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MCubing4Life

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I’m relatively new to Blindsolving, so I was wondering what is the easiest, and most efficient way to memorize the pieces. Also, any ways to expand my memory capabilities.
 

FluxDigital01

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I am interested in blind solving, so I went and looked up some tutorials and understood everything except how to start a new cycle.
Can someone help me?
 

Jacck

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I am interested in blind solving, so I went and looked up some tutorials and understood everything except how to start a new cycle.
Can someone help me?
Let me have a try:

In bld you do, easily spoken, exchange two cubies. You start with the cubie in the buffer and exchange it with the cubie where it (the cubie in the buffer) has to go to. Then the cubie in that place will be in the buffer and you continue till the buffer is solved (you don't have to memo the buffer-cubie at end, it will be there automatically).
What if the buffer is solved, but there are other unsolved cubies left?
You could take the position of an unsolved cubie as new buffer ("floating buffer") to work from, but this is hard.

If you only want to use your standard buffer (cos you have learned all setups for this place - "you only know, how to work with this one"), you start a new cycle and just get an unsolved cubie in the buffer and then start normal business again, until the buffer is solved again.

If you want to sort numbers and just interchange from buffer Position 1:

you start with:
3 5 4 1 2
pos 1 switched with pos 3
4 5 3 1 2
pos 1 switched with pos 4
1 5 3 4 2
buffer is solved!
new cycle:
pos 1 switched with pos 2
5 1 3 4 2
pos 1 switched with pos 5
2 1 3 4 5
pos 1 switched with pos 2
1 2 3 4 5
Done!
You would memo 3,4,2,5,2.
 

One Wheel

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What is the best source for 4BLD algs? I’ve watched a couple of tutorials, I understand the concepts, I just need the algs in written form so I can memorize them. I think I need:
- r2 parity
- U2 D target alg
- r2 M-slice algs
- U2 U target algs

I am comfortable with OP corners, and I believe I can intuit R and L targets for r2 and R, L, F, and B targets for U2.
 

cubeshepherd

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What is the best source for 4BLD algs? I’ve watched a couple of tutorials, I understand the concepts, I just need the algs in written form so I can memorize them. I think I need:
- r2 parity
- U2 D target alg
- r2 M-slice algs
- U2 U target algs

I am comfortable with OP corners, and I believe I can intuit R and L targets for r2 and R, L, F, and B targets for U2.
The algs that I learned for 4 BLD, like you are asking about I learned from Cory's 4 BLD YouTube videos on the whole series that he put out. I am not sure if they are the best algs out there, but I was able to memorize them really easily and get fast with them after some practice so they will work if you are just looking for the algs for now. And just so you know the cases that Cory talks about in the video are written out on the descriptions, and the 2 videos that have the algs are Part 3 and Part 5, both of which are below.
 

Skewbed

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I am still a beginner speed cuber and i want to learn 3BLD.
Any recommendations into how to get started would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

I would recommend SpeedCubeReview's Old Pochmann tutorial (https://www.speedcubereview.com/blind-solving-algorithms.html). It requires three algorithms (T-Perm, Modified Y-Perm, and R-Perm).

The hardest part my first 3BLD success was memorization. I did not time it, but memo was probably about 10 minutes. Now my memo is down to about 4 minutes (which is still bad). I would recommend (to myself and you) to make sure you use a good memo system.

With execution, make sure to turn slowly until you are comfortable with an algorithm and target before trying going fast. One wrong turn in the middle of the solve will mess up everything else.
 
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What is the best source for 4BLD algs? I’ve watched a couple of tutorials, I understand the concepts, I just need the algs in written form so I can memorize them. I think I need:
- r2 parity
- U2 D target alg
- r2 M-slice algs
- U2 U target algs

I am comfortable with OP corners, and I believe I can intuit R and L targets for r2 and R, L, F, and B targets for U2.
I used J Perm's tutorial for them
 

Alex Gold

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I was wondering if anyone else used my way of memorizing some letter pairs. Basically, IQ is Albert Einstein in my head (he had a large IQ) but if I want to memorize QI instead then I just picture Albert Einstein turning his back towards me.
Is this method too confusing?Or should I use a unique image for QI? I've only used it for a few difficult letter pairs whose reversed letter pairs are easier to visualize for me ( like XR is difficult to form a word for me but RX is just a T-Rex. Thus, XR is a T-Rex turning his back to me). I've only managed to do 4x4 BLD once so I'm not sure if memorizing like this will get confusing to me as I try my hand on larger NxN Blindsolving and I'll have more letter pairs to memorize.
 

Clément B.

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Hi everyone ! I use M2 for 3BLD and I just hate parity, like a lot of people I think.
But I just realized something : If you execute corners then edges, you never get parity !!
I just wanted to know if I discovered something or if everybody does this.
Thanks !
 

Thom S.

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I know but I tried like 50 times and didn't get parity even once ...

I know exactly what you did. You sightetly solved Corners with Old Pochmann WITHOUT caring how many targets you did, right. By doing an odd number of Y Perms you accidentally solved Parity without knowing it plus you swapped UB and UL but it doesn't matter since you did sighted solves.
 
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