Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

[joey]

7x7 BLD DNF
3:52.57
Corners correct.
Midges correct.
29 centres correct.
0 outer/inner wings correct.

 

[Brett]

4x4x4 BLD DNF. 55 minutesish

I haven't had a successful 3x3x3 BLD yet either, but i'm not even trying.

Right now I'm developing my own method for 4x4x4 BLD and I fail at it. Joey/Dan gave me same insights that brought my edge cycling from 54 moves to 12 moves each, which helps a lot.

I can get the centers and corners :/

 

[Mike Hughey]

7x7 BLD DNF
3:52.57
Corners correct.
Midges correct.
29 centres correct.
0 outer/inner wings correct.

That's fun! Did you do any of the centers on purpose, or was that just whatever you got by chance? Also, did you really check all of the wings to make sure none of them were correct? I would think it would be somewhat uncommon to actually have every single one of them wrong on a 7x7x7.

You should go for your first big cube BLD solve being a 7x7x7. That would prove you're even crazier than me.

 

[joey]

That's fun! Did you do any of the centers on purpose, or was that just whatever you got by chance? Also, did you really check all of the wings to make sure none of them were correct? I would think it would be somewhat uncommon to actually have every single one of them wrong on a 7x7x7.

Yes I checked them all.

You should go for your first big cube BLD solve being a 7x7x7. That would prove you're even crazier than me.

Heh, that would be mental. But even that couldn't show I was crazier than you. Maybe 7x7 multi BLD would
Thing is, I signed up for 4x4 BLD at Czech Open. But I guess 4x4 isn't a big cube anymore, just one that is slightly larger than normal

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

7x7 BLD DNF
3:52.57
Corners correct.
Midges correct.
29 centres correct.
0 outer/inner wings correct.

Doing a 3x3x3 BLD solve, and hoping everything else comes in place?

 

[alexc]

After a bad DNF streak on 4x4 blind, I got a 10:03. I also got an 8:xx DNF, which was off by a two cycle of wings that I didn't see. That's really my biggest problem with big cubes blind: Making sure I didn't miss a mini cycle of wings. With centers I'm much better at, I can memorize x centers in about 1:30-2:00 and I now almost never make mistakes on them. So now, I'm just taking a little longer memorizing wings to make sure I didn't miss a cycle and it worked great on the 10:03!

 

[Mike Hughey]

After a bad DNF streak on 4x4 blind, I got a 10:03. I also got an 8:xx DNF, which was off by a two cycle of wings that I didn't see. That's really my biggest problem with big cubes blind: Making sure I didn't miss a mini cycle of wings. With centers I'm much better at, I can memorize x centers in about 1:30-2:00 and I now almost never make mistakes on them. So now, I'm just taking a little longer memorizing wings to make sure I didn't miss a cycle and it worked great on the 10:03!

I have found that it's always worth the calculation to make sure you've got them all. Just a few stupid DNFs because I went on "feel" instead of checking to be sure convinced me of it. If you know exactly where in your journey you should be, and adjust based on the number of cycles you have to break, the math should only take a few seconds, and you get to eliminate lots of DNFs just for those few extra seconds. So I think it's a very wise move.

Sounds like you're ready to peak just in time for Nationals - good for you! It's going to be a great competition.

 

[Pedro]

After a bad DNF streak on 4x4 blind, I got a 10:03. I also got an 8:xx DNF, which was off by a two cycle of wings that I didn't see. That's really my biggest problem with big cubes blind: Making sure I didn't miss a mini cycle of wings. With centers I'm much better at, I can memorize x centers in about 1:30-2:00 and I now almost never make mistakes on them. So now, I'm just taking a little longer memorizing wings to make sure I didn't miss a cycle and it worked great on the 10:03!

yeah, I do that all the time too
had a 8:35 DNF once, off by 2 wings

 

[martijn_cube]

2x2 blind: 1:07.68

 

[Mike Hughey]

Wow wow wow! For the second 5x5x5 BLD scramble in this week's competition, I just got 18:27.22 (9:30 memorization)! And it was on my V-cube. (I decided to try lubing it with CRC instead of just CubeLube, which is what I had tried before, and it definitely helped. I'm still a little worried about pops, but it is much better. So I gave it another chance.)

This is 2 minutes better than my previous time - I've been stuck just over 20 minutes for months now, so it's nice to finally crack the 20 minute barrier.

The only reason I was doing 5x5x5 BLD was because I'm waiting for Arnaud to correct the scrambles for the 6x6x6 and 7x7x7. I hope he will do it soon; I'm really itching to try some (especially BLD), and I don't want to waste attempts on non-competition solves.

(Arnaud has provided so many good pickup lines on here lately, I'm guessing that the reason he's not around is because of a hot date. Hope he has good luck with that - it's worth making us wait if he does!)

 

[masterofthebass]

I think Arnaud is on his way to Czech right now. I can edit his posts to include new scrambles if you want.

 

[cmhardw]

Wow wow wow! For the second 5x5x5 BLD scramble in this week's competition, I just got 18:27.22 (9:30 memorization)!

