Blindfold Buddy Cube

[scuba2006]

I have always been one to try and do something that nobody I know does. So I thought I was clever and started doing one handed solves when I first learned the beginner's solve- turns out that's already a very common thing. Then I started putting my edge pieces in backwards and called it the scubics cube- then I hear of the superflip. Now, and I'm sure I have not pioneered this as everything seems to have been thought of, I have the buddy blindfold.

You are blindfolded and handed a scrambled cube. Then a buddy whom is preferably proficient in cubing, through verbal assistance only, must talk you through to completion.

My first attempt has been.... let's say less than fruitful. I have no friends that are real cubers and one that I taught LBL to took 8:43 to complete. He was unable to talk me through much of anything, and I DNF. I'm sure that this will not catch on, but it was fun to try, and I am curious how long it takes you, the loyal cubing community, to complete the same task.

 

[OMGitsSolved]

This is called TeamBLD....

 

[scuba2006]

Damn, I knew it had to have been thought of. Thanks. All others, please disregard thread.

 

[cubefan4848]

You might want to look into things a bit more before you make something up

 

[Julian]

Calm down cubefan4848. How was he supposed to look for this without knowing the key word "TeamBLD"? I for one think that it's pretty cool that you came up with this concept independently, even if it has already been thought of.

 

[cubefan4848]

I wasn't trying to disrespect him or anything I was just saying have a look on the wiki first next time to see if it has been done before

 

[caseyd]

yeah whenever i do teamblind I make sure they know sexy ( R U R' U') sledge (R U' R') and plls

 

[scuba2006]

So is there a name for it when you scramble and solve using only F2, R2, L2, U2, D2, B2? I haven't quite figured out how to solve it yet, but there is probably some body who already named and perfected this method.

 

[JonnyWhoopes]

It's kind of a technical name, and it doesn't only refer to that subset of moves. They call it restricted moveset solving (IIRC), and your specific moveset would be denoted by a <F2,R2,L2,U2,D2,B2>. That notation implies that you are restricted to using only those sets of moves. So, if I said "Do a restricted average with <F,R,U>", you would do five (or 12, or 50, etc) solves scrambling and solving using only F, R, U and their inverses.

 

[Bryan]

He was unable to talk me through much of anything, and I DNF. I'm sure that this will not catch on, but it was fun to try, and I am curious how long it takes you, the loyal cubing community, to complete the same task.

I did this with my 4-year-old daughter that doesn't know how to solve and we got a time of 8:44.81. Tried the same thing with my mom as my partner and got 9:00.25. All the person needs to do is know their colors.