Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

[Dene]

1:39.xx BLD, only slightly lucky I think... 5 edges were already in place, but corners were hard, and two edges were in correct place but flipped. Is this lucky? because although 5 were in place, I had to flip two of them, which takes longer than solving another edge..
I use M2/freestyle hybrid and CO/CP

Oh wow you're getting fast Malcolm. I assume you're going to be at the NZ competition? You will have BLD in the bag unless I decide to work on it (unlikely). But I was thinking, because we need two people to attempt something for it to be official, if you wanted to do multiBLD there (if there is time) I could give it a try so you could get that record too!

 

[masterofthebass]

2/3 in 17:04 with my new letters. It's really easy to remember things now.

I somehow skipped an edge on my 3rd cube during memo, so I was off by something weird. Looking forward to a success in 4x4 BLD too.

In case you were wondering, here are my sentences for edges:

KAX, good job of nothing
be quick, james wong. PE kicks life
DR., kick james's life valve

I have fun w/ these.

 

[Mike Hughey]

2/3 in 17:04 with my new letters. It's really easy to remember things now.

I somehow skipped an edge on my 3rd cube during memo, so I was off by something weird. Looking forward to a success in 4x4 BLD too.

In case you were wondering, here are my sentences for edges:

KAX, good job of nothing
be quick, james wong. PE kicks life
DR., kick james's life valve

I have fun w/ these.

Good job! Nice sentences.

Wait a minute - I thought you didn't like BLD anymore?

 

[malcolm]

1:39.xx BLD, only slightly lucky I think... 5 edges were already in place, but corners were hard, and two edges were in correct place but flipped. Is this lucky? because although 5 were in place, I had to flip two of them, which takes longer than solving another edge..
I use M2/freestyle hybrid and CO/CP

Oh wow you're getting fast Malcolm. I assume you're going to be at the NZ competition? You will have BLD in the bag unless I decide to work on it (unlikely). But I was thinking, because we need two people to attempt something for it to be official, if you wanted to do multiBLD there (if there is time) I could give it a try so you could get that record too!

Sure, I'd like to try multi BLD. I'd probably go for 3, because with the new rules if i do 2 i have to get 2/2 or a DNF, but with 3 i can get 2/3 or 3/3 =)

 

[Mike Hughey]

Sure, I'd like to try multi BLD. I'd probably go for 3, because with the new rules if i do 2 i have to get 2/2 or a DNF, but with 3 i can get 2/3 or 3/3 =)

Actually, Ron changed the new rules so that now 1/2 is not a DNF. You now have to have a score less than zero to get a DNF.

 

[Dene]

That'd be good Malcolm. I'll give 2 an attempt then, if we're able to fit it in (I should say "if they're able to fit it in" as it isn't our competition to rule . I still think me and you should get a bit of leeway though, to try to fit in as many events as possible).

 

[masterofthebass]

Mike, I've decided to delve into some BLD now that I've started with my new memo method. I guess my main issue with it before was that with my simple color pair memo I couldn't rely on it for larger things. It worked fine for 1 3x3, but other than that, it was pointless. Now, it's basically an aid for visual when I do 1 cube, and for more, I'm going to start using letters. Basically, a good memo system changes your mind when it comes to the difficulty of something.

 

[malcolm]

1:42.46 non lucky =) just a little easy. and 1:58 on a normal solve, I think all corners were wrong, and only 1 edge in place. I don't know what has happened, i got a whole lot of sub1 all of a sudden, and my success rate has gone from about 20% to more like 80%. And I don't feel as if I am solving any differently..

 

[malcolm]

octagon cube BLD in 8:26.95 =) CO is very easy, you don't need to memo it because you can feel the corners of the cube

 

[joey]

Octagon cube, I didn't think of BLDing that! I'll try soon! (Not now, its 1:15am!)

 

[Mike Hughey]

Mike, I've decided to delve into some BLD now that I've started with my new memo method. I guess my main issue with it before was that with my simple color pair memo I couldn't rely on it for larger things. It worked fine for 1 3x3, but other than that, it was pointless. Now, it's basically an aid for visual when I do 1 cube, and for more, I'm going to start using letters. Basically, a good memo system changes your mind when it comes to the difficulty of something.

That's good to hear. If you were as good as you were with a poor memory system, I can't imagine how good you're going to be with a good one! I'm looking forward to seeing a 4x4x4 BLD avg of 10 from you before long! (I still want to do a real one of those someday, all in one sitting.)

 

[Dene]

New PB, 3:49.18. Old Pochmann owns. Look out Malcolm, I've changed my mind, I want that record too now

 

[Mike Hughey]

Three times today for 3x3x3 BLD that were better than my previous personal best: 2:18.83, 2:20.12, 2:22.xx - all done with M2. As of today, I'm finally truly faster with M2 than with 3-cycle.

 

[joey]

Nice Mike, some great times! Keep working onto sub-2!

 

[Mike Hughey]

Nice Mike, some great times! Keep working onto sub-2!

Thanks, Joey. A couple of those actually had some fairly big memory pauses, so I think it's just a matter of getting a good scramble for me to get sub-2 at this point. I just haven't had a solve yet where it all came together.

It also feels like there are some things I'm still doing inefficiently; it seems like this system should be able to go sub-2 fairly consistently, even for me, if I can just get good at it. Oh, and one other thing - one of those 3 solves had a 48 second memo in it!!! Definitely my best ever! (I was amazed when I looked at the time for it.)

 

[malcolm]

I found one of the things that helped most with getting sub 2 from 2:20ish was taking longer with memo. Before, I was going crazy and getting 30-45 second memo always, but have big pauses to recall. Then i started taking 50 seconds to 1 min, and going over a few more times and needed nearly no pauses for recall.

 

[shelley]

First successful 4x4 BLD! 20:05
Thanks to Chris Hardwick and Mike Hughey for their tutorials in the How-to section, and Lucas Garron for teaching me r2 last weekend.

 

[alexc]

1/3 in 12:29.30 (7:43 memo)

The wrong cubes were both off by two misoriented corners. Now I have to get this time with all correct!

 

[joey]

0/3 11:53.63
Garh. I was really sure I got all 3 correct, so it's really discouraging to get 0.
#1 2 2-cycles off
#2 2 misoriented edges
#2 2 misoriented edges

I don't see how I made the mistakes on the first cube. I guess the other two were just because I shot to the wrong place.

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

Does a 3/3 15:08 and a 1:26.04 official count as accomplishments?

Oh yeah, and a 4x4 DNF... 18min. I'll work on it more tomorrow.