Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

This isn't much of a real achievement, but I thought it was quite good.
I tried a 2 cube multi-bld.
1/2 in 3:10.66

I didn't expect it to be soo fast! The 2nd cube had 2 misoriented edges, and parity off.
 
I tried 5 cube multi bld twice today. Both were not perfect, but I should have gotten the first one at least.

First attempt: 3/5 (39:xx)
One cube off by two corners and two edges. Another off by three edges. The wrong cubes were stupid execution mistakes.

Second attempt: 4/5 (33:xx)
One cube off by 2 misoriented corners. This mistake was in the memo I think.

Anyway, I'm disappointed, but I will try again for the weekly contest next time.
 
Don't be disappointed, Alex. The second attempt was very close and actually "perfect" ;).

Ok, here's my accomplishment. Unfortunately not a perfect one, but nonetheless:
19/20, 1:11.23 (including one minute organizing cubes ;))
memo was 43 minutes (2.15 min/cube, about 6.5s/piece(image)).

Actually i'm surprised, that i got such a close dnf (two disoriented edges), because i just tried to get a "fast" attempt (i would call sub-1 fast ;)).
 
tim said:
Don't be disappointed, Alex. The second attempt was very close and actually "perfect" ;).

Ok, here's my accomplishment. Unfortunately not a perfect one, but nonetheless:
19/20, 1:11.23 (including one minute organizing cubes ;))
memo was 43 minutes (2.15 min/cube, about 6.5s/piece(image)).

Actually i'm surprised, that i got such a close dnf (two disoriented edges), because i just tried to get a "fast" attempt (i would call sub-1 fast ;)).
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Wow, very nice.:)

I tried 5 cubes again and I got 2/5.:mad: I don't mind not getting a perfect, what I don't understand is what I did wrong. If I could figure out what I did wrong, then maybe I could work on fixing those mistakes. But I have no clue! The attempt was 37:xx
 
alexc said:
I don't mind not getting a perfect, what I don't understand is what I did wrong. If I could figure out what I did wrong, then maybe I could work on fixing those mistakes. But I have no clue!
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Why don't you take videos of the solve and keep saying out the images aloud, so that you know later where you went wrong.I used to do this when I started BLD.
 
Not really a BLD accomplishment per say... But yesterday I did my first sighted 4x4 and 5x5 all with commutators. I probably won't start big cube BLD till summer, so I have until then to develop a memory system...commutators are a lot of fun but I will try a few other methods before I decide on one. btw...I never understood anything I've ever read about commutators...I always have to figure everything out and then it just clicks; and all those things I read all of a sudden make sense....weird. no offense to anyone who wrote guides here...:)
 
Wow, Tim - at that rate, Chris's world record is in serious danger.

My best ever memorization of a 5x5x5 was 10:30 and a successful solve (although I had a failure with the same memo time). It was my personal best solve. I can't imagine memorizing in less than 7 minutes!

What was your total time? I know your previous 20 minute solve had a pretty fast memo but slow solve time, which was explained by the fact that you had to backtrack a bunch of pieces. I'd like to know how fast you can really solve it. I'm guessing sub-15? (Or did you just give up after you messed up the algorithm?)
 
I solved it in 18 minutes. My execution is really horrible. I have almost no recall delays, but i have to turn very carefully, since my eastsheen is so damn loose. I'll probably borrow a 5x5x5 from Kai for the German Open. But don't expect any world records from me, i'll go for a safe attempt :).
 
Umm, you should really try Kenneth's method of fixing a loose Eastsheen 5x5x5 - it takes less than a half hour to do and works quite well. You'll probably improve your 5x5x5 BLD speed by several minutes. (I can't believe I'm stupid enough to tell you this - now I'll NEVER catch you. :))

It's here:
http://www.speedsolving.com/showpost.php?p=29885&postcount=15

When you're finished, if you do it well, it's not quite as good as a brand-new cube, but almost.
 
Haha, Mikey :). Thanks for the tip, but i think i won't fix my eastsheen in the next days. I would rather concentrate on multi bld.

btw. 15/18 in 1:02h, 34 min memo. That's about 5.6s per image/piece. One second faster than my last attempt. If i stick with multi bld after the GO, i'll try to get it under 4s per image for 20 cubes.
 
Finally got a solve in competition. 6:03.something. Too bad I messed up CP, and then had to undo everything I did, and then redo it. I'm a moron.
 
My last 100 success comes to an average of 1:18.99

(I had 88 DNFs)

This is from 26/03/08 until 20/04/08. So that is 25 days, which is around 7.52 BLDs per day. I have exams soon, so I don't expect this figure to rise, if anything it'll probably lower. After my exams, I will get some good practice/training done :)

EDIT:
This included a "slow" and relaxing average of 1:39.xx, and plenty of other slow and relaxing BLDs.
 
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