Blindsolving Discussion and Help

[Mike Hughey]

I know that equation, but it just really isn't so easy to do during memo! The idea of putting fingers on them might well be worth a shot, cheers. Good job i have 12 fingers.

I probably shouldn't, but I still use fingers, for both edges and corners.

 

[drewsopchak]

I'm asking people who have already been in my situation : When you were in the process of learning corner comms (all 378 of them!), did you still actually practice BLD during that time? If yes, did you use the comms you already knew during your solves?

How are you learning them? If your doing it in some kind of impractical way of repetition, then I don't know what to say. I just intuitively use comms and three cycles, and sometimes use the occasional TuRBo alg.
You'll probably use whatever two cycle method you use now and slowing use 1 comm/solve, then 2, then 3 and so on until you solve only with comms.

 

[Noahaha]

I'm asking people who have already been in my situation : When you were in the process of learning corner comms (all 378 of them!), did you still actually practice BLD during that time? If yes, did you use the comms you already knew during your solves?

As I said in my guide, add them as you learn them. You need to be able to use these commutators on the fly. If you're not doing BLD solves, you may end up with 378 commutators that take you two or three seconds each to recall.

 

[jla]

OK, so I think I'm pretty close to finally understand BH corners. Just one question, I have the cycle URB FDL DFR. I see that URB and DFR is interchangeable with a R2 but there's no three move insert for the FDL. What do I do?

 

[cubernya]

OK, so I think I'm pretty close to finally understand BH corners. Just one question, I have the cycle URB FDL DFR. I see that URB and DFR is interchangeable with a R2 but there's no three move insert for the FDL. What do I do?

That's one of 18 cases that take 11 moves to solve. The alg listed on Chris Hardwick's site is U L' U F2 U' L U L' F2 L U2

 

[Jaycee]

I'm not so sure I'm good at conjugate notation yet, though I know commutator notation.

If I'm trying to say z2 F D' R U2 R' D R U2 R' F' z2, is it correct to write it as [z2: [F: [D', R U2 R']]]?

 

[Noahaha]

I'm not so sure I'm good at conjugate notation yet, though I know commutator notation.

If I'm trying to say z2 F D' R U2 R' D R U2 R' F' z2, is it correct to write it as [z2: [F: [D', R U2 R']]]?

That means the same thing, but it would be better to write [z2 F2 : [D', R U2 R']]

 

[cubernya]

I'm not so sure I'm good at conjugate notation yet, though I know commutator notation.

If I'm trying to say z2 F D' R U2 R' D R U2 R' F' z2, is it correct to write it as [z2: [F: [D', R U2 R']]]?

That's good, but not perfect. Rather than doing [z2: [F: [stuff]]] you could just do [z2 F: [stuff]]

 

[Jaycee]

Thanks, guys!

 

[Noahaha]

I'm tired of just working on corners. What should I concentrate on? Here's my breakdown:

Corner memo: 7-15 seconds
Edge memo: 15-20 seconds
Edge execution: 20ish seconds
Corner execution: 15-25* seconds

*corner execution only gets up to 25 if there's a commutator that's difficult for me and I'm too stubborn to OP it.

 

[Jaycee]

Edge memo

 

[RyanReese09]

Everything.

 

[Noahaha]

Everything.

Thanks. I'll get on that.

 

[RyanReese09]

Glad to hear.

 

[drewsopchak]

Yeah.... it seems to me that in most areas of speedsolving, it's better to practice an event as a whole. What memo do you use Noah?

 

[Noahaha]

Yeah.... it seems to me that in most areas of speedsolving, it's better to practice an event as a whole. What memo do you use Noah?

I agree, but usually when I'm just messing with the cube I'll be practicing something specific.

I try to find a simple image for corners (using letter pair words of course) and then I use audio loop for edges which usually consists of 3 two-syllable words that represent 4 letters each.

For example (a random scramble on my cube):
Corners: HPNTVLJIG = a HiPpo does NoT do a ViLe JIG.
Edges: BXQREPCSTPVLV = BoXQueR EPCuS ToPVaLVe.

It's nice because if I have to recall corners during edge memo I just recall the image.

 

[AbstractAlg]

@Noahaha
I would suggest to practice whole memo and corners execution.

My splits:

Memo: 18-26 (i think it's 50:50 for E and C)
Edges: 20-25 (max 35 if I must recheck how's M slice going)
Corners: 10-15

 

[Noahaha]

I think M2 is holding me back at this point. Should I go TuRBo->freestyle or straight to freestyle?

 

[Ickathu]

I think M2 is holding me back at this point. Should I go TuRBo->freestyle or straight to freestyle?

Freestyle or BH

 

[Noahaha]

Freestyle or BH

I don't like being move-optimal, so some kind of freestyle.

EDIT: mebbe I don't know the difference actually lol. I probably meant BH.