Delayed blind solve Rankings

[Samuel Baird]

I haven't been able to find a place where rankings for delayed blind solves are kept so I figured I would make one here

The way that I'm ranking these is similar to mbld but instead of points, we are using delay time, and instead of time we are using the total time to memorize and execute the cube. So whoever has the greatest delay time is first and for tie breakers fo those who have the same delay time will be total memorization and execution time.

EDIT: I am currently working on a google sheet to track delayed blind solve rankings and world record history! You can find the sheet here. If the sheet is missing any results, please contact me at [email protected] (I dont check the forums often so commenting here means I probably wont see your comment).

Old rankings:

Successful attempts

#	Name	Delay Time	Memo/Exec time	Links	Country
1	Sydney Weaver	1 year	8:51.46 (7:23.00/1:28.46)	Part 1 | Part 2	United States
2	Andrew Nathenson	1 year	9:49.80 (8:11.35/1:38.67)	Part 1 | Part 2	United States
3	Mike Hughey	1 week	2:45.33(1:10.55/1:44.78)	Discussion	United States
4	Derrick Eide	1 week	3:00.53 (1:59.99/1:00.54)	Discussion	Canada
5	Samuel Baird	5 years	1:28.26 (1:06.65/21.61)		United States

Attempts in progress

Name	Planned delay time	Memo time	Start Date	Links	Country
Tom Nelson	10 years	6:27.97	Jan 18, 2015	Part 1	New Zealand
Nate Hoffmaster	15 years	12:32.99	Aug 27, 2017	Part 1	United States

 

[Dylan Swarts]

I wanted to do this but I'm afraid that I change my letter pairs between start and end and that that could mess everything up..

 

[Hazel]

I wanted to do this but I'm afraid that I change my letter pairs between start and end and that that could mess everything up..

You could memorize the letters themselves? It'd be much slower, but the memo time doesn't really matter

 

[SirWaffle]

This is really cool you've put this together, i had no idea I had the best time for the year delay I just had known I was the first to do it and figured it had gotten beaten

 

[Dylan Swarts]

I wanted to do this but I'm afraid that I change my letter pairs between start and end and that that could mess everything up..

I've actually gone and did this by the way. Memorized on 30 June 2020, plan to attempt to solve on 1 January 2021. Will post the final video of both parts here if I succeed.

 

[SirWaffle]

I've actually gone and did this by the way. Memorized on 31 June 2020, plan to attempt to solve on 1 January 2021. Will post the final video of both parts here if I succeed.

When I did my year delay I had changed methods from OP to M2 so a week before the execution part of the solve I started practicing with OP again to reduce the risk of errors. I'd recommend doing something similar for your sitution

 

[BenChristman1]

I'm going to try a small attempt to start. I started today (November 18, 2020) at 9 PM Central Time. I am only going to try 24 hours for now, and maybe I'll do a bigger attempt in the future. The memo time was 8:30.12, and I am from the United States. Let's hope I can do it!

EDIT: It was a pretty easy scramble, and the memo is sticking with me very well, so I’m going to try to up the delay time to a week. (Execution on Wednesday, November 25 at 9 PM Central Time)

EDIT 2: I’m going to extend the attempt to 10 days (Saturday, November 28), just to get up to 3rd place.

 

[Dylan Swarts]

When I did my year delay I had changed methods from OP to M2 so a week before the execution part of the solve I started practicing with OP again to reduce the risk of errors. I'd recommend doing something similar for your sitution

Luckily I'm still using 3 style and made no changes to my letter pairs yet, so I'm good to go

 

[SirWaffle]

Luckily I'm still using 3 style and made no changes to my letter pairs yet, so I'm good to go

Great, can't wait to see your result!



I was talking with Andrew Nathanson, seems like he and I this year will do another year delay as well as someone named Aaron Soley who joined the Twitter thread but keeping our memo time a secret until it's time for execution so there will be some suspense as to who will get the best time. Anyone else wanna join in on this? Could be fun to suddenly next year have lots more solves ranked!

