Blindsolving Accomplishment Thread

7x7x7 BLD: 3:33:50.15 for this week's online competition. Daniel Beyer stopped by my apartment on his way to Florida and we raced lots of big cubes BLD as well as a 7x7x7 vs. 6x6x6 BLD race. Hopefully there will be more times from both of us next week when he passes back through on his way back north :-)

Memo took 2:25, so solving took 1:08. I'm just glad to say that I've done it.

Chris
 
cmhardw said:
7x7x7 BLD: 3:33:50.15 for this week's online competition. Daniel Beyer stopped by my apartment on his way to Florida and we raced lots of big cubes BLD as well as a 7x7x7 vs. 6x6x6 BLD race. Hopefully there will be more times from both of us next week when he passes back through on his way back north :-)

Memo took 2:25, so solving took 1:08. I'm just glad to say that I've done it.

Chris
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Yeah! Awesome, Chris! I'm glad you finally did one. What did you think of the experience? (Did you enjoy it? Will you be trying more soon? Will you try to get fast at it? I hope...)
 
Mike Hughey said:
Yeah! Awesome, Chris! I'm glad you finally did one. What did you think of the experience? (Did you enjoy it? Will you be trying more soon? Will you try to get fast at it? I hope...)
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Hey Mike,

Yeah I definitely enjoyed it. I counted slices for every turn during centers, to make sure I was turning the correct layer. So in that sense it was very slow and tedious, but I was also trying for 100% success rather than time. I can definitely see myself doing this again, but I doubt I will actively try to improve my time. As I said, I'm just glad to be able to say I've done it. I guess I am just a medium cube BLD cuber at heart ;-)

My hat's off sir to your crazy multi and big cube BLD (and multi big cube) madness ;-)

Chris
 
cmhardw said:
Mike Hughey said:
Yeah! Awesome, Chris! I'm glad you finally did one. What did you think of the experience? (Did you enjoy it? Will you be trying more soon? Will you try to get fast at it? I hope...)
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Hey Mike,

Yeah I definitely enjoyed it. I counted slices for every turn during centers, to make sure I was turning the correct layer. So in that sense it was very slow and tedious, but I was also trying for 100% success rather than time. I can definitely see myself doing this again, but I doubt I will actively try to improve my time. As I said, I'm just glad to be able to say I've done it. I guess I am just a medium cube BLD cuber at heart ;-)

My hat's off sir to your crazy multi and big cube BLD (and multi big cube) madness ;-)

Chris
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I'm glad you enjoyed it. I can understand your wanting to stick with medium cubes, though. I think my medium cube times (especially 4x4x4) are suffering right now because of the big cubes. Doing the really big cubes causes me to get used to going more slowly, and it's hard to pick the tempo back up when I go back to 4x4x4. On the other hand, my 5x5x5 times don't seem to be suffering much. But I'm thinking that maybe when I can get to where I go fast on the really big cubes too, that will no longer be a problem. So I'm hoping that in the long run it will have a positive rather than a negative effect.

I'm sure people thought you were crazy when you were working so hard at 5x5x5 BLD when no one else was, too. The only difference is that at least you knew you could potentially do them in competition, whereas I'm doubting I'll ever get to do mine. Still, they're fun to do at home.

I'm surprised that you find it helps to count the slices as you go. I found that it didn't take long to be pretty sure of what you're turning almost instinctively. I do a little counting every once in a while, but mostly I try to just go fast. And I have only had cases that looked like the wrong slice was turned a couple of times out of probably 20 tries on 6x6x6 and 7x7x7. And I'm pretty sure in both of those cases, it was due to me deciding on the wrong layer to turn, not because I turned a different layer from the one I thought I was turning.

I'm finding my most common mistakes are simply mismemorizations. It's too easy for me to hop to the wrong type of piece while memorizing, so I might accidentally look at a left oblique piece at one position while memorizing the right oblique pieces. As for execution, it's definitely inner + and X centers that I execute incorrectly most often. For some reason they're MUCH harder than the outer + and X centers for me. It always feels like I got over the hill and am coasting when I get to the outer centers - I think I do them twice as fast as the inner ones. The obliques are somewhere in between in difficulty.
 
41.42 3x3x3BLD, non-lucky.
Scramble: R2 U2 D' R D2 U R2 D2 U R' D' L D2 R2 D F' B D' U' B2 D F' L U L2
All 5 of my solves today have been sub1, 2 of them were DNFs though.

