Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

[Tim Major]

Realised instead of memorising the letter for every sticker, I just have to memorise the bottom or top sticker on each piece, (so 8) and go clockwise from there. Stupid me for not working that out sooner

Onto edges, do people suggest I also use a-x on edges, or do you think I will confuse it with my corners. I get each letter, and make a word, and have a word string that I memo for corners, and I planned on using this for edges (I sometimes memorise groups of letters if there's enough vowels).

My real accomplishment is a corners only bld in 2:38. Pretty fast using a proper memo and execution method for me.

 

[kinch2002]

Realised instead of memorising the letter for every sticker, I just have to memorise the bottom or top sticker on each piece, (so 8) and go clockwise from there. Stupid me for not working that out sooner

Onto edges, do people suggest I also use a-x on edges, or do you think I will confuse it with my corners. I get each letter, and make a word, and have a word string that I memo for corners, and I planned on using this for edges (I sometimes memorise groups of letters if there's enough vowels).

My real accomplishment is a corners only bld in 2:38. Pretty fast using a proper memo and execution method for me.

I really don't think it will be a problem to use letter again for edges. If you don't already, consider placing your word strings onto a location (roman rooms or journeys) and then you're even less likely to confuse. For 5bld I use a-x for both types of centres, and for wings (pretty much all letters are used each time tool, unlike in 3bld) and have no problems with confusion between the 3 sets.

 

[Sakarie]

New personal best, with 1:12.83. Felt really good to beat it, it was like 2 months old (but felt like a year...).

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

 

[Zane_C]

1:42.76
If I knew exactly where the spacebar was and didn't have to search frantically and take off my blindfold it may of been sub 1:40, but it doesn't worry me because this beats my previous pb by about 12 seconds.

Scramble: D2 R2 F B2 L2 D' L D B L F D2 B2 L' B' U' R B' D2 L D' B2 U' B2 L

 

[Micael]

1:42.76
If I knew exactly where the spacebar was and didn't have to search frantically and take off my blindfold it may of been sub 1:40, but it doesn't worry me because this beats my previous pb by about 12 seconds.

Scramble: D2 R2 F B2 L2 D' L D B L F D2 B2 L' B' U' R B' D2 L D' B2 U' B2 L

1:48. You are good now. And please remove that signature.

 

[Zane_C]

1:42.76
If I knew exactly where the spacebar was and didn't have to search frantically and take off my blindfold it may of been sub 1:40, but it doesn't worry me because this beats my previous pb by about 12 seconds.

Scramble: D2 R2 F B2 L2 D' L D B L F D2 B2 L' B' U' R B' D2 L D' B2 U' B2 L

1:48. You are good now. And please remove that signature.

What a coincidence, just before I looked at this thread I changed it

 

[amostay2004]

1:29.54, 1:31.33, 2:31.53, 2:27.46, 1:48.79 = 1:55.86 avg5

With freestyle corners. I'm still thinking quite a lot during corner exec which makes me forget my edges memo easily so I tend to get slow times or DNF. This is the first 5 successes in a row I've done with freestlye corners

 

[kinch2002]

MultiBLD attempt today was 7 cubes (did 5 cubes for the first time yesterday).
7/7 44:21.42 [30:13.32] (PB of course)
First 7 scrambles of weekly comp 2010-20. I switched cubes 6 and 7 at the beginning to suit my methods better. This was my order of memo and methods:
1-4. Letters for Classic Pochmann corners and M2 pair edges
5-6. Numbers for 3OP
7. Visual for freestyle
Execution was done in this order: 7,5,6,1,2,3,4
Took memo slow and easy with plently of recaps so thankfully my brain isn't fried at all. No memo pauses (unsurprisingly) but I executed slow anyway (no need to go fast when you have almost 30 mins to solve 7 cubes!).
Next time: 8 cubes

 

[Mike Hughey]

MultiBLD attempt today was 7 cubes (did 5 cubes for the first time yesterday).
7/7 44:21.42 [30:13.32] (PB of course)

Heh - looks like I underestimated you. It won't take you a few weeks - you can probably have 10/10 this week - maybe tomorrow.

