Potential Threat to Top BLD Cubers

JemFish

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Hey people,

I'm Jeremy Lindsay, and I've been cubing for about a year with CFOP, averaging around 25 seconds with white/yellow cross and 30 seconds with colour neutrality. I have learnt full PLL. Before anything, just know that I'm terrible at speedcubing.

BUT, recently I've learnt 3BLD with M2 edges and OP corners, thanks to Noah's tutorials, and after about 15 solves I'm averaging around 4 minutes with a PB of 3:00.19 minutes. I have almost completely abandoned normal speedcubing, and instead am focusing entirely on BLD, because that's what I love (update - no, I'm still speedcubing...). All I know right now is that I am going to become pro. Period.

Now I hope to be a potential threat to top BLD cubers, although I have never had a 4BLD or 5BLD success before. Watch out Maskow, and watch out, Ollie!
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Here's a list of my puzzles:

Moyu Weilong * 2
Dayan Zhanchi
Moyu Weisu
Shengshou megaminx
Store-bought 2x2x2
Store-bought 3x3x3 * 3
Miniso Rubik's Cube * 2 (You can read about them here.)
Store-bought 4x4x4

The Dayan Zhanchi (update - Miniso cube) is my main 3x3x3, and my favourite puzzle, aesthetically, is the megaminx.
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) Some special thanks to special people and for special things:
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) Noah Arthurs and his brilliant BLD tutorials;
) Badmephisto and his tutorials;
) Andy Klise and his speedcubing pdfs;
) Stefan Pochmann and his beginner BLD methods;
) Chris Hardwick and his long list of letter pairs;
) Jessica Fridrich and her contribution to CFOP;
) Feliks Zemdegs and his example solves;
) The administrators, moderators, and members of speedsolving.com;
) ...and of course Mr. Erno Rubik, inventor of the puzzle that this website's all about.
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) EDIT: I forgot to mention my thanks to Walter Souza and his wonderful world of Prisma Puzzle Timer; I'm a big fan of that software.

~ JemFish
 
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I bloody clicked on this thread in panic because I thought it was a WCA regulation change or something and I was nervous.

Pls don't do MBLD because I want to win.
 
You definitely have the spirit to be a pro lol. Determination is usually all it takes too, I wouodn't be surprised if you were near the top in a couple years.

Edit: What's roughly your BLD success rate? You say you average 4 minutes. And maybe if you have a lot of successes you could get good at multiblind. Sorry to the previous comment telling you not to do multi ;-)
 
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You're also really fast for being only 15 solves in.

OK I wasn't clear with that - my average is 4 minutes after 15 successful solves (which is about 30 attempts in all). I focus on speed and let the accuracy come naturally, because I know that an attempt, whether a success or not, is practice.
 
You already have my respect. You have that new kid on the block attitude. I like that!
 
What's roughly your BLD success rate? You say you average 4 minutes. And maybe if you have a lot of successes you could get good at multiblind.

Two weeks ago, my BLD success rate was about 1 in 4, which was very frustrating, but after deliberately practising edge memorisation, my success rate rose to about 3 in 5. (Now I haven't done that many solves yet, and these are just estimations with not too much proof, so don't get excited.)

Yes, I would like to try MBLD but that's not my favourite event. (Relax, JasonDL13.)
 
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OK I wasn't clear with that - my average is 4 minutes after 15 successful solves (which is about 30 attempts in all). I focus on speed and let the accuracy come naturally, because I know that an attempt, whether a success or not, is practice.

50% accuracy is amazing. I'm still at <20% sucess rate
 
Wow, I'm astonished by your determination :)
I'm really looking forward to seeing you improve if you can keep up the pace and most importantly the motivation.
Welcome to the community! :D
 
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