Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

[cmhardw]

Yeah, but it's not like I scan the cube for flipped edges at the start

Neither do I. I scan for them just before putting on the blindfold, and I solve them first. More precisely I scan for permuted but disoriented corners as the very last thing before putting on the blindfold, and I orient them immediately after donning the blindfold. I scan for permuted but disoriented edges after memorizing the edge cycles, and I solve them immediately after orienting corners.

Just a thought to try to see if you like it.

 

[Faz]

Wait, but doesn't that mean I would have to mirror all my edge memo, so that I would be shooting to the other sticker on the same piece?

 

[aronpm]

Wait, but doesn't that mean I would have to mirror all my edge memo, so that I would be shooting to the other sticker on the same piece?

No...

Say the buffer piece (what would be at DF when solved) is at FR, and UL is flipped. You would do something like R y 2flip y' R', and then solve edges as normal.

 

[Zane_C]

26:17 5BLD, second weekly comp scramble.

 

[Tim Major]

:tu
Great job.

 

[riffz]

No...

Say the buffer piece (what would be at DF when solved) is at FR, and UL is flipped. You would do something like R y 2flip y' R', and then solve edges as normal.

Ooooooooooooooh. I may have to try that. I was thinking along the same lines as Faz, that if there were an odd number of flipped edges you'd have to flip your edge memo. Thanks.

 

[Zane_C]

5BLD 32:33, the memo was really bad ~15, execution had so many pauses. Although the time is bad, I'm happy with my third success and a streak of 2.

 

[MrMoney]

Congrats Zane, what do you have problems with in memo? Too many images, finding where pieces need to go or?

 

[Zane_C]

Thanks
It's easy enough to memorise them, just something about memorising big cubes is so much slower than memorising 3x3 multi for me. I don't do all that much big cubes bld, so maby practice is all I need.

 

[kinch2002]

Thanks
It's easy enough to memorise them, just something about memorising big cubes is so much slower than memorising 3x3 multi for me. I don't do all that much big cubes bld, so maby practice is all I need.

Interesting...it's totally the opposite way round for me. I did start with big cubes bld before multi though so that might be the reason.

 

[ben1996123]

1:51.03 clock BLD success

First sub 2, scramble was lol.

UU --- dU u3'--- dd u5 --- Ud u2 --- dU u' --- Ud u5'--- UU u --- UU u3'--- UU u3' --- dd --- dd
dd d' - dU d'---- UU d3' --- Ud d' --- UU ----- UU ------ Ud ----- dU ------ UU ------ dd d2- Ud

In case I scrambled incorrectly, memo was 12 3 5 8 1 3 3 1 3 6 2 1 2 11

EDIT: Forgot to say memo was about 40 seconds

 

[Mike Hughey]

1:51.03 clock BLD success

EDIT: Forgot to say memo was about 40 seconds

Nice. I was going to ask you what your memo time was, but I kept forgetting. You and I are around the same speed now; I assume you'll blow past me in a week or two if you keep at it.

 

[ben1996123]

Nice. I was going to ask you what your memo time was, but I kept forgetting. You and I are around the same speed now; I assume you'll blow past me in a week or two if you keep at it.

Thanks, what is your PB single?

 

[Mike Hughey]

I had to look back through my weekly competition results to see, but it looks like my PB is the good one I had last night for the fifth scramble this week: 1:47.46, 27 seconds memorizing. So it looks like your execution is already significantly better than mine.

 

[amostay2004]

Wooooooooooooooooooooo 45.12 non-lucky!

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

Well, non-lucky in a sense that no pieces were solved (1 corner twisted, 1 edge flipped) but all the cycles were really easy Didn't look at the timer after memo so I dunno how fast it was.

First sub-50!

 

[Ville Seppänen]

YAY AMOS

 

[Fabian Auroux]

Amos !

 

[ben1996123]

I had to look back through my weekly competition results to see, but it looks like my PB is the good one I had last night for the fifth scramble this week: 1:47.46, 27 seconds memorizing. So it looks like your execution is already significantly better than mine.

Do you think sub 1 is possible?

 

[Mike Hughey]

Do you think sub 1 is possible?

Single? Absolutely. A sub-1 average might be tough, though.

Consider that:
1. I have a pretty bad clock. Actually, it's good, except that one of the dials is messed up and doesn't turn smoothly, which can be deadly for BLD. (I should mention that this is Joey's clock, and I am tremendously grateful for it. It's not his fault that it's bad - when he sent it to me it was perfect. But I dropped it about a year after he sent it to me, and it's never been the same. )
2. I'm really pretty bad at clock anyway - I average around 17 or 18 seconds solving sighted. Someone with a better feel for the dials should be able to do much better.
3. Clock BLD speeds are so very much dependent on the scramble. If you got lucky enough to get a scramble where all dials were between 10:00 and 2:00, I would think sub-40 might be possible if you got really fast at memorizing. But if there are a lot of 6:00's, I would think it might be pretty hard for even the very best people to get sub-1 BLD on it. But maybe I'm underestimating the ability of people to reliably do 6:00 turns on clock blindfolded; maybe it's not as hard as I think it is for someone good.

 

[eastamazonantidote]

First time trying to 1-pass memo: 2 edges flipped in 3:42.59. soooooo frustrating, but at least I know I can do my memo 1-pass now.