It's 4 days from my first 4x4 BLD success, and I just did a successful 5x5 BLD
on my first attempt! (c.f. my first 4x4 BLD success after 8 DNFs.) Though I went
real slow to make sure I wouldn't screw up
I didn't learn anything new at all for this, but then again, is there really anything new to learn? The answer is
yes, and I sorta discovered these
new things midway through my solve, came up with solutions on the fly and somehow managed to pull through
I memorized wedges, midges, x-centers, t-centers, corners, and solved them in the following order:
Corners: 3OP, nothing special.
X-centers: Exactly the same as 4x4 centers, commutators.
T-centers: Once I reached this midway through my execution, I realized I've never solved these before
so I stoned for about 30 seconds, went back to basic principles of commutators in my head, and somehow managed to figure out how to solve these on the fly
Wedges: r2. Again, nothing special. Though I did the r/l ones with the long algorithms, didn't want to risk my first attempt with commutators, which could go very, very, very wrong for me. (Yeah I've had it once on the 4x4, that was before I devised my system for r/l edges.)
Midges: Stoned for
10 minutes wondering how to solve this. I memorized them as 3OP, flipped the bad edges, and then realized I didn't know how to do a U-perm for midges at the final stage of execution, that was pretty scary. I kept cursing. In the end I did M2, praying very hard that the M-slice algorithms (U2M'U2M' and MU2MU2) would work, and they did
And now with my eyes open, I can see why they would obviously work, now I feel stupid wondering why I sat there for 10 minutes, doing nothing but debating with myself whether it would be worth the risk
Final time:
1:04:08.70, it's on Cubemania!
I don't consider it a good time for a first solve, was expecting something like 45-50 minutes (considering my 4x4 time), but now that I've solved it, I'm glad I didn't rush. (And of course I wasted 10 mins at the last stage with 12 more midges left to cycle, damn
) Edit: I've found another excuse to justify why it was so slow, my cube sucks so much I had to do r2 as (Rr)2R2'. I'll get a better one next time.
Can anyone tell me why T-centers are called T-centers? I don't see how they look like Ts, more like crosses. Or does it stand for something? (Just found out they were called that
after my solve
)
P/S: @Mike, now I
really see what you mean by go slow and be careful
Edit: Oh, and memorization was 25 minutes. Though it could've easily been sub-20 if I wasn't so scared of a DNF
And why are there so many
s in this post?
I ordered a 5x5, (not v-cube
) so I will try to catch you on 5x5 bld, but you will probably beat me in these big cube multi bld for a long time.
