Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

4x4 BLD: 14:30.91
Second scramble of weekly-competition 45.
So happy! :D First success with r2 for edges. Memo was ~9:30 and I've done 6:xy memos before, so sub-10 is definitely possible for me. 5 minutes execution feels really nice as opposed to like 7-8 minutes with my old method :p (therefore, also PB exec). Total PB is something around 14:25 but with parity alg for edges :fp
Really nice and fluent edge execution, I feel really secure with r2 now. I will not try the 3rd one but I got back into 4BLD and I will regularly do it from now on.
Do not open, if you want to try the scramble later:
Reorientation: 8 centers solved, 2 wings solved. So... pretty easy :)
 
wtf first BLD since UK Open

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

Memo was like 17 so this is really fast exec for me! Dunno if I should categorize this as lucky or non-lucky. It does have 2 edges and a corner solved but there were 2 cycles for edges so 6 corners and 10 edges to solve
 
Wow... Been a while since I've posted one of my own pb times in this thread.

11:29.07 5x5x5 BLD solve on this week's 5th regular 5x5x5 scramble is my new pb 5x5x5BLD! Memorization on this scramble didn't feel too particularly easy, though it did feel very nice. For whatever reason my memorization was sticking so easily, it was thrilling! I used riffz's suggestion of using my auditory memory method for the central edges, and my image memory method for the corners. I think the results speak for themselves, riffz I will certainly change my memorization approach for 3x3x3 and 5x5x5 from here on out! Thanks for the tip!
 
cmhardw said:
Wow... Been a while since I've posted one of my own pb times in this thread.

11:29.07 5x5x5 BLD solve on this week's 5th regular 5x5x5 scramble is my new pb 5x5x5BLD! Memorization on this scramble didn't feel too particularly easy, though it did feel very nice. For whatever reason my memorization was sticking so easily, it was thrilling! I used riffz's suggestion of using my auditory memory method for the central edges, and my image memory method for the corners. I think the results speak for themselves, riffz I will certainly change my memorization approach for 3x3x3 and 5x5x5 from here on out! Thanks for the tip!
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Awesome time! It's great to hear that my recommendation is working for you.
 
7BLD!!! :D :D
1:33:19 [44:14.55]
First attempt at anything bigger than 5bld. Just decided it was time, now that UK Open is over. Of course I went super safe on memo and execution was really slow because I was having to think carefully about the comms I'd have to do on the weird centre pieces. I also popped a centre on my very last alg (parity for outer wings) but managed to finish the alg before crawling on the floor for a while until I found it!
So happy - don't think I'll be doing it again though :p
 
kinch2002 said:
7BLD!!! :D :D
1:33:19 [44:14.55]
First attempt at anything bigger than 5bld. Just decided it was time, now that UK Open is over. Of course I went super safe on memo and execution was really slow because I was having to think carefully about the comms I'd have to do on the weird centre pieces. I also popped a centre on my very last alg (parity for outer wings) but managed to finish the alg before crawling on the floor for a while until I found it!
So happy - don't think I'll be doing it again though :p
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You suck, you didn't even do it in a bus :p
Seriously, congratulations !
 
kinch2002 said:
7BLD!!! :D :D
1:33:19 [44:14.55]
First attempt at anything bigger than 5bld. Just decided it was time, now that UK Open is over. Of course I went super safe on memo and execution was really slow because I was having to think carefully about the comms I'd have to do on the weird centre pieces. I also popped a centre on my very last alg (parity for outer wings) but managed to finish the alg before crawling on the floor for a while until I found it!
So happy - don't think I'll be doing it again though :p
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Congratulations - awesome job!
 
I wasn't wearing flip flops, but I was wearing shorts. I think I did a small fist pump accompanied by a 'yes!' and then rested my head on the table for a few minutes out of mental exhaustion. Then I posted here and made dinner because I had kind of missed having it with everyone else. My mish-mash of letters/visual/journey/rooms method that I use for 4 and 5bld didn't seem to work that well for this. I tend to memo entire cycles into each location for centres but after 6 lots of centres it was becoming difficult to figure out whether I'd executed all the images in each location - if I was ever crazy enough to do this again, I'd stick to letters and journeys probably, with a set number of images in each location, unlike what I was doing. Kind of wish I'd filmed it but unfortunately my camera only has enough memory for half an hour or so.

EDIT: Oh and thanks for all your kind messages :) Some of you are my inspiration for bld so it means so much to make a small step towards your level of bld expertise and experience!
 
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