Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

[Toad]

Statue now has girlfriend, Sq1 BLD will take him longer to learn than initially anticipated.

 

[StachuK1992]

>_< Apart from texting, I have the entire remainder of today and tomorrow to do whatever. Texting only consumes ~1/20 of that, so I should be safe to say that I should be good tomorrow night.

Mike: I did a successful test solve, with "sq-1 below the table but not blindfolded"

 

[Toad]

... *blah blah about girlfriend* ... I should be safe ...

YES YOU SHOULD

 

[musicninja17]

Memo'ed and moved like 6 or so edges on 3x3 with old poch. Better than i have been, working up to full solve......

 

[Mike Hughey]

>_< Apart from texting, I have the entire remainder of today and tomorrow to do whatever. Texting only consumes ~1/20 of that, so I should be safe to say that I should be good tomorrow night.

Mike: I did a successful test solve, with "sq-1 below the table but not blindfolded"

Awesome! Was it with a full random scramble, or square? If it was a full scramble, what case was it? (Just curious.)

And it sounds like you have a very nice and justifiable reason to be taking longer to learn than anticipated. Cubing is good for filling time apart, though.

 

[StachuK1992]

Awesome! Was it with a full random scramble, or square? If it was a full scramble, what case was it? (Just curious.)

And it sounds like you have a very nice and justifiable reason to be taking longer to learn than anticipated. Cubing is good for filling time apart, though.

DB, actually DB, not BD (flipped, if that's what you call it)
It took ages to memorize what I could, with notes on various papers (just took a sharpie and went to town!)
I was on that attempt all throughout the past 2hrs, trying to understand the method.

Haha!, yes, but I must still make room for cubing.

 

[Mike Hughey]

DB, actually DB, not BD (flipped, if that's what you call it)

Oh, good, so you've already handled passing through EA, which is the big mess I made. If you can handle that, you should be able to handle just about anything. Good job, you're on your way! Good luck!

 

[Keroma12]

It's the Per's Special case. You can solve it by zy[U2, r U2 l' U2 r']y'z'.
A slower but more intuitive way is to use DF as a setup to get a nice 8-move case.

Thanks! I ended up using 3 setup moves. Won't be doing that again. BLD is so fun.

 

[aronpm]

Spoiler

7BLD

Great job! Shame that you beat me, but I don't plan on trying again for a while.

I've got to sub 1:23 though, lol

 

[Tim Reynolds]

After probably 65 attempts or so (WR?) I finally solved a 5x5 blindfolded! The time was 28:13, which was one of my fastest attempts ever, if not the fastest (only counting full attempts). This means that my first 5x5 BLD success was faster than my first 3x3 or 4x4 BLD success.

For some reason this one felt like it was going to be solved, my heart was pounding near the end. No parities is nice. 3 solved centers of each kind, wing cycles were 5 11 6 and 2 long. My phone got a message from Jim at about 27 minutes, which fortunately didn't throw me off.

This whole time I've been using the same journey locations. Last night I made two new paths, and this was my second time through them. While I don't think overusing the same 2 paths caused more than 5-10% of my DNFs, I'm positive my recall was faster this time. Then again, my wing memo (which I do visually for some strange reason) was pretty good, which has nothing to do with that.

I made a mistake during memo which I fortunately caught...two consecutive images were Nike (NK) and snail (SN), which doesn't make sense because I don't reuse letters on centers, I just make sure it's one long cycle.

YAY!!!! Now onto 6x6

 

[kinch2002]

Yay congrats I applaud you for the insane amount of perseverance you have. Try to get a 6x6 success a bit quicker maybe

 

[JBCM627]

My phone got a message from Jim at about 27 minutes, which fortunately didn't throw me off.

Congrats, but yikes, sorry about that. I considered that it might distract you, so I only sent one... and hoped your phone/computer was on silent.

 

[Mike Hughey]

After probably 65 attempts or so (WR?) I finally solved a 5x5 blindfolded! The time was 28:13, which was one of my fastest attempts ever, if not the fastest (only counting full attempts).

Yes!!!! I'm so happy for you - I knew you were close! Thank you for keeping at it this week.

I can see how adding another set of paths could really help you. I don't subscribe to the idea that you have to let journeys rest for a long time to get good results (although some memory masters disagree with me on that - perhaps it works for them), but it is hard to use the same locations over and over again - it's very helpful to be able to alternate between several of them if you're doing multiple solves in a row. So I suspect adding the new paths will really help you, with this as well as 4x4x4 BLD.

 

[Tim Reynolds]

Congrats, but yikes, sorry about that. I considered that it might distract you, so I only sent one... and hoped your phone/computer was on silent.

Computer was, but my new phone wasn't. Don't worry about it, it kept me on my toes

And thanks as always mike, if you hadn't badgered me so much about trying 5x5 blind I might not have spent all that time on this thing. I made about 10 new paths that I'm going to start cycling through. I might also start using letters for wings like a sane person would. Right now I'm revamping and relearning my letter pair list which should help as well.

 

[Keroma12]

Two days ago I got 55:31.63 4x4 solve. Today with the exact same method I got 34:22.72
I executed my first centers memo on the edges, but caught it straight away. Apart from that, it went very smoothly, even with the corners parity and edges parity.
I sense a 5x5 attempt in the near future.

 

[porkynator]

2:18.xx, memo 52.xx: 2 days with letters (instead of PA) and now I feel almost safe

 

[Engberg91]

New PB^^
3x3 BLD 3:46.61
10 edges, 8 corners.
no parity and 1 cycle in the corner part.
Scramble: D2 B D' F R2 D' F2 U2 R2 D2 L' D2 U2 R D R F2 B L2 U' R2 B D R' L'

 

[fastcubesolver]

i've gotten a lot of BLD successes, all about 8 minutes, but some around 6. I'm happy.

 

[-Joseph]

Hi everyone!

3x3x3 BLD = 7:55.09

first bld success =P

 

[JonnyWhoopes]

New 3BLD PB.

1. 1:47.47 U L' U' F' R2 F' D2 B' R U R' D' L2 B R' U2 F2 B R U R2 B D' R' D'