2x2x2 Cube: Blindfolded

Place	Result	Name	Quote	Date
1	6.06 seconds	Derrick Eide	WOW!! WOWOWOWOWOWOW!! I can't believe this! this solve was amazing! YESS! I finally beat Pak too! sorry Pak I'll guess you'll have to settle for 2nd place now. I've been wanting to get the record on here for sometime now and was finally getting close till pak set the standard of 8 seconds but I did it! In the solve I used a normal solve approach I saw the whole f2l in my Memo and I looked ahead for the Oll and realized that if I used the right OLL I could finish PLL too! YEAH! this has to be the limit for this puzzle Blindfolded.	20070516
2	6.91 seconds	Yuxuan Wang	n/a	20090507
3	8.03 seconds	Seongho Park	My cube feels lonely. Video is here(http://tvpot.daum.net/clip/ClipView.do?clipid=2003043) ;;;;	20070214
4	8.02 seconds	Brian Yu	Using a Freestyle/TuRBo/R2 combination that's really hard to describe here. It wasn't lucky. Done on a friend's 2x2.	20090507
5	9.37 seconds	Milán Baticz	After practising this with Derrick :) Practise practise practise.	20080109
6	15.11 seconds	Ben Whitmore	Other than the whip-it the other whip-it the other whip-it the 2x2 ( the magic and the pyraminx 2x2 BLD is the only puzzle that makes me seem fast. I actually did this solve about a month ago. Just forgot to upload it. I use my own method: 1. Orient bottom layer 2. Do an x2 cube rotation 3. Orient that bottom layer 4. Do another x2 cube rotation 5. Permute top layer 6. Do another x2 cube rotation 7. Permute that top layer 8. Do another x2 cube rotation (might seem pointless) 9. Line up layers.	20090201
7	15.92 seconds	Phil Thomas	Amazing! Using Ortega I think (variation of Guimond)! I saw a 4 move first layer U R U R'. Then the 8 move anti sune (y' R' U R U' R' U2 R) for oll preserved the top layer permutation. Then I permuted both layers (y2 U2 R2 U R2 y' U2 R2 U R2) That was aweseom	20071120
8	17.25 seconds	Kyle Allaire	n/a	20070109
9	19.06 seconds	Balázs Bernát	with old Pochmann.	20080318
10	19.43 seconds	Takuma Akutsu	Using 3x3x3 BLD system :)	20071012
11	19.94 seconds	Szabolcs Balázsi	(Pochmann) 2 corners were solved.	20081112
12	21.44 seconds	Péter Trombitás	with an easy speedblind for Guimond method. average is about 35 seconds with old pochmann.	20090507
13	23.86 seconds	Mátyás Kuti	Memorization abut 10 seconds. 2 corners were solved. Using Pochmann.	20070106
14	24.34 seconds	Thom Barlow	This was a special case. Doing an L on the cube made it into two CMLL cases, Just just memorised what they'd be after the move, blindfolded and executed. My second fastest is 37.15 done with three-cycles. I'm averaging around 50. This record doesn't really mean much to me. ~ Kirjava	20060225
15	25 seconds	Lucas Garron	n/a	20070319
16	25.25 seconds	Erik Akkersdijk	During weekly bld contest on rubiks.has.it very easy, and done with pochmann!	20061113
17	28.54 seconds	Craig Bouchard	In my average.very easy.	20060316
17	28.54 seconds	Bordas Szabolcs	I have doing this for 3 days:D	20090201
19	28.63 seconds	Alexei Gousev	Not bad. Two sunes, one in each layer, and 5 corners misplaced. Could've been faster if I wasn't afraid to overspin on my 2x2, which is way too spinny for BLDing.	20061221
20	29.54 seconds	Timothy Sun	I do my entire system, since I can't really figure out how to do Orientation->Permutation. Easy case, fourteen moves: 8 moves FL, FURU'R'F LL. I need to get a real 2x2x2, it's distracting with the edges and centers on a 3x3x3.	20060329
21	29.85 seconds	Wuqiong Fan	This is classic Pochmann memo in about 6 seconds. Not lucky. I've gotten several lucky solves today with sub-5 memo and sub-20 total. Average maybe 40-50 seconds (15-20 memo). I suck at execution (learn R2 perhaps?).	20080925
22	30.81 seconds	Bob Burton	Quick memorization on this solve. Only 13 seconds to memorize. Visit my site.	20060514
23	31 seconds	Shotaro Makisumi	I need an Eastsheen.
