Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

[Mike Hughey]

In 40+ minutes I could cut a few seconds off my 5x5x5 speedsolve times, so I think doing bigcubes BLD is not worth it for me yet

Wow, Dene! If for every 40 minutes I spent on 5x5x5 speedsolving I could cut a few seconds off my average times, I'd probably give up BLD cubing, at least for as long as that lasted (which probably wouldn't be very long).

I probably spend 2 hours a week or so on 5x5x5 speedsolving - it's the one form of speedsolving I actually pay much attention to. And I find that if I spend less than an hour and a half on it, I get slower - it takes that much just to stay at my current level. I might improve about half a second per week, on average, with lots of ups and downs along the way. Now I'm going through a bad period, so it seems like I got a lot worse.

On the other hand, when I was averaging 40 minutes on 5x5x5 BLD, it seems like I cut about 30 seconds off my average solving time with each attempt. (I remember that for my first 50 solves or so, more than half of my successful 5x5x5 BLD solves were new personal bests.) So 5x5x5 BLD had a lot more obvious benefit for practice than did speedsolving.

That's one reason why I got so hooked on BLD - it seems like you improve so much more quickly with BLD than with speedsolving.

 

[Dene]

With 5x5x5, the reason I'm improving so much, is basically because I got my V5 which is so much better than a Rubik's it is actually quite insane. Apparently my old cube was really holding me back. (My cubemania profile is testimony to that).

As for BLD, doing bigcubes, I probably would improve like that too, but first I'd have to learn how to do it and get a memo system working, which I don't feel like doing >.<

 

[shelley]

Or you could be lazy (or is it crazy?) and use visual memo like me.

 

[Dene]

So then, all I need is a method! Mr. Cohen already kindly taught me r2 for edges.

 

[mrbiggs]

First 100% successful multiblind today; 4/4.

Now I need to put together another cube so I can make a bigger attempt.

 

[blah]

I just did my first successful BLD of 9:23.08 (of a 3x3, that is.) Reaaally slow but I got it! I used T perm for corners and M2 for edges. It was SO exciting to see it solved when I brought it out under the table. The memo took a while because there was multiple cycles, which I'm not quite used to yet.

I'm not sure what 'attempt' this is, I've been taking a scrambled cube and tried to memorize as much as I could until I hit something I didn't understand. Then I did it and tried to learn from there. Eventually I just got it, I guess. Or got lucky. I'm gonna go try another one!

Congrats on your solve! And are you the first guy to blindsolve a cube with M2 on his first success?! Does anyone here know of anybody who solved with M2 on their first successful solve?

 

[joey]

I don't see why you say that as if it is something shocking..?

 

[blah]

It's not? Well it's shocking for me, at least

I had the impression most people start BLD with 3OP or Old Pochmann...

And I think I'm one of the very few people in my region (Malaysia-Singapore) who use M2 for BLD, at least I don't know anyone else who does, and I know quite a lotta people in my local community.

Maybe I haven't seen enough in the cubing scene yet...? I dunno.

 

[Hubdra]

I haven't heard of many people that've done M2 for the first solve, but a lot of people here have already been BLDing longer than I have.

I've only solved it once more correctly after that attempt. I have great respect for everyone who can blindfold now haha. The only real reason I started with M2 was because Orienting edges was hard for me, and everyone had mentioned that M2 was pretty fast.

 

[Henxu]

First succes!
Yesterday I did my first succesful bld, 6:51, with T perm for edges and Y perm for corners. And after that, i did my second bld, with a time of 6:21 .
I need to practise memo, and I think to learn M2, it don't seems too hard.

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

First succes!
Yesterday I did my first succesful bld, 6.51, with T perm for edges and Y perm for corners. And after that, i did my second bld, with a time of 6.21 .
I need to practise memo, and I think to learn M2, it don't seems too hard.

I want BLD times that are 6.51... try a colon.

 

[blah]

First succes!
Yesterday I did my first succesful bld, 6.51, with T perm for edges and Y perm for corners. And after that, i did my second bld, with a time of 6.21 .
I need to practise memo, and I think to learn M2, it don't seems too hard.

I want BLD times that are 6.51... try a colon.

Kinda sounds like 2 seconds for memo, 2 seconds for T perm, 2.5 seconds for Y perm, and the cube is miraculously solved

 

[alexc]

First five 3x3 blindsolves in 4 or 5 days:

1.) 57.58
2.) 1:00.xx
3.) 1:06.xx
4.) 1:11.xx
5.) 1:20.xx DNF

The first solve was my first sub minute using M2 + freestyle corners. Non lucky, only one corner and one edge permuted. The second one was also non lucky. (The execution on both of them were sub 40, too!) The third one was also really good. The fourth one was definitely a lucky scramble, but it had a couple edge and corner cycles, so that's probably why it was a bit slower. The last one was very bad, but I didn't care after that all those good times before.

 

[alexc]

3x3, 3x3 OH, and 3x3 blind relay: 1:54.41

I'm not sure what the exact splits were, but it was probably about 15, 30, 1:09, or something close to that.

 

[Derrick Eide17]

OH MY GOD!! YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NEW BLINDFOLDED PB!!!!
55.88 SECONDS! i am SO friggin happy right now! FINALLY sub 1 again and beat my LONG time pb! YES! I was spazzing like NO OTHER.

Here's the scramble: B' R2 D2 B F D2 U' L F' D2 R' L B U' D2 R' U' D' R' U' B' D L' U D'

Completely non lucky

memo was:

Corners: BGWWOW/A
Edges: ELRF VZKD MB

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!

 

[Stefan]

55.88 SECONDS!

What method(s) are you using now?

 

[Derrick Eide17]

55.88 SECONDS!

What method(s) are you using now?

Lol
M2 with Old pochmann Corners

 

[Stefan]

So you like M2 now? How did you overcome the troubles you had with it?

 

[kemot_13]

YEAH!!! sub-50 bld 3x3 TIME:49.78 I'm so happy
SCRAMBLE: L2 F U2 L' F2 U' F' R' F' U2 F B2 R2 B2 D2 L2 U B2 D2 B' F' R U2 F2 L'

 

[Derrick Eide17]

So you like M2 now? How did you overcome the troubles you had with it?

yes yes i admit it, i was wrong before it works well now
the memo in pairs i got a little more used to, and found my own quirky ways for helping keep the pairs of 4 stick in my head a little longer