Official Blindfold Algorithm List

[Joël]

I found this alg recently. It's quite fast; did it in 1.93 seconds. Twist UFR URB UBL:

R U (R2 U' R2 U) (R U R' U') R U R U (R U' R' U)

[Joël]

Flip 4 edges in the E layer;

(RUR'F') * 3 E2 (RUR'F') * 3 E2

[cmhardw]

I found this alg recently. It's quite fast; did it in 1.93 seconds. Twist UFR URB UBL:

R U (R2 U' R2 U) (R U R' U') R U R U (R U' R' U)

Hey Joël, that is a nice alg. How did you find it? The reason I ask is that I am curious if there is a maybe slightly less optimal version of it that is also supercube friendly, since I would need something that flips corners on the bigger cubes BLD before I have solved the centers.

Nice alg though, I will definitely try to learn it for 3x3. If you have any ideas on how to make it supercube friendly that would be neat for bigger cubes!

Chris

[Johannes91]

This is supercube friendly:

R U' L' U u R2 u' R2 U2 L U' R U'

[Joël]

Hey Joël, that is a nice alg. How did you find it? The reason I ask is that I am curious if there is a maybe slightly less optimal version of it that is also supercube friendly, since I would need something that flips corners on the bigger cubes BLD before I have solved the centers.

Nice alg though, I will definitely try to learn it for 3x3. If you have any ideas on how to make it supercube friendly that would be neat for bigger cubes!

Chris

I am glad you like it. I found it with Acube . No idea how to make it supercube friendly... Sorry

Johannes' alg is optimal btw.. Not sure if you'd like those u moves on a 4x4, though...

[Joël]

Chris,

Since you asked for a supercube friendly alg for this case, I spent some time searching for an algorithm, and this is what I could find after playing around with the RU'R'U move for a while:

(F' U' F2 R' F' R2 U' R' U2)* 2

18 moves.. same as the other alg. Maybe not the fastest alg... But it works .

Edit: It's executes pretty nicely on a 3x3, actually.. Sub3 after a few tries .
Edit2: In case you wonder how I found this, I basically used RU'R'U repeatedly, putting cuberotations between them: (RU'R'U xy) * 6. Then I rewrote it without the cube rotations.

[shelley]

One I discovered while messing around with COLL:

B (R U R' U')x3 B' (1 5)(2 6)

Can be also used for (4 8)(2 6) if you switch B and B'

[KConny]

Great alg Shelly, much easier to setup than E-perm. Thanks.

[Joël]

Ok.. I am pretty sure everybody will like this alg:

((R U R' U)(R U R' U2)) * 2

[Lucas Garron]

Ok.. I am pretty sure everybody will like this alg:
((R U R' U)(R U R' U2)) * 2

There's a nice one?

These were the best I could come up with...

• R2U'R2 M2'U'M2'U2'M2'U'M2'U2' R2UR2 (=R2U'r2U'M2'U2'M2'U'M2'U2'R2UR2)
• L'U'LU'L'U2L RUR'URU2R' RU'R'URU'R'URU'R'U (=L'U'LU'L'U2L RUR'URUR'URU'R'URU'R'U)
• zL'ULBU'B'D2BUB'L'U'LD2z', zR'U'RL'ULD2L'U'LR'URD2z' and other variations on that (such as moving the D2 to the beginning of the commutator.

This will make BLD so much more fun.