Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

[ssb150388]

Got a 2:24 official BLD.
My first success in a comp.

 

[toastman]

WOOHOO! Just completed my first ever "edges only" BLD solve after about 10 failures. Basically, I slowed way, way down to make 100% certain I'd have no mistakes.

Initial Memo was NVDJMWPETKD in 8:16. Thought "This can't be right. Only 11 letters". Start again.
1:37 later, realised I'd missed a letter. NVDLMW*U*PETKD I'd already had an image-story in my head and didn't want to re-jig it. Decided to "Brute-force" the extra letter.

Execution in 5:43.67. Blindfold off, cube solved. WOOHOOHOOHOO!

The memo story was: NeeraV (dude I know) DJs for Michael Winslow (the sound-effects guy from police academy) letter-U, Paul Eddington (from Yes Minister) Tae-Kwon-do's a Dog. ~200 moves without error.

(Almost made a mistake and memoed that third letter as a B and not a D. Very, very disturbing image. What has been seen cannot be unseen *shudder*)

BRING ON CORNERS! I'll be practicing the rest of Old-Pochmann this week and will do a full attempt next weekend. WOOHOO! BLD is AWESOME FUN! Thanks to all those in the "Blindfold Failures" Thread for your continual encouragement (especially CH and Team-Oz-MultiBLD )

Also, it's 2:55am and I have to get up for work in the morning (It's OK, I had a long nap). Listening to classical music seemed to help as well. I'm going to have a beer.

 

[x-colo-x]

avg5 54.67: 51.79, 53.44, (51.24), 58.77, (1:02.68)

 

[MrMoney]

MBLD 3/3 9:20
MBLD 8/8 39:50
MBLD 10/10 48:55

Happy with these times. The 3/3 was an improvement from 13:xx and the 8/8 is and improvement from 42:xx

 

[Kynit]

WOOHOO! Just completed my first ever "edges only" BLD solve after about 10 failures.

Once you get a few successes, it becomes a lot easier... I used to have trouble remembering four letters, and now I can memorize a 3x3 without struggling to recall anything. Keep at it!

 

[Julian]

YAAAY! I just did my first 3x3x3 blind!! 21 minutes 20 seconds. I started learning 9 days ago and finally i made it.
I use m2 (letters) for edges and pochman (visual) for corners. Lol, im so happy now

Congrats! You have a fun journey ahead of you

 

[Xishem]

2x2BLD; Old Pochmann Y-Perm

1. 1:06.38 R2 D' B' L2 D' U2 F R2 U' R B2 R2 U' D2 B R L B' F' D F2 B2 L D' B2
2. 1:14.64 R' B U' D R D R2 U F' R D2 R D' L U F2 U R L D B2 L' F' D' B'
3. 1:07.11 U2 R' F' U F' R' F U2 F' R' U'
4. (32.23) U2 F' R2 F2 U' R2 U R' F R2 U'
5. DNF(1:01.01) R U R' U2 F' R F2 U' F2 R' U'
6. DNF(1:01.81) R U' F U' R U2 R' U F2 R2 U'
7. 1:10.67 F R' U2 F U' F' U2 R U2 R' U'
8. DNF(39.69) F2 U2 F' R' F2 R2 F2 R2 U' R2 U'
9. 1:08.95 R2 F U R F' U2 R U' F' R' U'
10. DNF(48.93) U' F2 U' R' U' R U' R2 F R' U'
11. 1:08.27 U' F U2 R' F' U' F R' U2 R' U'
12. DNF(51.30) U' R U R' U F2 U2 R' U' R2 U'
13. 53.51 F' R2 F2 R' U2 R' U F2 U R' U'
14. DNF(2:57.23) F' R U2 F2 R2 F' U R2 F2 R' U'
15. 58.24 F R' U2 R' F' R2 F R' U' R U'
16. DNF(54.28) R U' F' U2 F2 R' U' R U2 R' U'
17. DNF(1:18.44) U R' U' R' F U2 F U F R2 U'
18. 2:11.57 F U F' U R' U F' R' U R' U'
19. 47.15 R U2 F R2 F R' U2 R2 U2 R' U'
20. DNF(1:41.59) U' R' U' F U' R F R' F' R' U'
21. DNF(1:42.39) R2 U' F' U' F' R2 F2 R' F' R' U'
22. DNF(2:13.60) F2 U2 R F' R' U R F2 U2 R' U'
23. DNF(57.83) U F' U2 F' U' R U' R U' R' U'
24. 1:04.66 U F U' F' U2 R F2 R F' R' U'
25. 50.66 R U2 R U F2 R U2 R2 F' R' U'
26. 1:12.93 R' U F' R F U F R2 U' R2 U'
27. 59.97 R2 U' F U2 R' F2 R F U' R' U'
28. 2:12.11 R' U2 F R U' F' R' U F R' U'
29. 1:10.11 U R F' U R' F R2 U' F R' U'
30. 1:01.56 U F' R2 U2 R' F' R' F2 U' R' U'
31. 1:16.51 U F' R2 U2 R' F' R' F2 U' R' U'
32. 1:05.94 U2 R2 F2 U R' F2 R U' F' R2 U'
33. 58.62 F U' R U2 R F' U R2 U2 R' U'
34. (DNF(41.69)) F2 R2 U F' U2 R F R U' R' U'
35. 44.11 F U R2 F2 U R U2 R2 F' R' U'