Mike, congrats on sub-20! I also took quite a bit of time to get sub-20 for the first time. For some reason after I did it once, I felt like my brain remembered how to do it, and with effort I could get sub-20 again. I think if you really push yourself to go just slightly faster than your comfort zone that you can get sub-20 more often.

What are your goals now? I imagine you are going to be in the 15 minute range relatively soon, I better start practicing harder ;-)

Chris

 

[Dene]

YAY MR. HUGHEY!! I still say you should work on speedsolving, I bet it'd really help.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Thanks, guys! Dene, I know you're right. I worked on it for a while, and I think it really helped (getting sub-30 was a big help for me, I think), but then I got too bored with it and stopped working on it again. I guess I just need to force myself to go back and work on speedsolving again some more.

Chris, I really don't know what my goals are at this point; for now I'm just amazed at getting sub-20 at all. It would be nice to shoot for consistent sub-20, I guess. I still think that I'm lacking some of the skill to be able to be quite as fast as you are, and I think Dene's comment about the speedsolving has a lot to do with it. It's both fingertricks and thinking ahead that would benefit - if I could look ahead better on speedsolving, I'd probably be better at thinking ahead while blindsolving.

Actually, right now my biggest goal is to get a 6x6x6 BLD - I'm 0/3 so far (so I didn't do as well as you did with it!). And it would be nice to get 7x7x7 BLD down to an hour or so - I really think that should be quite attainable. I need new stickers for that, though (the color scheme throws me), so I'm watching Cubesmith's site daily.

 

[alexc]

Wow wow wow! For the second 5x5x5 BLD scramble in this week's competition, I just got 18:27.22 (9:30 memorization)!

Mike, congrats on sub-20! I also took quite a bit of time to get sub-20 for the first time. For some reason after I did it once, I felt like my brain remembered how to do it, and with effort I could get sub-20 again. I think if you really push yourself to go just slightly faster than your comfort zone that you can get sub-20 more often.

What are your goals now? I imagine you are going to be in the 15 minute range relatively soon, I better start practicing harder ;-)

Chris

Congrats Mike! You're doing a lot better than I am on 5x5 blind. It is so frustrating!!!! I memorize so carefully and somehow I still make mistakes and I'm way off! But for the first scramble on the weekly contest, I got a 20:36 DNF, which isn't a bad time, I guess.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Congrats Mike! You're doing a lot better than I am on 5x5 blind. It is so frustrating!!!! I memorize so carefully and somehow I still make mistakes and I'm way off! But for the first scramble on the weekly contest, I got a 20:36 DNF, which isn't a bad time, I guess.

You may be getting a lot of DNFs, but your times are amazing. If you had gotten that one right, it would have been better than my best ever time prior to last night.

And I thought the first scramble was rather difficult, while the second one was pretty easy. (My time on the first scramble was a truly awful 27:50.) I hate to think what your time is going to be like on the second one. If you don't DNF, you'll probably beat me on it.

 

[blah]

8:26.14

Sub-9 4x4x4 BLD! AWESOME! It's on Cubemania, and it's a Cubemania scramble, I'll retrieve it from the .csv file later.

And guess what? I've never even been through the sub-10 phase I really have no idea how this happened. Had a couple of sub-11 DNFs, then 2 sub-10 DNFs, then this! My roommates think I'm crazy now. This is way better than sub-20 on speedsolving

Edit: Here's the scramble for those who want to try it out: f2 r' D R u2 l F2 L D' r D' l D2 L2 U b U r' b' u B L f l F2 U' l u' f R2 F L B' d' F2 d2 r b L2 F'. I don't think it's lucky, it's just fairly easy, I'm saying this because I've had easier scrambles which I screwed up pretty bad.

 

[Mike Hughey]

8:26.14

Sub-9 4x4x4 BLD! AWESOME! It's on Cubemania, and it's a Cubemania scramble, I'll retrieve it from the .csv file later.

And guess what? I've never even been through the sub-10 phase I really have no idea how this happened. Had a couple of sub-11 DNFs, then 2 sub-10 DNFs, then this! My roommates think I'm crazy now. This is way better than sub-20 on speedsolving

Amazing! I'm pretty sure that's faster than my personal best. Congratulations! You and Alex both got good at big cubes BLD so quickly - it's incredible.

 

[tim]

8:26.14

Sub-9 4x4x4 BLD! AWESOME! It's on Cubemania, and it's a Cubemania scramble, I'll retrieve it from the .csv file later.

And guess what? I've never even been through the sub-10 phase I really have no idea how this happened. Had a couple of sub-11 DNFs, then 2 sub-10 DNFs, then this! My roommates think I'm crazy now. This is way better than sub-20 on speedsolving

Edit: Here's the scramble for those who want to try it out: f2 r' D R u2 l F2 L D' r D' l D2 L2 U b U r' b' u B L f l F2 U' l u' f R2 F L B' d' F2 d2 r b L2 F'. I don't think it's lucky, it's just fairly easy, I'm saying this because I've had easier scrambles which I screwed up pretty bad.

Wow, nice. That's just 6s slower than my PB on cubemania. I thought i'll stay at place 1 for a while .

 

[Nghia]

Good job, blah, you've improved so quickly
I'm gonna try that scramble out tomorrow