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muchacho said:
Only 1 year? ok, I'm sold, priority for BLD adjusted, I'll start with it
this week and won't quit (not like last time I tried).
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Ok. I meant it took me year to get from over 1 minute in 2bld to around 25-30. But I'm mistaken, so i'll describe how it was with my 3bld. The first success with OP/OP was in may 2014 around the time of my birthdady. The time was over 11 minutes. In june I had a comp and failed in 3bld. Next, I was trying Turbo in july 2014. I could do only few solves with same results around 8-11 minutes. After talk with Grzesiek Jałocha about 4bld I decided to give a try to M2. First success was promising - in august 2014 I was around 5 minutes. In that time I have completly rebuild my memo to audio pairs for corners and words with letter pairs for edges. It helped a lot. I had a comp in late august and failed again with times around 5 minutes. After that I decided to make 5 solves per day and tried to keep it. My notes says my times dropped down to 3 minutes in september and after that in autumn and winter they were in a range around 2-3 minutes. First 2 minutes solve came in the beginning of january 2015. During the comp in that month I had a first succes and finished 5th.

I started to practice more. In late 2014 I stareted slowly learn comms for corners. In april 2015 I knew all comms for buffer corner but I decided to switch in may or june 2015. In june I had first solve sub 1:30. I did a lot of solves in 3bld and 4bld, tried 5bld but I couldnt be successfull. Tried mbld with 8-10 cubes. In 2bld I've practiced comms. Etc. etc. The rest of the story you know.

Resuming. It took half of the year to be around 2:30. Another half of the year to be sub-2. Anohter to be around 1:30 etc. But I've noticed that there few issues. For example memo time is the first. This means good system and good pace. The second good knowledge of all algs. This meant that if I knew M2 well I should keep it. I try to get new algs very slowly. The third is the cube - good and stable. I use yuxin. Others you may know: light, time of the day, to be relaxed, breaks, etc. etc. After all - solves and regular practice.

Sory, for a long post. I hope it doestn sound as I'm a mentor. I try to decribe my experience with bld.
 
What an amazing feeling PBs are! You feel invincible afterward.

It's too bad I followed up the full step PB with a 27.xx and a 23.xx so I couldn't capitalize on a possible ao5 PB lol

still a good day for PBs all around!
 
mark49152 said:
Nice one, @kbrune. BLD is addictive :)

Just smashed my 4BLD PB by 50 seconds: 7:39, on cam too. Have learned some new centres tricks that I was too cautious to learn before Exeter. Now I wish I had! :D

Anybody figured out yet how to edit signatures on this new forum?
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Well done. That's really impressive.

I had a great day yesterday flying to Glasgow. I had hours of practice. Especially as I got dropped off early for the return flight which then left late. I also got to practice with my nephew who has a 23s PB single after a fortnight. I've given him lots of tips (and a couple of cubes) so we'll see how he responds. His TPS is ridiculous!
 
Sorry guys, I have had two days off work with my wife to decorate our lounge and we have done close on 14 hours decorating a day and have not practiced and struggling to catch up on the thread.

So many PBs that I do not have time to congratulate individually, which is disappointing but congratulations anyway to all. Ive said it before but I will say it again. This thread is such a catalyst to progression by us oldies. If I think back 6 years ago I felt very alone and could not judge my progression against others due to age. That story is so different these days.

@h2f Great post mate and don't apologise for giving advice. You and Mark are true inspirations in BLD and I am sure I speak for so many when I say your advise is warmly welcomed mate.

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Tired hands from decorating but amazed to get a PB ao5 in a 15.32 Ao25...

Average of 5: 13.09
1. (11.78) R2 D2 B2 L2 U' B2 U' R2 F2 U L2 B U2 B2 F' L' F2 U' R2 U2
2. 13.66 D F2 U2 L2 U L2 U B2 U L2 D L D2 R U' B F L2 R' B U
3. 13.18 L' D2 B2 F2 R2 B2 R' F2 L B2 R F D' F L' B F2 L2 B2 D U
4. (15.96) D2 L' B2 L D2 F2 R' B2 R' F2 R D R' D U' L B' F' U' R U'
5. 12.42 L2 U2 R' D2 L B2 D2 L' U2 R F2 D' F' L F2 D B L' B2 U' L

Whilst practice pays off, I think this weeks times are inspired by going to a comp last weekend. Nothing more motivating to me :D
 
Selkie said:
So many PBs that I do not have time to congratulate individually, which is disappointing but congratulations anyway to all.

Tired hands from decorating but amazed to get a PB ao5 in a 15.32 Ao25...
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Well now we have the like button, so that can help on congratulating! I felt really lost that day at work without Tapatalk working. I like the notices, I can usually find breaks in the day to read up. :)

Awesome ao5, just awesome!!
 
mafergut said:
Video time! :)
Here is the 2x2 walkthrough solve video for this week's 1st scramble. I confuse R and R' all the time in the video.

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It's very helpfull. Now I know how to do one-look. I didnt know the thing with U2 about sune/antisune.

@kbrune, congrats beating pb.

@mark49152, great. Now you have a better 4bld time in the to sub-7. Waiting for video.

@Selkie, It's just crazy.

@muchacho, congrats of time. I'm only dual CN but in roux almost full. :)
 
Grzegorz @h2f, great post, interesting to read.

And @mafergut, that 2x2 walk through was great, almost enough to make me interested in 2x2 again :)

Congrats on the PB, Chris @Selkie.

My own BLD history is this. I had no interest in BLD until my first comp, where I judged Zak Walters' 1 minute solve and watched Lorenzo Vigano Poli set his 15/15 Italian MBLD NR. The excitement was a different league to the speed events and I was immediately hooked. I went home and learned M2/OP from Noah's tutorial and had my first comp successes 5 & 4 minutes at next comp a month later. Confident from that, I also entered MBLD at the last minute and got 2/2. Then I decided to work on getting faster. I did sighted solves to improve my use of the methods. I measured splits and realised how massive the memo portion is, so started to work on pushing my memo. It took only 1-2 months to get down to 2:30 ish. After 4 months I had 1:47 official PB and I now average around 2 minutes. I got distracted by 4BLD in the 3 months since then, and my 3BLD hasn't improved further, but now I'm back on it.

The biggest factor for me in improving at BLD was realising that memo offers way more room for dropping times than execution. When I was 3 minutes it was something like 2 mins memo, 1 min execution. Getting to 2 minutes was about halving the memo, and I dropped no more than a few seconds off execution :)

I love the excitement of solving blind in comp. The adrenaline and the heart pounding inside the earmuffs is hard to describe!
 
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