Blindsolving Discussion and Help

[h2f]

How to practice 3bld?
I have a very low success rate - it's around 30%. But when I practice edges or corners it's around 90%. My memo is around 40 sec - 1 min. My solves are between 1:40 - 2:20. So how to practice 3bld?

 

[Berd]

How to practice 3bld?
I have a very low success rate - it's around 30%. But when I practice edges or corners it's around 90%. My memo is around 40 sec - 1 min. My solves are between 1:40 - 2:20. So how to practice 3bld?

Are your dnfs execution memo mistakes? If they're execution errors, do some sighted solves but do each target blindfolded. If they're memo errors, go slower with memo and slowly cut down.

 

[h2f]

Your advice looks good. I guess it's a half execution and memo errors. Maybe I should make a break?

 

[Berd]

Your advice looks good. I guess it's a half execution and memo errors. Maybe I should make a break?

If you dnf, redo the scramble and check what kind of error it was, work from there. Breaks are good, not just in bld.

 

[h2f]

Yeah, I often redo scrambles if I dnf. But I didn't count which ones are more often.

 

[Animorpher13]

Two questions

1) is it legal to memorize each piece of the puzzle, put on the blindfold, dissemble the puzzle, reassemble it correctly, and stop the timer?

2) What do you do when you have your last two corners oriented correctly but permuted wrong? I know that if that happens with edges you just shoot to both sides but corners have three sides.

 

[h2f]

1)

5b3b) If, after repairing the puzzle but before the end of the attempt, the competitor finds that the puzzle is unsolvable, he may disassemble and reassemble a maximum of 4 pieces to make the puzzle solvable.

2) Just solve corners.

 

[TDM]

2) What do you do when you have your last two corners oriented correctly but permuted wrong? I know that if that happens with edges you just shoot to both sides but corners have three sides.

From your second sentence I'm assuming you've said oriented and permuted the wrong way round. If the corners need to be twisted, then shoot to any sticker on the corner. Look at the colour of that sticker you shot to. Shoot to that colour on the same sticker. Here's an example:
scramble: y R U2 R' U' R U' R' L' U2 L U L' U L y'
so here, if we're using OP, we need to solve the UBR corner. First, we need to shoot to any sticker on that corner, for example BUR. The BUR sticker is same colour as our R face, so after that we need to shoot to RBU. So we would do:
[R' F: R U' R' U' R U R' F' R U R' U' R' F R]
[R2: R U' R' U' R U R' F' R U R' U' R' F R]

You can repeat this process for more corners if necessary.
You can also learn algs to twist two or more corners at once (e.g. the scramble I posted above and its inverse are easy to learn and very useful), but that's not necessary, unless you want to start getting faster.

 

[h2f]

Are your dnfs execution memo mistakes? If they're execution errors, do some sighted solves but do each target blindfolded. If they're memo errors, go slower with memo and slowly cut down.

Well. I've made few sighted solves after dnf to figure out, why I did dnf. I've slowed down with memo and execution and got 2/3 success rate, which is the highest I've ever got. And also got first mo3 and avg5 sub 2:00. It worked well.

 

[Berd]

Well. I've made few sighted solves after dnf to figure out, why I did dnf. I've slowed down with memo and execution and got 2/3 success rate, which is the highest I've ever got. And also got first mo3 and avg5 sub 2:00. It worked well.

Great!

 

[h2f]

Yeah. I've checked my notes and I had mo3 1:49.53 earlier (2 weeks ago maybe). But no avg5... Thanks man.

 

[Berd]

Yeah. I've checked my notes and I had mo3 1:49.53 earlier (2 weeks ago maybe). But no avg5... Thanks man.

Anymore help; I'm here.

Whats the most common BLD orientation?

 

[TDM]

Whats the most common BLD orientation?

There have been a few polls on this; if I remember correctly, it's WG followed by YO.

 

[newtonbase]

There have been a few polls on this; if I remember correctly, it's WG followed by YO.

By WG you mean white top, green front? That's what I use.

 

[TDM]

By WG you mean white top, green front? That's what I use.

Yes, and YO = yellow on U and Orange on F.

 

[newtonbase]

I sort of wish I'd chosen a different orientation. I'm a white cross solver on 3x3 so I've made an awful lot of memo errors substituting white and yellow.

 

[Berd]

I sort of wish I'd chosen a different orientation. I'm a white cross solver on 3x3 so I've made an awful lot of memo errors substituting white and yellow.

We use the same orientation! - I love it! Wca orientation!

 

[penguinz7]

We use the same orientation! - I love it! Wca orientation!

Me too!!

 

[Keroma12]

What do people typically use for letter schemes for megaminx, seeing as there are more than 26 stickers and only 26 English letters?

 

[Berd]

What do people typically use for letter schemes for megaminx, seeing as there are more than 26 stickers and only 26 English letters?

Bobthegirrafemonkey had a video on it.