4x4 Blindfolded tutorial

[dChan]

Hmm, it seems the diagrams for memorizing centers are a little bit out of whack. I assume it must be due to the forum's own formatting? If not, is there a way to fix that?

Anyhow, thanks for the tutorial, I actually quipped to Tyler(happa95) who was getting so fast at 3x3x3 BLD that I would make up for my slowness by getting a successful 4x4x4 BLD before he could(I don't even know if he's interested in big cube BLD, though, so that might not be much of a challenge). Looks like I have a lot of work to do.

EDIT: I found a solution to the formatting. Just copy & paste the tutorial into Notepad ++(well, probably works with MS Notepad, but I did this on N++) and the 4x4x4 centers diagram appears like magic.

 

[tim]

Hmm, it seems the diagrams for memorizing centers are a little bit out of whack. I assume it must be due to the forum's own formatting? If not, is there a way to fix that?

 tags.

 

[SimonWestlund]

Oh. Then I might just try to learn it

 

[Gparker]

i guess ill try learning it too. itd be nice to do this and multi at the VA open 09
i need work on 3x3 before ill start learning this.my goal is now to learn this before summer which isnt that far away

 

[martijn_cube]

Hey nice tutorial. Now i finally understand 4x4 bld edges. but still have to learn centers.

 

[rahulkadukar]

Wow I am working on 4x4x4 Blindfolded using commutators. Will post it within a week

 

[byu]

Ok, so if people are interested, I can make a video for this method. I got my first success today! So, Pm me if you are interested, if I get 4 people minimum who are interested, I will make a video. I am not expecting many people to want me to though because Im not that good at teaching and explaining things

 

[V-te]

Nice tutorial! I understand everything....except commutators...=/. I'm doomed to never solve a big cube BLD because of them. =/

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

Follow this guide and do the exercises in every part of the tutorial. If you keep trying, it'll eventually start to click.

And if you really can't understand them, just use U2 for centers, it's similar to M2/r2/R2 for edges/corners. It's a lot easier to understand, yet uses about twice as many moves.

 

[cmhardw]

I also had a difficult time understanding commutators at first. This site is the one that helped me finally crack the code.

Chris

 

[V-te]

Thanks Guys, I will begin studying. I'm going to make a 4x4 BLD my new years resolution.

 

[puzzleaddict]

Does anyone happen to have a list of all 4x4 r2 edge setup moves? Thanks

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

I don't know of any, but it's intuitive, except maybe for l-slice edges, which may be tricky at first.

Seriously, if you need a list for the rest, you're clearly not ready for it yet. Try to figure it out on your own first.

 

[Escher]

Does anyone happen to have a list of all 4x4 r2 edge setup moves? Thanks

I don't know of any, but it's intuitive, except maybe for l-slice edges, which may be tricky at first.

Seriously, if you need a list for the rest, you're clearly not ready for it yet. Try to figure it out on your own first.

Going with what Maarten said... Please please only use this if you absolutely cannot work out the more troublesome cases. The majority of it is very intuitive (i.e. I know it and I can barely solve a 3x3 BLD).

 

[puzzleaddict]

Hmmm, perhaps I should have just asked for a list of the rules that all setup moves must follow. For example;

-which slices you cant turn
- which sides need to not be turned (ie doing an opposite turn of that face before the set-up move so it corrects itself
- etc.

If I can get a list of these than I could probably make up the set-up moves.

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

The only rule is that you have to keep the whole r-slice intact, except for the piece you put in UBr.