Random Blindfold Cubing Discussion

[adimare]

For anyone who wants to try it, I just spent some time constructing the most annoying BLD scramble I could think of:

U R2 D' L2 F2 R2 U' F2 D' L2 R F' R2 D L U F' R B R2 F2 U2
View in scrambld.cubing.net

Can anyone come up with a worse one?

 

[TheGrayCuber]

For anyone who wants to try it, I just spent some time constructing the most annoying BLD scramble I could think of:

U R2 D' L2 F2 R2 U' F2 D' L2 R F' R2 D L U F' R B R2 F2 U2
View in scrambld.cubing.net

Can anyone come up with a worse one?

This was pretty bad, but the 2-cycles were all oriented together. If there were flips/twists integrated within them it would be just a little worse.

 

[sqAree]

This was pretty bad, but the 2-cycles were all oriented together. If there were flips/twists integrated within them it would be just a little worse.

Maybe having parity would also be cool.

 

[Roman]

I have completely updated (once more) my wings and x-centers algs. Timed every alg and wrote down the fastest one. Big thanks to Tom Nelson, and also I used generated tables a lot.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19OfVecQfJtl_KI2vDFBP-mOCSiowUizXzoKwl3wlmD4/

 

[Daniel Lin]

For anyone who wants to try it, I just spent some time constructing the most annoying BLD scramble I could think of:

U R2 D' L2 F2 R2 U' F2 D' L2 R F' R2 D L U F' R B R2 F2 U2
View in scrambld.cubing.net

Can anyone come up with a worse one?

I think the worst scramble is having every single piece flipped or twisted

EDIT: actually nevermind, that would make edges really easy to memorize

 

[Ollie]

I think the worst scramble is having every single piece flipped or twisted

EDIT: actually nevermind, that would make edges really easy to memorize

And to execute, ((M' U')*4 y' x')*3 is really fast IMO.

 

[Dylan Swarts]

Hey Guys. I need to know how to transition from OP corners to 3-style corners. My OP buffer is UBL but my 3style buffer will be UFR. How can I do this transition and still do M2 edges for now???

 

[sigalig]

Hey Guys. I need to know how to transition from OP corners to 3-style corners. My OP buffer is UBL but my 3style buffer will be UFR. How can I do this transition and still do M2 edges for now???

I would recommend learning orozco for UFR corners. Of course you would also need to learn new corner parity algs. I think probably the best thing to do would be to learn corner parity algs that swap UFR+xyz corners and UF+UR edges. Then for M2 you should employ the UF/UR swap for parity scrambles.

 

[Underwatercuber]

Hey Guys. I need to know how to transition from OP corners to 3-style corners. My OP buffer is UBL but my 3style buffer will be UFR. How can I do this transition and still do M2 edges for now???

Just like graham said orozco is really great for this. I have a written tutorial here

 

[Dylan Swarts]

I would recommend learning orozco for UFR corners. Of course you would also need to learn new corner parity algs. I think probably the best thing to do would be to learn corner parity algs that swap UFR+xyz corners and UF+UR edges. Then for M2 you should employ the UF/UR swap for parity scrambles.

so then after that I can easily transfer to 3Style corners later on?
And for edges? Can I just stay with M2 and then later direct to 3style?

 

[Underwatercuber]

so then after that I can easily transfer to 3Style corners later on?
And for edges? Can I just stay with M2 and then later direct to 3style?

You can transfer to 3 style pretty gradually and easy win orozco. For edges you could stick with M2 or you could switch to U2, Orozco or TuRBo to get the UF buffer.

 

[Dylan Swarts]

You can transfer to 3 style pretty gradually and easy win orozco. For edges you could stick with M2 or you could switch to U2, Orozco or TuRBo to get the UF buffer.

I think I will go full Orozco then from there to 3style. thank you very much..

 

[Martial]

Hey guys, I have a question about the way you chose your comms : what do you think is better between those algs and why?
[UR'UD:[D2, RU'R']] (setup into 9-moves comm)
[UR'U':[R'U'R, D2]] (setup into 8-moves comm)
Thanks for the answers

 

[Thom S.]