24	31.85 seconds	Andy Tsao	Done about 10 minutes after I decided to start taking this seriously.	20061029
25	32.98 seconds	Joël van Noort	I am practicing the 2x2 BLD. I learned quite a few patterns for CO.	20070125
26	33.49 seconds	Kai Jiptner	I like doing the 2x2 Blindfolded. I'm not sure why ;) Here is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy5GylYrBN0	20070727
27	35.51 seconds	Joseph Liao	Easy memorization!
28	36 seconds	Alex Kumaki	About 15 second memorization.	20080503
29	37.15 seconds	Johannes Laire	Only tried 3 times. Too easy and boring.	20060902
30	37.66 seconds	Roland Kovács	n/a	20081007
31	39.96 seconds	Sinpei Araki	I should learn more 2x2x2 Rubiks@BLD	20061127
32	41.23 seconds	Bertrand Bordage	zzzzzzzzz. The mini cube is too easy. I just memorize the algorithms I must do. No numbers or other memorization tips. Numbers are not easy to remember. It just need to remember 7 cubes positions in a difficult case. I solved a mini cube for the first time the same day. I'm gonna do the Rubik's cube. That's more serious.	20041010
33	42.60 seconds	Toshihiro Oono	n/a	20070114
34	42.68 seconds	Jacob Powell	Amazing fast Memo and somehow lucky but not, 4 corners misoriented, 2 switch then 3-cycle, and the solve! Using the 3-cycle method learned from Makisumi's site. Fun.	20080626
35	44.25 seconds	Jefferson James	Did this a while ago.	20080126
36	44.69 seconds	Caleb Lau	I probably could have gone faster. I was using Pochmann's original method (not M2, R2). See my site: GottaCube.com	20070608
37	45 seconds	Connor Wyman	OH YEAH!! Beat Orlando! Im Happy! -) Wish I Had a video though -(	20080626
38	45.31 seconds	Ron van Bruchem	Boooooooring. ;-)
39	45.59 seconds	Mats Luthman	n/a	20080731
40	48 seconds	Chris Hardwick	Done on an Eastsheen. I also got a lucky 34 second time. Starting to figure this out.
41	49.27 seconds	Andrew Smith	wow, i just shattered my old record! this is the sort of challenging part of the 2 x 2	20070505
42	51.58 seconds	Gunnar Krig	I did a few solves. This is my 2nd sub-60. Tomorrow I'll practice some 3x3BLD.	20070828
43	52.86 seconds	Emile Compion	B2 L F2 R B R D F' D B2 L' B L F' L D2 F2 R2 D B U2 F2 D B L2 First sub-60. While racing Derrick Eide over MSN. He got a 22.21 on the same scramble XD. I TOLD you I would do it Derrick!!	20080313
44	56 seconds	Bryan Cheng	Took a bunch of tries.
45	1 minute	Bernett Orlando	I did this only after learning 3*3*3 and 4*4*4. As I was not owning a 2*2*2 cube back then, I used only 4*4*4 cube as 2*2*2 cube and solved it!!. Now I own a 2*2*2 cube. It is too easy.	20050125
46	1 minute 3.24 seconds	Alex Seidler	Easy! I used pochmann with visual memorizing.	20080307
47	1 minute 15 seconds	Stefan Pochmann	Very good flow, I didn't have to stop for thinking as much as usual.
48	1 minute 17.65 seconds	Sam Cappleman-Lynes	This is a great time for me (I avg. 2 mins.). Sune on top and bottom layers then an easy permutation memo (why are some easier then others?)	20071201
49	1 minute 18.49 seconds	Rama Temmink	Getting A LOT better at the memorisation, but I must concentrate more to get faster maybe a sub 1 minute solve next time?	20070117
50	1 minute 25 seconds	Yi Ren	good	20090214
51	1 minute 25.13 seconds	Benoît Fontaine	1 minute memorization	20051030
52	1 minute 30.27 seconds	Brad Sampson	First time doing a Eastsheen 2x2 Blindfolded.	20080322
53	1 minute 41 seconds	Brent Morgan	This is awesome. My site.	20040314
54	1 minute 41.08 seconds	Matt Wallisa	n/a	20051024
55	1 minute 51.95 seconds	Kenneth Gustavsson	I just learned to do this, had a couple of 5-10 minutes solves earlier. But now I also learned all the patterns for permutation changes during OLL. That did cut about half of the times =)	20051110
56	1 minute 57.21 seconds	Matt Bychowski	Done in my truck in a parking lot one evening. My memory is horrible, so this is probably approaching my fastest time.	20061221
57	2 minutes 0.37 seconds	Austin Reed	wow	20080428
58	2 minutes 3 seconds	Cameron Webley	It took 2 tries for this, if I rush the memorization, I make some mistakes.
