2
y R' U2 R' D2 R U2 R' D2 R2 y'
F R2 U2 R' U R' d' R' F' R2 U' R' F R F y' U2 R2 F'
U' R U R' U R U2 R' U2 R' U' R U' R' U2 R U'

 

[Zane_C]

4:14.75.
I had quite a few delays.
Soon I hope to be sub 4 avg.
Then my next goal is sub 3, then after I've achieved that I'll try to sub 2, but that's probably a bit over the top.

 

[Cuber3]

New 3x3 BLD PB:

4:17.81

F U' B2 R2 B2 F2 D2 U L' R' D U2 L2 R' U L' B2 F2 U2 R2 D U' L' R2 B2

Pretty easy visual memo, non-lucky.

 

[ooveehoo]

First successful BLD in an official competition! I had had 14 DNFs before that