[Help Thread] Blindsolving

[Prabal Baishya]

Hello. I recently switched to the UF/UFR buffer and was wondering on how to deal with parity with these buffers.

 

[abunickabhi]

Hello. I recently switched to the UF/UFR buffer and was wondering on how to deal with parity with these buffers.

The parity is mostly a Jperm. You setup a UF-UR swap and UFR-UBR swap, which is just a Jb perm. It is very fast to execute.

Obviously, at my level, there are about 100+ parity algs to be learnt, as we do the last target (last corner piece)+ UF-UR swap, in just one alg, which saves upto one second.

 

[abunickabhi]

Hello, I was thinking in a form to begin in how to memorize the pairs of PAO, My idea is:

All the words where there's the letter "B", and with a system doing like that:

B (Memorize word) - (Person)
(Memorize word) B - (Action)
B (Memorize word) - (Object)
(Memorize word) B - (Person)
B (Memorize word) - (Action)
(Memorize word) B - (Object)

And repeating this system, like the Orozco Method, but in this case, one word for one letter, including "B", with this system you'll be able to rebember 120 words (to 1680, so that's the 7.14%)

Example: AF-D

BArbie is ForBiding to a BeD
And in the other PAO the same, but chancing the rule of words, What do you think guys?

I have not fully understood your memo system. Can you explain it taking a 3x3 scramble as an example?

 

[jdh3000]

Hello, I was thinking in a form to begin in how to memorize the pairs of PAO, My idea is:

All the words where there's the letter "B", and with a system doing like that:

B (Memorize word) - (Person)
(Memorize word) B - (Action)
B (Memorize word) - (Object)
(Memorize word) B - (Person)
B (Memorize word) - (Action)
(Memorize word) B - (Object)

And repeating this system, like the Orozco Method, but in this case, one word for one letter, including "B", with this system you'll be able to rebember 120 words (to 1680, so that's the 7.14%)

Example: AF-D

BArbie is ForBiding to a BeD
And in the other PAO the same, but chancing the rule of words, What do you think guys?

Nothing really helps Q an X in my opinion.

Your idea is intriguing...

 

[Prabal Baishya]

The parity is mostly a Jperm. You setup a UF-UR swap and UFR-UBR swap, which is just a Jb perm. It is very fast to execute.

Obviously, at my level, there are about 100+ parity algs to be learnt, as we do the last target (last corner piece)+ UF-UR swap, in just one alg, which saves upto one second.

Thanks. I don't intend to learn 100s of parity algs now as I still have 50% of the edge and 20% of the corner comms to be done. But can I still get the list somewhere

 

[Habsen]

Hello. I recently switched to the UF/UFR buffer and was wondering on how to deal with parity with these buffers.

Dealing with parity is quite easy with UF/UFR buffers. You don't need more than the 21 corner parity algs.
For CEEC order: You know that you have parity before memorizing edges. So solve UF and UR swapped.
For ECEC order: Just append UR to your edge memo when you realize that you have parity, i.e. an odd number of edge targets. It will automatically swap UF and UR. Or, even better, use weak swap. That means solve UF or UR to the UR position, whichever comes first. Treat the other one as your buffer piece from this moment. Graham Siggins has a good youtube video on the topic.

 

[Prabal Baishya]

Dealing with parity is quite easy with UF/UFR buffers. You don't need more than the 21 corner parity algs.
For CEEC order: You know that you have parity before memorizing edges. So solve UF and UR swapped.
For ECEC order: Just append UR to your edge memo when you realize that you have parity, i.e. an odd number of edge targets. It will automatically swap UF and UR. Or, even better, use weak swap. That means solve UF or UR to the UR position, whichever comes first. Treat the other one as your buffer piece from this moment. Graham Siggins has a good youtube video on the topic.

I have the ceec order. I actually thought that we needed to swap UB and UL but soon I realised that the parity algs didn't make sense then. So I was a bit confused about which two pieces to swap. But now I am fine.
Also do people use full parity? I think there is a total of 462 parity cases for every odd edge+corner target combination. It's almost like full ZBLL.