I've pretty much been doing 2x2 BLD for the past 6 or 7 hours. I've been trying to stay away from safe memo and trying to push my memory -- It's worked out better than I thought it might. I'm hoping it will really help with my 3x3 corners time. Got my PB of 32.23 in these solves, and I'm pretty happy about it.

Edit: Got some more good ones. Finally got 11/12 in a row for an Ao12 of 1:11.31

Edit2: And just got a sub-1 Ao12! 59.85

 

[Zane_C]

(45.81), 1:07.90, (DNF), 48.95, 48.60 = 55.15

Too bad about the counting 1:07, but I haven't been getting many sub-50s so the counting two make up for it.

 

[x-colo-x]

44.12 R D2 R2 L' D F' L2 D' F R' L2 U B2 R2 D' F2 U2 B2 U R2
i'm starting doing a lot of sub 50

 

[cmhardw]

Quoted from this week's competition (week#6): This week I did my 3 fastest 5x5x5BLD solves ever, and 5 of my top 10 fastest solves ever. I also got over 50% accuracy for 5x5x5 (75% actually) for the first time since I don't know how long ago. I don't know what happened between last week and this week, but I'm glad it happened!

Here are the last 8 solves I've done on 5x5x5BLD:
10:56.49 11:56.27 DNF 12:39.53 10:44.94 11:48.66 10:57.50 DNF

Average of all the non-DNF solves is 11:30.57 which is only about 8 seconds slower than what my pb single was before this week.

As I said in my competition post - let's just say that I screamed a lot this week

 

[Mike Hughey]

Wow, Chris - awesome! You need to get to a competition soon so you can take back that NAR that you still deserve. It was nice that you let me steal it for a bit, but now you should take it back.

I'm still hopeful I'll be able to be competitive with you again when I get really good at BH wings; they're helping, but I still pause too much between pairs.

I'm having a good streak on 5x5x5 BLD, too - 6 successes in a row, counting the two I had in competition a week ago.

 

[porkynator]

Memo pb for a successful solve: 24.xx seconds (3 edges skip and a twisted corner, total time was 1:52.xx)

 

[Andrew Ricci]

First 3x3 blind success using Old Pochmann and visual memo. The time was quite slow considering the ease of the scramble; it took me about 20 minutes. Still quite satisfied.

Edit: This was only my second real attempt.

 

[DennisStrehlau]

I decided to use my double images (2 pieces = 1 image) also for single 3x3x3 BLD now. Its much harder in the beginning because i cant rush (memo i mean). Its because i have to think longer about the correct images since there are about 1000 of them. But i realized that i will get faster with that in the future. Its also a huge help for my MULTI BLD, 4x4x4 BLD and 5x5x5 BLD because i will get faster with "finding" the correct images.
I just did some solves and also got a nice 1:18.06 mins, wich is quiet fast for double images. The best way is to memorize it slowly and carefully wich makes it easier to remember and the execution faster i think. At least, thats the way i will practise it now...

Dennis

 

[RyanReese09]

What? Over 1000? What? I am learing 2 letters per image (AA-AX through XA-XX) and that's only 576 images, how do you get over 1k?

 

[Johan444]

First 4x4 BLD success! Didn't time it, but took atleast 30 mins. Used commutators for centers, r2 for edges and pochmann corners. My 4th try. Feels great.

 

[kinch2002]

First 4x4 BLD success! Didn't time it, but took atleast 30 mins. Used commutators for centers, r2 for edges and pochmann corners. My 4th try. Feels great.

Awesome! Congratulations!

 

[Johan444]

Awesome! Congratulations!

Thanks, both for the congrats and the tutorial wich made it possible for me to do this

 

[porkynator]

PB single and average 3/5: (1:37.07), 1:59.54, 1:47.08, 1:57.47, (DNF(2:00.46)) = 1:54.70

 

[Xishem]

Not really sure how these solves happened. Both were NL, but pretty easy, each having only 1 cycle for edges and 1 cycle for corners. Regardless, these times are pretty fast for me, and they happened one after the other.

3x3BLD:
3:47.78
3:45.04

Personal bests by far (Previous PB was 5:4X.XX). BLD is starting to become less a chore and more a fun event!