Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

pjk said:
Mike Hughey said:
10:01.10 for 4x4x4 BLD. So close - now I know how Joey felt with his 1:00.15 3x3x3 BLD. :) 5:05 memorization time.
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Very nice Mike. And you say you don't improve...(or very slow)
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Memorizing the letter pair image list made all the difference. I can't believe what a big difference it has made. 9 minutes looks very doable to me now. 8 still seems outrageously far away, though.

Oh, I got a 10:03.07 today. Ugh - so close!

And congrats Tim on the very near miss! I hope you try again soon so you can get it this time. Your speed is completely outrageous.
 
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Just very recently got a new PB for 4x4x4. Somehow i seem to have problems getting sub-2:30 consistently but when I do.... lol

anyway, I'm very close on the way to getting my 2008 aim of a sub 2:15 PB and I've got a sub 3 average a few times so now I'm gonna renew the aim to a sub-2 PB and a sub 2:30 average PB :D

.... And I'm gonna continue my pursuit of successfully solvinga 4x4x4 BLD by June :D haha I've got the methods mostly worked out; centers, corners, edges but not parity yet..... Gonna continue striving for success though ;)
 
I'm a little hesitant about posting this (because this pales in comparison to that of the BLDers above) but I just did my first successful BLD and the time was 6:54.03, and it was quite satisfying considering the number of DNFs I had before this!

The scramble was very easy as well

U B' L2 D' L2 F2 D2 B2 D2 L D2 F2 R2 B' U B L' D2 R L2 F' R2 L2 D2 L (scramble with white top green front)

btw I solve with yellow top red front

This is more motivation to practise and get better at BLD, and i believe theres still a long way to go for me. At least it is more fun than regular 3x3x3 :D
 
FU said:
I'm a little hesitant about posting this (because this pales in comparison to that of the BLDers above) but I just did my first successful BLD and the time was 6:54.03, and it was quite satisfying considering the number of DNFs I had before this!
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There's no reason to be hesitant, that's an amazing time for your first successful attempt :).

btw. Which method do you use?
 
tim said:
FU said:
I'm a little hesitant about posting this (because this pales in comparison to that of the BLDers above) but I just did my first successful BLD and the time was 6:54.03, and it was quite satisfying considering the number of DNFs I had before this!
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There's no reason to be hesitant, that's an amazing time for your first successful attempt :).

btw. Which method do you use?
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Ha ha, you shouldn't have been hesitant man. My first BLD was like 20 mins, and it's the only one I've gotten so far. Just because you see faster people doesn't mean you shouldn't post :)
 
tim said:
FU said:
I'm a little hesitant about posting this (because this pales in comparison to that of the BLDers above) but I just did my first successful BLD and the time was 6:54.03, and it was quite satisfying considering the number of DNFs I had before this!
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There's no reason to be hesitant, that's an amazing time for your first successful attempt :).

btw. Which method do you use?
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I use the 3-cycle on Macky's page

for corner and edge permutation i assign every piece an object / person so i make stories out of them. easier to remember as compared to numbers.
 
Mike Hughey said:
Wow, Alex, you're getting really good! It looks like soon you'll be averaging sub-2.
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Thanks.:) I am getting more consistent and I am sub 2 more often. I got a 1:48.xx last night and a 1:52.xx today.:D I'm in the middle of learning a letter pair system. I really want to finish it soon, because I'm dying to really start doing a lot of bigger multi attempts. For now, I just do intuitive letter pairs for the ones I haven't come up with yet. (I'm almost halfway done.) I really like the system, I find I can recall images more quickly than with just single letter images for some reason.
 
joey said:
Finally, the one we have all been waiting for (well, me at least)
Sub-60 BLD, here it is: 57.18
That was great :) Now I just need to do it lots more!
http://www.speedcubing.com/records/recs_bf_333.html
credit to qqwref for some inpsiration.
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Congratulations!
I'm just getting relatively worse every day. :(

And yeah, qqwref. Sometimes I can't believe his level of BLD practice! He's crazy! ;)
 
1:17.05 BLD average of 5

(1:13.05) 1:17.22 1:15.97 1:17.96 (1:35.68 DNF)

I know it sucks to have a DNF in an average of 5, but I got really nervous, considering the 4 good solves before it.
 
alexc said:
Mike Hughey said:
Wow, Alex, you're getting really good! It looks like soon you'll be averaging sub-2.
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Thanks.:) I am getting more consistent and I am sub 2 more often. I got a 1:48.xx last night and a 1:52.xx today.:D I'm in the middle of learning a letter pair system. I really want to finish it soon, because I'm dying to really start doing a lot of bigger multi attempts. For now, I just do intuitive letter pairs for the ones I haven't come up with yet. (I'm almost halfway done.) I really like the system, I find I can recall images more quickly than with just single letter images for some reason.
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Yes, I find the same thing true. I think it's because there is more variety to the images than with single letter images, so different cubes are likely to have much more unique things to memorize. With big cubes, I can sometimes apply a scramble for a cube from a week ago, and immediately recognize it as a scramble I've already done. I've done that before to check after the fact on a weekly competition scramble and verify that I got the scramble correct the first time.

Oh, and Joey, AWESOME JOB!!!!!

Edit: I finally did it! 4x4x4 BLD in 9:49.77 (4:38 mem)! And it wasn't even an easy scramble. Only 6 centers solved (and a little hard to choose orientation), corner parity with all but one corners out of place, 3 edges solved but two cycles instead of one.
 
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Mike Hughey said:
Oh, and Joey, AWESOME JOB!!!!!

Edit: I finally did it! 4x4x4 BLD in 9:49.77 (4:38 mem)! And it wasn't even an easy scramble. Only 6 centers solved (and a little hard to choose orientation), corner parity with all but one corners out of place, 3 edges solved but two cycles instead of one.
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Thanks Mike! And great job yourself! You made the 10 min hurdle!

I got another sub-60!
52.47

I'm happy for the moment, but I need more of them, so I can basically average sub-60! (excluding DNF's of course :p)
 
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