IRNjuggle28
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Most speedsolvers seem to have regrets about how they have learned and at some level wish they could go back and tell their past selves to learn differently. There are others, but a few of the most frequent examples are wishing you'd learned a different main method, wishing you had started out color neutral, or wishing your finger trick habits were different i.e. ring vs pinky in OH. In each case, solvers who have become fast consider it impractical to make these changes because of how long it would take them to get back to their current speed. So, they don't change and just have to live with the fact that they are, and will continue to be, slower than if they had practiced differently from the start.
This brings me to my question. I'm in the privileged position of being an experienced, reasonably fast sighted solver who has invested no time in BLD yet despite having been cubing for years. I have no skill to sacrifice by going back and learning differently and no reason that I shouldn't learn the optimal methods for getting fast from the start. So, my question is what wrong ways to learn should I actively avoid? Are their particular buffers that are better/worse? Particular types of words for letter pairs that are hard to remember? Cons to learning OP/OP or OP/M2 in terms of becoming fast later at 3 style? I don't know what, if anything, those sort of pitfalls for beginners would be. I just know that they exist in sighted solving and that it makes for them to exist here as well. I regret only solving white/yellow instead of all six colors. I kind of regret picking CFOP over Roux. I would love to avoid any such regrets regarding BLD solving. So, experienced blindsolvers, I would appreciate some advice on what not to do in learning BLD. Thanks.
This brings me to my question. I'm in the privileged position of being an experienced, reasonably fast sighted solver who has invested no time in BLD yet despite having been cubing for years. I have no skill to sacrifice by going back and learning differently and no reason that I shouldn't learn the optimal methods for getting fast from the start. So, my question is what wrong ways to learn should I actively avoid? Are their particular buffers that are better/worse? Particular types of words for letter pairs that are hard to remember? Cons to learning OP/OP or OP/M2 in terms of becoming fast later at 3 style? I don't know what, if anything, those sort of pitfalls for beginners would be. I just know that they exist in sighted solving and that it makes for them to exist here as well. I regret only solving white/yellow instead of all six colors. I kind of regret picking CFOP over Roux. I would love to avoid any such regrets regarding BLD solving. So, experienced blindsolvers, I would appreciate some advice on what not to do in learning BLD. Thanks.