Central Council Supplementary Method Collections

Published by the Methods Committee

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• Unnamed Plain Major Methods

  • Introduction
  • Methods

• Provisionally Named Methods

  • Introduction
  • Plain methods
  • Surprise methods
  • Delight methods
  • Treble Bob methods
  • Alliance methods
  • Treble Place methods
  • Principles
  • Differentials
  • Differential hunters
  • Index

• Non-palindromic Plain Doubles Methods

  Compositional note It is not in general possible to produce extents of non-palindromic methods and so in order to name any of these methods in accordance with Decision (E) D.4 it would be necessary to ring them in a peal either in spliced or in round blocks of two or more extents in which each of the 120 possible rows occurs the same number of times.

  • Introduction
  • Single-hunt methods
  • Twin-hunt methods
  • Index

• Treble Place Minor Methods

  • Introduction
  • Methods with treble dodging in 1-2 and 3-4 and making fifths from behind
  • Methods with treble dodging in 1-2 and making thirds from behind
  • Index

• Treble Dodging Minor Methods

  The complete collection is available as a zip file (2.02 MB).
  The tables include numbers suitable for reference purposes in a column headed TDMM.

  • Introduction

  • Methods with maximum 2 consecutive blows

    • Surprise methods
    • Delight methods
    • Treble Bob methods

  • Methods with maximum 3 consecutive blows

    • Surprise methods
    • Delight methods
    • Treble Bob methods

  • Methods with maximum 4 consecutive blows

    • Surprise methods
    • Delight methods
    • Treble Bob methods

  • Index

• "Cyclic" Major Methods

  • Introduction

  • Methods with double symmetry

    • Plain methods
    • Surprise methods
    • Delight methods
    • Treble Bob methods

  • Methods with rotational symmetry

    • Plain methods
    • Surprise methods
    • Delight methods
    • Treble Bob methods

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