When was your first 3BLD success?

[NewCube1]

Mine was 3 weeks ago,time was a 3.51.xx.

 

[Maskow]

April 2011.
over13 minutes, over10 minutes memo

One week later I did my first MBLD ever. 2/3 in ~45 minutes with 33 minutes memo. Then I started train MBLD instead of single BLD. Results?
April - 4/4 47 minutes
May - 4/4 29:28 [sub21]
June - 5/6 45:13 [30:30]
July - 7/8 54:56 [~38 minutes]
August - 7/9 56:05 [~39 minutes]
September - 9/11 59:07 [sub40]
October - 16/16 58:34 [35:26]
October - BLD avg5 1:26

Then I started to learn TuRBo edges
I did 16/16 in 1 hour limit in 6-7 months, with Old Pochmann only. And I really think it can be done much much faster than 6 months.
Why so big improvement from September to the October? I changed memo system from single words to the pairs.


It's over 3 years now. I feel so old ^ _ ^ And I'm so lazy now. 2011 was a good year

 

[porkynator]

August 2010.

I decided to learn how to do BLD, try until I got one success and then forget about it.
Old Pochmann. I didn't even read a full tutorial, just learn the fundamental ideas (cycles, parity, swap pieces with PLLs) from one.
It took me about one week to get my first corner-only success (untimed). I was so excited.
After another week I did it. YEAH. I have also used a 3-cycle in my first solve (one move setup + U-perm iirc). Time was about 20 minutes total, 15 memo I think.
"OK, I'll never try this again".

I started practising like crazy in October that year, by January I was sub-2, by march sub-1:30 and sub-1 by the end of the summer.
Now I haven't done any BLD solve in days, even when I have a comp next week

 

[Hari]

Mine was in March 2013.. I used some weird 2OP kind of method.. The success was around 11 minutes or so.. Then I forgot about BLD before I regained enthusiasm early this year. Learned M2 but still struggled to get a consistent success. Was around 5-7 mins with M2/OP in March. Got sub 1:30 after close to a month of mad practice by end of April. Started learning 3-cycles in June beginning. And still learning now average around 50-55 now..

 

[RayLam]

my first success was in March,2013.At that time i'd used 4-step method(i don't know what it's called in english),time was more than 6 mins.
It was tiring because i didn't know how to memorize lots of numbers and letters,then i gave up using 4-step method and turned to use m2r2...

 

[TDM]

22/6/13. It was my first attempt... I'd never even done a sighted solve for corners before. Everything was done with T perms. I also got a Mo3 that day... and haven't had a Mo3 since then. My accuracy isn't very good.

 

[Tao Yu]

My first BLD solve was on Wednesday 4th May 2011, a time of 10:33.55 using OP/OP. Second attempt. sceenshot

Memo was 7:28
Corners: dhuscrq
Edges: 3mubtd1jqf651 (I used numbers for the M slice because I couldn't put my fingers on each of the pieces. Later I switched to letters again)

With a small bit of practise, I got to an average of around 2 mins, and I stayed there (for a loonng time) because I didn't really care about BLD.

I started seriously practicing in July 2013 though, because I decided that I wanted to get fast at BLD. You can see my progression on my youtube channel starting with this. Got down to a minute pretty quickly and learned 3 style. At my fastest, I got sub 40 avg5s.

I haven't improved since then though. Got bored and frustrated at BLD this year and stopped practicing.

 

[CHJ]

January 14th, 2012, so over 2 and a half years ago.

Still feels like it was yesterday.

wait whut! i was on the same day

 

[Iggy]

Oh okay I was wrong, my first success was on the 4th of November 2012

 

[EMI]

December 12th 2010, time was 12:16.43 Wow almost four years ago.

 

[Noahaha]

wait whut! i was on the same day

That's crazy! We're pretty much twins.

 

[goodatthis]

Mine was my 3rd attempt, in a time of exactly 13 minutes. Memo was ~8 min I think. The next attempt I did, I wanted to do it outside on my porch (no clue why) and I almost got stung by a bee. Again, time was exactly 13 minutes.

I want to do BLD again now after seeing this thread, I took a break from BLD for a while after some disappointing comp failures. (especially bigBLD, stuff tires you out, you know?)

Inb4 first 4+5BLD success gets posted

 

[giorgi]

I had my first success on 2nd attempt 42 minutes without practising 3 weeks ago

 

[TheGrayCuber]

I don't remember what day, and I wasn't timing it, but I was walking home from school Freshman year. That was all I did when I walked home so it was bound to happen eventually!

 

[Keroma12]

I don't remember what day, and I wasn't timing it, but I was walking home from school Freshman year. That was all I did when I walked home so it was bound to happen eventually!

You walked home blindfolded?

 

[TMOY]

September 2008, can't remember more precisely. Time was 9:30 or so.

After that, it took me 9 months to get an official success, mainly because I didn't practise.

 

[the super cuber]

In December 2013 I got my first success in about 15 minutes. In January 2014 I went to my first bld comp and got 6:34
Now my official single is 1:31 and at home I have many sub 1 minute solves including a 48 sec one also. I have also done 10/12 bld at home.

 

[BboyArchon]

May 2013, while lying in the sofa. If I remember well it was 10:15. You get so excited when you see it solved first time after taking off the blindfold

 

[BillyRain]

 

[JasonDL13]

Then I started train MBLD instead of single BLD.

Marcin is the one who inspired me to do BLD. I remember at my sisters house I saw his 41/41 video and I thought. This guy is insane. He has to have super brain!