What Is Rowe Hessler's Blindfold Method?

[dChan]

Yes, but if you use numbers then you will have to also remember the orientation of the pieces(basically which way the sticker faces). Visual memo, seems logically, easier for fresstyle as you are solving stickers. If you are solving pieces then numbers as well as visual will work. But for stickers, visual works better, in my opinion. I am not the expert though, I am just speaking the way my mind comprehends it.

EDIT: hait2 got to this before me.

No, I said to you, you can use numbers. So, you can use numbers. Instead of 1-12, you have 1-24.
Images, for example, work just as well for sticker memo. I dunno, do the names Tim Habermaas or Dennis Strehalu mean anything to you? (if not I may have spelt them wrong! =p) Or Chris Hardwick even?

Ah, but you did not explain that well. I was thinking the way hait2 explained it so when you said that you can use numbers, I thought, "that's double the work though because now you have to deal with orientation" and by that I mean each piece would now have two numbers(or 3 for corners.).

Images don't work for me. I have never been able to translate things into images. First of all, it takes some work to create a designated set of images for memo and second, even if you do it freestyle(whatever comes to mind at the moment) it would be hard for me to relate it to a cube because I would never have used it before. This is why I prefer pure visual or numbers.

 

[joey]

I think that images lend themselves to multi-bld the best. So if you eventually want to get into that area, they might be worth a go.

 

[dChan]

I think that images lend themselves to multi-bld the best. So if you eventually want to get into that area, they might be worth a go.

I would love to try multi-BLD but I think it would be very hard for me to adopt any kind of memory system. I can't imagine it being easy to get used to - is it?

 

[joey]

I think that images lend themselves to multi-bld the best. So if you eventually want to get into that area, they might be worth a go.

I would love to try multi-BLD but I think it would be very hard for me to adopt any kind of memory system. I can't imagine it being easy to get used to - is it?

For any BLD, you have to use some sort of memory system. Visual memory is a memory system (by the way, I'm not picking on you, but I've seen other people say the same thing)

For me, images havn't seemed to work too well, but thats probably because I havn't given them much of a chance. I hope someone else can give insight it images here..

 

[dChan]

Sorry! I know visual and numbers is a memo system. I misspoke. I'm an idiot like that sometimes.

But yeah, I don't think I could take up systems like PAO because for me, it is harder to does "triple translating." E.g. Donald Ate Cheese, translates to Edge cycle (X X X) which doesn't make sense to me when I can just remember visually. But I can see how it might work for others.

 

[hait2]

i use images for my edges. to be honest i have no idea how you do it with visual. i've tried, definitely, but the slightest break in concentration and i have nothing to hold on to, no traces of what the visual route looked like at all. i can only do visual when i'm certain i can concentrate, and since i usually BLD with music/tv shows/semi-conversations, i doubt that would be possible for me.

i still visual corners, but that's definitely holding me back in my pathetic multi attempts, and i'm in the middle of transitioning to an image system for them as well.

i *am* interested though. how do you remember the visual route? say you're doing a bld solve, a phone rings, so you hide the cube, talk on the phone for a bit. can you get back into the solve and still remember the cycle? even a 10second conversation in the middle of a solve and i *totally* forget the visual path unless i cheat and remember images as guide posts (say every 3rd-4th piece, i remember an image instead)


oh and by the way, pao doesn't do triple translating. when i see "james igniting a dog" which technically corresponds to the 10 11 4 cycle in my system (my system's just a=1 b=2 etc). but it's not like i translate j i d into 10 11 4 then into the pieces on the cube. it just goes straight into the pieces of the cube.
this was for my old system, when i did orientation-first edges. with freestyle, i just used my previously created images from pao instead. i don't have 3 images for each sticker now though, just one. it's another thing i'm working on because remembering "egg dog james" is harder than a PAO scene because PAO usually makes sense, and it's hard to make an image from "egg dog james"

i've taken the easy way out right now and pop an image into each place in my route. this takes up 3x as much space though (usually i'd pop a PAO scene in each stop-point instead). but there's a big difference between having 36images that I had and 72. i'm working on it though. can't wait til i finalize my pao system for each sticker pair.