Blindsolving Discussion and Help

[minime12358]

How about anyone who uses freeestyle/BH for corners(like Amos, Zane, Aron, Chris, Mike, etc.). How do you solve parity?

I havent decided the best way of doing it.

Some times, I do a setup so that I can do a t perm which starts the next corner swap.

Some times I just note that two corners are swapped.

 

[RyanReese09]

Need preferably 2 more room ideas. I'm *literally* out of ideas. I spent several hours trying to think of more

I have 16 rooms

Spoiler

my room---
1) lightswitch
2) bed
3) chest
4) clothes drawer
5) safe
6) computer
7) closet
8) Ceiling (flipped edges)
9) Floor (twisted corners)

erics room---
1) lightswitch
2) closet
3) bed
4) computer desk
5) computer table
6) clothes drawer
7) clothes hamper
8) Ceiling (flipped edges)
9) Floor (twisted corners)

brandons room---
1) lightswitch
2) computer table
3) book closet corner
4) bed
5) closet
6) stereo
7) hiding cubby place under stairs.
8) Ceiling (flipped edges)
9) Floor (twisted corners)

basement---
1) light switch
2) couch
3) light switch curcuit
4) pellet stove
5) backroom basement entrance.
6) tv
7) stairs
8) Ceiling (flipped edges)
9) Floor (twisted corners)

dads office---
1) entrance
2) desk left of entrance
3) closet
4) window
5) main computer desk
6) moms computer desk
7) cd rack to the right
8) ceiling (flipped edges)
9) floor (twisted corners)

living room---
1) rocking chair
2) corner lamp
3) couch
4) corner lamp
5) couch
6) staircase
7) tv
8) Ceiling (flipped edges)
9) Floor (twisted corners)

kitchen----
1) lightswitch
2) toaster place
3) microwave
4) door
5) dinner table
6) sink
7) oven
8) Ceiling (flipped edges)
9) Floor (twisted corners)

kfc---
1) bathroom hallway
2) right counter
3) left counter soda fountain
4) doorway
5) trashcan
6) left of doorway entrance.
7) Ceiling (flipped edges)
8) Floor (twisted corners)

dairy queen lobby---
1) left hallway
2) oj counter
3) employee entrance (bit left of it)
4) cake freezer
5) bathroom hallway
6) beginning of bench
7) end of bench
8) Ceiling (flipped edges)
9) Floor (twisted corners)

gym loris---
1) first walk in door
2) couch
3) television
4) office
5) working out place
6) tile counter.
7) Ceiling (flipped edges)
8) Floor (twisted corners)

gym model A---
1) key place
2) employee place to sit
4) snack food
5) phys therapy office
6) cardio
7) staircase
8) weight room
9) Ceiling (flipped edges)
10) Floor (twisted corners)

grandma basement---
1) hidden room
2) pool sticks
3) pool table
4) couches/the table
5) tv
6) bar
7) light switch
8) Ceiling (flipped edges)
9) Floor (twisted corners)

reeds basement---
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)

super mario castle entrance---
1) toad on left near entrance
2) door on left
3) star big door entrance on left
4) key door in middle top
5) star door on right
6) door on right
7) toad on right near entrance
8) ceiling (flipped edges)
9) star on floor (twisted corners)

Super smash Luigi level---
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)

diablo2 rogue encampment---
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)

 

[bobthegiraffemonkey]

Need preferably 2 more room ideas. I'm *literally* out of ideas. I spent several hours trying to think of more

I use a lot of Super Mario 64 places, they work well for me. There is a lot more castle there, as well as outside the castle and 15 main levels, usually with a lot of places you can use. For example, I can fit 6 3x3s in Bob-omb Battlefield, and 7 in Whomp's fortress. If you take a little bit of time to familiarise yourself with the levels (I assume this won't be much of a problem since you've clearly played the game before), you can create loads of locations for routes with little effort. I also use Banjo-Kazooie, which is good, and I started using Clock Town from Majora's Mask today, they (and similar games) also have a lot of easy to exploit potential. If you want, I can provide the locations I use, though you will probably prefer to make the routes yourself, I know I would.

 

[RyanReese09]

I know there is a load of potential for the game, but I don't use Journey. I use roman rooms.

I prefer a room box-based structure with a (counter)clockwise motion of going through everything in the room. THat's why I was only able to think of the main entrance as being usable.

If you know of more "rooms" let me know. I used to play that game all the time.

 

[bobthegiraffemonkey]

Best I can think of for your style is Big Boo's Haunt, there's a few rooms there. Not sure how well it would work for you (it's quite good for me to go through the rooms), but you might be able to manage something. Also, Clock Town in Majora's Mask can be good, there's a few places you can treat as rooms, as well as a couple of actual rooms which are good. Not sure if you've played it, but I highly recommend it for both routes and gameplay. Hope you manage to decide on useful new routes soon anyway, even if it helps you get further ahead of me at multi

 

[RyanReese09]

Best I can think of for your style is Big Boo's Haunt, there's a few rooms there. Not sure how well it would work for you (it's quite good for me to go through the rooms), but you might be able to manage something. Also, Clock Town in Majora's Mask can be good, there's a few places you can treat as rooms, as well as a couple of actual rooms which are good. Not sure if you've played it, but I highly recommend it for both routes and gameplay. Hope you manage to decide on useful new routes soon anyway, even if it helps you get further ahead of me at multi

I just need more rooms (been delaying on that for a while). Need to start doing more cubes and get my brain stronger so I can do lesser cube attempts in comp and it'll seem easy . I'm going to try that out and see if it works. Hell, couldn't hurt.