59	2 minutes 6.68 seconds	Evan Gates	my first time, 11:38 pm pretty easy orientation and permutation, but i did it none the less, im so happy :-D	20041107
60	2 minutes 10 seconds	Allen Winslow	This was the first time I timed myself with a 2x2 blindsolve but I don't think that I will get to try again for a long time because I just broke my 2x2! Ugh!	20080601
61	2 minutes 38.20 seconds	Alan Tan	Well. I'm not really good at this. It took me 20 attempts to get ONE solve. AND ON CAMERA TOO THOUGH =D So my first solve. So proud =D I used the beginner's method (I think it's called that?) where you use a buffer zone/undisturbance zone (creds to seerusgod and grintoth on YouTube). Speaking of YouTube. This vid'll go online =D So check out youtube.com/RayjinBlitz if you'd like to see =] I'm not that fast though so yea. One more thing I think this is considered a lucky solve I'm not sure.	20080514
62	2 minutes 49.57 seconds	Carl-Johan Kjellander	Using the standard Richard Carr method. 52371648 22112100 so 3 orientations and 3 permutations. Now to learn the 3x3x3 blindfolded.	20050712
63	2 minutes 55.20 seconds	Michael Gottlieb	First try; three-cycle method. Permutation was (13546)(28) and orientation was ---++0+0.	20070519
64	3 minutes	Shao Hang Kao	Blindfold is fun!	20050910
65	3 minutes 28 seconds	Michael Atkinson	I can do it just about every time now! Don't know how I'll be able to memorize enough numbers for the 3x3x3, though..
66	3 minutes 45.87 seconds	Michael Fung	Timed with "The ultimate Rubik's cube® timer version 2.1". Scramble: F'RU'LD2LB2UR'D2L2BR'BU2R2BR'F2D'LB'UF'R2	20050715
67	3 minutes 46.21 seconds	Marco Nardin	my first try.	20090201
68	6 minutes 52.16 seconds	Ben King	This is my first sucessful attempt at a blindfold solve. I had three previous attempts on the 2x2x2. The first one I had one algorithm wrong so it wasn't even close. Second I was off by one swap. Third, I don't know what I did wrong here. Previous three I did while the rest of my family was away. They came home before I started this one. I ended up watching tv through a good portion of the analysis phase. I used my own (and probably quite inefficient) method for this solve. I orient all the pieces so that on two opposite faces consist of only two opposite colors i.e. only blue and white. I write out cycles for the corners. Then I do single swaps to get them all into place. This solve may be a little bit lucky, but lucky is hard to judge when each step is a single swap. At first, the corner cycle was a beast, but I figured out that 1 swap and a D2 drastically simplified the rest of the solve. probably could have done this in 4-5 minutes if I was alone. I'm probably going to beat this again real soon, so read it while you can.	20050610
69	12 minutes 11 seconds	Nathaniel Day	I took notes. I know that it would not count in a competition, but I still say that I did it. Slowly but surely.	20050508
70	n.a.	Blake O'Hare	I did this while waiting for my dinner at a restaurant. The people in the next table were looking at me funny.
70	n.a.	Bruno Jarno	http://wrubik.free.fr
70	n.a.	Masayuki Akimoto	I thought it is very tough. But I did it in several trials after I established the method.
70	n.a.	Grant Tregay	I had already essentially done this when I did my 3x3x3 in two looks (corners then edges), but I just got a couple 2x2x2 cubes, so I did one. Next I'm going to try two 2x2x2's together, and hopefully after that I can do a 3x3x3 blindfolded.
70	n.a.	Adam Baker	First one to start blind cubing @ OWEN HALL. Working on edges of 3x3x3 now. I'll be there soon. Special thanks to Richard Carr for his help.
70	n.a.	Yuri Pertsovski	It wasn't easy. Done on a Rubik's Cube.