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I’ll be taking a long break from cubing as I still have studies and other things that I want/have to focus on. I might come back someday but I also might not. Thanks for following!

Day 3: Oops I forgot yesterday. Today I did a lot of slow solves and I attempted some longer sessions which ended with >20 seconds means overall. For some reason I got the fat antisune OLL 5 times in a row. For blind, I was doing some corners only solves. Day 2: I did a decent session. single...

Day 1: I was a bit tired today so my solves overall were not good. I have been practicing 3x3 using Ao5s as described in this video by Kian Mansour. It has helped me to retain focus but I still had bad times overall. I learnt a few OLLs and have been drilling them. For 3 blind I had no...

Hi. I used to be a casual cuber for the past 4 years, on and off. After plateauing at around 19 seconds with CFOP, I was disappointed and quit cubing. However, I came back and wish to smash all my PBs in 3x3 and 3 blind, and maybe OH. This thread is to track my progress and motivate me to go...

Goal: Sub 17 Cube: Gan 354 M 1. (25.35) 2. 17.66 3. 23.32 4. 18.04 5. (13.87) 6. 17.82 7. 16.50 8. 18.36 9. 17.14 10. 18.89 11. 14.83 12. 20.03 Ao12: 18.25

Apparently in terms of speed they are similar. However, M2 setups (except like Q) are much easier to learn compared to Turbo (basically stepper learning curve). Maybe it is harder to think ahead as in Turbo you might need to track setup moves? Could someone more experienced in Turbo/M2 comment?

This one: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IOV_-VRC1ZO2fB-N2iOfPYwXyxSftIKPF67rbu6dB1M/htmlview#

Thanks for the parity tip. Underwatercuber, I feel that U2 is not as good for edges. The setups in your Google doc are not so easy to fingertrick, especially for those new to 3 blind. I mean, at that point you could be using a better method like eka or orozco at minimum. (I am learning eka...

I agree. It is also has a much better movecount and is more ergonomic? I mean you can use just <R,D> setups and <R,U,D> move combinations are very fast, and with the <R,D> setups I use the average movecount per sticker is 9.4, much less than 17-19 for OP.

For any D layer target setup to DFR and do R2 D’ R2 D R2 to setup. Hope that helps ;). One tip I will have it try to use only <R,D> for you setups as it is faster. If you have trouble try learning D and D’ with you left ring and D2 flicks. Just curious what setups are you using for the D layer...

I stumbled across an old thread talking about U2, an improvement to R2, which you all know is generally regarded as bad. The idea is similar, but you setup to UFR and use U2 to swap with UBL buffer instead. The problems with the older thread: Parity sucked Special cases sucked So I have...

Hi I am fairly new to 3 blind. However, I keep on DNFing on most, if not all all my recent solves. (I use M2/OP) Some problems I have are: Memoing the wrong letter Forgetting memo even after review Undoing setups wrong Missing flipped pieces/flipping them wrongly Could you kindly offer some...

I have not finished learning full OLL yet, but I learn algs by: Tracking f2l pairs that move during the alg. For example, the Rb perm which I use affects the f2l pair in the back-right slot, so I track that while I execute the alg. You don’t have to do this, but find some patterns in the moves...

I like this idea. It has been discussed in the older threads on 3 bld but no one has developed a method revolving around PLLs for blind yet. I’m not the best at blind but could I collaborate with you to take this further and make it a complete method?

CFOP?