2x2x2BLD: 1:04.03, DNF, 43.32 = 43.32
3x3x3BLD: DNF, 2:25.44, 3:25.71 = 2:25.44
4x4x4BLD: 14:24.94 [7:20.78], DNF [13:48.86, 7:13.20], DNS = 14:24.94
pb at the time.
5x5x5BLD: 30:03.10 [15:39.12], DNS, DNS = 30:03.10
3rd attempt at 5x5x5BLD. Improved by 12 mins this time.
MultiBLD: 3/3 13:58.98
Improvement of 8 minutes
Wow, you scored in every bld events!
Yes, I thought so too when I read his post. Excellent!
Yes, amazing job! And you beat me at 5x5x5 BLD (which wasn't hard this week, unfortunately).
And then with him and Lars Nielsson active at big BLD I wonder if it is about time to convince Arnaud that 6x6BLD might be an event to restore in this comp. Or do you not have the time, Mike? For you it takes only 30 minutes
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I still hope to do a 6x6x6 BLD and 7x7x7 BLD for every single weekly competition this year, although I won't beat myself up over it if I occasionally miss one. I don't think I can afford to skip them, since they seem to help my 5x5x5 BLD speed and accuracy so much. It would be greatly appreciated if Arnaud would add them back, but whether he does or not, I will continue to do them. I consider them much higher priority for me than multiBLD every week.
My recommendation would be that he simply do them as best of 1 format - any more is kind of ridiculous. If I ever want to use weekly competition scrambles for a multi, I'll pull them from speedsolving scrambles.
And for this week, here are my very mixed results:
Mike Hughey:
My non-BLD event of the week:
7x7x7: DNF [1:25:33.91, 28:47],
6:43.40, 7:06.28, 7:04.31, 7:30.27 =
7:13.62
Comment: When I focus on 7x7x7, I do much better than my normal weekly attempts – if only I didn’t have that terrible last solve. I think the 6:43.40 is very much my personal best! As for the BLD solve, I had had too little sleep the night before and was not thinking clearly at all, so I had a disaster with my memorization. I had memory recall pauses on almost every type of piece. Still, I almost got it – I was off by 4 wings (I couldn’t remember one image) and 2 outer + centers (I executed an algorithm incorrectly).
The BLD events:
2x2x2 BLD: 30.93, 35.18, 47.41 =
30.93
3x3x3 BLD: 2:25.06, 1:59.11, 1:30.41 =
1:30.41
4x4x4 BLD: DNF [7:58.70, 3:34], DNF [8:57.74, 5:06], 8:56.72 [4:15] =
8:56.72
Comment: Pretty awful week for big BLD except for the 6x6x6. First solve was off by 3 wings – I got two images out of order. Second solve was off by 3 centers – when solving a commutator, I used K instead of J – I had correctly memorized and recalled it, but I used the wrong piece when executing. Third solve was done carefully to avoid DNF.
5x5x5 BLD: DNF [15:33.95, 8:17], DNF [15:20.34, 7:45], DNF [18:02.97, 9:30] =
DNF
Comment: Disaster! It still always makes me feel kind of sick when I DNF all three. The first one was off by 3 wings – I did UV instead of VU (I memorized and recalled it correctly, but when executing, I thought of U as V and V as U). The second one was off by 3 centrals and 2 X centers – the centrals happened because I memorized AN instead of CN, and the X centers were my misexecuting PV. The third one was off by corner parity – I had forgotten to correct wing parity in my usual order earlier, so I went back to get it, and then forgot I still had corner parity to fix. So very pointless and disappointing.
3x3x3 multiBLD: 4/4 = 4 points, 19:26.86 [10:17]
Comment: This went pretty well until I hit the corners of the second cube. I couldn't remember them! I figure it cost me about 4 minutes or so. But at least I finally did remember them and got them all right. A little disappointing, but at least it was successful.
And non-BLD events done BLD:
6x6x6: 28:20.54 [13:14], DNS, DNS, DNS, DNS =
DNF
Comment: New UWR, as I reported earlier in the blindfold accomplishment thread. An amazing solve! It helps make up a little for the 5x5x5 BLD disaster this week.
Magic: 2.08, 1.86, 2.11,
2.22,
1.78 =
2.02
Master Magic: 5.21, 5.25,
6.88,
4.63, 4.81 =
5.09
Last one would've been successful but I realised just towards the end of the solve I forgot to fix parity 
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