Edit: I think I've had 5 sub50 solves today, maybe more to come. :)
 
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Ville Seppänen said:
41.42 3x3x3BLD, non-lucky.
Scramble: R2 U2 D' R D2 U R2 D2 U R' D' L D2 R2 D F' B D' U' B2 D F' L U L2
All 5 of my solves today have been sub1, 2 of them were DNFs though.

Edit: I think I've had 5 sub50 solves today, maybe more to come. :)
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Totally insane!:eek: You definitely beat me in 3x3 bld now. (a pretty good time for me would be 1:00-1:10.) I think we're still almost equal in 4x4 bld.
 
alexc said:
Ville Seppänen said:
41.42 3x3x3BLD, non-lucky.
Scramble: R2 U2 D' R D2 U R2 D2 U R' D' L D2 R2 D F' B D' U' B2 D F' L U L2
All 5 of my solves today have been sub1, 2 of them were DNFs though.

Edit: I think I've had 5 sub50 solves today, maybe more to come. :)
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Totally insane!:eek: You definitely beat me in 3x3 bld now. (a pretty good time for me would be 1:00-1:10.) I think we're still almost equal in 4x4 bld.
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Try freestyle edges! I think they pwn. I will really start to focus on 4x4 bld now, it's so much fun. I've used visual for edges alot, but it doesn't really work well (except for the 5:09). I use my person/action image list now. Atleast you're better than me at 5x5bld :).
 
11:39 min on 4x4 BLD
thats a new PB by 1:30 min or so, and the funny thing is: I even had to answer the phone while blindfolded, and that was during the centers. But hey it all worked out great.
 
Ville Seppänen said:
alexc said:
Ville Seppänen said:
41.42 3x3x3BLD, non-lucky.
Scramble: R2 U2 D' R D2 U R2 D2 U R' D' L D2 R2 D F' B D' U' B2 D F' L U L2
All 5 of my solves today have been sub1, 2 of them were DNFs though.

Edit: I think I've had 5 sub50 solves today, maybe more to come. :)
Click to expand...

Totally insane!:eek: You definitely beat me in 3x3 bld now. (a pretty good time for me would be 1:00-1:10.) I think we're still almost equal in 4x4 bld.
Click to expand...

Try freestyle edges! I think they pwn. I will really start to focus on 4x4 bld now, it's so much fun. I've used visual for edges alot, but it doesn't really work well (except for the 5:09). I use my person/action image list now. Atleast you're better than me at 5x5bld :).
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I am tempted to try them. I have done a couple solves with them for fun and I am pretty slow, but then again, I've never practiced either.:p Do you use a fixed buffer?
 
alexc said:
Ville Seppänen said:
alexc said:
Ville Seppänen said:
41.42 3x3x3BLD, non-lucky.
Scramble: R2 U2 D' R D2 U R2 D2 U R' D' L D2 R2 D F' B D' U' B2 D F' L U L2
All 5 of my solves today have been sub1, 2 of them were DNFs though.

Edit: I think I've had 5 sub50 solves today, maybe more to come. :)
Click to expand...

Totally insane!:eek: You definitely beat me in 3x3 bld now. (a pretty good time for me would be 1:00-1:10.) I think we're still almost equal in 4x4 bld.
Click to expand...

Try freestyle edges! I think they pwn. I will really start to focus on 4x4 bld now, it's so much fun. I've used visual for edges alot, but it doesn't really work well (except for the 5:09). I use my person/action image list now. Atleast you're better than me at 5x5bld :).
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I am tempted to try them. I have done a couple solves with them for fun and I am pretty slow, but then again, I've never practiced either.:p Do you use a fixed buffer?
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I dont really have a fixed buffer for edges but I sometimes break into new cycles if there are cycles that leave a flipped edge or some other hard situations. My corner buffer is UFL. I guess my method is pretty much the same as Rowe's.
 
9:00.29 4x4 blind for weekly contest 34 using wings commutators. I usually use freestyle corners, r2, and X center commutators, but I am going to now use wings commutators instead of r2.

This was my first blindfolded try for wings comms. I thought I would be over 10 minutes, but I was actually only 1-2 minutes slower than normal. The solve was a bit lucky though, with 9 centers solved, 0 wings, and 2 corners permuted but twisted and one corner permuted I think.
 
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