Big Cube BLD Discussion

[bobthegiraffemonkey]

You can also adapt M2 for T-centres.

[drewsopchak]

You can also adapt M2 for T-centres.

Center pieces are the best part of big bld. So many comm/solving options.

[bobthegiraffemonkey]

Center pieces are the best part of big bld. So many comm/solving options.

Agreed . Now I just need more time to practice it, my best 5BLD so far was off by 3 centres so not even a success.

[sukesh12]

Mixing memory method feels great. I use letters for centers, visual for edges and letters again for corners.

[kinch2002]

Mixing memory method feels great. I use letters for centers, visual for edges and letters again for corners.

Now mix up your memo methods within each set of pieces, and it might just be awesome.

[Cubenovice]

Now mix up your memo methods within each set of pieces, and it might just be awesome.

Hi Daniel,

could you give asome more insight on your mixing of memo?

Do you mix randomly like for instance start a sentence, some visual pieces, continue sentence or do you mix very specific: first few pieces visually, then rest of the set of pieces with sentences/ story?

I do the latter for 3 BLD corners, hoping to build up to full visual corners.

[DrKorbin]

Mixing memory method feels great. I use letters for centers, visual for edges and letters again for corners.

What is your average time of memo and for execution?

[kinch2002]

Hi Daniel,

could you give asome more insight on your mixing of memo?

Do you mix randomly like for instance start a sentence, some visual pieces, continue sentence or do you mix very specific: first few pieces visually, then rest of the set of pieces with sentences/ story?

I do the latter for 3 BLD corners, hoping to build up to full visual corners.

I don't have a specific method of memo mixing.
Edges - I always memo these in sets of 4. By default they are memoed with letters made into a short phrase covering the 4 letters. However, if I think the first 2 pieces are really easy visually (e.g. adjacent) or if I spend too long thinking of a phrase, then I'll do the 4 letters visually.
Centres - These are memoed as a 3 (including buffer) then in 2s. New cycles (and therefore new buffer) start with another 3 letters. I memo with a complete mix of letters and visual. I guess I just do visual if it's an easy one and letters otherwise. Occasionally I'll chuck a few numbers in there, because I still know my numbering system that I used the first time I solved (it follows the same order as the letters).
Corners - always just audioloop made from mashing together all the letters (rather than one-syllable sounds). I have to audioloop rather than any visual at all because I can't actually solve a load of 9+ movers by simply knowing the visual cycles - I learnt them straight from letter pair to alg.

[Gabig]

Hi guys,
I just get bored with 3x3 and wanna solve 4x4 I learn methods (r2/U2) but still don't have really good idea for memorization.
Edges and corners are not a problem, probably I will use memo from 3x3, but I don't how to do with centers.
I thought about letter pairs, I heard it's the best. What do you think? If you are using it how do you place letters on cube? By layers? Or by faces? For example ABCD on top, EFGH on left, etc...

[Julian]

Hi guys,
I just get bored with 3x3 and wanna solve 4x4 I learn methods (r2/U2) but still don't have really good idea for memorization.
Edges and corners are not a problem, probably I will use memo from 3x3, but I don't how to do with centers.
I thought about letter pairs, I heard it's the best. What do you think? If you are using it how do you place letters on cube? By layers? Or by faces? For example ABCD on top, EFGH on left, etc...

In case you weren't aware, there's double the memo required for edges, so won't be able to simply use your 3BLD method. Letter pairs do work very well. It really doesn't matter at all how you place the letters on the cube. Just organize them in a way that makes sense to you, you'll get used to it over time.