 

[BenChristman1]

I'm going to try a small attempt to start. I started today (November 18, 2020) at 9 PM Central Time. I am only going to try 24 hours for now, and maybe I'll do a bigger attempt in the future. The memo time was 8:30.12, and I am from the United States. Let's hope I can do it!

EDIT: It was a pretty easy scramble, and the memo is sticking with me very well, so I’m going to try to up the delay time to a week. (Execution on Wednesday, November 25 at 9 PM Central Time)

EDIT 2: I’m going to extend the attempt to 10 days (Saturday, November 28), just to get up to 3rd place.

I forgot to post about it, but I ended up DNFing by a lot. It was something like 6E and 4C off.

 

[Dylan Swarts]

I have completed my 6 month delayed 3bld.
It was a fun challenge, I would recommend.
Started my 2 year delayed 3bld yesterday. Memo was pretty nice and the images are going to stick better than the previous attempt's because of it.

Time: 1:59.43[1:21.60]
Exec: 37.83

 

[Swamp347]

I have completed my 6 month delayed 3bld.
It was a fun challenge, I would recommend.
Started my 2 year delayed 3bld yesterday. Memo was pretty nice and the images are going to stick better than the previous attempt's because of it.

Time: 1:59.43[1:21.60]
Exec: 37.83

Gj. I haven’t practiced blind in like a year so now that I’m working on it I don’t seem to be able to get a success. Once I do get some consistent success I think I might try something like a month or so.

 

[Cuberstache]

Oh yeah, mine is in progress

 

[abunickabhi]

I have completed my 6 month delayed 3bld.
It was a fun challenge, I would recommend.
Started my 2 year delayed 3bld yesterday. Memo was pretty nice and the images are going to stick better than the previous attempt's because of it.

Time: 1:59.43[1:21.60]
Exec: 37.83

Good job Dylan, R U' S2 L S L2 S L U R' !

 

[Cuberstache]

Since this is 366 days because of the leap year, I think this is the longest successful attempt?

 

[Samuel Baird]

Today I completed the execution portion of my attempt, completing a 5 year delay blind solve

 

[abunickabhi]

I haven't been able to find a place where rankings for delayed blind solves are kept so I figured I would make one here

The way that I'm ranking these is similar to mbld but instead of points, we are using delayf time, and instead of time we are using the total time to memorize and execute the cube. So whoever has the greatest delay time is first and for tie breakers fo those who have the same delay time will be total memorization and execution time.

Successful attempts

#	Name	Delay Time	Memo/Exec time	Links	Country
1	Sydney Weaver	1 year	8:51.46 (7:23.00/1:28.46)	Part 1 | Part 2	United States
2	Andrew Nathenson	1 year	9:49.80 (8:11.35/1:38.67)	Part 1 | Part 2	United States
3	Mike Hughey	1 week	2:45.33(1:10.55/1:44.78)	Discussion	United States
4	Derrick Eide	1 week	3:00.53 (1:59.99/1:00.54)	Discussion	Canada
5	Samuel Baird	5 years	1:28.26 (1:06.65/21.61)		United States

Attempts in progress

Name	Planned delay time	Memo time	Start Date	Links	Country
Tom Nelson	10 years	6:27.97	Jan 18, 2015	Part 1	New Zealand
Nate Hoffmaster	15 years	12:32.99	Aug 27, 2017	Part 1	United States

16 days left for the 10 year delayed blind solve by Tom

 

[abunickabhi]

@Samuel Baird please add my 1 year delayed 5BLD attempt.

Memo:

Exec (DNF):

 

[bldcuber314]

While it's not really much of a delayed solve, I memoed a cube in 2024, put it under a cover and solved it successfully BLD in 2025. It's not an actual year-delay BLD, but I did memo a cube and solve it the next year.

 

[Samuel Baird]

I am currently working on a google sheet to track delayed blind solve rankings and world record history! I have linked the sheet in the original comment in this thread and here. If the sheet is missing any results, please contact me at [email protected] (I dont check the forums often so commenting here means I probably wont see your comment).