Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

[MrMoney]

10/10 MBLD in 57 minutes. My wife seems to like cutting away the reactions on all my solves so no time display. Memo was about 42 minutes. I have been constructing a new memo-method for myself and it seems to be working better then the last. Some more practise and I hope to do this in competition.

 

[Chrish]

I just got a 3:40 solve, nothing to brag about among some of the people here, but definitely something I'm proud of. Past few days my interest in BLD has taken a big leap and I've been doing about half a dozen solves a day.. up from.. once a month?

For the sake of mentioning;
Scramble: L F2 D2 F D B2 L B U2 B' L2 D' L B' U2 D' L R2 B' F2 R2 U L' U R

 

[Zane_C]

10/10 MBLD in 57 minutes. My wife seems to like cutting away the reactions on all my solves so no time display. Memo was about 42 minutes. I have been constructing a new memo-method for myself and it seems to be working better then the last. Some more practise and I hope to do this in competition.

Your making a lot of progress, congratulations 10/10 is really good. :tu

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

24.18, 33.91, 12.38, 27.40, 22.84, 27.78, 25.66, 16.16, 23.09, 20.38, 21.28, 15.96 = 22.47

2x2bld

 

[RyanReese09]

First blidnfold solve ! . Got it last night. Video is uploading now as we speak
10:15 memo, 3:40 execution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG3CqG04bx0

Skip to 10:30 to start me solving it, or 13:55 for me at the very end+reaction
reaction=epic

 

[Rimuel]

I did my first two BLD solves and succeeded in both . It's a great feeling.

First solve: Memo - 11:25:00, Solve - 4:51:87
Second solve: Memo - 10:37:12, Solve - 3:38:31

Note: I used Old Pochmann.

 

[Kynit]

Wow, lots of first time BLDers! Congrats to the both of you!

 

[RyanReese09]

Wow, lots of first time BLDers! Congrats to the both of you!

thanks! hope to be sub10 (pref sub9 or so) by 12/11 so I can hpefully get a success in comp

 

[Kynit]

Trust me: you will. I went from around 10 minutes down to 6 in a few weeks.

It wouldn't hurt to learn M2, if you're using Old Pochmann; the concepts are almost the same, and you only need about 3 very short algs.

 

[RyanReese09]

7:17 memo, ended in DNF because I forgot to do a pure 2flip edge alg on edges (i didn't feel like breaking into a new cycle twice to just flip 2 edges) and in my auditory I did g instead of j, meh <_<

but memo over 3 minutes faster then yesterday, decided not to spend a crap load of time on reviewing, edge memo was around 4:15 or so, rest corners(edges are easy due to journey, but corners auditory..i can't execute the corners in < 10 seconds so it almost leaves my short term memory)
@kynitt, i might switch after the january comp, maybe

 

[Keroma12]

I tried 4BLD in the weekly competition for the second time: DNF (36:20.64 [25:xx]), DNF (35:59.66 [25.xx]), 32:03.62 [21.xx]
Even with the two DNFs it's still an accomplishment for me, since the only other time I've tried 4BLD, my 3 attempts were around an hour. Now I've got 2 successful solves out of 6 attempts
For the first I had two edges and two centers swapped (memo mistakes) and on the second there were two centers swapped (no idea why).

Also: 3x3x3 Multiple Blindfolded: 3/3 (25:27.47)
First time attempting 3 cubes. Again, for the weekly competition.

I'm really getting into BLD, it's so fun! And thanks to Chris for helping me out a bit with 4BLD :tu

 

[kinch2002]

7:17 memo...edge memo was around 4:15 or so, rest corners(edges are easy due to journey, but corners auditory..i can't execute the corners in < 10 seconds so it almost leaves my short term memory)

Auditory corner memo should be much much faster than this. My corners are executed in like 25 seconds or so and I don't have much problem memoing them sub-10 easily. The auditory sound should be repeating in your head while you solve each corner, and you shouldn't forget it if you're doing that. But nice to see you're getting better at bld

 

[RyanReese09]

Auditory corner memo should be much much faster than this. My corners are executed in like 25 seconds or so and I don't have much problem memoing them sub-10 easily. The auditory sound should be repeating in your head while you solve each corner, and you shouldn't forget it if you're doing that. But nice to see you're getting better at bld

a big issue for me (even with edges) is that I can't look at a specific peice and say off the top of my head what the letter is, i have to go through the alphabet to get to the sticker, and then continue, and since that takes so long to do the abc's I have to resound the auditory a couple times and then repeat the abcs to the next one

edges is somewhat the same, in the sense that I have to go through the abc's again

tips on this? should i take time to specifically be able to say the letter of a position with instantaniousity? (that's not a word )
let me make sure i understand auditory
i just have a whole bunch of letters from letter system of corners, it makes
KAVEP, that's obviously just something i made up, i'd jsut say KAH VEP in my head (sound it out) and then gogo solve?

 

[qqwref]

You can't use an auditory system with letters until you can figure out the letters without saying the ABC's in your head - it will just be too confusing to do quickly. I suggest doing a flashcard system or something to get used to what goes where.

I improved pretty fast at the start, but then again I did use visual + 3OP, which is easier to start with but might not have as much potential at the end. (I guess I'd learn visual freestyle if I ever got really serious about it, anyway.)

 

[RyanReese09]

You can't use an auditory system with letters until you can figure out the letters without saying the ABC's in your head - it will just be too confusing to do quickly. I suggest doing a flashcard system or something to get used to what goes where.

I improved pretty fast at the start, but then again I did use visual + 3OP, which is easier to start with but might not have as much potential at the end. (I guess I'd learn visual freestyle if I ever got really serious about it, anyway.)

yeah auditory was extremely hard to do due to me having to go through hte abc's and find the sticker within 10 seconds (or else i'd lose the 10 second short term memory..thingy people have)

i suppose i'll dedicate tomorrow to making new locations + drilling the lettering and resting my current locations

 

[aronpm]

You can't use an auditory system with letters until you can figure out the letters without saying the ABC's in your head - it will just be too confusing to do quickly.

Exactly. My suggestion would be to make a sentence for corners using words made up from the letters, until the letters are associated to stickers.

 

[kinch2002]

Oh ok, probably my bad for suggesting auditory to you before you knew your letter system fluently. I kind of forgot that you wouldn't have them down properly. I've never bothered to 'learn' them intentionally - I just did solves until I knew it. But as qq says, a flashcard system would be good for you I think.

 

[RyanReese09]

Oh ok, probably my bad for suggesting auditory to you before you knew your letter system fluently. I kind of forgot that you wouldn't have them down properly. I've never bothered to 'learn' them intentionally - I just did solves until I knew it. But as qq says, a flashcard system would be good for you I think.

well I had done lettering previously with story method but it was the same deal then
and no! don't feel bad aobut suggesting auditory, I should do this route anyway so it's no worries if I have to spend a bit of effort working on identifying peices without saying ABCs in my head. it'll increase my edge memo time as well, thanks

 

[cmhardw]

5x5x5 BLD 15:46.84 success after 3 beers. Done in the safety of my own home, after some Friday night fun. Surprised I got it, but happy that I still pulled it off I don't condone practicing this, but I figured I would try it.

 

[bluecloe45]

5x5x5 BLD 15:46.84 success after 3 beers. Done in the safety of my own home, after some Friday night fun. Surprised I got it, but happy that I still pulled it off I don't condone practicing this, but I figured I would try it.

Were you like puking or just a bit lightheaded? I have never had 3 beers.