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Jason Green said:
Success!! I scared my five year old when I opened my eyes because I clapped and yelled "YES!!"

R2 U2 F L2 F R2 B R2 B2 D F' U' L B R' D' F' U F'

Edges:
COFD SHD XN QP KG

Corners:
XM GI TV N

Weird thing is I was having trouble with images on edges so I basically did audio I guess you would call it?
Coughed shed XN QP Kevin Garnett (he plays for the Celtics, or maybe he got traded I don't keep up)

For the XN QP I was actually recalling visually looking at the locations during memo. I am assuming that can be an aid in recalling memo at times, I had never thought of that.

Corners were trivial, although I had to review after spending ages checking edge memo.
XM (like the radio) GI (as in army) TV (television) N (TVN together reminded me of TBN the religious Network, so sound was easy)

Probably about 24 minutes. This post reminds me I never reconstructed my last two 3x3 PBs. :)
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Congrats.
 
Congrats @Jason Green, that's great! First BLD success is a special moment in cubing.

Just a note on your edges. Using pairs is helpful in making sure you know whether you're on an odd or even target, so you can swap your M slice targets when you need to. In your edges, SHD was a group of three, so the last three pairs would have been inverted and could have caused a mistake with the M slice. Luckily in this case both S and C had already been solved :). Generally it's better to use only pairs, or maybe fours.

My audio would have gone like this. I use four letter words.

COFD SHDX NQPK G

Coe-fud South-dux Nish-pitch Gaz

Q is a "sh" sound which is why I wouldn't use it in SHDX. K is a "ch" to differentiate from C. Generally I try to make sure each sound uniquely and unambiguously maps back to a single letter. I think @newtonbase does the same, he just uses different sounds. I put a Z sound on the trailing letter to remind me there's parity.

The advantage of audio is that it's faster than images, but the memo doesn't persist as long. I'm not sure how useful it will be at your times. You might find it more reliable to stick with images until you're down around 2-3 minutes.
 
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Jason Green said:
Can you explain those audio tricks? Like is NeaTH for XN? I can't follow that. Is it just something that works for your brain or is there an explanation I could grasp?

Edit: BTW, I don't know what I would say my greatest accomplishment is (not like I've accomplished anything amazing). I think the single moment that has stuck with me is my first sub 20 solve though. Up until that point it seemed so impossible. :)
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mark49152 said:
Congrats @Jason Green, that's great! First BLD success is a special moment in cubing.

Just a note on your edges. Using pairs is helpful in making sure you know whether you're on an odd or even target, so you can swap your M slice targets when you need to. In your edges, SHD was a group of three, so the last three pairs would have been inverted and could have caused a mistake with the M slice. Luckily in this case both S and C had already been solved :). Generally it's better to use only pairs, or maybe fours.

My audio would have gone like this. I use four letter words.

COFD SHDX NQPK G

Coe-fud South-dux Nish-pitch Gaz

Q is a "sh" sound which is why I wouldn't use it in SHDX. K is a "ch" to differentiate from C. Generally I try to make sure each sound uniquely and unambiguously maps back to a single letter. I think @newtonbase does the same, he just uses different sounds. I put a Z sound on the trailing letter to remind me there's parity.

The advantage of audio is that it's faster than images, but the memo doesn't persist as long. I'm not sure how useful it will be at your times. You might find it more reliable to stick with images until you're down around 2-3 minutes.
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As @mark49152 says, you used a triplet rather than a pair which threw the order out. In audio I use
Ch for C
Ng where a word ends in H
Sh for X
Th for Q
Where there is an odd letter at the end I use a superhero name so I know there is parity. I regret this system though as superheroes are fantastic images so they are wasted using them just once every 2 solves.
 
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Jason Green said:
Success!! I scared my five year old when I opened my eyes because I clapped and yelled "YES!!"

:)
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lol Congrats

Reminds me of my reaction to my first BLD success. minus the traumatized kid lol

I remember that I had to memo with all images for a long time until I was under 5 minutes at least. Then as my execution became more fluid with less pauses for thinking. I was able to push memo and audio edges started being possible.

