Solving the cube blindfolded – step by step

• Learn – a guided course: your first small blind solve in about 5 minutes, whether you already solve cubes or not. Then on step by step to the whole cube.
• Memorise – train letter pairs as images and memory routes, with flashcards and your own image lists.
• Solve blind – blind and multiblind like in competition, with time, analysis and history.

Everything works on screen with the virtual cube. If you own a GAN smart cube, connect it via Bluetooth and turn the real cube.

Practising works without an account. With an account your progress, own image lists and routes are backed up and available on every device (see Account & sync).

On the virtual cube, swiping across the cube turns the layer under your finger (including middle layers); swiping beside it turns the view. Keyboard: R L U D F B, with Shift for counter-clockwise.

Section 1 – “Solving blind – the app turns” – starts with a short explanation and then goes straight to “Your first blind solve: three corners”.

A blind solve has two parts: you look at the cube and memorise it, then you solve it with your eyes closed. Old Pochmann swaps one piece, the buffer, again and again with the piece whose place it belongs to. What you memorise are letters: every sticker spot has one, corners and edges each have their own alphabet.

In about 5 minutes you solve your first three corners blind. The whole cube without turning takes a few hours, spread over a few days. Turning it yourself takes longer, usually a few weeks of practice.

Only three corners are swapped. The app asks: where does the sticker on the buffer belong? Tap that letter, then the next one. The two letters make a word.

Make a vivid picture of it – big, colourful, moving – at a place you know well. Then tap Memorised – eyes closed!

The cube turns grey. Type the two letters from memory; the app performs each swap for you. Only the last input can be undone (↶ Undo), as in a real blind solve.

Three successful solves and the lesson is done. After that the course continues: memory route, corner letters, memo for corners, twisted corners, all corners blind, then the same for edges, parity and the whole cube.

• Scramble type: full (WCA-like), without parity, edges or corners only, short memo, flips, twists, parity only and more – good for practising single steps.
• Apply scrambles the virtual cube. On a smart cube you follow the moves one by one; red moves mean “off track – turn back”.
• Memo (Old Pochmann): memorise yourself first, then open Show memo and compare – letters, images on your route, parity and cycle breaks. Below it the execution per target.
• Hide cube: turn the cube into your blind orientation, hide it and solve blind.

A training run counts once the scramble is done and the cube is solved again – then it lands in the history by itself.

1. Menu → Blind, choose the scramble type, tap Scramble cube.
2. Swipe the box aside – the clock starts. (Keyboard: arrow left/right.)
3. Memorise. Drag the cube to turn the view.
4. Done? Press and hold End memo until it is full – a tap is not enough, so nothing ends by accident.

The cube is grey now. You have three ways to solve:

• Smart cube: turn the real cube; D4 = done.
• Virtual cube, turning: swipe across the cube to turn layers, or use the keyboard.
• Virtual cube, typing letters: type the letters of your memo – the cube executes them with your method (setup, perm, undo).

When typing:

• Only the last input can be undone.
• ⇄ switches between corners and edges.
• If parity is set to “Parity move” in the settings, the button Do parity appears right after switching to the second piece type – tap it first. With “Swap mentally” there is no extra button.

At the end press and hold Done – stop the clock.

• The result shows time (or DNF), memo time and tags: Smart cube when you turned a connected smart cube, Letters typed when you typed on the virtual cube, plus the scramble type.
• Per cube: the scramble, your execution read as swaps with the target memo below for comparison, and – if something went wrong – where: e.g. “Mistake: wrong edge at C – visible after move 14 (swap 1)”.
• Watch solve steps through your solve move by move, Scramble in training takes the scramble into Training (to turn it on your real cube), Show memo reveals the correct memo.
• Share result sends an image and a link. The link contains the whole solve – whoever opens it can step through it in the app or the browser, no account needed.
• Share result creates an image and a text with the scrambles – to solve again or to send.
• Enter your own scramble … takes a copied, shared or typed scramble as a new attempt, e.g. one line 1. R U F' …

Same flow with several cubes. Choose the number (2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 or any), scramble, uncover. During memo, switch cubes with the strip below or the arrows; the app remembers how you held each cube.

• Time limit like the WCA: 10 minutes per cube, at most 60.
• Points = solved − unsolved. DNF if fewer than 2 are solved or points are below 0.
• The app shows how many cubes your route has room for (14 places per cube).
• On a smart cube, D4 moves on to the next cube.

Tap Start cards. A round covers the area behind it; the title bar stays usable.

• Swipe right = known, swipe left = not known – also without revealing.
• Long-press reveals the solution. It always appears in the same place: in the field above the card.
• The small arrows below do the same by tapping. Keyboard: space reveals, arrow right/left answers.
• ✕ or Escape ends the round.

Menu → Images. Choose a image list (letter pairs, single letters or digits), pick the initial letters you want to practise and optionally include X and Y.

At the end of a round you see how many you knew, the missed ones as chips, and Restart.

The knowledge area shows your hit rate per initial letter (last 3 tries per image). Tap to see a value; tap a letter below for its words. It appears at the end of every round, otherwise on request.

Own image lists: create your own images – with your own words and hints – or import them (export file, JSON, CSV or lines “key; word; hint”). This needs an account.

A memory route is a path with fixed places, e.g. through your home. Menu → Route:

• Choose a route and the range of loci (One solve is the loci a solve occupies at most with your memo settings – start loci, image type and objects per locus).
• Drill: view, quiz forward, backward or random, or name the successor.
• “What Old Pochmann needs” explains how many loci are enough in practice.

Own routes: build your own route; the order is the route. A list “area; object” can be pasted at once. Also needs an account.

Further down: keys for the simulation, diagnostics, Show introduction again and the legal notice.

What do I get?

• 🔒 Backed up online: nothing gets lost, even if the browser clears its data.
• 🔄 Across devices: history and progress on phone and computer.
• ✏️ Your own: your own image lists and memory routes.

Signing in (Settings → Account): enter your email, tap Send code, enter the code from the email, Sign in. No password needed – new users get their account created on the way. Please check your spam folder too.

If this device already has practice data, the app asks whether to add it to your account or replace it.

Signing out works for this device or for all devices. Delete account removes your own image lists, routes and the backup of history and learning progress for good; the practice data on the device stays.

Open it via the menu or the clock at the top next to “Solved”. Filter by All, Blind, Multiblind or Training.

Each entry shows result, date and tags. Open it to see the analysis again, Solve again with the same scramble, or delete it.