I have done a lot of sighted solves and no matter if there are even or odd edges/corners I never have to do the parity alg, and I really do not know how that is.

Older Question but I finally found your answer.
When you do sighted solves you probably just solved your corners and edges without memoing them at first. You won't get Parity with that because if you have an odd number of targets and no memo, so you accidentally swapped to even parity without noticing

 

[BlurryZMan]

I have a question pertaining to memorizing. I've seen many people memorizing letters in pairs of two and associating a sound and image to them, and I started to make my own list of each letter pair (ex. bc, bd, etc.). I realized I have to make over 500 pairs; 506 I think, correct me if I'm wrong (no a, y, or z; and no doubles [ex. bb]). This seems like a tedious process and I'm not sure if this is the way I should be going about making my pairs.

 

[Mike Hughey]

I have a question pertaining to memorizing. I've seen many people memorizing letters in pairs of two and associating a sound and image to them, and I started to make my own list of each letter pair (ex. bc, bd, etc.). I realized I have to make over 500 pairs; 506 I think, correct me if I'm wrong (no a, y, or z; and no doubles [ex. bb]). This seems like a tedious process and I'm not sure if this is the way I should be going about making my pairs.

Yes, that's the way it is done. It is rather tedious, but it's nice once you have them finished!

 

[Ollie]

I have a question pertaining to memorizing. I've seen many people memorizing letters in pairs of two and associating a sound and image to them, and I started to make my own list of each letter pair (ex. bc, bd, etc.). I realized I have to make over 500 pairs; 506 I think, correct me if I'm wrong (no a, y, or z; and no doubles [ex. bb]). This seems like a tedious process and I'm not sure if this is the way I should be going about making my pairs.

It sounds like a lot, but in reality you'll already have a pretty good idea what you might want to use. About 80-90% will be easy.

For example: FK, CK, PS, BJ are obviously rude words, which are actually better choices, because they're easier to remember.

BA, CW, SH and GF could all be animals. You can use friends' initials, famous people, or maybe just simple words.

Try a few solves where you choose letter pairs as you go, you'll be surprised about how much easier it is than you think. If you get stuck, you can try placing vowels in between two letters to make a word (for example, JM could be jim, jam, jem, etc.)

If the word is too hard, you can do a search and find lists that other cubers have made for inspiration. You can also try reading the blog post in my signature if you have no idea what I'm saying.

Good luck!

 

[BlurryZMan]

It sounds like a lot, but in reality you'll already have a pretty good idea what you might want to use. About 80-90% will be easy.

For example: FK, CK, PS, BJ are obviously rude words, which are actually better choices, because they're easier to remember.

BA, CW, SH and GF could all be animals. You can use friends' initials, famous people, or maybe just simple words.

Try a few solves where you choose letter pairs as you go, you'll be surprised about how much easier it is than you think. If you get stuck, you can try placing vowels in between two letters to make a word (for example, JM could be jim, jam, jem, etc.)

If the word is too hard, you can do a search and find lists that other cubers have made for inspiration. You can also try reading the blog post in my signature if you have no idea what I'm saying.

Good luck!

Thanks! One more question though. How do I create words for everything with Q in it? Sometimes I have no idea what to put for certain combinations and the ones I do come up with don't feel easy to memorize. Is there a spreadsheet or guide anyone has that has an example for all the combos?

 

[CarterK]

Thanks! One more question though. How do I create words for everything with Q in it? Sometimes I have no idea what to put for certain combinations and the ones I do come up with don't feel easy to memorize. Is there a spreadsheet or guide anyone has that has an example for all the combos?

Some things with Q can be hard, I would suggest:

Looking at other lists
Switching Q out for another sound, like CH.
Assigning random things to the pairs.

 

[BlurryZMan]

Some things with Q can be hard, I would suggest:

Looking at other lists
Switching Q out for another sound, like CH.
Assigning random things to the pairs.

For beginners do you recommend learning both sounds and images, or just starting out with sounds or images separately before incorporating both into a solve (memo corners with images, memo edges with sounds, solve edges, solve corners)