Random Blindfold Cubing Discussion

[Cubenovice]

How do you guys memorise for any letter pair starting with Q? QH, QV QA, QE . TOO PAINFUL!

QuirinusHof
CuVee
Quality Assurance
Queen Elisabeth


just be creative:
you can also use things that sound like Q...
you can skip Q and use Z instead
you can let Q indicate a "category" example: car brands --> QC = Citroen, QA = Audi, QV = Volvo
etc
etc

 

[Ollie]

How do you guys memorise for any letter pair starting with Q? QH, QV QA, QE . TOO PAINFUL!

QA - either Duck (QuAck) or a press conference (Question and Answer...)
QB - Quiddich (or QuiBble - a complaint)
QC - QuiChe
QD - Quid
QE - Queen Elizabeth
QF - QuiF (hair) or Queef (teehee)
QG - QuaGmire (Family Guy)
QH - Jam..I can't remember why.
QJ - Rubik's cube (technically wrong, but I don't care.)
QK - Quick
QL - a pen (QuiLl)
QM - QuiM (teehee)
QN - Glee (I mistook someone in Glee for being QuiNn - oops.)
QO - Status QuO
QR - QueeR
QS- QueueS of people
QT- QuieT or QuiT
QU - any other QUeen
QV - QuiVering (shaking)
QW - a Quiz
QX - Nesquiks

Those are mine, but I'd take Cubenovice's advice (as long as your images are distinguishable enough. For instance I might not do car brands, because I'd think of a generic car in all cases...) I guess the point is that it doesn't necessarily have to have a logical order - I knew the Q's would always be harder so I chose words that I knew I'd remember.

 

[Bhargav777]

QuirinusHof
CuVee
Quality Assurance
Queen Elisabeth


just be creative:
you can also use things that sound like Q...
you can skip Q and use Z instead
you can let Q indicate a "category" example: car brands --> QC = Citroen, QA = Audi, QV = Volvo
etc
etc

I'm actually using something like that for pairs ending with Q. But here , i use diseases (i don't even know many car brands :/ ) TQ - typhoid , CQ - cancer, JQ - jaundice etc. So i did not know what to use for this. Thanks a lot

QA - either Duck (QuAck) or a press conference (Question and Answer...)
QB - Quiddich (or QuiBble - a complaint)
QC - QuiChe
QD - Quid
QE - Queen Elizabeth
QF - QuiF (hair) or Queef (teehee)
QG - QuaGmire (Family Guy)
QH - Jam..I can't remember why.
QJ - Rubik's cube (technically wrong, but I don't care.)
QK - Quick
QL - a pen (QuiLl)
QM - QuiM (teehee)
QN - Glee (I mistook someone in Glee for being QuiNn - oops.)
QO - Status QuO
QR - QueeR
QS- QueueS of people
QT- QuieT or QuiT
QU - any other QUeen
QV - QuiVering (shaking)
QW - a Quiz
QX - Nesquiks

Those are mine, but I'd take Cubenovice's advice (as long as your images are distinguishable enough. For instance I might not do car brands, because I'd think of a generic car in all cases...) I guess the point is that it doesn't necessarily have to have a logical order - I knew the Q's would always be harder so I chose words that I knew I'd remember.

:O Thanks a ton dude! Incase i get to win any BLD event at worlds any day, I'll post the prize to your home for sure!

 

[Bhargav777]

Ok how do you guys approach this?
4BLD - orientation (White top red front)
Buffer - Ubl (solved)
Ubr - has yellow
Dbr - has red
Fld - has orange
Brd - has blue
Rfu - has white
So the cycle is Ubr - Dbr - Fld - Brd - Rfu - Ubr, but my buffer is Ubl.

