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Dusted off my OP/M2 execution the past couple of days. Learning bld was a big goal for me this year and I braced myself for weeks or months of learning and practice before expecting a success then was shocked to get a few full solves after a week. Well ahead of schedule and suddenly seeing 3x3 improvements I decided to stick bld in the freezer for a little while but it's time to resume.
 
I could probably be nearly comp-ready for 3-BLD by now but I haven't touched it since Jan. I went straight for learning M2 edges with no regrets there; probably a few advanced things in my near future, in particular better ways of dealing with twisted corners / flipped edges. My basic execution is nearly back up to snuff and memo is going to be a long-game, so I'm probably nearly ready for some refinements on the execution side.

I have a weird dyslexia confusing white/yellow in memo too frequently... no idea why, it's not a problem in sighted solves.
 
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I have a weird dyslexia confusing white/yellow in memo too frequently... no idea why, it's not a problem in sighted solves.
I used to have that between certain stickers, and sort of still do since there are some I tend to mix up more often than others if memoing quickly. My last solve at Crawley was DNF for exactly that reason.
 
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5x5 time is now 8:00. I suspect I can go sub 8, but it is a matter of more practice. I haven't done a good 4x4 timed solve in a bit.. been working on the higher order cubes, and just enjoying solving them.

Funny story, I switched jobs recently, and I was wandering the cubes around the office... and saw an unsolved cube?! Well, that can't be... I asked its owner about it, and he said he could only solve the first face, I offered to solve it, and he took me up on it... about 2m later on this Rubik's brand cube, it is solved. I then realize.. it is a company cube. (The company logo is on the white face.) He offers me the cube saying he has another one... So I now have a company cube, that sits inside my company cube.

I'll often walk around with a 3x3 in my left hand flipping it around doing U(a)/U(b) and A(a)/A(b) and other patterns. Just fidgeting.

I don't have as much time to post, but the cubes keep getting scrambled and solved....
 
probably a few advanced things in my near future, in particular better ways of dealing with twisted corners / flipped edges.
Here's my ready made guide.
To flip edges UF and UB - M' U' M' U' M' U' M' U2 M' U' M' U' M' U' M'
To flip edges UR and DF (buffer) ((M' U)3 M U)2 or switch U to U' for UL and DF (M' U M' U M' U M U M' U M' U M' U M U)
Flip DF and UB
U M' U M' U M' U M U M' U M' U M' U M
To flip all top edges M' U' M' U' M' U' M' U M' U' M' U' M' U' M' U
To twist UFL clockwise and UBL anticlockwise - 2x sexy move (R U R' U'), L', 2x reverse sexy move (U R U' R'), L. To twist them both the other way then the L moves come first so L', 2x sexy, L, 2x reverse sexy. If the piece is in DFL instead of UFL use L2 instead of the L and L' moves.
Use setups to get your pieces in the right positions first and don't forget to undo them. You can get away with just learning the first or second edge flip to begin with.
I do need to learn more corner twisting algs if anyone has anything good?

I have a weird dyslexia confusing white/yellow in memo too frequently... no idea why, it's not a problem in sighted solves.
I do exactly the same.
Probably due to my choice of orientation.
 
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I do need to learn more corner twisting algs if anyone has anything good?
I use pretty much the same as you posted. If two corners are twisted opposite ways I try to rotate or set them up to UFL UBL rather than do two twists with the buffer (my 5:30 4BLD at Crawley had a double twist like this). The only other thing I occasionally do is use an alg when two corners (plus the buffer) are twisted the same way. Often it's just too hard or slow to set up to, but try this: (R U R' U') (R' U')2 (R U R' U') (R2 U2)2 R' U' and inverse.
 
In this case I sometimes use a nicklas + A Perm from the same side I started the niklas, but only if I'm sure that's the case, which doesn´t happen always :) With two corners I try to do left sune, right sune. I just remember the color of the face if one of the twisted corners is the buffer or just visual if not.
 
I use pretty much the same as you posted. If two corners are twisted opposite ways I try to rotate or set them up to UFL UBL rather than do two twists with the buffer (my 5:30 4BLD at Crawley had a double twist like this). The only other thing I occasionally do is use an alg when two corners (plus the buffer) are twisted the same way. Often it's just too hard or slow to set up to, but try this: (R U R' U') (R' U')2 (R U R' U') (R2 U2)2 R' U' and inverse.

In this case I sometimes use a nicklas + A Perm from the same side I started the niklas, but only if I'm sure that's the case, which doesn´t happen always :) With two corners I try to do left sune, right sune. I just remember the color of the face if one of the twisted corners is the buffer or just visual if not.
2 options. I'll try them out. Thanks guys.

@mark49152 I never twist an untwisted buffer if it's just 2 pieces out. Although I'm not a fan of rotations as setups there's an exception here as they don't have to be put back.
 
Thanks for the discussion on those, copying for later digestion.

I'm back to where I left off with three solves and two near misses, first full attempts in nearly 5 months. I even memorized a scramble last night and then solved at the coffee shop this morning, I did do review but had it right. Main bottleneck is memo speed and collecting letter pairs in particular (I do have the awesome Google doc from the thread here not long ago).

I can get it given unlimited time to be careful so I might even try two this weekend. I'm fairly confident I can retain two ad-hoc stories without building any rooms yet; memory isn't tripping me up at all at this stage (surprisingly), it's the usual silly newb mistakes.
 
Thanks for the discussion on those, copying for later digestion.

I'm back to where I left off with three solves and two near misses, first full attempts in nearly 5 months. I even memorized a scramble last night and then solved at the coffee shop this morning, I did do review but had it right. Main bottleneck is memo speed and collecting letter pairs in particular (I do have the awesome Google doc from the thread here not long ago).

I can get it given unlimited time to be careful so I might even try two this weekend. I'm fairly confident I can retain two ad-hoc stories without building any rooms yet; memory isn't tripping me up at all at this stage (surprisingly), it's the usual silly newb mistakes.
Memo is definitely the hard part once you've learned a method and you'll get the best results from practicing it. Rooms aren't really necessary for a single cube. You could even consider audio for edges, it's quicker to memo but doesn't last long.
 
Memo is definitely the hard part once you've learned a method and you'll get the best results from practicing it. Rooms aren't really necessary for a single cube. You could even consider audio for edges, it's quicker to memo but doesn't last long.

On rooms, what's roughly the tipping point for you? Multi blind is suddenly attractive, I think I could more readily do 3 given an hour right now than a single 3-bld in under 6 mins.
 
Getting back into cubing after a 2 year absence @ 45yo. I don't remember my algorithms very well and my notes from last time around are too shorthand for me to understand all of them :) I had to split the document up into a new notes section with more explanation and a second section labelled "Forgotten Lore" that I hope to understand again soon. Accidentally deleted a few of my 7 CMLL algorithms so I replaced them with easier-to-remember ones for now and will probably replace them again with more efficient versions later on.

It took me about one night to get back to being able to solve (using a 2-look CMLL Roux) but I still need to brush up on a few algorithms and then start adding back in some of the extra recognition, shorter algorithms, and other "bonus" stuff.
 
The biggest average I track at the moment is ao50 and I haven't done one of those in a couple months so it was time. Dropped it about 3 seconds and broke every other PB except single, in the process. Very promising to hit a spell with a lot of sub 30s-- nearly half the solves overall-- and only a smattering of disaster solves. Time distribution is slowly creeping to where low 20s aren't as much of a lightning strike for me.

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