[Unofficial] Corey Sakowski - 5BLD in 23:29.57 (First Success!!!)

[Skullush]

This was probably my 5th attempt of the day (I don't remember exactly how many I've done). So happy that I finally did it
Hopefully I can pull this off at SJC Summer 2012 next week
Solving starts at about 14:00

 

[drewsopchak]

Method? Memo method? Congratulations! Big cubes give such a sense of accomplishment
Fast first success!

Yes! I got it!

 

[Skullush]

Method? Memo method? Congratulations! Big cubes give such a sense of accomplishment
Fast first success!

Thank you!
I used U2 for centers, r2 for wings, M2 for edges and OP for corners. Memo method was roman rooms

 

[cubernya]

X centres, + centres, wings, midges, corners? Interesting order, typically corners get solved first

Awesome though. It's a great time for a first 5BLD success. What's even more amazing is that you tried 5 5BLD attempts in one day

 

[drewsopchak]

X centres, + centres, wings, midges, corners? Interesting order, typically corners get solved first

Awesome though. It's a great time for a first 5BLD success. What's even more amazing is that you tried 5 5BLD attempts in one day

I was thinking that as well. He probably doesn't use journey/roman rooms. It explains his fast first success time, in that he probably does a lot of attempts.

 

[Skullush]

X centres, + centres, wings, midges, corners? Interesting order, typically corners get solved first

Awesome though. It's a great time for a first 5BLD success. What's even more amazing is that you tried 5 5BLD attempts in one day

I prefer to solve corners first, but I had to do them fourth because the midges and corners had parity in this case

I was thinking that as well. He probably doesn't use journey/roman rooms. It explains his fast first success time, in that he probably does a lot of attempts.

I used the same rooms for every solve... Maybe I'm a little confused as to what roman rooms is, but I associated the memo for each type of piece with a room, essentially
This was my 10th attempt overall; all the attempts were around that time give or take a few minutes

 

[blackzabbathfan]

Awesome!!! Congratulations bro. I should probably finish learning 4BLD now.

 

[Skullush]

Awesome!!! Congratulations bro. I should probably finish learning 4BLD now.

Thanks dude. I thought you already knew 4BLD?

 

[awesomecuber150]

Way to Go! I also wanted to learn this but Need to work on 3x3 Blindfolded it takes me about 20 minutes. anyway Congratulations!

 

[Ninja Storm]

Dang it, the video's not explicit. I guess we can mess with you and your reaction at the next meet

 

[Noahaha]

Great job! That's better than my PB by a lot and I've had four or five successes. Can't wait to race you at SJC. We're a lot closer now.

 

[Skullush]

Great job! That's better than my PB by a lot and I've had four or five successes. Can't wait to race you at SJC. We're a lot closer now.

Yes, we definitely need to race next weekend

 

[Mikel]

How do you use U2 for + centers? I want to start learning commutators because I know they are more efficient, but in the meantime, it would be cool to try out 5BLD, but I don't know how to do + centers.

 

[Skullush]

How do you use U2 for + centers? I want to start learning commutators because I know they are more efficient, but in the meantime, it would be cool to try out 5BLD, but I don't know how to do + centers.

It's very similar to X-centers. I use the UR center as the buffer and the UL center as the helper. Shooting to pieces on the F, L, R, and B faces should be easy to figure out. For the U face, the algs are the same except you use (r' E r) instead of (r' u r), for example.

For the D face I had to modify the alg a little bit. To shoot to the BL center I would use (l B2 E2 B2 l') U2 (l B2 E2 B2 l'). And of course use D, D', or D2 as a setup move to shoot to other +centers on the D face.

 

[flee135]

Congratulations! I'll be waiting to see an official success one day

 

[Mikel]

It's very similar to X-centers. I use the UR center as the buffer and the UL center as the helper. Shooting to pieces on the F, L, R, and B faces should be easy to figure out. For the U face, the algs are the same except you use (r' E r) instead of (r' u r), for example.

For the D face I had to modify the alg a little bit. To shoot to the BL center I would use (l B2 E2 B2 l') U2 (l B2 E2 B2 l'). And of course use D, D', or D2 as a setup move to shoot to other +centers on the D face.

Thank you so much! I may have to try this out soon.

 

[Evan Liu]

Congratulations, I hope you get that success (and some good clock times ) at SJC!
Also, you were definitely a motivating factor for me finally trying 4BLD (first success details here).

 

[Skullush]

Congratulations! I'll be waiting to see an official success one day

Hopefully this weekend

Congratulations, I hope you get that success (and some good clock times ) at SJC!
Also, you were definitely a motivating factor for me finally trying 4BLD (first success details here).

Congratulations on the 4BLD success , it took me many more attempts than 3
And I'm averaging about 20 seconds on clock right now so I'll see what I can do, haha

 

[blackzabbathfan]

Thanks dude. I thought you already knew 4BLD?

Haven't gotten centers or learned any of algs.