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Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

Mike Hughey said:
tim said:
Got 48 catches for the usual 3 ball cascade blindfolded. (I donned the blindfold before i started juggling)
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Nice job! That's the same as my personal best (which is several years old). I didn't use a blindfold, though - I just closed my eyes. So I guess yours is better. :)

And very nice close attempts on your multiBLDs lately. You're truly amazing.
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Thanks, actually the 48 catches were a bit lucky. I usually don't get more than 20-25 catches and my average is just about 15.

I'm not really happy with my multiBLD attempts. I always forget to memorize flipped edges/corners or even a whole 3-cycle. I hope i'll fix that until German Open.
 
I've had a bunch of sub-4 M2 blindfold solves in the past day (my best was around 3:15, with a close DNF of 2:45). It's finally starting to feel like I could get as fast with M2 as I am with 3-cycle, and the advantage is that I'm using images to store the edges. So that means I can use this for multiBLD, and it might already be faster than 3-cycle is for multiBLD for me. The only catch is that I'm still not accurate enough to do that yet, but maybe soon. I think this could put me less than 8 minutes per cube once I get it down.
 
48.11 BLD
4:07.99 2 cube multi-bld. (I put .99, because I can't remember the exacts)

I'm working towards 60s BLD average. (Eventually sub-60)
I may try 3 cubes with letters soon. My other 3 cube attempts have been with images + journey, but I'm not that comfortable with it.
 
Hmm, if I'd have started this thread -as I've been considering- I'd have called it "BLD Experiences Thread." That way, it'd be appropriate to post complete failures you still learned from (or just want to share).
And who is qqwref to post this, who hates BLD most of all events? :p

For example, my daily 5BLD today was off by something like 6 x-centers, 3 midges, and a few wings. :(
 
I got my first successful solve this Monday! After many weeks of close DNFs. I did peek once in the middle just to made sure I haven't completely screwed up like always, but that affected nothing. I now have more confidence. I thought I was giving myself an easy case (3 pieces are solved), but everything else was some more difficult than usually. I was stuck for minutes trying to think how to resolve the parity of UL LB, RFU RDF. I ended up doing D2 L2 T perm L2 D2 U2 L H perm L' U2.
Memo in about 3 min, total about 10 min.
 
Congratulations, fanwuq! Hopefully we'll see lots of posts from you here in the future!

I have one - I just had my best ever 5x5x5 BLD solve for the third scramble in this week's competition: 21:17.39! Still almost a minute slower than Tim's first ever 5x5x5 BLD solve a few days ago, but it's a great accomplishment for me - about 2 minutes faster than my previous best! Memo was still about 10:30, so the speed was in the execution. Now I need to work on speeding up my memo.

For anyone who does 5x5x5 BLD, you should try the third scramble in the competition this week. It's not lucky at all, but it is pretty straightforward to solve. At the moment, I think I need a scramble this nice to be able to get a time this good.
 
I took a several month break without doing any BLD solving at all, then I come back to find out that my memo has increased about 50%, while my solving time has sped up by 50%. I think it is a positive thing, not necessarily an accomplishment though.
 
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