TheNextFeliks
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Marcell does actually. It is easier for parity probably.
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Marcell does actually. It is easier for parity probably.
Bhargav777
OH friendly please
That looks similar to the two centre swap , I guess. Cool. What do I do if I have Ulb Dlb Ulf?
BAB'A'? I don't understand the concept in the opposite centre commuting. Can you please explain?
BAB'A'? I don't understand the concept in the opposite centre commuting. Can you please explain?
conn9
Regular
As always, I'm sure its been thought of before, but I can't find it from searching the forums.
I *think* it's possible to do multiBLD with just one cube. I've not attempted it, so there could be some obvious flaw with the concept I've overlooked.
E.g. Get 2 scrambles written down in front of you. Scramble cube using scramble 1, memo, then solve it (normally) again. Scramble with scramble 2, memo and solve. Then do scramble 1 followed by scramble 2. From there you can don the blindfold and do solve 2 followed by solve 1 to hopefully solve it.
Pros: don't need multiple cubes
Cons: If you don't get 100% accuracy the cube will just look scrambled, you need to be accurate with the scrambling, the need to scramble and solve a few times before putting the blindfold on means you can't really time it that well
I *think* it's possible to do multiBLD with just one cube. I've not attempted it, so there could be some obvious flaw with the concept I've overlooked.
E.g. Get 2 scrambles written down in front of you. Scramble cube using scramble 1, memo, then solve it (normally) again. Scramble with scramble 2, memo and solve. Then do scramble 1 followed by scramble 2. From there you can don the blindfold and do solve 2 followed by solve 1 to hopefully solve it.
Pros: don't need multiple cubes
Cons: If you don't get 100% accuracy the cube will just look scrambled, you need to be accurate with the scrambling, the need to scramble and solve a few times before putting the blindfold on means you can't really time it that well
TheOneOnTheLeft
tOOtl
Thought of a nice way to work on letter pairs today - as you walk around, figure out words for the letter pairs you see on car number/license plates. Don't know if anyone does this but it seems like a decent way to commit your words to memory, or to practise coming up with words on the spot, whichever way you do it.
Julian
Veteran
I do this a lot. It helps that here in Ontario the format is LLLL NNN.
ilikecubing
Veteran
Is there anyone who is real fast with R2?
TheNextFeliks
Veteran
Pochmann.
Ollie
Legend
Not really (Marcell used to, hence why he uses DFR buffer, but obviously he's moved on to 3-style comms) but there's no reason why it can't be a fast(ish) corners method if you practice it enough.Obviously BH/3-style is a lot better and a much better investment of time and effort for BLD.
Not really (although I'm not 100% sure which corners method he uses now.)
TheNextFeliks
Veteran
I have started noticing that I do my best bld at 6-7 o'clock. Anything past 8:30 isn't great and anything before is just avg.
Noahaha
blindmod
I do my best BLD around midnight, since that's approximately when I stop thinking about it.
A Leman
Veteran
I may do a bit better during the middle of the day, but all of my improvement happens late at night.
Username
Legend
Random 0 edge cycle [R2, U2 M' U2]
Don't ask me why, just found it and posted for fun
Don't ask me why, just found it and posted for fun
Ollie
Legend
How many people would be interested in a big cube BLD progression video? I'd probably talk about wings, midges and centers, how to speed-optimize your algs, talk about speeding up memo etc. I can talk a little bit about advanced r2/M2 as well and how to transit from r2 -> advanced r2 -> comms for example.
Username
Legend
Yes please.
DrKorbin
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etshy
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Bhargav777
OH friendly please
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A Leman
Veteran
I have a question for the people that are very good with images. Do you sub vocalize the image before you form it? I currently audio loop 4 single syllable letter pairs in my head and then picture it in 1 or 2 loci depending on the event. This is an improvement from going an image at a time, but some mnemonists say that sub vocalization slows you down and that I should get rid of it. Visually reading the cube without sub vocalizing at all feels very weird for me right now and I am slow at it, but I had a similar feeling with look ahead and that is very important. What are your thoughts?
Ollie
Legend
Good question!
However, I feel that vocalisation mostly uses the phonological loop of memory and is relatively short-term. But it depends what you're trying to memorize...
Although vocalization sometimes helps, I personally feel that I'm at the stage where I don't need it. But that may be because I've done so much practice. In particular, I've been focusing on the actual visualisation of the images rather than the vocalisation of the letter pairs (in the early stages at least.) However, for example with +-centers on the 555bf I use short-term memory and more of the 'vocalisation' rather than the imagery in order to memorize these bits. So I guess it depends what you're trying to do.
These examples apply to me, but I'm not too sure about the top pros such as Marcell, Dan, Oleg etc. I.e:
333bf = more vocalisation for corners , more imagery for edges (depending how fast you are...)
444bf = " " " ", more imagery for wings and centers...
555bf, more vocalisation for +-centers and corners, more imagery for everything else.
But I'd recommend reading up on the Working Memory Model (Baddely and Hitch) because this has helped me immensely. Manipulate how your mind processes information and use more visual information in your memo, for example.
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cmhardw
Premium Member
Today I learned a cool fact! This fact has already been discovered I'm sure, likely by qq or those with a strong interest in the math behind the cube. Today I found that memorizing the order of a shuffled deck of cards is very nearly the equivalent of doing a 4x4x4 + 3x3x3 BLD relay. If someone already posted this I either did not remember or did not notice, but I found this so cool to know that those two events are so comparable!
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I found that doing a 4x4x4 + three 2x2x2s BLD is also a closely equivalent information load to memorizing a shuffled deck of cards.
\( \frac{log(52!)}{log(\frac{7!*3^6*(24!)^2}{24^6}*43252003274489856000)}\approx1.0367 \)
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I found that doing a 4x4x4 + three 2x2x2s BLD is also a closely equivalent information load to memorizing a shuffled deck of cards.
\( \frac{log(52!)}{log(\frac{7!*3^6*(24!)^2}{24^6}*(7!*3^6)^3)}\approx1.0357 \)
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