BLD HELP!!! (Help With Pochmann Method)

[Gparker]

parity isnt when corners are twisted. parity happens when you do an odd number of swaps that means 2 corners are swapped from what you memod, if you have white top red front. whatver corner was in the WOB spot is switched with the WBR, and your execution will be wrong and thats why you need to do the R perm

 

[Gparker]

okay, when your comfortable with solving with eyes open, learn the memo. thats exactly what i did. and remember when you actually attempt, take as long as you need. you ever hear of bob burton from cubewhiz? his first try took him over 80 minutes! some people get over 30 but its succesful

the first success I timed took about 18 minutes. The first actual solve I did was probably over 25.

Before I did my first solve, I used to practice execution by writing down the memo, however you do it (AE FX GL etc) and solving the cube under a table or towel while reading the memo. You could do this for corners and edges separately at first, then try together. After you are comfortable doing the actual solve without looking at the cube, you could then progress to trying to fully memorize edges and then solve just the edges blindfolded. Then do corners on their own, then try both.

At first, do not even worry about time, like Gparker said, just take as long as you need. Getting faster just happens the more you do.

i did that i think once about writing it down, thats a good idea i forgot to mention. one night i was just wondering if tonight could be the night,the night i had my first blindsolve, i wanted to see if i could do it and i did

 

[KubeKid73]

I will try that. I get messed up on the (ONLY TWO!!!) algorithms sometimes. Lol. And I'm not exactly sure if I will be able to remember the whole memo the first time. Plus the only blindfold in the house is my sister's sleeping mask. Lol. Its a sheep.
EDIT: Oh, well they were twisted, so I used the URU'R' etc. algorithms to fix it. It would work if I just swapped the two twisted ones, and then swapped them back the right way, right?

 

[cookingfat]

Okay. So far I haven't had any parity. Am I doing something that makes parity impossible, or is it just luck? I did have corner parity where they weren't rotated correctly. But nothing with edges.

I think you've just been lucky so far. Basically if you memorise an odd number of edges or corners, you will need to do the parity fix in between when you solve. (it doesn't matter whether you do edges first or corners first)

I will try that. I get messed up on the (ONLY TWO!!!) algorithms sometimes. Lol. And I'm not exactly sure if I will be able to remember the whole memo the first time. Plus the only blindfold in the house is my sister's sleeping mask. Lol. Its a sheep.
EDIT: Oh, well they were twisted, so I used the URU'R' etc. algorithms to fix it. It would work if I just swapped the two twisted ones, and then swapped them back the right way, right?

Yes it would.

Also, you need to be fully comfortable with the algorithms you use, someone else already said that the algorithms need to be stored in your hands, not in your head.

 

[Gparker]

you could always use a jacket as a blindfold, i still dont have one and i use a belt or a headband

 

[KubeKid73]

You mean one of those jackets that zip all the way up the hood? Those are awesome. And parity is just R U2 R' U2 R B' R' U' R U R B R2 U, or is it U' F2 U M2 U' F2 U and then U and then R U2 R' etc.? Or is the second one just for M2?

 

[Gparker]

The R perm is used for both but U' F2 U is for M2, you can do a U then the R perm and if you do that you dont need to do the last U on the end of it

 

[KubeKid73]

K Thanx.

 

[Gparker]

man, i wish i would have had this much help with mine but i didnt know about this website before and there is alot of info on it

on topic, good luck

 

[KubeKid73]

I just failed. IDK if I would have done it correctly if I didn't, but I accidentally turned the cube without knowing it. It took 57 minutes. I hate the memo part because I don't know if I'm doing it correctly.

 

[Gparker]

keep trying, im sure you sould have had it without the cuberotations

 

[KubeKid73]

I did it again and I know where I went wrong this time. I accidentally did D' instead of D for reversing a setup move and I forgot the R perm for parity. Once more and I should get it. It took 24 minutes this time.

 

[byu]

Try this. Time edges first, then time again and solve the corners. Post your results.

 

[KubeKid73]

BLD? With memo time? I wasn't really timing, but before I started memo I wrote down the time and wen I finished I just figured out my time.

 

[byu]

No, solve sighted, like you normally do, but just check the clock between edges and corners.

 

[Gparker]

see your times get quicker the more you do it! and do what byu said

 

[KubeKid73]

4:30 for edges. 1:43 for corners, but it was really lucky. And I don't care too much about times. As long as its under 10 minutes, I just want to show off to my friends. Lol.

 

[Gparker]

haha ive done that before, if you practice you can get it under 5. and now i guess you can try again

 

[KubeKid73]

I need to use a separate cube to figure out which pieces I need to shoot to. How can I fix that, and do you have any tips on how to figure out which ones to shoot to faster?

 

[Gparker]

what? i dont understand. why do you need to use a different cube?