Older cubers discussions

[mark49152]

MBLD 13/20 in 60:00 at ABHC. Not great but I'm not too disappointed given that I've done virtually no practice for months.

 

[Old Tom]

Almost there on the 3BLD Quest! And thanks again to @adimare for the tip on re-doing scrambles. I tried that. Failed once last night, twice on re-dos this morning, and then on the fourth try, there it was, a solved cube, done completely blind. A thrill to see that pristine thing! Not counting this as my first true solve, but soon!

 

[pglewis]

Almost there on the 3BLD Quest! And thanks again to @adimare for the tip on re-doing scrambles. I tried that. Failed once last night, twice on re-dos this morning, and then on the fourth try, there it was, a solved cube, done completely blind. A thrill to see that pristine thing! Not counting this as my first true solve, but soon!

That's a really big milestone IMO. You now know for certain that you can do it if you get all the little bits right. You may have accepted that before but the first time you look and actually see it solved is different.

You're approaching some rather exclusive territory which afaik consists entirely of you and Hideaki.

 

[Old Tom]

Time for another laugh. I am staying with my lady friend (also in her 80s) this summer at her island cottage, and driving her crazy with this blind-solving stuff. I keep asking her, "What's a good memo for [insert letter pair]"? She is actually really good at it, which is why I ask. The other day I was stuck with a tough one, so asked, "What's a good memo for KQ"? Without a blink, she said, "Keep Quiet"!

(Aside: I settled on "Kings and Queens", visualizing a chessboard.)

 

[SpartanSailor]

Almost there on the 3BLD Quest! And thanks again to @adimare for the tip on re-doing scrambles. I tried that. Failed once last night, twice on re-dos this morning, and then on the fourth try, there it was, a solved cube, done completely blind. A thrill to see that pristine thing! Not counting this as my first true solve, but soon!

That’s great! I love the feeling of closing my eyes and/or putting on a blindfold last seeing a scrambled cube. Then, to open my eyes and see a fully solved cube. It’s a great feeling and it sounds like you have a solid method to get it right.

 

[newtonbase]

Time for another laugh. I am staying with my lady friend (also in her 80s) this summer at her island cottage, and driving her crazy with this blind-solving stuff. I keep asking her, "What's a good memo for [insert letter pair]"? She is actually really good at it, which is why I ask. The other day I was stuck with a tough one, so asked, "What's a good memo for KQ"? Without a blink, she said, "Keep Quiet"!

(Aside: I settled on "Kings and Queens", visualizing a chessboard.)

Haha. Keep Quiet could be quite a good image. You could have someone holding a finger to their lips. It combines well with other images. The image could be used on SH instead of you're settled on the chessboard. (CS is chess for me)

 

[adimare]

Almost there on the 3BLD Quest! And thanks again to @adimare for the tip on re-doing scrambles. I tried that. Failed once last night, twice on re-dos this morning, and then on the fourth try, there it was, a solved cube, done completely blind. A thrill to see that pristine thing! Not counting this as my first true solve, but soon!

Great to know! And just for the record, in my books, if you closed your eyes to a scrambled cube, messed with it, and opened your eyes to a solved cube, it totally counts as a successful BLD solve

 

[JohnnyReggae]

For "2-look" corner orientation (which is more like 1-look 2-alg), you can use "intelligent Sune spam".

• 3 misoriented: R U R' U R U2' R'; R' U' R U' R' U2 R; and the inverses of these cover all the cases with three misoriented corners. Should be fairly easy to recognise since they're similar to the 3×3×3 cases solved by the same algs. (The mnemonic I use is that the Sunes orient three adjacent corners, while the Antisunes orient two adjacent corners and one "unconnected" corner.)
• Everything else: try to twist three corners using one of the above algs so that you'll be left with three misoriented corners, then use one of the above algs again to finish CO. This always works and you can always solve CO with at most two Sunes/Antisunes.

