YAY!!!!!!first successful BLD solve

[dolphyfan]

Today I had my first successful blindfold solve. It took about 22 min and I used 3 cycle for corners and pochmann for my edges.

 

[dbeyer]

Wow that's great! Congrats ... keep up the great work ... you will improve in leaps and bounds at first ... keep diligent to shave the seconds later on.

 

[Karthik]

Me too!!
After nearly 3 days of struggling I too got my first successful BLD today in the evening !I learnt from PJKs guide(Thanks PJK)
It took me a fair amount of time to memorize and execute(15min+6min approx).
I modified the numbering system into an alphabetical system,A-H for corner permutation and I-T for edge permutations respectively.I find this much more comfortable because most of the times the cycles themselves come out to be sensible words!For others I used the Person-Action-Object method to make a story and memorize the CP and EP.
I used the hexadecimal method to remember the EO(Thanks Mike) and finally I memorized CO visually.
Execution pattern CO->EO->CP->EP
Actually I have a very bad cube and I used to double check all my memo and moves.So I think a little practise can reduce my times a lot.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Very nice, congratulations! From my perspective, 22 minutes is pretty fast for a first solve; my first was probably over 30 minutes.

 

[hait2]

Originally posted by karthikputhraya@Jun 28 2007, 01:27 PM
Me too!!
After nearly 3 days of struggling I too got my first successful BLD today in the evening !I learnt from PJKs guide(Thanks PJK)
It took me a fair amount of time to memorize and execute(15min+6min approx).
I modified the numbering system into an alphabetical system,A-H for corner permutation and I-T for edge permutations respectively.I find this much more comfortable because most of the times the cycles themselves come out to be sensible words!For others I used the Person-Action-Object method to make a story and memorize the CP and EP.
I used the hexadecimal method to remember the EO(Thanks Mike) and finally I memorized CO visually.
Execution pattern CO->EO->CP->EP
Actually I have a very bad cube and I used to double check all my memo and moves.So I think a little practise can reduce my times a lot.

this is scary.. that's almost my identical method, only difference is i memorize CP visually (dragging fingers).. everything else is exact same, even the hexadecimal EO, visual CO and pao EP

*shudder*

 

[Karthik]

what about naming the pieces using alphabets instead of numbers?Do you also do the same??I have not seen anyone mention that till now but I am sure there will be people doing that.

 

[dbeyer]

Chris and I use "letters" which are paired and turned into images. It's a great method.

Later,
Daniel Beyer

 

[Karthik]

Daniel:I know.I have read that topic and also seen the letters you use on your site.I just got my cubes today(1 3x3 and 1 4x4).I solved the 4x4 for the first time today!!(YAY!!)
Hopefully I will attempt a 4x4 BLD by the end of this year.Quite ambitious huh??

 

[hait2]

Originally posted by karthikputhraya@Jun 29 2007, 04:04 AM
what about naming the pieces using alphabets instead of numbers?Do you also do the same??I have not seen anyone mention that till now but I am sure there will be people doing that.

yes i use A-L for my EP pao system
i also memorize and solve in the same order as you

odd, don't you think?

 

[Karthik]

Well ya...But I use A-H for CP and I-T for EP.Still a pretty nice coincidence.