Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

[blah]

11 pieces solved out of 56 is just under the lucky cutoff that most people now seem to use - 20%. So I would say that technically it's not lucky. Besides, 9 centers solved is pretty common, really.

Really? Damn! Must've got my cube into the wrong initial orientation every single time

 

[alexc]

4x4x4bld: 5:09.79. wow. wow! WOW! What just happened? After a big 3x3bld DNF streak I decided to try this, and got this crazy time. wow. I didn't refresh anything, just one fast look at the cube. But it had 9 centers solved, is it lucky? 0 or 1 wings and 1 corner solved too. After that I did another 4x4 BLD and got 6:58.23 with only 6 centers solved. And then I did some 3x3 BLDs and got 4/5 sub65, but not sub 60 .

That is awesome, Ville! You're officially one of the really fast big cube BLD solvers now.

Those I know of who have gone sub-6: Ville now, Chris, Rowe, Rafal. I assume Ryosuke Mondo, although I've never seen a time from him on 4x4x4 BLD. Has Dan gone under 6? I sort of think I remember he did. And Alex sometime in the next few days. Anyone else?

11 pieces solved out of 56 is just under the lucky cutoff that most people now seem to use - 20%. So I would say that technically it's not lucky. Besides, 9 centers solved is pretty common, really.

Dan got a lucky 5:49, I think. As for me, I've gotten a lucky sub 7, but never a sub 6.

 

[jackolanternsoup]

Yay my first successful BLD solve

Old pochman edges and CO then CP (whatever that's called...).

And it's sub-10 too.. Lol. Maybe I'm a bit too happy... But a first is a first.. 5 th attempt too.. haha

 

[Mike Hughey]

11 pieces solved out of 56 is just under the lucky cutoff that most people now seem to use - 20%. So I would say that technically it's not lucky. Besides, 9 centers solved is pretty common, really.

Really? Damn! Must've got my cube into the wrong initial orientation every single time

I've had several with 11 centers solved. And even more with 10. 9 is quite common. If I remember right, the expected value is somewhere between 7 and 8.

It helps that I've done hundreds of 4x4x4's BLD.

 

[blah]

Maybe it's because I take something like 3 seconds to determine orientation How long do you usually take, Mike? Do you go by "feel", or is there a certain algorithm to follow?

 

[Mike Hughey]

I'm sure I take too long. Sometimes I think I take as much as 30 seconds. (But I usually hate myself for the rest of the solve because I wasted so much time doing that.) I generally do just go by feel. Ideally it shouldn't take me more than 3 seconds (well, maybe 5), but when it's a bad match, I usually wind up trying my hardest to look for something better, which is what gets me in trouble.

I have a personal flaw in that, if I don't have at least one red center in the front (red is my front color), I invariably get lost trying to figure out the pieces. So I always try to have at least one red center piece in front. But that's obviously something you shouldn't emulate. Other than that, I try to find the most centers matching, and it's just by feel, so I'm afraid I'm not much help there.

By the way, did you see the 5x5x5 BLD scramble a month or two ago on the weekly competition that had 18 center pieces solved?!?! That was 9 X centers and 9 + centers both solved. (And that was without using your trick to maximize by moving the centers - I've still never tried it, although it sounds like a great idea). If you can get a 5x5x5 scramble with 9 of each already solved, it certainly should be fairly common to get 9 solved on a 4x4x4 with proper orientation.

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

Sq-1 BLD! 4th attempt in perhaps 20min...

This time, though, I had a really easy cube shape that was only two twists, allowing me to think in cycles rather than piece by piece. No parity.

 

[alexc]

1:03.25 3x3 blind with my new method. Non lucky, one edge and one corner permuted, and one corner permuted but twisted.

 

[tim]

First solve with M2 + R2 was a successful one. I don't know the time and i had to improvise, because i don't know all algorithms for R2 yet.

 

[Pitzu]

Skewb blindfolded: 13:22.68

The second solve. The first one was 17:02. After that I did a 8:34 DNF. It could have been successfull but in the middle of an algorithm I forgot where I am. (It was after 2 beers. European beers.)