 

[Waffles]

I use SH for X and Y for Q. I often have trouble with J/V in my memo but I doubt that there is a better alternative. If your guys could offer me some tips (I average 2 minutes with memo and use M2/OP) for memo I would appreciate that

 

[Sub1Hour]

I use SH for X and Y for Q. I often have trouble with J/V in my memo but I doubt that there is a better alternative. If your guys could offer me some tips (I average 2 minutes with memo and use M2/OP) for memo I would appreciate that

I've never gotten a successful blind solve before so take what I say with a large grain of salt.

For J or V you could possibly use CH or TH. Also, do you use images or sounds for edges? If you think your up to it using sounds for edges is a little faster than using images.

 

[Waffles]

For edges I say, for example, Shape (SH,P) and then Dog (D,G) and so on. I do the same thing for corners but forget the word and put an image in my head on the stairs at my grandparents house. The first one goes at the top. I don’t know if this is the best way to approach this, and I would appreciate an answer. I memo corners first.

 

[Dylan Swarts]

Initially starting out with that approach is fine, but moving away from memorizing 3bld memo in loci are a good idea. What you should generally be aiming for is to memorize corners as 1 separate image (in no location, just randomly) and audio all of your edges. At first this might not be worth doing, especially at your speed of memo. It's much easier for someone to remember their audio memo for 10 seconds than it is to remember it upwards of a minute or so.
Personally not sure how you should move away from it right now without immediately going into audio. I would say have a go at audio memo on edges and see if you could do it. It's not absolutely necessary to use audio, using the loci as you are now could work until like 30s memo or better, but it's the more common technique at a high level because of how much faster it is than making and placing images across a room. You'll also want to solve the piece type that you memorize last, first, so that it can be shorter term than the rest. In your case, memo corners, memo edges, solve edges, solve corners.

 

[GooseCuber]

I've started learning 3*3 blindfolded, but every single time I get the problem of my corners having moved after I have inserted the edges. Even while looking after I inserted the last edge I see the corner buffer (and about 2 more) have changed(Parody and non-parody cases.) I use the old pochman method.

 

[PetrusQuber]

I've started learning 3*3 blindfolded, but every single time I get the problem of my corners having moved after I have inserted the edges. Even while looking after I inserted the last edge I see the corner buffer (and about 2 more) have changed(Parody and non-parody cases.) I use the old pochman method.

It’s been a long time since I’ve done blindfolded, so try https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/one-answer-blindsolving-question-thread.27353/page-294 or wait for the experts to come in lol.
Maybe try an example solve with your memorisation as well, and they can see what’s going on
tag ne if you want there

 

[Habsen]

I've started learning 3*3 blindfolded, but every single time I get the problem of my corners having moved after I have inserted the edges. Even while looking after I inserted the last edge I see the corner buffer (and about 2 more) have changed(Parody and non-parody cases.) I use the old pochman method.

Execute your edge algorithms on a solved cube just for practice. This way, you can observe what's going wrong more easily.

 

[GooseCuber]

I always post these kinda stuff and get it right just after. Did my first fully blind yesterday but thanks for all the help anyway.

 

[GooseCuber]

Haven't managed again though. Working hard.

 

[Dylan Swarts]

I always post these kinda stuff and get it right just after. Did my first fully blind yesterday but thanks for all the help anyway.

Ayy hello there fellow South African. Good to see some more people interested in blind.

 

[GooseCuber]

Managed another solve yesterday of 7:42 but got stuck again.

 

[GooseCuber]

I have been doing a lot of OP/OP solves lately but either me or the method is very bad (probably me) so I want to know if learning a new method, such as M2/OP might make a difference. Or should I go the extra mile and learn Oroczo? I can do 2*2 quite efficiently, but am only like 10% effective with 3*3.

 

[Eli Apperson]

I would learn M2/OP