Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

Sahid Velji said:
Congratulations! What was the time?
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I didn't time it at all(usually like to get at least a few successful solves out of the way on a puzzle before worrying about times) but will try to do some more soon.
Scramble was F2 D' R2 D R2 L2 U R2 B2 U2 R L' U B' U F' D L' D2 L - White on top, green in front

Method was Old Pochman, using the following letter scheme
AAB
B-C
CDD

starting on top, then continuing to the left, front, right, back, using X Y or Z for the last spot on each depending on what gives the easiet memo

memorization was (yellow on top, orange in front)
GQ DE RV PT KU OK for edges,
WIZ MN LUL for corners
 
Just got my first successful 4x4 BLD after doing 12 attempts, I feel very happy :) 16:50.51 (memo 12 minutes), easy scramble though.
scramble: U' Fw' D' B2 Fw2 Rw D' R' Rw' F2 U' R D R' D Fw R F' Fw Uw' F2 Rw' R Uw2 L' F' L2 Rw2 D B2 Uw2 R Rw D' B2 L' D2 F B U'
 
qqwref said:
Anyone up for blindsolving the 8x8x8?
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Yes of course, but I was holding off on buying one to see if that might have been the new V-Cube (which now appears to be a 3x3x3), and now I'm not sure - is it still pretty easy to buy one? But there's another, more serious problem - it looks like Cubesmith doesn't have 8x8x8 stickers yet. I'm helpless without my color scheme.
 
Mike Hughey said:
Yes of course
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IanTheCuber said:
You must be joking.
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I'm not. An 8x8x8 should take me less than 2 hours to do BLD, which is less time than it took me to try the 7x7x7 the first time. I'm even up for a 9x9x9, but there aren't any decent ones yet. I will admit, the 11x11x11 seems a bit daunting...
 
Mike Hughey said:
Yes of course, but I was holding off on buying one to see if that might have been the new V-Cube (which now appears to be a 3x3x3), and now I'm not sure - is it still pretty easy to buy one?
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Seems like it. They're a little expensive, though.

Mike Hughey said:
But there's another, more serious problem - it looks like Cubesmith doesn't have 8x8x8 stickers yet. I'm helpless without my color scheme.
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Reversed Japanese, right? If you don't mind the normal colors themselves, you can get that by swapping white and green. You only have to move 18 stickers. (And if that doesn't work, mine did come with an alternate sticker set.)
 
qqwref said:
Seems like it. They're a little expensive, though.
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That part doesn't bother me, but I'd hate to buy it and then find out it's out of stock and will take months to arrive. I see CubeDepot seems to indicate they have it in stock, considering the fact that the black one says it's out of stock.

qqwref said:
Reversed Japanese, right? If you don't mind the normal colors themselves, you can get that by swapping white and green. You only have to move 18 stickers.
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I've known that for a while - I've done that trick to very many cubes to tide me over the first few weeks. I guess I can do that again, but it's usually pretty ugly what it does to the stickers. And I think black would still be a pain - it would really help to have white. And taking off the stickers to make a white side would be totally cheating.

qqwref said:
(And if that doesn't work, mine did come with an alternate sticker set.)
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Where did you get yours? Did it have white stickers as an alternative? Perhaps I can buy it there and hope I get one too.
 
I got a white one from Cube Depot. And hey, I just realized, the extra sticker set came with white and not black (weird!). It's not a problem at all for me (I prefer white, but won't resticker anyway), but maybe they don't do that every time - see if you can ask, if you order one.
 
qqwref said:
I got a white one from Cube Depot. And hey, I just realized, the extra sticker set came with white and not black (weird!). It's not a problem at all for me (I prefer white, but won't resticker anyway), but maybe they don't do that every time - see if you can ask, if you order one.
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That's encouraging; I may order one tonight. All those extra obliques would be such fun!
 
New 3BLD PB: 5:08.25 normal scramble incl parity (and my 5th sucsessful solve for the BLD race after a bad DNF streak)

fail: could hava had a ~ 4 min solve but could not recal last two edge pairs...
 
Uh, well a few months at least. Just general comm knowledge let me be able to solve a lot of cases but some I had to look up what to do and I'd learn it there and make sure I understand why it works. I learned corners first and once I got "comfortable" using that, I transitioned into making my edge list, and then eventually learning that (over a 1 1/2 month period)

Then I took a break for a month and I went over all the cases again (in that post you quoted)
 
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