[Help Thread] Blindsolving

[Hazel]

I'm quite decent at figuring out corner comms on the fly now, the only problem I have is remembering which setup moves I did so I can undo them after the commutator :/

 

[Eli Apperson]

I have a competition coming up in 5 weeks, and I would like to get somewhat decent at 3 Bld. Does any one have any m2/op tutorial recommendations, or tips in general?

 

[willian_pessoa]

I actually tried learning 3-style corners yesterday and it just started clicking today. I can find commutators pretty reliably, I'm just slow and mess up sometimes and I'm not nearly good enough at them yet to be able to do it eyes-closed.
EDIT: Ok yeah I definitely got this, and it's really fun! I just need to practice more

yeah, it's a long journey, just enjoy

 

[abunickabhi]

Any good written tutorial on the BOP beginner's blindfolded method? I want to introduce it to my friend and can only find the alg sheet listing out the setup moves.

 

[Garf]

Any good written tutorial on the BOP beginner's blindfolded method? I want to introduce it to my friend and can only find the alg sheet listing out the setup moves.

J-perm has good OP tutorials. His card scenario from the first video is really good to show beginners how a buffer works and how swaps works, but I learned from his latest OP tutorial.

 

[Eli Apperson]

J-perm has good OP tutorials. His card scenario from the first video is really good to show beginners how a buffer works and how swaps works, but I learned from his latest OP tutorial.

OP and BOP are different

 

[Garf]

OP and BOP are different

Oh. Well, I am guessing BOP means Beginner's old pochman, because that is what it sounds like to me.
anyway, for orozco, let's say that Q is one of my memorized piece. Since it is part of the helper, do I ignore it and move onto another piece, or is there a way to solve Q?

 

[abunickabhi]

Oh. Well, I am guessing BOP means Beginner's old pochman, because that is what it sounds like to me.
anyway, for orozco, let's say that Q is one of my memorized piece. Since it is part of the helper, do I ignore it and move onto another piece, or is there a way to solve Q?

Not you got it wrong. BOP stands for Brant's Old Pochmann. It uses UF-UFR buffers and Jb perm as the pochmann alg to swap 2e2c.

 

[Garf]

Not you got it wrong. BOP stands for Brant's Old Pochmann. It uses UF-UFR buffers and Jb perm as the pochmann alg to swap 2e2c.

Oh. Well, I have no idea about that old pochman method. I just know UR-UBL for the T-Perm/Y-perm variant alg

 

[abunickabhi]

Oh. Well, I have no idea about that old pochman method. I just know UR-UBL for the T-Perm/Y-perm variant alg

Yeah that has been popular for the last decade. The problem with old pochmann is that it is hard to switch to orozco and 3-style as the buffers get changed from DF/UBL to UF/UFR which can be too much. To make this transition easier it is better to pick UF/UFR buffers for modified old pochmann.

 

[Garf]

Yeah that has been popular for the last decade. The problem with old pochmann is that it is hard to switch to orozco and 3-style as the buffers get changed from DF/UBL to UF/UFR which can be too much. To make this transition easier it is better to pick UF/UFR buffers for modified old pochmann.

Okay, that makes more sense. I thought I saw cubeleo make some videos about BOP

 

[abunickabhi]

Okay, that makes more sense. I thought I saw cubeleo make some videos about BOP

Yeah that's me inside the Cubelelo videos.

 

[Garf]

Yeah that's me inside the Cubelelo videos.

Huh. Well, why did I even suggest videos that you were inside of, then?
I don't think there are great tutorials out there. I tried looking, but nothing seems to pop up.

 

[jdh3000]

I do blindfold solves using the old pochmann method.

If the buffer piece is in the buffer slot at the beginning, I never seem to be able to solve it. On either edges or corners.

I am either making a mistake every time or missing a step.

Is there anything different that should be done when the piece that goes in the buffer location is sitting there at the start?

What I am currently doing is picking a random piece at the beginning to start, just like I would if I were in the middle of a solve and ran into a buffer piece.

Is this correct?

Thank you!

 

[Garf]

I do blindfold solves using the old pochmann method.

If the buffer piece is in the buffer slot at the beginning, I never seem to be able to solve it. On either edges or corners.

I am either making a mistake every time or missing a step.

Is there anything different that should be done when the piece that goes in the buffer location is sitting there at the start?

What I am currently doing is picking a random piece at the beginning to start, just like I would if I were in the middle of a solve and ran into a buffer piece.

Is this correct?

Thank you!

Yes. This is correct. When you start a new cycle, you always go back to the piece that you memorize, but unless you memorize that original slot and solve it, the cube will never be solved.
I suggest just going through and count where pieces need to go. Start at the buffer and go through the cycles until you reach the buffer piece or all of the pieces are solved. Then continue from there until all pieces are traced where they need to go.

 

[PotatoIsGreat]

hello guys, so i started trying to do 3BLD but i had hard time trying to memo all the letters , i tried writing them on a paper it worked but when i tried memorizing them in my mind
it was so hard to keep up with 5 letters , is there like a video/website that can help me with this or something?

 

[GioccioCuber]

hello guys, so i started trying to do 3BLD but i had hard time trying to memo all the letters , i tried writing them on a paper it worked but when i tried memorizing them in my mind
it was so hard to keep up with 5 letters , is there like a video/website that can help me with this or something?

Do you use letter pair images to memo?

 

[PotatoIsGreat]

Do you use letter pair images to memo?

yes i do

 

[GioccioCuber]

yes i do

Have you tried making a story out of it? It worked for me when i was a beginner

 

[oneshot]

Is there a maximum number of targets to be solved in 3BLD? I’m trying to figure out how to setup my journey for multi blind and am trying to figure out how big my memory palaces need to be. Thanks