I solved the 2x2x2 Rubik's cube blindfolded

Hi

In the beginning of winter break, I set myself a goal of solving the 2x2 blindfolded.

The main reason why I did this was because I was getting kind of bored of just practicing 3x3 and 2x2, and wanted to be good at an event I could brag at ;)

I wanted to do 3x3BLD

but I decided to take baby steps by starting with the 2x2.

Okay anyway here's the entire process for noncubers.



You see kids, the two by two has 24 stickers.

The first thing you do is memorize the 24 stickers, then you-

There's something called corner pieces.

You see that. Those three stickers(white red blue) always remain together, no matter how you turn the cube.

And there are eight of those pieces.

So you memorize eight pieces!

Yeah.


Okay so surprisingly you actually only need to memorize one algorithm, and what that algorithm does is swap two corners opposite of each other. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc-QrsLxRFw&feature=youtu.be


And with that algorithm you move pieces

Ok Imma try to visualize this with.....



ASCII ART YAYYY

ok sorry


So

here are some positions.

OOOO

Wait actually this isn't ascii art but whatever.

Do you guys see the Os? Think of this like slots or whatever. The light blue is supposed to be in the dark blue, the light green is supposed to be dark green and so on.

That is what you want it to be, and it's the solved position.


Then we have the scrambled cube.

OOOO
ABCD
(or reference first circle is yellow, second is purple, third is green, and fourth one is blue.)

Let the blue spot be the "buffer position" or the letter A

The solution to get this scrambled cube to a solved cube is CBD

Now what CBD says to do is..

SWAP THE C SPOT WITH THE A SPOT

SWAP THE B SPOT WITH THE A SPOT

SWAP THE D SPOT WITH THE A SPOT.

OOOO

SWAP THE C SPOT WITH THE A SPOT

OOOO

SWAP THE B SPOT WITH THE A SPOT

OOOO

SWAP THE D SPOT WITH THE A SPOT.

OOOO

So yeah. You memorize a couple of letters and you use the letters to swap stuff and it ends up being solved.

If you didn't get it that much, J Perms explanation with cards is great

How this is used on a Rubik's cube.

Okay anyway yeah.

I'm really not sure if I want to reveal my face on this blog...

WELL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1xlF375t_k

here's the video.



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