Blindsolving Discussion and Help

[jla]

Thank you for all your help! I've started off by watching Daniels videos and I'm pretty sure on how to use r2 although centers seems a bit more advanced although I'll probably understand it if I take some time and really try, (I'm doing a lot of other things right now)

 

[Carson]

I am working on 4x4 bld as well. I wanted to use commutators for centers, but after extensively reviewing all of the videos and write-up tutorials I could find, I still don't have a clue, so I have moved on to U2. I will come back to commutators eventually, but I will have to find someone to explain them in person before I have any hope of grasping the concept.

 

[Cubenovice]

Hi Carson, do you know corner comms?
If not then those are a good place to start.
Good resources are the pages by Joel, Roux, Heise and offcourse the BH thread by Byu.
Take a look around and see what tutorial you like best>

Once you understand corners comms the center comms shoud not be too difficult

 

[Carson]

Hi Carson, do you know corner comms?
If not then those are a good place to start.
Good resources are the pages by Joel, Roux, Heise and offcourse the BH thread by Byu.
Take a look around and see what tutorial you like best>

Once you understand corners comms the center comms shoud not be too difficult

No, I am a commutator noob. I have checked out a few of the corner tutorials, but I must admit that I still just don't get it. I consider myself a reasonably intelligent person, so this is somewhat embarrassing.

 

[thatkid]

if I was at a comp, do I have to take off my glasses before putting on the blindfold or can it just go on top of my glasses?

 

[aronpm]

if I was at a comp, do I have to take off my glasses before putting on the blindfold or can it just go on top of my glasses?

You don't need to take off your glasses but in my experience it's easier to not wear glasses at all during blind. If your sight is too bad for that, well that sucks and I'd suggest taking them off because it's more comfortable.

(I do keep my glasses on when I do 4/5/multibld but I take them off before donning the blindfold)

 

[Carson]

if I was at a comp, do I have to take off my glasses before putting on the blindfold or can it just go on top of my glasses?

I have seen this done both ways. A few years ago, this would have been an issue since it would be easy to see under the blindfold while wearing glasses. Now that there must be a secondary object in place to block any potential view, I don't see that it matters anymore.

 

[RyanReese09]

No, I am a commutator noob. I have checked out a few of the corner tutorials, but I must admit that I still just don't get it. I consider myself a reasonably intelligent person, so this is somewhat embarrassing.

If you are still unable to learn by the time Nationals comes around, and you go to it, I'll find you and talk to you about it.

 

[CubeLord]

How do u get sub 1 30 in bld? What's a good method to use?

 

[RyanReese09]

How do u get sub 1 30 in bld? What's a good method to use?

Any method can get sub 1:30.

 

[AbstractAlg]

How do u get sub 1 30 in bld? What's a good method to use?

Any method can get sub 1:30.

Dennis Strehlau did 64seconds solve with pure Old Pochmann, so yes, any method can get you sub 1:30 for sure, but the methods that will ensure easy and fast way to sub1:30 is M2 + Old Pochmann.

 

[CubeLord]

I know OP corners but I don't think that my memorization for the corners is fast enough. I use the method that Eric Limeback uses in his videos. What is a better method for memorizing the corners?

 

[aronpm]

I know OP corners but I don't think that my memorization for the corners is fast enough. I use the method that Eric Limeback uses in his videos. What is a better method for memorizing the corners?

Eric teaches "tapping" right? Try Speffz (or something similar), it's a letter system.

 

[AbstractAlg]

tapping, sound + visual is good enough for sure, I am using it. m2 + op, memo: letter-pait words edges (15-20secs), tap + sound corners (14-18secs), so whole memo around 30-35 seconds, solving edges til 1:00 and 20-50 seconds range corners.

maybe just that memo method does not fit too well. try assigning letter to each sticker of every corner. 8 corners * 3 stickers = 24 images/letters. or pure visual.

 

[aronpm]

tapping, sound + visual is good enough for sure, I am using it. m2 + op, memo: letter-pait words edges (15-20secs), tap + sound corners (14-18secs), so whole memo around 30-35 seconds, solving edges til 1:00 and 20-50 seconds range corners.

maybe just that memo method does not fit too well. try assigning letter to each sticker of every corner. 8 corners * 3 stickers = 24 images/letters. or pure visual.

Corners shouldn't take almost as long as edges to memorise

 

[AbstractAlg]

I am currently switching to BH/commutator from OP, for corners.
I follow sticker cycle and remember sound, while for permutation I don't even tap pieces, just "see" the path from to another. This works pretty well for OP, but it makes a lot of troubles for BH. I must tap and hold all three stickers in certain cycle in actual bld solve to see what's the cycle type and that takes a lot of time, and all that space-imaginary tracking pieces is just too much.

The question is, if I do tapping/sound, how do I easily transcribe that into recognition of a certain commutator? Or is that just practice?
I don't know, but it seems to me like I hit the pitch for me in blindsolving. The commutators are real hard for me, and my memo didn't improve at all for three weeks now, and all that is just demotivating. Yeah, my percent of successful solves improved, but my times are almost going backwards. D:

 

[A Leman]

Letters almost seem perfect for threecycles. If you can follow the path of the pieces visually, the using letters should be easy and fast. I saw your excel sheet of turbo cycles earlier on the forum. I was surprised that you don't use R' F' R B' R' F R B for UBR-LBU-URF. Anyway, I think tapping should help a solver get accustomed to letters, but if you are determined to still use them, viewpoint shifting could be helpful in execution. For example, UBR-LBU-URF would become BRU-BUL-RFU or RUB-ULB-FUR. This could be very helpful if your tap does not land on the right orientation in your buffer.
I learned my turbo cases in a bit of a strange way, but it gave me the tools to start practicing. I just listed the first 9 and put them in triples and repeated them in order while noticing there commutator form to help them get into my muscle memory as quickly as possible. This took about an hour and then I did single cycles blindfolded by tapping and inversing the algs for the cw cycles. After more practice, the recognition time dropped to oll recognition time. When I started TuRBo, I switched from 3OP, so I guess cycles will also take getting used to. Good luck

 

[mhmh]

How do you improve with your Blindfolded solves?

Hi, I have just started blindfolded cubing (I've only had like 5 successes) and so far my times are still up in the 10 minute mark, I was just wondering how you improve with memorising your pieces, I figured that the execution will get better with practice and as time goes by I will be able to execute more smoother instead of going execute, think, execute, think all the time. My memorisation is the biggest problem so I though I'd ask how you improve?

p.s. I searched around for similar threads but couldn't find any, if you could find any useful ones though, I'd appreciate it if you provided a link or something, thanks.

 

[aronpm]

I improved by practising. When I get into practice it's about 9 seconds average.

(A year ago I thought 9-10 would be the limit...)

 

[thatkid]

What's 3OP and where is a good place to learn it? Also how fast is it in comparison to other methods such as BH and OP?