Blindsolving Discussion and Help

Jason Lee said:
1)Get used to to your letter scheme, possibly imagine that your cube is in your brain and you have got a hold of the corners and edges, for instance, corners, normally you would need to memorise 7 letters but if its less than that you should look around in your mind in case you have missed a new cycle. Also, once you are very familiar with your letter scheme, you will know which piece is included in your memo or not as you memorise through your cube,it just comes naturally. PRACTISE a lot, don't just do sighted solves or write down your memo it won't help much, you can at least do a blindsolve and if its a dnf, you can write down your memo and analyse
what have been missing or what is wrong with your memo and so on. the point is to push yourself further into blindsolving.

2)it's either there is an odd number of flipped edges/corners or you have not broken into new cycle(s), and it doesnt matter if your buffer is solved or flipped, if your cube hasn't been solved yet then it's wrong :X

3)No and never, and yes normally it would just be like as you have mentioned, BWVB but other than that is BWVG because the piece that is coming back to your starting piece doesn't have to be necessarily on B, because it can be the other side of the piece which in most cases its G(Im not sure what letter scheme you are using), so I highly recommend that you experiment things like these with your cube. Now, enjoy your blindsolving! :D

Forgive me if I have said anything wrong.
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That's super helpful. So when the buffer piece is in buffer position but flipped when you first get the cube, you just ignore it, do new cycles, and it'll fix itself automatically?

Also I'm using Speffz so it would be B and M. (or BNQ for corner)
 
Jason Lee said:
yes but also pay attentions to flipped pieces. but you have probably got the idea. :D
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Well when you get a flipped piece (let's say I have UR flipped, which for my lettering would be BM), I would do just do B and then M, right? and it'd be fixed?
 
What did I do wrong here? Did I just miss a cycle?

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SoySauS said:
What did I do wrong here? Did I just miss a cycle?

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It could be that, but you could also have done a cycle with an incorrect target. If you're trying to work through execution mistakes, sighted solves are the way to go. Memorize the cube and then solve it with your eyes open. You will be amazed at how clear everything becomes when you do this.
 
Noahaha said:
It could be that, but you could also have done a cycle with an incorrect target. If you're trying to work through execution mistakes, sighted solves are the way to go. Memorize the cube and then solve it with your eyes open. You will be amazed at how clear everything becomes when you do this.
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Thanks. By the way I'm using your videos and you're good at teaching stuff.

I have a really hard time keeping track of what pieces are already accounted for (solved). For corners I can use my fingers just fine, but for edges I run out of fingers. . .I've considered assigning a number to every piece on the cube (1-12) and deleting the number as I add them to my letter pair, but that's just another string to memorize and I'm not sure how it would work. Any tips on how to keep track of what pieces you've already solved?

Also when there's a piece in it's spot but flipped (let's say FR), do I do J, JP, or JPJ? Also with corners (let's say UBR), do I do just B, BQ, BQN, BQNB. . .?
 
What should I do for memo? If I solve corners first, I find myself making a sentence rather than making images. If I do edges 1st, I have to repeat the sound so many times that I get too tired to do corner memo.
 
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Although there is no widely used "intermediate" method for Corners, these are the ones I can think of:

  • TuRBo, but this requires a lot of tracing because each corner can have 3 possible orientations. You said you memo entirely visual so you might give this a try because it's easier when you have a strong visual perception.
  • R2, corner equivalent for M2, but targets on the R-slice are quite difficult to master.
You can actually get very, very fast using pure Old Pochmann corners if you practise long enough. There will be a point when you think of a letter and you instantly execute Setup - YPerm - Undo Setup in one flow, rather than thinking "Oh, this target is BRU. How can it be moved to RFD?", executing YPerm, then thinking "Alright, what was the setup again?". Once this point is reached, your times can be ~1:10 or even sub-1 with a decent memo.

If you want to take 3BLD even further, learning 3Style for corners (which Noah has published a great tutorial on!) is the only considerable method imo.
 
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G2013 said:
I do corners first and use orient and permute, memorizing both visually. I permute them using Ts, Ns, or Fs.

What intermediate level method is good for speed (corners)?
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OP is probably a lot faster than what you're using at the moment. TuRBo corners is OK, but OP + learn all the 11 or 12 movers on the BH Corners page

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I have no problems with cycles but it does take me a long time to select a new target when the buffer piece is in place before the entire cube is solved. This is way less of a problem during corners as I can keep track of them pretty well and it isn't too awkward to place a finger on the piece during memo, but during edges when my fingers have to play twister I sometimes get lost and have to start again or go through my memo per side remembering which have and haven't been used. What is the best way to keep track of what edges are finished without placing a finger on each? I know that this recog will just get better with practice (I have seen corners get easier) but is there a better way to keep track?
 
ryak2002 said:
how do you know witch way the corners are going to twist when you do the corner swapping alg.
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I suspect you mean the Old Pochmann Y-Perm when speaking of the corner swapping alg.
It doesn't twist the corners at all, because you are targeting a precise sticker rather than the overall piece, thus determining the orientation yourself


sk8erman41 said:
I have no problems with cycles but it does take me a long time to select a new target when the buffer piece is in place before the entire cube is solved. This is way less of a problem during corners as I can keep track of them pretty well and it isn't too awkward to place a finger on the piece during memo, but during edges when my fingers have to play twister I sometimes get lost and have to start again or go through my memo per side remembering which have and haven't been used. What is the best way to keep track of what edges are finished without placing a finger on each? I know that this recog will just get better with practice (I have seen corners get easier) but is there a better way to keep track?
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I personally use "standard break-in locations", which are 2-3 targets I always use for breaking into a new cycle when needed. Keeping track of these 3 edges is easy, and the probability that they're all already solved is relatively low.
 
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