 

[Pitzu]

I've had several with 11 centers solved. And even more with 10. 9 is quite common. If I remember right, the expected value is somewhere between 7 and 8.

Hmmm... :confused: Usually I have 6-9. And in some extreme cases only 5.

 

[Stefan]

1:03.25 3x3 blind with my new method.

New method?

 

[tim]

1:03.25 3x3 blind with my new method.

New method?

Don't be scared . It's just freestyle corners.

What about your 3x3 bld times? Do i have to be afraid of Dutch Masters?

 

[philkt731]

2/2 6:44.44
First 100% lol

 

[Mike Hughey]

Sq-1 BLD! 4th attempt in perhaps 20min...

This time, though, I had a really easy cube shape that was only two twists, allowing me to think in cycles rather than piece by piece. No parity.

Skewb blindfolded: 13:22.68

The second solve. The first one was 17:02. After that I did a 8:34 DNF. It could have been successfull but in the middle of an algorithm I forgot where I am. (It was after 2 beers. European beers.)

I love these! Awesome job, guys.

 

[Pedro]

I'm sure I take too long. Sometimes I think I take as much as 30 seconds. (But I usually hate myself for the rest of the solve because I wasted so much time doing that.) I generally do just go by feel. Ideally it shouldn't take me more than 3 seconds (well, maybe 5), but when it's a bad match, I usually wind up trying my hardest to look for something better, which is what gets me in trouble.

I have a personal flaw in that, if I don't have at least one red center in the front (red is my front color), I invariably get lost trying to figure out the pieces. So I always try to have at least one red center piece in front. But that's obviously something you shouldn't emulate. Other than that, I try to find the most centers matching, and it's just by feel, so I'm afraid I'm not much help there.

By the way, did you see the 5x5x5 BLD scramble a month or two ago on the weekly competition that had 18 center pieces solved?!?! That was 9 X centers and 9 + centers both solved. (And that was without using your trick to maximize by moving the centers - I've still never tried it, although it sounds like a great idea). If you can get a 5x5x5 scramble with 9 of each already solved, it certainly should be fairly common to get 9 solved on a 4x4x4 with proper orientation.

I usually try to avoid having my first piece (Ubl) solved, since that is much much much much much likely to lead to mistakes (cycling from the wrong location). I also look for most centers solved, but I don't like many U centers solved, since I'll have to start new cycles (leading to more confusion )

 

[Mike Hughey]

Sub-hour 6x6x6 BLD!

56:32.00 (26:30 memorization). Third scramble in the weekly competition.

I finally got fed up with getting confused with the colors and peeled off the stickers to swap my green and black faces. (I'm impressed with the V-cubes stickers - they peeled and restuck so well that you can barely tell I did it. It still looks as good as new. I solved for minimum sticker swappage - I was able to get by with moving just 16 stickers to do it.) Now the colors are what I'm used to, except with black instead of white. It made a big difference! I'm looking forward to getting my Cubesmith stickers (already ordered) so that I can be totally back to normal.

I think that once you get used to them, the obliques will become the easy centers to solve. There are simply more commutators that work for them than for the other centers, so you even have fewer setup moves than for the others in a few cases.

 

[alexc]

Nice job Mike! I still have yet to succeed on 7x7 blind: my first attempt was just bloody awful!

 

[joey]

Mike, that's crazy! I think we'll be seeing sub-50 sometime?

 

[Derrick Eide17]

Sub-hour 6x6x6 BLD!

56:32.00 (26:30 memorization). Third scramble in the weekly competition.

I finally got fed up with getting confused with the colors and peeled off the stickers to swap my green and black faces. (I'm impressed with the V-cubes stickers - they peeled and restuck so well that you can barely tell I did it. It still looks as good as new. I solved for minimum sticker swappage - I was able to get by with moving just 16 stickers to do it.) Now the colors are what I'm used to, except with black instead of white. It made a big difference! I'm looking forward to getting my Cubesmith stickers (already ordered) so that I can be totally back to normal.

I think that once you get used to them, the obliques will become the easy centers to solve. There are simply more commutators that work for them than for the other centers, so you even have fewer setup moves than for the others in a few cases.

Nice mike! Your amazing