Congratulations - that's awesome!

 

[ssb150388]

Got my first full solve today.
It was first attempt of full solve.
I had been practicing corners and edges separately.
So it was nice to have a success in my first attempt.

 

[Zane_C]

Got my first full solve today.
It was first attempt of full solve.
I had been practicing corners and edges separately.
So it was nice to have a success in my first attempt.

Congratz.

 

[Tim Major]

First success I just finished labeling my edges (have to go acegikmoqsuw through each piece to find what letter it is, so it takes a while) Took from 8:15 am just when I woke up to 8:35 am when I put the blindfold on. Execution was 3:59.78 . Feels so good. I was originally going to just do an edges only, but once I had my edges memorized (first attempt at edges only) I thought, stuff it, I'm going for a full solve. 10 hours on and I still remember my memo It's weird, I thought I had no chance, but once I had my memo done, I couldn't see how I'd DNF, I had my memo perfect. Still, pulling of the blindfold and seeing the solved cube feels amazing.

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

Memo

Spoiler

Edges: Jeremy Under Larry. Robert and Carl Wouldn't Have Much S***
Corners: Tim and Victor Jumped Right into God. Over the Hill Daryl F*****.

I wanna try multi now

 

[ssb150388]

Thanks.
It took 9 min I think. Dont remember memo time.
3op

 

[kinch2002]

First success I just finished labeling my edges (have to go acegikmoqsuw through each piece to find what letter it is, so it takes a while) Took from 8:15 am just when I woke up to 8:35 am when I put the blindfold on. Execution was 3:59.78 . Feels so good. I was originally going to just do an edges only, but once I had my edges memorized (first attempt at edges only) I thought, stuff it, I'm going for a full solve. 10 hours on and I still remember my memo It's weird, I thought I had no chance, but once I had my memo done, I couldn't see how I'd DNF, I had my memo perfect. Still, pulling of the blindfold and seeing the solved cube feels amazing.

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

Memo

Spoiler

Edges: Jeremy Under Larry. Robert and Carl Wouldn't Have Much Shit
Corners: Tim and Victor Jumped Right into God. Over the Hill Daryl Fucked.

I wanna try multi now

Congrats! Next time just don't memo for so long - the quicker you memo the less time you need to remember it for. What method are you using?

I know they're in a spoiler, but maybe * the swear words too

Keep the good work up

 

[Zane_C]

First success I just finished labeling my edges (have to go acegikmoqsuw through each piece to find what letter it is, so it takes a while) Took from 8:15 am just when I woke up to 8:35 am when I put the blindfold on. Execution was 3:59.78 . Feels so good. I was originally going to just do an edges only, but once I had my edges memorized (first attempt at edges only) I thought, stuff it, I'm going for a full solve. 10 hours on and I still remember my memo It's weird, I thought I had no chance, but once I had my memo done, I couldn't see how I'd DNF, I had my memo perfect. Still, pulling of the blindfold and seeing the solved cube feels amazing.

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

Memo

Spoiler

Edges: Jeremy Under Larry. Robert and Carl Wouldn't Have Much S***
Corners: Tim and Victor Jumped Right into God. Over the Hill Daryl F*****.

I wanna try multi now

Good stuff

 

[Tim Major]

First success I just finished labeling my edges (have to go acegikmoqsuw through each piece to find what letter it is, so it takes a while) Took from 8:15 am just when I woke up to 8:35 am when I put the blindfold on. Execution was 3:59.78 . Feels so good. I was originally going to just do an edges only, but once I had my edges memorized (first attempt at edges only) I thought, stuff it, I'm going for a full solve. 10 hours on and I still remember my memo It's weird, I thought I had no chance, but once I had my memo done, I couldn't see how I'd DNF, I had my memo perfect. Still, pulling of the blindfold and seeing the solved cube feels amazing.

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

Congrats! Next time just don't memo for so long - the quicker you memo the less time you need to remember it for. What method are you using?