Did this now.
b' L' b L (d l' U2 l d' l' U2 l ) L' b' L b
B y ( u l' U2 l u' l' U2 l ) R' y'


I usually approach one centre after another by doing Niklas incase I end up with something like this. But this was too painful that I instead wanted to use another buffer.
A good approach for this please

 

[Ollie]

post

You can do any of these:

1. Do a U' to place the Urb piece into your buffer position and solve the remaining centers as normal. Just remember to do a U at the end.
2. Make up some cycles whilst solving from your new buffer. If you understand how the center comms work then this shouldn't be too hard. Or:
3. Break into a new cycle like so:

*Ubl -> Ubr -> Dbr = [D': [r2, D' l2 D]]
*Ubl -> Fld -> Brd = [F2: [l, U r U']]
*Then solve the remaining two centers Ulb -> Rfu. You don't need to solve Ubr because just swapping Urb and Ubl on is pointless.

 

[Bhargav777]

Exactly what I wanted. Sorry to be asking questions so many times in a week. :/

 

[antoineccantin]

what is the biggest amount of cubes someone did in a multibld-attempt with visual memo?

Someone got a 7BLD success with visual (there's a thread on SS).

 

[MaikeruKonare]

I use M2 and Old Pochman. Is 3-cycles faster? Where can I learn 3-cycles? I get 6 minutes consistently and I want to improve.

 

[ben1996123]

Someone got a 7BLD success with visual (there's a thread on SS).

prettysure its been done before

 

[Username]

I use M2 and Old Pochman. Is 3-cycles faster? Where can I learn 3-cycles? I get 6 minutes consistently and I want to improve.

Practice M2/OP until you average atleast sub 1:30, then you can start progressing to 3-cycles

 

[TheNextFeliks]

In my opinion, a lucky solve is one with under 16 targets.

 

[Username]

In my opinion, a lucky solve is one with under 16 targets.

My opinion is that a lucky solve is one that has 2 or more pieces solved.

 

[TheNextFeliks]

My opinion is that a lucky solve is one that has 2 or more pieces solved.

Idk. I meant in Noah metrics x/y x+y<16 is lucky. You can still get 8/12 with 2 pieces solved.

 

[Username]

Idk. I meant in Noah metrics x/y x+y<16 is lucky. You can still get 8/12 with 2 pieces solved.

I understood what you meant, and told you my opinion.

 

[TheNextFeliks]

I understood what you meant, and told you my opinion.

Ok.

 

[tseitsei]

I think that number of targets is much better indicator of srambles "luckiness" than number of solved pieces...
You can have three edges already solved and still get for example 4 different cycles which means 12 edge targets and normal 8 targets for corners... so that would be 20 targets and 10 algs with a scramble that has 3 pieces already solved... But on the other hand you can get a scramble that has one edge and one corner solved and all other pieces in one cycle, so that would be 10 edge targets and 6 corner targets which makes 16 targets and 8 algs... Much luckier than 12/8 with 3 pieces solved

 

[Bhargav777]

I don't understand if it happens for anyone. But The niklas alg for centres - l2 U r2 U' l2 U r2 U' and it's mirror, seem to be problematic for me and i can't figure out where.
Consider the centres in this order
U face
12
43

D face
56
87

I need to inter change 1 and 6. I did D' to set up and did there niklas alg starting with l2. It changed to
62
43
No issues here. But

57
81 instead of

51
87.

Tried again, got
51
86.
Why is Dfr and Dbr swapped? Or am I wrong?
Same without setup
52
34 as I wanted. BUt

61
87 instead of

16
87.
The same happens with the normal Niklas - r U' l' u r' U' l u
Does
25
87 instead of

52
87

 

[Jakube]

The problem is, that l2 U r2 U' l2 U r2 U' is a 3-cycle.

So you can't just swap 2 pieces with this alg, but you can swap 3. Your niklas-alg cycles the pieces: Ubl -> Drf -> Dfl -> Ubl. In your notation this should be 1 -> 6 -> 5 -> 1.

 

[Bhargav777]

The problem is, that l2 U r2 U' l2 U r2 U' is a 3-cycle.

So you can't just swap 2 pieces with this alg, but you can swap 3. Your niklas-alg cycles the pieces: Ubl -> Drf -> Dfl -> Ubl. In your notation this should be 1 -> 6 -> 5 -> 1.

So how do I swap 2 centres alone?
Ubl - Dfl - Ubl?

 

[Username]

So how do I swap 2 centres alone?
Ubl - Dfl - Ubl?

You don't