How to Solve a Rubik's Cube Blindfolded

[byu]

Yeah, JL58 has the right memorization. At least you got the pieces right though.

 

[Brian]

I did my first blindsolve yesterday on the plane the video will be on youtube
soon

 

[happa95]

I did my first blindsolve yesterday on the plane the video will be on youtube
soon

good job! That must be so cool to have your first blindfold solve.... thousands of feet in the air!

 

[byu]

You recorded on the plane?

 

[Brian]

You recorded on the plane?

Yeah, why not? lol

 

[byu]

I don't know, I wouldn't set up a video camera on a plane.

 

[JL58]

Yeah! I just did my first BLD. Old Poshman - thanks to byu for putting the tutorial together.

By the way I found the edge memo much simpler and more reliable by associated predefined images to the stickers (DRagon, RoaD, LoaF, BUs, etc.) and building a story from there. I guess that's what is called the journey method.

Now on to M2!

 

[Poke]

I hope to read this nice I speed up my non-blind times a bit.

 

[byu]

I hope to read this nice I speed up my non-blind times a bit.

Are you saying that by reading this, you sped up your normal speed times? That shouldn't happen, unless you use Old Pochmann for regular speedsolving. :confused:

 

[JLarsen]

I think he's saying he going to read this now that he feels more competent at a normal speedsolve yes?

 

[byu]

Some of you may have already seen it, but there's a video version of this tutorial now that I made:
http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10874

 

[Bios]

thank you so much ^^.
Didnt train the last few days but today I thought lets try it again the video helped me a lot!
And it worked now I know how to memo correct .

 

[byu]

You're welcome. I'm glad my tutorials could be of help to you.

 

[JLarsen]

Excellent. Your memo system is great and very well explained, and I think I'm finally going to do this. Thank you.

Edit:
Question: Now you break into a new cycle with corners when you have the buffer piece in the buffer position, but does it have to be oriented correctly there as well? Or do you just not memorize it still. So basically what I'm asking is do you ignore just B? Or F and S as well.

 

[byu]

Excellent. Your memo system is great and very well explained, and I think I'm finally going to do this. Thank you.

Edit:
Question: Now you break into a new cycle with corners when you have the buffer piece in the buffer position, but does it have to be oriented correctly there as well? Or do you just not memorize it still. So basically what I'm asking is do you ignore just B? Or F and S as well.

Answering your question - if a cycle ends with F or S, don't remember that. You never remember the piece at UBL. If the piece is in there but incorrectly oriented at the start of the solve, don't worry about memorizing it, it will be done at the end.

 

[JLarsen]

Excellent. Your memo system is great and very well explained, and I think I'm finally going to do this. Thank you.

Edit:
Question: Now you break into a new cycle with corners when you have the buffer piece in the buffer position, but does it have to be oriented correctly there as well? Or do you just not memorize it still. So basically what I'm asking is do you ignore just B? Or F and S as well.

Answering your question - if a cycle ends with F or S, don't remember that. You never remember the piece at UBL. If the piece is in there but incorrectly oriented at the start of the solve, don't worry about memorizing it, it will be done at the end.

Alright that helps a decent amount....I've been trying to even solve a Sune scramble, as in, apply a sune, and solve with old pochmann, and I can't. So I'm going to try that now that you've told me that again.......I DID IT lol. I didn't get .....end a cycle when a piece you've shot to is repeated. Is that correct at all?

 

[byu]

Assuming your sune is the same as my sune (R U R' U R U2 R' U2), here's what I would memorize.

EDGES:
CA (California)

CORNERS:
ND (North Dakota) RC (Roller Coaster)

So I would say:

EDGES - I live in California.
CORNERS - Go to North Dakota and ride on the Roller Coaster.

 

[JLarsen]

You don't need that last U2 on that alg ya know. Now I'm going to see if I'm doing everything correctly......yes I see everything you did there thank you and I can do that very easily now. The thing that's getting me right now is accounting for all of the pieces I haven't solved yet, because it's hard for me to tell what's left from my memo, as each edge has 2 letters to it, and each corner has 3. What what you suggest i do to make sure I account for every piece? Perhaps I need to recall which letters represent each piece? Or what I've been doing is running through my story and tapping each piece that I have a letter for, and if I tap a piece twice than I break into a new cycle ???(Repeated piece ends a cycle??)and shoot to a piece I've yet to tap.

Suggestion; For better comprehension maybe an addition to your tutorial could be a full scramble example for people to follow along with, along with the processes going through your mind while doing the memo.

 

[JL58]

I account for all the pieces like this:
Number of shoots - number of additional cycles + number of correct pieces =
11 for edges, 7 for corners
If I get less than 11 or 7, I know I missed one.

 

[JLarsen]

What exactly do you mean by an additional cycle? I understand like total cycles, but not additional ones.