I know they're in a spoiler, but maybe * the swear words too

Keep the good work up

Yep, edited the spoiler (I thought they would * automatically). I've tried again 3 or 4 times now and keep on getting 10 memo, then realising a mistake, and end up taking 20 mins anyway Like I was memoing, and was done at * and decided to go over it, straight up, I found I had memorised White Orange as Yellow Orange, and screwed up the whole rest of my corner memo. And that scramble I success-ed on, I think my corner buffer solved itself once apart from the end, but the edge buffer didn't. Also, I had no flipped edges or twisted corners already in place. Next scramble I had 3 twisted corners and a few flipped edges, plus my corner buffer solved a few times, as did my edge buffer. I haven't had a success since my first one, unless you count L' R' D U R B F2 L2 B R' D2 U2 F R2 F' R D' F D' R' D2 U R D' L which I already knew was going to be easy. I can't memo well when I have buffer piece getting solved, and twisted corners. Should I solve them Old Pochmann style, or twist them with R' D' R D x 2 or 4 or D' R' D R x2 and flip pieces with M' U M' U M' U M2 U M' U M' U M' U2 plus setup moves?
I really want another success now. And my accomplishment so far today is a corners multi success. (2/2)

 

[kinch2002]

First success I just finished labeling my edges (have to go acegikmoqsuw through each piece to find what letter it is, so it takes a while) Took from 8:15 am just when I woke up to 8:35 am when I put the blindfold on. Execution was 3:59.78 . Feels so good. I was originally going to just do an edges only, but once I had my edges memorized (first attempt at edges only) I thought, stuff it, I'm going for a full solve. 10 hours on and I still remember my memo It's weird, I thought I had no chance, but once I had my memo done, I couldn't see how I'd DNF, I had my memo perfect. Still, pulling of the blindfold and seeing the solved cube feels amazing.

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

Memo

Spoiler

Edges: Jeremy Under Larry. Robert and Carl Wouldn't Have Much S***
Corners: Tim and Victor Jumped Right into God. Over the Hill Daryl F*****.

I wanna try multi now

Good stuff

So I'm not the only who set a PB just after getting up recently. A few days ago I scrambled a 3x3 about 30 seconds after getting up and got 1:3x.xx which is a pb by 20 seconds or so(!). I was so asleep that I couldn't remember the time properly once I had reset the timer. Nice work btw

EDIT: Replying to post above mine now, and didn't want to double post so soon
For twisted corners I always use R D R' D' type moves purely because I'm used to them from my old beginners method (obviously I cube rotate to do it on the U and R faces for extra speed). Solving them Old Pochman is almost certainly going to end up slower because you have to do more setups and it isn't just 2-gen. Same goes for edges - MU flips are very very fast, so I do them rather than shooting to 2 different stickers.
As for memoing those type of things, maybe look for them right at the beginning so you can be prepared for it. Starting new cycles should be fairly simple - just try not to memo the fact that the buffer piece is solving and you won't be confused during solving. Just pick an easy piece to start a new cycle with and be prepared to memo it again at the end of the cycle.
Memoing wrong stickers will happen less once you have more experience - you learn each piece's location extremely will eventually so you don't really have to think...just see the piece and know where it goes...and which way round too.


Just set a nice PB on a slightly bigger cube: 6:52.98 [2:43.32]. First sub-3 memo - doing 5bld and multiBLD has clearly helped my 4bld speed I always work better at bigcube and multi after midnight

 

[Escher]

Just set a nice PB on a slightly bigger cube: 6:52.98 [2:43.32]. First sub-3 memo - doing 5bld and multiBLD has clearly helped my 4bld speed I always work better at bigcube and multi after midnight

 

[Isbit]

beat my own swedish record at multi with a 7/8 in 54:xx, and had a singleblind succes at 1:43.38, just 0.29 seconds from swedish record (and PB by 5 seconds) at Karlstad open today

 

[kinch2002]

6:27.78 [2:34.82]. Caught on film Video will hopefully be up tonight. 9 solved centres, so moderately lucky I guess