How to improve memory?

So yea ive gotten into BLD cubing abd i had my first solve today!!!

But my memo was like 10 minutes.... and execution was faster like 5 mins lol..



But my main problem is MEMO...

im using letters for CO Numbers For CP and Letter for EO/EP

How do i improve my memo?

Read the memory methods thread.Then come back if you have any more questions.

Just practice, your brain will get used to making connections lol.

And may be learn some memo-techniques mentioned in the sticky thread. At first, my memo was pretty bad too, but then after a few solves it dropped a lot.

After a few solves you get used to it, i started off memo'ing in around 7 mins, now i just did a 37 second memo

Your times will come down fast. You can check the memory techniques others have mentioned, but honestly your current memory method should eventually be good enough for at least sub-3 minutes, probably even sub-2 minutes. I'm guessing that just by practicing your current method, you can be less than 5 minutes in a month, if you practice enough. (I was doing 10 attempts per day to prepare for the US Open last year, and it only took me about a month of that to get down to sub-5 average.)

Congratulations! That's a great achievement! And 15 minutes is pretty good for a first BLD solve.

You really don't need to be asking a question like that after your first BLD solve only. You just need more practice.

Luckily I was one of those who got fast solves straight away, as my first solve was 5:24. Yup, I'm being bigheaded!

joey said:

You really don't need to be asking a question like that after your first BLD solve only. You just need more practice.

Luckily I was one of those who got fast solves straight away, as my first solve was 5:24. Yup, I'm being bigheaded!

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my first was 4:44.89
for a beginner, i think stories is a very easy memo-method.

Zava said:

joey said:

You really don't need to be asking a question like that after your first BLD solve only. You just need more practice.

Luckily I was one of those who got fast solves straight away, as my first solve was 5:24. Yup, I'm being bigheaded!

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my first was 4:44.89
for a beginner, i think stories is a very easy memo-method.

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And can be very fast (sub-20 memo).

btw. my first solve was something between 30 and 45 minutes

I got my first solve at 14 minutes and now my PB is 2:56 but I'm still around 4-5 minutes. I think I'm going to switch to stories.

Anyway, congrats my Vietnamese friend !

yes, i'm around that time, at my bld pb it might've been around 15 sec. so, i should be happy with it, and don't change to an else memo method?

WOW TIM.... YOUR FIRST SOLVE WAS AROUND 30-40 MIN?! o_0

there's some food for thought XD

Derrick Eide17 said:

WOW TIM.... YOUR FIRST SOLVE WAS AROUND 30-40 MIN?! o_0

there's some food for thought XD

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I couldn't solve the cube within 2 minutes at that time. And i had almost no knowledge about the cube, so i had to work quite hard to just understand macky's 3-cycle guide.
I've probably never used my mind that hard since my first bld solve .

Nghia said:

I got my first solve at 14 minutes and now my PB is 2:56 but I'm still around 4-5 minutes. I think I'm going to switch to stories.

Anyway, congrats my Vietnamese friend !

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haha do you live in viet?

Yea im thinking bout stories to...for Edges

Also, Im deciding to use a adventure storie method with my house...and objects.

So for edges i use letter a-x so i just give each letter a object name and place them in my house?

How would i remeber my numberS?

andrewvo1324 said:

Nghia said:

I got my first solve at 14 minutes and now my PB is 2:56 but I'm still around 4-5 minutes. I think I'm going to switch to stories.

Anyway, congrats my Vietnamese friend !

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haha do you live in viet?

Yea im thinking bout stories to...for Edges

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Viet Power! I am not a story thinker. The way I memorize is first I remember CP visually. Then EP using numbers. For example, if I wanted to cycle 1->3->2->5, I would memorize as 1325. I then memorize EO visually and CO visually. At least that's the way I do it (however, I have yet to become good at BLD).

I do it exactly the same way, Brian. Except for the order I memorize in. I memorize EP > CP > CO> EO, but like you I memorize edges with numbers and everything else visually.

Brian Le said:

andrewvo1324 said:

Nghia said:

I got my first solve at 14 minutes and now my PB is 2:56 but I'm still around 4-5 minutes. I think I'm going to switch to stories.

Anyway, congrats my Vietnamese friend !

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haha do you live in viet?

Yea im thinking bout stories to...for Edges

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Viet Power! I am not a story thinker. The way I memorize is first I remember CP visually. Then EP using numbers. For example, if I wanted to cycle 1->3->2->5, I would memorize as 1325. I then memorize EO visually and CO visually. At least that's the way I do it (however, I have yet to become good at BLD).

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I dont do Cycles though.

I've switched to freestyle, and visual memo with it, and have got my times down from 1 min using numbers for EP and visual for the rest to 40-50 seconds

I've done close to 30 BLD solves, my memo has yet to improve much. at first it was 11 minutes, about three solves later is was like 7 minutes, and now it's like 5-6 minutes. I'm not concerned with geting better though. I dont plan on breaking any records. :] My only goal is to do a 2 cubes multiBLD.

andrewvo1324 said:

Brian Le said:

andrewvo1324 said:

Nghia said:

I got my first solve at 14 minutes and now my PB is 2:56 but I'm still around 4-5 minutes. I think I'm going to switch to stories.

Anyway, congrats my Vietnamese friend !

Click to expand...

haha do you live in viet?

Yea im thinking bout stories to...for Edges

Click to expand...

Viet Power! I am not a story thinker. The way I memorize is first I remember CP visually. Then EP using numbers. For example, if I wanted to cycle 1->3->2->5, I would memorize as 1325. I then memorize EO visually and CO visually. At least that's the way I do it (however, I have yet to become good at BLD).

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I dont do Cycles though.

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Andrew Vo : Yes I live in Vietnam and here there is no cube, except chinese ones which pop systematically when you try to do finger tricks...

Brian Le : What do you mean you don't do cycles ?

I memorize EP, CP, EO and CO and I solve CO, EO, CP and EP.
I've tried freestyling, but it's still very un-natural for me