Probably better to just learn proper 1-look CO algs instead, though. Many of them are similar to 3×3×3 OLL/COLL algs, so even though 16 cases might sound like a lot, you probably already know half of them.

For S2L… (almost) everyone pretty much just does "star then F2L-style pairs" repeatedly on different colours until it's finished. Do have a look at the CubeSkills tutorials.

I have been looking at the CubeSkills tutorials and have printed out the Intermediate Megaminx pdf from the website. I did try doing the S2L that way before but struggled a little with it, so continued with my beginners method of doing S2L and managed a nice sub 4 minute ao5 using the method. Decided that I need to sit down and spend the time doing it properly so started doing the S2L method that Feliks talked about. Initially I was a fair amount slower but I've stuck with it and over the weekend managed to complete an ao50. The most Megaminx solves I have ever done

So far I've managed to drop my PB to 3:17.86. I have also started working my way through the 16 CO algs, and you're right 16 is not many and I should be able to commit them to memory reasonably quickly especially if I keep doing more solves. I'm enjoying Megaminx at the moment something I have not been able to do up to this point. Having a decent Megaminx certainly helps

 

[AvGalen]

Haha. Keep Quiet could be quite a good image. You could have someone holding a finger to their lips. It combines well with other images. The image could be used on SH instead of you're settled on the chessboard. (CS is chess for me)

How can anyone settle for Kings-and-Queens instead of the image of your friend shushing you in a somewhat aggressive way?
I also wouldn't count a repeated scramble that you eventually solve as your first blindfold success, but it absolutely is a milestone and gave you that gratifying "YES, I can do this!" feeling that you are going to get addicted to

 

[Old Tom]

How can anyone settle for Kings-and-Queens instead of the image of your friend shushing you in a somewhat aggressive way?
I also wouldn't count a repeated scramble that you eventually solve as your first blindfold success, but it absolutely is a milestone and gave you that gratifying "YES, I can do this!" feeling that you are going to get addicted to

My friend says she loves you for that! And it's settled: KQ = Keep Quiet!

 

[One Wheel]

"What's a good memo for KQ"? Without a blink, she said, "Keep Quiet"!

(Aside: I settled on "Kings and Queens", visualizing a chessboard.)

Kumquat?

 

[mark49152]

Kumquat?

Kiss me quick (hat).

 

[h2f]

In Polish KQ goes tu Kukuryku - I dont know how to write it good in English so you could understand - the sound that rooster makes in the morning. It is similiar to dogs wow-wow.

 

[One Wheel]

In Polish KQ goes tu Kukuryku - I dont know how to write it good in English so you could understand - the sound that rooster makes in the morning. It is similiar to dogs wow-wow.

The English transliteration of a rooster crow is "cock-a-doodle-doo." If I was inventing it out of whole cloth I'd go with something more like "rrr'-r-rrrrrrr"

Edit to say that dogs are said to say "arf arf," "woof," or "bow wow"

 

[h2f]

Edit to say that dogs are said to say "arf arf," "woof," or "bow wow"

Ha thanks.

One more milestone in 3bld - first mo3 sub50.

 

[newtonbase]

The varying perceptions of animal noises in different languages is extraordinary. The multiple versions of Il Pulcino Pio that I've had to listen to prove this.

 

[Old Tom]

The varying perceptions of animal noises in different languages is extraordinary. The multiple versions of Il Pulcino Pio that I've had to listen to prove this.

Yes, amazing. Amuses me that we are discussing this in a Rubik's Cube forum. And that I, a deaf person, am commenting on animal noises.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Yes, amazing. Amuses me that we are discussing this in a Rubik's Cube forum.

What's even funnier is that it's actually relevant to a significant discussion here!

 

[newtonbase]

There's some info on animal noises here

 

[AbsoRuud]

Too add to the list, in Dutch, a rooster goes kukeleku and a dog goes either woef or waf. And if people want to know more, I'll gladly provide them with all the Dutch animal sounds they can stand.