I still struggle with audio as memo cause It really doesnt' stay in my mind very long. If I make one mistake on execution. I'll go to fix it and then there goes the rest of the memo sometimes.

I also remember thinking it would be impossible for me to get down to 2 minutes. And now I'm averaging 2:30 ish.
Funny how we have mental limitations to our abilities. Can't count the amount of times I've said "**** i'll never get to X time in this" and then I get there.

So currently I can't see how i'll get down around 1 minute in BLD. But im hoping im just in my own way as ususal!
The only thing that seems to stunt my BLD progress these days is mental stamina. I find practicing BLD mentally taxing. I can't do more then 2-3 solves in a row. After that my memo is terrible. I hate having to take breaks. My typical practice regimen is to bull doze through hours of solves. I hate breaks!

You're already doing really good Jay! Looking forward to seeing your times drop
 
kbrune said:
So currently I can't see how i'll get down around 1 minute in BLD. But im hoping im just in my own way as ususal!
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I know exactly what you mean. My realistic goal is to be around 1:30 globally (though with my ridiculous inconsistency I don't know how I'll know if I get there) but I think that might hold me back so I'm going for sub 1 instead and I'll see where that gets me.
 
Jason Green said:
For the XN QP I was actually recalling visually looking at the locations during memo. I am assuming that can be an aid in recalling memo at times, I had never thought of that.
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I've even caught memo errors during execution that way, remembering the cycle break itself spatially (wait, that wasn't S... it's R, you dummy!). Mostly because you and I spend a lot of time in tracing/memo right now, though. As I move on to pushing memo speed I don't expect that to stick as well as it does on a careful 10 min memo.

Big congrats on the first of many successes! I'm curious to see a sighted Ao50 from you in about two weeks... I swear both times I started up blind practice this year it has magically improved my sighted times.
 
kbrune said:
I also remember thinking it would be impossible for me to get down to 2 minutes. And now I'm averaging 2:30 ish.
Funny how we have mental limitations to our abilities. Can't count the amount of times I've said "**** i'll never get to X time in this" and then I get there.
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So very much this. I really thought a sub 20 average was a crazy goal when I set it since the thought of a sub 30 single felt "ridiculously optimistic" to me at the time. I'm still a ways from that goal but it feels like a foregone conclusion to me now: keep pounding F2L and lookahead and it'll happen.

So now, well before I've even reached that goal, I think I'm ready to move the chains: sub-10 is the new sub-20.
 
pglewis said:
I've even caught memo errors during execution that way, remembering the cycle break itself spatially (wait, that wasn't S... it's R, you dummy!). Mostly because you and I spend a lot of time in tracing/memo right now, though. As I move on to pushing memo speed I don't expect that to stick as well as it does on a careful 10 min memo.
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This happens to me with my 1-2 minute memos as well. I don't spend a lot of time tracing, but enough to sometimes realize I have the wrong letter during execution.
 
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Older (and younger) cubers... :-)
 
Shocking news in BLD world: second try at only edges (Turbo), first was a mess, in this one 4 pieces were solved and another 2 flipped, not great but it gives me some hope.

edit: 8 solved edges in the fourth try.
edit2: arghh just 2 flipped edges, I'm done for today.
 
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My finely-honed memory skills continue to astound me! Today I tried a 4-cube multi during my tea break, and after starting the timer and removing the cover, I realised... I'd forgotten to scramble them.

Anyway, for those who thought their day just couldn't get any more exciting, here's a video of my recent 20 cube attempt. I might post one of these every few weeks if I make enough progress.

(If it doesn't embed properly, just click the link. The site is broken at the moment.)

 
mark49152 said:
My finely-honed memory skills continue to astound me! Today I tried a 4-cube multi during my tea break, and after starting the timer and removing the cover, I realised... I'd forgotten to scramble them.

Anyway, for those who thought their day just couldn't get any more exciting, here's a video of my recent 20 cube attempt. I might post one of these every few weeks if I make enough progress.

(If it doesn't embed properly, just click the link. The site is broken at the moment.)

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I don't know if I'm more impressed by your 20 cube attempt or that you found a brand new way to screw up ☺
 
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