Mackey's Blindfold Question

[Ellis]

but Macky's blindfolded guide used to be a synonyme for 3OP.

Yea, well it still is. This thread is kind of misleading if you don't follow the link. "Macky's blindfold guide" will always mean 3OP. But he does have a really nice M2 variation.

 

[AvGalen]

but Macky's blindfolded guide used to be a synonyme for 3OP.

Yea, well it still is. This thread is kind of misleading if you don't follow the link. "Macky's blindfold guide" will always mean 3OP. But he does have a really nice M2 variation.

That might be how cubing dinosaurs like you and me think about it, but the topicstarter opened with this

I have been practicing Mackey's Blindfold method

and means the M2-variation

 

[Mike Hughey]

I'm not sure I understand correctly, but I orient the inactive pieces with the buffer piece before I start doing any cycling. I find all inactive pieces, and from here two things can happen. If there are an even number of inactive pieces I orient them like 3OP. If there are an odd number of inactive pieces then I find the buffer piece, not the buffer location, and orient the inactive pieces as well as the buffer piece like 3OP. I do the same for corners if there are permuted but disoriented corners. After I have oriented, then I start cycling.

That's funny. When you first posted about this a week or two ago when I asked you about it, I misunderstood you and thought you said you oriented with the buffer location. So I tried to figure out how to do it and decided the only way to do that would be to memorize inactive pieces that need orienting first, and since I wanted to memorize them last, I rejected it as a bad idea for me. So then I eventually figured out I could do it by orienting with the buffer piece (not location), and I was all proud of myself for figuring that out. Now it turns out I'm just doing what you do after all.

This process still gives me headaches sometimes. When I get cases with two inactive pieces twisted clockwise and one twisted counterclockwise, I know it's obvious what to do but it seems like I often wind up getting a DNF, because I get confused about which way one of the pieces needs to go. I suspect it's just all about practice.