I'll look at those rooms and see what I can use. 2 more rooms shouldn't be *that* hard to make, right ?

 

[cuboy63]

What is the UWR for 3BLD while listening to Nyan Cat?

 

[cuber952]

I use Old Pochman for corners and i want to get faster, what corner method should I switch to?

 

[RyanReese09]

Commutators. Old Pochmann can be fast though.

 

[aronpm]

What is the UWR for 3BLD while listening to Nyan Cat?

I've done sub40

 

[toastman]

What is the UWR for 3BLD while listening to Nyan Cat?

That record is currently held by ME. TOAST. AUSTRALIA. 08:34.73. Because I just did it and no-one else has claimed it until now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjKX9GjW8D0

It was HARD and it SUCKED and my brain hurts and I don't ever want to do this again.

 

[cuboy63]

I've done sub40

I guess you win. What is the UWR for 4BLD while listening to Nyan Cat.

 

[aronpm]

LOL

 

[aronpm]

I guess you win. What is the UWR for 4BLD while listening to Nyan Cat.

I just did 5:10.26 (2:13.36+2:57.00, I accidentally stopped the timer during memo and had to start it again), which was like 1:30 memo, pop during first corner comm, mistakes during centers, etc, just bad :s

29.73 3bld sorry toastman

NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN

Spoiler

F B' U' R2 B2 F2 L' F' U F' R F L D F2 D2 U B2 F R B L' U B R2

x L2 U R' U' L2 U R U' x' 8
y R2 D R' U2 R D' R' U2 R' y' 9
z' U2 R' D' R U2 R' D R 8
x' U' R' D' R U R' D R x z 8
33 moves

x U L2 U' M2 U L2 U' M2 8
x2 U2 M2 U' R2 U M2 U' R2 U' x 9
R' U' M2 U R U' M2 U 8
x M' U' L' U M U' L U x' 8
U R2 U M' U' R2 U' M U2 9
42 moves

75 moves

 

[Aleksandr]

I think Kai uses TuRBo corners.

I think so

 

[toastman]

I just did 5:10.26 (2:13.36+2:57.00, I accidentally stopped the timer during memo and had to start it again), which was like 1:30 memo, pop during first corner comm, mistakes during centers, etc, just bad :s

29.73 3bld sorry toastman

NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN

DASTARD! You mean I just wasted over an hour of my life, getting failure after failure, my ears bleeding with Nyanedness, all for nothing?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHGHGHHGHGHGHGHGHHGHGHGHGHHGHGHGHGHGHHGHGHGH!

 

[toastman]

29.73 3bld sorry toastman

NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN

Also, I demand that you youtube this. And Nyan Cat needs to be good and loud.



(It's OK. I have wine. And vodka if the wine runs out. Which it will.)

 

[cmhardw]

How about anyone who uses freeestyle/BH for corners(like Amos, Zane, Aron, Chris, Mike, etc.). How do you solve parity?

On 4x4x4 I just remember the last letter of the last corner that's giving me parity. I then say that letter and the word parity, I use this so that it also goes into my auditory memory.

So if the last letter in my cycle is K I would say "K parity". Then, after solving centers, I setup piece K into the U layer and perform a PLL alg plus swapping the wings back.

On 5x5x5 I actually cycle the buffer to the last piece, and then to an already solved location on the U layer. This creates a double swap on the U layer. I do the same for midges. This creates a PLL case on the U layer, and I remember that PLL case by saying it out loud. So I might say "left N perm", "T perm", "upside down T-perm", "J perm", "R-perm" etc.

The reason I do the extra cycles on 5x5 is I have found that if I use the same approach as for 4x4x4 I often forget the parity pieces after solving both t-centers and x-centers. In order to alleviate this memory interference, I make the parity cycle easier to remember. I know it probably slows me down a bit for the two extra cycles, but I still solve fairly fast on 5BLD (dare I say it), and I feel that this method makes me more accurate and get fewer DNFs due to parity.

 

[cuboy63]

On 4x4x4 I just remember the last letter of the last corner that's giving me parity. I then say that letter and the word parity, I use this so that it also goes into my auditory memory.

So if the last letter in my cycle is K I would say "K parity". Then, after solving centers, I setup piece K into the U layer and perform a PLL alg plus swapping the wings back.

On 5x5x5 I actually cycle the buffer to the last piece, and then to an already solved location on the U layer. This creates a double swap on the U layer. I do the same for midges. This creates a PLL case on the U layer, and I remember that PLL case by saying it out loud. So I might say "left N perm", "T perm", "upside down T-perm", "J perm", "R-perm" etc.

The reason I do the extra cycles on 5x5 is I have found that if I use the same approach as for 4x4x4 I often forget the parity pieces after solving both t-centers and x-centers. In order to alleviate this memory interference, I make the parity cycle easier to remember. I know it probably slows me down a bit for the two extra cycles, but I still solve fairly fast on 5BLD (dare I say it), and I feel that this method makes me more accurate and get fewer DNFs due to parity.

That's cool. What about 3x3. How do you solve parity with that?

 

[cmhardw]

That's cool. What about 3x3. How do you solve parity with that?

I solve edges first, so when I get down to the last parity edge piece I remember (visually) where it is. Then when going through the corner solve after that, and I get down to the last parity piece, I recall the visual location of the parity edge and I do setup moves to setup both the corner and edge into a PLL. I usually setup the edge first (slice moves don't disturb corners) and then the corner. I don't know if this is necessarily the best way to handle this, but it works for me.