Random Blindfold Cubing Discussion

[Fábio De'Rose]

I hadn't done any corners only / edges only practice in a long time. Couple days ago I did some 40ish edges only solves, and found I average roughly 34 seconds at them (Mostly M2, few comms).

Memo takes anywhere from high 5 to high 10 (full audio).

I think I'll start doing those as warmup for 3BLD sessions. Could also maybe help me improve my dumb execution a bit.

 

[Underwatercuber]

I hadn't done any corners only / edges only practice in a long time. Couple days ago I did some 40ish edges only solves, and found I average roughly 34 seconds at them (Mostly M2, few comms).

Memo takes anywhere from high 5 to high 10 (full audio).

I think I'll start doing those as warmup for 3BLD sessions. Could also maybe help me improve my dumb execution a bit.

Still mind blown by your memo, almost tempted to stop practicing sighted events to work on bld specifically but I like clock and 3x3 too much

 

[CornerCutter]

Should I learn M2 or the regular way for Edges starting out?

 

[oneshot]

Should I learn M2 or the regular way for Edges starting out?

Just do m2. If I can figure it out with no cubing experience anyone can.

 

[Blindsighted]

Would anyone be interested in a comm list that's based of Daniel lin's UFR and Ishaan's UBL corner comm list? I feel like I have something to contribute to all the lists out there, even though I'm not world class.

 

[Fábio De'Rose]

Would anyone be interested in a comm list that's based of Daniel lin's UFR and Ishaan's UBL corner comm list? I feel like I have something to contribute to all the lists out there, even though I'm not world class.

Most definitely. Do you have Ishaan's UBL list, by the way? Been looking for it, to no avail so far. I could use some inspiration haha

 

[Fábio De'Rose]

Still mind blown by your memo, almost tempted to stop practicing sighted events to work on bld specifically but I like clock and 3x3 too much

Haha, I might not be the best advisor but BLD events are arguably more exciting xD

 

[Underwatercuber]

Haha, I might not be the best advisor but BLD events are arguably more exciting xD

That is when you manage to get a good success (or a few ones back to back)

 

[Blindsighted]

I don't have his list but I've reconstructed his ave of 12 and his random posts online. There are only a few good ways to do each case and I have a pretty good idea of the algs he would use.
Hehe but he's making videos on his algs and it will take me a while to post it online.

 

[Blindsighted]

What's a good alg for DF BD RU?

 

[Cale S]

What's a good alg for DF BD RU?

[F' R' F, M']

or do x first

 

[Blindsighted]

I usually use R' D' R' D M D' R D r for the inverse but backwards it's awkward.

 

[FastCubeMaster]

In multi blind I recently did an attempt and the time was much much faster than what I was expecting. I noticed that for each cube, I was going through more than one letter pair before trying to pin it to memory, making it more efficient.
So, a question for fast multiblinders: If this even makes sense, how many words/objects do you read off of your cube before you try to stick them all into long term memory? Because obviously the more you do, the more risky it is to forget something or do something wrong.

 

[TheGrayCuber]

In multi blind I recently did an attempt and the time was much much faster than what I was expecting. I noticed that for each cube, I was going through more than one letter pair before trying to pin it to memory, making it more efficient.
So, a question for fast multiblinders: If this even makes sense, how many words/objects do you read off of your cube before you try to stick them all into long term memeory? Because obviously the more you do, the more risky it is to forget something or do something wrong.

I’m not super fast, but I do 4 letter pairs at a time, because that’s how many I store in one location. I like to find all 4 pairs and then make a collective image.

 

[Berd]

50,000th post in the Blindfolded Discussion!

 

[Roman]

Random post.
Even the best algorithms, if not well-trained, are slower than the bad ones executed pauseless and fast.
I have just finished looking for the best UFl wings algs, it's time to learn them all and practice like crazy. Like before. I'm back to sport

 

[Blindsighted]

I've been thinking about this lately. I'm drilling algs and most my corner comms are sub 1.4 but in actual solves it takes me, some times way longer execute them. I've been trying to fix this by trying to spam tps, drilling algs, and doing sighted solves. Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

[Isaac Lai]

I currently use OP/OP and average around 2:30-3 minutes for 3BLD. In the past, I've tried switching to both TuRBo and M2 for edges. Both times, I learnt the methods, but never got around to using them in solves because I never stuck with them for long enough such that I was able to improve with them. However, a while ago, I came across this video from Sebastiano Tronto where he said in a reply to a comment that he "never really 'changed method'", and pretty much went from OP straight to 3-style. Well, since TuRBo is basically just set-ups to a few edge comms, is such an approach advisable? I'm inclined to do this since I'm kind of lazy to change buffer and learn an intermediate method (especially if it's M2).

 

[TheGrayCuber]

I currently use OP/OP and average around 2:30-3 minutes for 3BLD. In the past, I've tried switching to both TuRBo and M2 for edges. Both times, I learnt the methods, but never got around to using them in solves because I never stuck with them for long enough such that I was able to improve with them. However, a while ago, I came across this video from Sebastiano Tronto where he said in a reply to a comment that he "never really 'changed method'", and pretty much went from OP straight to 3-style. Well, since TuRBo is basically just set-ups to a few edge comms, is such an approach advisable? I'm inclined to do this since I'm kind of lazy to change buffer and learn an intermediate method (especially if it's M2).

Learn 3-style. If you want to, and you’re willing to try hard enough, there is no reason not to. The only thing I would advise is that you should consider changing buffers, depending on what you use now. If you’re going to spend the time learning 3-style you might as well change to a better buffer.

 

[Underwatercuber]

Learn 3-style. If you want to, and you’re willing to try hard enough, there is no reason not to. The only thing I would advise is that you should consider changing buffers, depending on what you use now. If you’re going to spend the time learning 3-style you might as well change to a better buffer.

I would
A. Switch to 3style (as quickly as possible) with UF as your buffer
or
B. Learn M2 and learn 3style later on (maybe start with corner comms at the same time)