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Beyer Hardwick

Description​

Creator: Daniel Beyer, Chris Hardwick

Created: 2009

Steps:

With UR and UBR as the buffer, solve pieces two at a time using move optimal 3-cycles.

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BH Development​

In early 2008, Daniel Beyer and Chris Hardwick began mentioning the development of a new blindfold solving method [1, 2, 3, 4]. The idea was to take the freestyle 3-cycle solving that was growing in popularity and optimize the algorithms.

BH Reveal​

In 2008, Beyer added lists of algorithms to his website for solving the corners and edges [5, 6]. In March 2009, Hardwick posted a thread on SpeedSolving.com asking if there was interest in a complete website for the BH method [7]. Seeing the large amount of interest from the forum members, Hardwick and Beyer began development on the website [8]. A little over a month later, Hardwick posted the link to the page that covers the corner solving step of the method [9]. This was soon followed by the edge solving page [10]. Lucas Garron helped create links to applets for each case [11].

References​

[1] C. Hardwick, "Free Edges," SpeedSolving.com, 14 February 2008. [Online]. Available: https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/free-edges.2457/post-33964.

[2] D. Beyer, "R2, 3 cycle, or Pochmann for corners?," SpeedSolving.com, 22 February 2008. [Online]. Available: https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/r2-3-cycle-or-pochmann-for-corners.2958/post-35330.

[3] C. Hardwick, "R2, 3 cycle, or Pochmann for corners?," SpeedSolving.com, 23 February 2008. [Online]. Available: https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/r2-3-cycle-or-pochmann-for-corners.2958/post-35433.

[4] D. Beyer, "Commutators for r/l edges on big cubes," SpeedSolving.com, 21 June 2008. [Online]. Available: https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/commutators-for-r-l-edges-on-big-cubes.4727/post-60018.

[5] D. Beyer, "BH Corners," 2008. [Online]. Available: https://web.archive.org/web/20090129214146/http://dbeyer.110mb.com/BHcorners.txt.

[6] D. Beyer, "BH Edges," 2008. [Online]. Available: https://web.archive.org/web/20100421044200/http://dbeyer.110mb.com/BHedges.txt.

[7] C. Hardwick, "Interest in a BH method website?," SpeedSolving.com, 27 March 2009. [Online]. Available: https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/interest-in-a-bh-method-website.10756/.

[8] C. Hardwick, "Interest in a BH method website?," SpeedSolving.com, 30 March 2008. [Online]. Available: https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/interest-in-a-bh-method-website.10756/post-156409.

[9] C. Hardwick, "Interest in a BH method website?," SpeedSolving.com, 3 May 2009. [Online]. Available: https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/interest-in-a-bh-method-website.10756/post-174576.

[10] C. Hardwick, "Interest in a BH method website?," SpeedSolving.com, 12 May 2009. [Online]. Available: https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/interest-in-a-bh-method-website.10756/post-178458.

[11] C. Hardwick, "Interest in a BH method website?," SpeedSolving.com, 5 May 2009. [Online]. Available: https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/interest-in-a-bh-method-website.10756/post-175409.