Has anyone done a 7x7x7 blindfold solve?

[Mike Hughey]

Mike, are you a fortune teller or something? My very next 4BLD attempt after you posted this was my first success

Ha! I figured you were close! Awesome job!

So is this a record? 3 people got their first 4x4x4 BLD solve in a span of just 2 days. (Come on, Rubixcubematt - you need one today too so we can have 4 people in 2 days!!!)

By the way, I just tried my 7x7x7 BLD for this week. I DNFed - I missed just 3 outer X centers. Time was 54:46.69 (28:24). Aww, so close.

 

[byu]

3 people? I know of me and Gparker. Who else?

 

[Mike Hughey]

3 people? I know of me and Gparker. Who else?

Oops, I guess it was just two. Sorry.

 

[byu]

Still a record

 

[cmhardw]

So is this a record? 3 people got their first 4x4x4 BLD solve in a span of just 2 days.

I don't know how you would count the start time for this, but I think I might fit into this category. My first ever attempt at 4x4x4 BLD was actually the 4x4x4 supercube, and it was a success. I took about 5.5 hours for the attempt because I didn't yet understand commutators and used the "pure edge swap alg" that swaps two edges and nothing else to build edge groups and then solve. And yes I did say build edge groups and then solve, not just simply direct solve. Yeah... it was that bad.

My first 4x4x4 (regular, not supercube) success was I think my 2nd try at it probably close to 2 years later. I did both tries in the same day if I remember correctly, but if not it was on consecutive days.

So my first regular 4x4x4 success was certainly not in 2 days since I started trying 4x4x4 BLD, but my first 4x4x4 supercube BLD success was my first attempt.

Chris

 

[Mike Hughey]

So is this a record? 3 people got their first 4x4x4 BLD solve in a span of just 2 days.

I don't know how you would count the start time for this, but I think I might fit into this category. My first ever attempt at 4x4x4 BLD was actually the 4x4x4 supercube, and it was a success. I took about 5.5 hours for the attempt because I didn't yet understand commutators and used the "pure edge swap alg" that swaps two edges and nothing else to build edge groups and then solve. And yes I did say build edge groups and then solve, not just simply direct solve. Yeah... it was that bad.

My first 4x4x4 (regular, not supercube) success was I think my 2nd try at it probably close to 2 years later. I did both tries in the same day if I remember correctly, but if not it was on consecutive days.

So my first regular 4x4x4 success was certainly not in 2 days since I started trying 4x4x4 BLD, but my first 4x4x4 supercube BLD success was my first attempt.

Chris

Oh, sorry Chris, it's my fault because I wasn't clear - I was referring to a different record. And I was wrong about it - I guess it was just 2 people, not 3, but in a single day. I was referring to the fact that, in a span of 24 hours somewhere in the world, two different people both got their first successful 4x4x4 BLD solves during that 24 hour time. (I wasn't paying attention to how long they worked on it before they got it.) I was simply amazed by how many people are now successfully doing 4x4x4 BLD. Back when you learned, the number of people who had done a successful 4x4x4 BLD could be counted on one hand. Now, we have a single day when 2 different people got their first successful 4x4x4 BLD solve. How very far big cube BLD solving has come, huh?

Oh, and solving a 4x4x4 supercube with the method you used is simply amazing. Way more difficult than something easy like, say, solving a 7x7x7 BLD with modern methods. It's so nice these days having easy ways to solve cubes BLD - thanks again for helping develop those awesome methods!

 

[Derrick Eide17]

haha, Mike Hughey is the master of BLD. If he says something BLD-related will happen, it will. Only that I'm still bad at 3x3 BLD

Mike, please say I can get back into BLD and get good again

 

[Pitzu]

I can't do that.

You can say either "I can't do that." or "I can do that." - You are right anyway.
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F@&#en megaminx!!!

 

[Mike Hughey]

haha, Mike Hughey is the master of BLD. If he says something BLD-related will happen, it will. Only that I'm still bad at 3x3 BLD

Mike, please say I can get back into BLD and get good again

Derrick will get back into BLD and will get good again.

 

[cmhardw]

Oh, sorry Chris, it's my fault because I wasn't clear - I was referring to a different record. And I was wrong about it - I guess it was just 2 people, not 3, but in a single day. I was referring to the fact that, in a span of 24 hours somewhere in the world, two different people both got their first successful 4x4x4 BLD solves during that 24 hour time.

*puts foot in mouth*

And yes as for the record you were actually referring to :-S I do think it's awesome that we're now up to 5 or 6 people within the course of a week! Crazy that big cubes BLD is taking off so much! Cool!

Oh, and solving a 4x4x4 supercube with the method you used is simply amazing. Way more difficult than something easy like, say, solving a 7x7x7 BLD with modern methods. It's so nice these days having easy ways to solve cubes BLD - thanks again for helping develop those awesome methods!

Thanks for the kind words, but you yourself sir are doing much more I think to further BLD cubing, especially big cubes. Also, if it weren't for Dror I don't think I would have taken such an interest in blindcubing the 3x3x3. Had I not been lucky enough to be the person who got to share a cab ride with him in 2003, I don't think I ever would have really developed such a strong interest in BLD. Meeting Dror again in 2005 was the principle motivator for me wanting to start big cubes BLD after that. Also, Stefan Pochmann with the first ever 5x5x5 BLD in competition was a huge motivator for me to finally start learning big cubes BLD as well. I claim simple addiction to this hobby of ours Dror and Stefan got it all started for big cubes BLD (also Richard Carr played a *huge* roll, just not as much in competition) as far as I am concerned.

Chris

 

[Mike Hughey]

Thanks, Chris - I'm glad to see you saw this big 4x4x4 BLD explosion happened this week. I figured it would mean a lot to you to see it.

And yes of course, Stefan and Dror and Richard Carr all got it started even before you. But you were the one who was actively promoting it when I got into it; you played the same role for me that Stefan and Dror played for you.

Let's not forget that you have contributed a lot to the concepts as well. Your efforts to bring some of the techniques of the memory sports masters into BLD solving made it possible for ordinary people like me to be able to do big cubes BLD. And then of course there's BH (which I really am starting to seriously work on now - for corners, anyway).

 

[Gparker]

haha, Mike Hughey is the master of BLD. If he says something BLD-related will happen, it will. Only that I'm still bad at 3x3 BLD

Mike, please say I can get back into BLD and get good again

Derrick will get back into BLD and will get good again.

you should start charging people

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

haha, Mike Hughey is the master of BLD. If he says something BLD-related will happen, it will. Only that I'm still bad at 3x3 BLD

Mike, please say I can get back into BLD and get good again

Derrick will get back into BLD and will get good again.

you should start charging people

Before he does that, will I ever do a 5x5 blindfolded?

 

[Derrick Eide17]

haha, Mike Hughey is the master of BLD. If he says something BLD-related will happen, it will. Only that I'm still bad at 3x3 BLD

Mike, please say I can get back into BLD and get good again

Derrick will get back into BLD and will get good again.

immediately after reading that post. first 3 solves:

1. 1:30.93 solved
2. 1:29.10 solved
3. 1:40.16 solved

not that great but all had EXTREMELY hard memo for me and 2/3 with parity and flipped corners as well.

Thanks Mike

 

[byu]

Mike, will I ever get 50%+ accuracy on 4BLD?

 

[rahulkadukar]

Well I would love to see a 11x11x11 BLD once V 11 arrives

 

[byu]

Well I would love to see a 11x11x11 BLD once V 11 arrives

Don't worry, Mike will do it the week it comes out, if not the day it comes out.