cmhardw
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Good luck, and have fun!
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Good luck, and have fun!
josh42732
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Thank you! I am going to try to write down the memo instead of just full out memorizing it, and I'll see if I can do it! I'm not going to memo it until I can do a 3/3 MBLD, though.
EvilGnome6
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I'm starting to learn 2x2 BLD using OP corners. If I get this down I'll step up to 3x3. So far this makes sense. Right now I'm getting comfortable doing the set up moves and learning the lettering scheme. I'm still a bit fuzzy on how to deal the buffer getting solved before the cube is done.
newtonbase
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When you get to the buffer piece don't memo a letter for it. Your cycle is over. Start a new cycle with any unsolved sticker and continue. The last letter in this new cycle will take you back to the piece that the first sticker is on. Repeat until solved.
EvilGnome6
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Ah, that makes sense. I'll work on it today. Thanks!
josh42732
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New day! Going to do some MBLD, maybe attempt a 4BLD, maybe just try to do an Ao12 3BLD. But I plan to get better in some way today!!
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Good luck!
So I use r2 and M2 for bigbld, but have been using TuRBo for 3bld for like 2 years. Would I be better off switching to M2 for 3bld, if I want to be using full 3-style for everything eventually?
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I think it doesnt really matter weather you use DF or UF as your buffer; there are plenty of algs for each.
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I'm definitely keeping the DF buffer for bigbld. But I was thinking if I switched to DF for 3bld all of the comms I learn are transferable. The drawback is that It'll take a while to get used to M2.
tseitsei
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Switch to edge comms with df buffer for 3bld without doing m2 first?
JediJupiter
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Most blind attempts I do end up almost solved, with a few pieces in the wrong place. No matter how many times I go over the memo, or how much I think I've done it perfectly, it still happens. It's infuriating and I never know what I've done wrong. I know everybody gets this sometimes or a lot, but I'd like to know if there are ways to help avoid it (even at the risk of being really slow), since I really want to get my first success and also hopefully get a success in comp in a month.
Berd
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Use actual scrambles so you can recheck the memo afterwards, it might be a really easy execution mistake to fix.
newtonbase
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Also, try writing down the memo and do sighted solves to see if it's an execution error.
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Or just do sighted solves with generated memo.
I feel like this tool is very useful for people in situations like this.
EvilGnome6
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I've been at this for less than a week. I labeled my cube as shown above to help me get started.
Then I scrambled: R2 U2 F' U2 F R' F' R2 F' U'
Wrote out a solution and memorized it: G - B M O I B
Then I closed my eyes and executed the steps and it was solved. My first!
I'll peel off the letters one by one as I get more comfortable with this. Not sure it was a good idea to label the faces but I think it helped me get started.
newtonbase
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I have a labelled cube too. I would keep it by my side for reference while solving a different cube. Yours is much neater.
Edit: To get used to the scheme I started by remembering the first sticker of each face. They are usually vowels apart from Right which is wrong and then there's a Q(ueue) at the Back.
Edit: To get used to the scheme I started by remembering the first sticker of each face. They are usually vowels apart from Right which is wrong and then there's a Q(ueue) at the Back.
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Isaac Lai
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Is it possible to solve a megaminx BLD with Old Pochmann (not that I am gonna try)?
Cale S
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Old Pochmann involves doing two 2-swaps of different pieces (T-Perm for example), which is not possible on megaminx. You could try solving edges with two 2-swaps of edges (two to be swapped every target and two for the buffer/target) but the two you were swapping repeatedly could (and almost all of the time, will) come up in your memo and that wouldn't really work.
The method I use solves one piece at a time, but with 3-cycles. For example, A>F>H would be done as A>F>B followed by A>B>H.
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josh42732
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Going to do a 5 MBLD attempt, then going to practice some 4BLD.
