Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

[Kenny]

Pitzu (a hungarian fellow cuber, István Kocza) just posted this message on our (hungarian) forum:

7x7 vakon: 3:13
Memo: 2:30
Kirakás: 1:13
Na, ezt soha többet a büdös életben!


i.e.
7x7 blindfolded: 3:13
Memo: 2:30
Execution: 1:13

Never again, not in my lifetime.





edit: I've just realized that adding it up it's actually 3:43. I guess he must have mistyped it . (or miscomputed, dunno)

 

[Mike Hughey]

Awesome! I should have figured István would do it fairly soon.

As for "Never again, not in my lifetime.", I hope he doesn't mean it!!!!

Way to go, István!

 

[alexc]

New corner method and memo method!

Best time so far is 1:05 and I also got a 1:10 and 1:15.

 

[blah]

New corner method and memo method!

Care to share, Alex?

 

[alexc]

New corner method and memo method!

Care to share, Alex?

Freestyle corners.

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

New corner method and memo method!

Care to share, Alex?

Freestyle corners.

Whoa, I switched methods to freestyle corners (and my own method for edges) today, and got a 1:10. Also, you forgot to mention memo.

I also did a 4:xx permute-then-orient BLD solve for fun.

 

[alexc]

New corner method and memo method!

Care to share, Alex?

Freestyle corners.

Also, you forgot to mention memo.

Oh, oops, I'm doing a sounds thing for corners and journey for edges.

 

[Pitzu]

Thanks Mike! Congratulations for your results on US Open! (You have just bet me on the rankings in 5x5 bld.)
Do you think I'm second to solve the 7x7 or have Chris or Alex done it?!

 

[Mike Hughey]

Thanks Mike! Congratulations for your results on US Open! (You have just bet me on the rankings in 5x5 bld.)
Do you think I'm second to solve the 7x7 or have Chris or Alex done it?!

As of Sunday, I'm quite sure Chris and Alex had not done it yet. Alex got a 7x7x7 at the US Open, so he brought one home. Unless he did one in the past two days, you beat him to it. And I suspect he would have posted it here if he did.

Chris told me he put off working on 7x7x7 until after Nationals, because he wanted to focus on 4x4x4 and 5x5x5 BLD. (He's been working hard on BH, I think.) So he hadn't even really tried it yet.

So yes, I think you're the second one to do it! Congratulations and good job!!!

I hope I can meet you some day so we can race on a 7x7x7 BLD.

And you still have me on number of solves in competition for both 4x4x4 and 5x5x5 BLD - only Chris has more! But I'm catching up - I'm just one behind you on both!

Did you get your 7x7x7 BLD first try, or did it take several tries? How many? I'm determined to get a 6x6x6 BLD sometime this week. I'm sick of all these DNFs.

 

[joey]

Well done Pitzu! Excelletnt work!

 

[Pitzu]

It was my first try.
After I got it I solved a few times with open eyes. Then I started to try the blind method. I had to realize that I should practice it for piece-type by piece-type. :confused: After a few days I started to solve a whole scrambling with blind method. When I did it 3 times, yesterday I decided to try my first real blind solving.
After 1 hour memo I was to give it up , but decided to memorize at least all the centers. To recognize the "oblique" centers were hard. Then I decided to memorize the whole cube. Then I decided to solve it. I made pictures during the solving to check where I make a mistake. Then I opened my eyes and it was solved!
It was 186 steps, a lot of data. Like 8-10 cubes in multi-blind and my most cubes were 7 in multi-blind.

I also plan a 6x6.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Nice job - first try!!!

So will you try to beat me to being the first to do a 7x7x7 multiBLD?

 

[Jude]

2:50.36! First sub 3 (and sub 4, funnily enough - previous PB 4:00.42) 3x3x3 BLD success! Old pochmann method, non lucky scramble (2 corners permuted + oriented, 0 edges)

 

[joey]

Some will say this should go in the Failure's thread, but it's a step in the right direction for me, so I'm placing it here.
I scrambled 4 cubes (and then solved the corners)
I tried the edges multi bld. Got 2/4.
#1 correct
#2 3-cycle off, not sure what happened.
#3 correct
#4 Parity off, not sure what happened.

It felt pretty good though, and was fun and not really hard to recall!
It was actually a lot faster than I thought. I was ready to spend 30mins or so (just because I was going sloooow), but it was only 14:44.09.

edit: I got 93.75% pieces right (48-5/48*100)

 

[Ville Seppänen]

3bld: 2:54.23 During first commutator the phone rang so I answered it, talked about 1.5mins and then continued to solve.
Also 50.78 in cubemania, last move took over a second.

 

[Jack]

Yes!! I did it! 4x4 BLD in 26:41.28! My memo was just under 16 minutes, which is a minute slower than my last attempt, which means my solving was about 3 minutes faster. The scramble was quite easy.

 

[philkt731]

My 1:31.50 at the US Open is easily my best in competition and my second best ever to a 1:29.68 at home

 

[Mike Hughey]

Finally conquered my nemesis!!!

6x6x6 BLD (first solve on this week's weekly competition): 1:06:50.96 (34:45 memorization)!

It was absolutely horrible - I mismemorized parts of both inner and outer wings and had to go back and correct them. And then it had parity of corners and parity of both sets of wings. And I had one point toward the end where an oblique center almost popped out. Hence the horrible time. But actually I think it's a pretty good time considering those things.

I really can't wait for Cubesmith to come out with stickers for the V cubes - the color scheme cost me at least 10 minutes (maybe a lot more) on this solve.

(I had 7 DNFs prior to finally getting this one right.)

 

[fanwuq]

Nice!!!!!

 

[InternetTom]

God you guy's are sitting here talking about 7x7 6x6 bld and I'm happy I did the 2x2 bld. 7 Minutes and I managed to hold it out of frame of my camera the whole time, took along time because I had so many dnf's prior I had to make sure I had it right.