Random Blindfold Cubing Discussion

[PianoCube]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I'll do it anyway.

I have done blindfolded for some time now and want to get a better memory system, but I'm not sure about which language I should use. I have to choose between Norwegian and English. I'm from Norway, so my Norwegian vocabulary is better than my English, but the letters C, Q, W, X and Z is almost never used in the Norwegian language.
Any tips?

 

[bobthegiraffemonkey]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I'll do it anyway.

I have done blindfolded for some time now and want to get a better memory system, but I'm not sure about which language I should use. I have to choose between Norwegian and English. I'm from Norway, so my Norwegian vocabulary is better than my English, but the letters C, Q, W, X and Z is almost never used in the Norwegian language.
Any tips?

You could always use a mixture, and end up only using 'nice' letters. Not sure how well this would work for you, I'm not bilingual so I can't really judge the difficulty or awkwardness.

 

[Cubenovice]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I'll do it anyway.

I have done blindfolded for some time now and want to get a better memory system, but I'm not sure about which language I should use. I have to choose between Norwegian and English. I'm from Norway, so my Norwegian vocabulary is better than my English, but the letters C, Q, W, X and Z is almost never used in the Norwegian language.
Any tips?

Definitely use your own language, it will make your stories more logical / flow better
As you only really need 23 letters you can ditch the three most difficult letters.
Another tactic for difficult letters is to assign categories; starting letter is the category, 2nd letter is an image withing the category

example (copied from Chris Hardwicks list) : X are superheroes / action figures
XT = Terminator
XS = spiderman
XD = daredevil

or Q = cars
QC = camaro
QM = mustang

etc
etc

this way you do not have to make up 23 words with a difficult starting letter

 

[tseitsei]

I use bilingual memo. Finnish and english. and I don't think it's slowing me down. My memo is 20-30seconds usually.

 

[PianoCube]

Definitely use your own language, it will make your stories more logical / flow better
As you only really need 23 letters you can ditch the three most difficult letters.
Another tactic for difficult letters is to assign categories; starting letter is the category, 2nd letter is an image withing the category

example (copied from Chris Hardwicks list) : X are superheroes / action figures
XT = Terminator
XS = spiderman
XD = daredevil

or Q = cars
QC = camaro
QM = mustang

etc
etc

this way you do not have to make up 23 words with a difficult starting letter

Thanks, I will give the category-thing a try.

 

[qqwref]

I have done blindfolded for some time now and want to get a better memory system, but I'm not sure about which language I should use. I have to choose between Norwegian and English. I'm from Norway, so my Norwegian vocabulary is better than my English, but the letters C, Q, W, X and Z is almost never used in the Norwegian language.
Any tips?

You could try replacing them with more common Norwegian letters:
A B D E / F G H I / J K L M / N O P R / S T U V / Y Æ Ø Å

 

[PianoCube]

You could try replacing them with more common Norwegian letters:
A B D E / F G H I / J K L M / N O P R / S T U V / Y Æ Ø Å

Yeah, but I don't really want to move the letters around. It will probably confuse me more than it will help :/

 

[A Leman]

lately, I have been using visual memo(the actual state,not cycles) for 4Bld centers. I find it very convenient since centers are viewed in 2D,memorized last,solved first and I am able to use more shortcuts to solve them.

Other than Comms, what other tricks can I use that will not affect the edges and corners? for example, [2U2 2R2]*2. Is there corners-last speedsolving invormation for this that could be helpfull?

 

[TMOY]

What do you exactly mean by 2U2 and 2R2 ? If it's just the inner slice, then yes your alg works in the sense that it doesn't affect corners and edges, but be warned that it' performs two 3-cycles of centers, not two 2-cycles.

And you should also define what you mean by "other than comms". For example, the above alg also happens to be a comm

 

[A Leman]

What do you exactly mean by 2U2 and 2R2 ? If it's just the inner slice, then yes your alg works in the sense that it doesn't affect corners and edges, but be warned that it' performs two 3-cycles of centers, not two 2-cycles.
And you should also define what you mean by "other than comms". For example, the above alg also happens to be a comm

Yes, I meant inner slcies(in SIGN notation) and I guess I meant "Other than a 3-cycle" when I said other than comms. I am not that worried that that alg is two 3-cycles because it is a way to finish 2 opposite bars easily.

A finish for 2 adjacent bars would be helpfull. I just seem to be terrible at finding these tricks for centers.

 

[drewsopchak]

Perhaps there should be a loci routes thread where we can discuss our routes. Thoughts?

 

[Julian]

Perhaps there should be a loci routes thread where we can discuss our routes. Thoughts?

Memory methods thread? Or more specific?

 

[TMOY]

A finish for 2 adjacent bars would be helpfull. I just seem to be terrible at finding these tricks for centers.

l E' L2 E l' E' L2 E works fine for that, it swaps a vertical bar on the left on the U face witn a vertical bar on tha rght on the F face (well,this is the apparent effect, actually it performs 3-cycles like the previous one).

 

[drewsopchak]

Memory methods thread? Or more specific?

Specifically for memory routes. Most big cube blders and mutiers use them and there really isn't any place to discuss them on this forum.

 

[MKLEIN]

Random question using old Pochmann. I have 1 edge and 3 corners that are in the correct spot (location) but need to be flipped. I noticed this before solving. what is the best way to deal with this?

 

[Cubenovice]

most people solve these last

for corners you can us comms or shoot twice the same piece

 

[Robert-Y]

Maybe this has been thought of before:

How about a letter pair image database in the Wiki? It would include multiple images and perhaps a description to explain how it's related to the given letter pair, if it's not obvious enough. Also it doesn't necessary have to cover only English alphabet letter pairs. It could cover other letter pairs from other languages.

 

[JasonK]

Maybe this has been thought of before:

How about a letter pair image database in the Wiki? It would include multiple images and perhaps a description to explain how it's related to the given letter pair, if it's not obvious enough. Also it doesn't necessary have to cover only English alphabet letter pairs. It could cover other letter pairs from other languages.

I'm probably missing something, but that sounds just like www.speedsolving.com/wiki/index.php/List_of_letter_pairs

 

[Robert-Y]

Yeah I didn't know that existed until now. But still, perhaps having images might be useful...

 

[drewsopchak]

Yeah I didn't know that existed until now. But still, perhaps having images might be useful...

I believe Mike has a folder on his computer with all of his images and he looks through them from time to time. But it's a trade off; the more vivid your images, the better the recall but, the more vivid the images, the longer it takes to clear your routes/ short term memory.