Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

[Sakarie]

Did I finally get the UWR back?!?!?

7x7x7 BLD: 45:52.97 [23:24]

Baaaaaaaammmmm!!!!!!!

This was the first scramble from the weekly competition 2010-13. I spent 56 seconds (I looked because it seemed like way too much time) trying to find a way to reorient it, and then stuck with the original orientation. (So it could have been almost a minute faster. ) When I finished memorizing, it felt REALLY secure, so I figured I'd go for it and solved as fast as I could. I never checked to make sure I was turning the right slice. After a minute or two of that, I convinced myself that surely I already had a DNF, so I might as well go as fast as possible the whole time - if it was correct, it would be a UWR, and if it was incorrect, it would mean I'd waste less time on the attempt. And it paid off - solved!

Okay Ville, it took me almost a year, but I finally beat your first successful solve. Time for you to try again.

Fantastic Mike! As always, you hope that people will do more neckbreaking solves, and the WR and UR to go as low as possible, but you definitely deserves it!

YES!!!!

I finally solved the 4x4BLD! At my 12th attempt I made it with a time of 20:39.80. I'm really excited now, especially since I had another attempt earlier tonight with a three-cycle edges wrong in 18:20.

Good job! It's great to know that your efforts been rewarded!

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

4x4BLD with commutators! 15:20.25(6:30)

U' D2 f2 L2 F2 r2 U D2 f2 F2 u f2 F U' D u r U' F2 U' R' f' U2 f' u' U2 D2 f U' r' F2 D' L' R2 u2 f2 B r B2 L'

 

[LarsN]

Amazing Mike

And good job Gunnar. I bet you'll get much faster in no time

 

[MatsBergsten]

Did I finally get the UWR back?!?!?

7x7x7 BLD: 45:52.97 [23:24]

So fun! Congratulations Mike!!
(And one minute more would have been a fast solve too )

@Gunnar: Wow, congratulations to you too. You are a real
blindsolver now, soon you'll beat me in all events

Now it is only 5x5 left. It'll be fun to see if you make it before
Simon does!

 

[Deleted member 4527]

dunno if this goes in here but

Team BLD 44.23 done in french class today

 

[mande]

Did an OH BLD in a quantum mechanics class today. It was tough to memorise without catching the prof's attention since there were only 7 people in the class. Memo was around 3 minutes and exec around 5 mins. PB is about 5 mins.

 

[cubedude7]

I'm still haven't got a succesfull multiBLD solve. Corner memo seems really hard for me
Just keep trying...

 

[joey]

Mike O_O

 

[Gunnar]

2nd successful 4x4BLD came today and it was a new record with 4½ minutes.

4x4BLD: 16:04.78

Should have been sub-16 but I missed the timer with my blindfold still on. It was with the first scramble in the latest weekly competition. I just went for fast memo with no repeating, and it worked.

 

[martijn_cube]

New 3x3 bld PR: 1:42.59.
3 edges solved.
last PR was 1:48.xx and this was my 2nd solve after a couple months of doing nothing. So i'm very pleased with this.

 

[SimonWestlund]

2nd successful 4x4BLD came today and it was a new record with 4½ minutes.

4x4BLD: 16:04.78

Should have been sub-16 but I missed the timer with my blindfold still on. It was with the first scramble in the latest weekly competition. I just went for fast memo with no repeating, and it worked.

Congratulations! Wow, that's some quick improvement! Catching up to me, Mats, Daniel and Arvid already!

 

[Yes We Can!]

1:10.03 BLD, but 3 pieces solved, so lucky.

Still very nice
Sub-1 is possible for me (again )

EDIT: Yay, according to Maarten it's even non-lucky.

 

[joey]

Got the scrabble?

 

[Sakarie]

New PB on 5x5, with 20:59.36. A really lousy solve, with a total of 6 pieces solved AFTER a m'eme' ... Didn't really know why I did it.

Also the solve was very slow and secure, so would have been quite faster if I'd went for speed. But then it probably wouldn't have been solved...

Scrambled wrong, so no point in publishing the scramble.

I've had DNF's in 17 minutes, (in comp thou), so I know I'm not near my limits yet.

 

[Gunnar]

New PB on 5x5, with 20:59.36. A really lousy solve, with a total of 6 pieces solved AFTER a m'eme' ... Didn't really know why I did it.

Also the solve was very slow and secure, so would have been quite faster if I'd went for speed. But then it probably wouldn't have been solved...

Scrambled wrong, so no point in publishing the scramble.

I've had DNF's in 17 minutes, (in comp thou), so I know I'm not near my limits yet.

Very impressive Arvid!

I myself continue to lower my 4x4BLD record. Today, on my 3rd successful solve ever, I got 14:23.67. This one was a pretty easy solve (not too easy), but I can still get it down some more by just getting used to the method.

 

[Yes We Can!]

Got the scrabble?

It was a handscramle...

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

Yay! First sub-10 with commutator centers

9:31.81(4:30) B' D u' B' F u' D2 f B2 D' B' D2 R U' F2 U2 f2 D L U' D B r2 f L2 D r R' L2 F2 r' B2 r' F2 u' F2 B L2 R' F'

For the record, my previous PB with this was 15:20. See it going somewhere?

 

[Kirjava]

My head feels like it's about to pop.

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

Time; 17.98 (SpeedBLD)

x2y'R'U'Rx'zyUR2U'F2
R2U2R2U'RUR'U'RUR'U2RU'R'y2
RUR'URU2R'
UMU'M'
U'M2Ux2
U2MU2M

40 moves

AFAIK I'm the only person to have ever done this with Roux

 

[TMOY]

New 4^3 BLD PB for me: 11:25
4:30 memo.

 

[Yes We Can!]

4x4 BLD:

17:26.50 (9:30).

9 pieces solved by reorienting.