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This anology or thought chain took 14 years to enter my head after knowing blindsolving. It is a good concept that fits well with reality (according to me). Since this thought took 14 years to enter my head, you might think this is complete nonsense and not change your opinion on it for a decade's worth of time 
. It's ok to continue in that direction too ig.
In high school physics, we are taught potential energy (PE) and Kinetic energy (KE). Both these energies are applied to a solid moving object and a lot of mechanics can be worked out using the energy equations.
In blindsolving, memo and exec go hand in hand. Although the fine tuning and improvement for both these actions involve different kinds of work that involve a small overlap.
Memo improvement requires practice, good pre-determined letter pairs/quads, linguistics, sentence making ability, mnemonics etc. Exec improvement requires practice, good fingertricks, good hardware, regripless comms, rotationless comms, cancellations, big parity algsets, custom images for floats and ltcts etc.
Now that all the terms have been described, let's to the point or my perception. The flow state in a blindsolve is unique. If it is achieved during memo phase, it is good cognition and if it achieved during exec phase, it is good thinkahead. When flow state is discussed as a whole for both memo and exec phase, it is hard to articulate what the exact process entails.
Coming back to the mechanics, I like to think of our mind like a rigid frictionless surface and each commutator and image as a free body. The potential that is built by getting the N-body into coherence and then to sequentially execute it using thinkahead(kinetic energy) is something to understand perfectly in order to master the psychology of the event. I feel the more work we put into the memo, given that our exec is already fairly optimised, the more faster solves can be produced. The same meta exists in a normal 3x3 solve with inspection:solve :: PE:KE, but I feel the proportion of PE is lesser there eventhough the meta is one looking upto F2L. I feel the next decades of blindsolving will be optimised on how well we optimize the memo process so that we get the maximum effect on the exec process. It can be a small TPS boost or better flow state or better accuracy.
Disclaimers: I am a beginner in blindsolving, so if you feel you have more skill than me, please ignore this post. If you are type of cuber who just wants to improve by practicing without involving the psychological aspect, please ignore. If you have less time, please do not read this post as I would not like half baked replies or even worse troll replies.
Now finally something that no one cares about. My blindsolving improvement has stopped in 2018 and has been in a slump. A major component is work, life, stress, lack of motivation, studies and other hobbies. But a small component is also the depletion of my potential energy during my attempts. I have started using letter quads which is hard, and it will be many many more hours before I regain back the potential energy. Pre Covid I used to memo 33 cubes sub-hour, now I can barely do 16 cubes using new memo systems. I am pretty sure my PE can have a maxima which no one has currently touched but there is no way of checking that if I don't quit on life, work, other hobbies and hope that motivation and encouragement comes along. But it is satisfying to think in this direction and be hopeful about optimising the blindsolving process further by understanding the key elements and training the psychology accordingly.
. It's ok to continue in that direction too ig.In high school physics, we are taught potential energy (PE) and Kinetic energy (KE). Both these energies are applied to a solid moving object and a lot of mechanics can be worked out using the energy equations.
In blindsolving, memo and exec go hand in hand. Although the fine tuning and improvement for both these actions involve different kinds of work that involve a small overlap.
Memo improvement requires practice, good pre-determined letter pairs/quads, linguistics, sentence making ability, mnemonics etc. Exec improvement requires practice, good fingertricks, good hardware, regripless comms, rotationless comms, cancellations, big parity algsets, custom images for floats and ltcts etc.
Now that all the terms have been described, let's to the point or my perception. The flow state in a blindsolve is unique. If it is achieved during memo phase, it is good cognition and if it achieved during exec phase, it is good thinkahead. When flow state is discussed as a whole for both memo and exec phase, it is hard to articulate what the exact process entails.
Coming back to the mechanics, I like to think of our mind like a rigid frictionless surface and each commutator and image as a free body. The potential that is built by getting the N-body into coherence and then to sequentially execute it using thinkahead(kinetic energy) is something to understand perfectly in order to master the psychology of the event. I feel the more work we put into the memo, given that our exec is already fairly optimised, the more faster solves can be produced. The same meta exists in a normal 3x3 solve with inspection:solve :: PE:KE, but I feel the proportion of PE is lesser there eventhough the meta is one looking upto F2L. I feel the next decades of blindsolving will be optimised on how well we optimize the memo process so that we get the maximum effect on the exec process. It can be a small TPS boost or better flow state or better accuracy.
Disclaimers: I am a beginner in blindsolving, so if you feel you have more skill than me, please ignore this post. If you are type of cuber who just wants to improve by practicing without involving the psychological aspect, please ignore. If you have less time, please do not read this post as I would not like half baked replies or even worse troll replies.
Now finally something that no one cares about. My blindsolving improvement has stopped in 2018 and has been in a slump. A major component is work, life, stress, lack of motivation, studies and other hobbies. But a small component is also the depletion of my potential energy during my attempts. I have started using letter quads which is hard, and it will be many many more hours before I regain back the potential energy. Pre Covid I used to memo 33 cubes sub-hour, now I can barely do 16 cubes using new memo systems. I am pretty sure my PE can have a maxima which no one has currently touched but there is no way of checking that if I don't quit on life, work, other hobbies and hope that motivation and encouragement comes along. But it is satisfying to think in this direction and be hopeful about optimising the blindsolving process further by understanding the key elements and training the psychology accordingly.
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