abunickabhi
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Its true that PAO is not used by that many BLDers.I've been trying to research memorization techniques in order to improve
my times and have been considering transitioning to PAO from regular letter pairs. I think it would alleviate some
issues I've had with regular letter pairs, for instance remembering the correct order of the words. Is there any particular downsides to it (besides that it would take some time to learn)?
Currently I just make up words (mostly nouns and people) for every letter combination and then integrate these with each other into one picture, with around 3-4 loci per 3x3.
It seems like PAO is far less popular in the cubing community, so I would be interested in hearing what you guys think.
Making up words on the spot is not the best strategy. I guess you make a detailed sheet of letter pairs or PAO letter pairs.
Personally, I have a personalised letter quads sheets that I have been maintaining since 2016 (126k cases of LQs for most of piece types on 3x3,4x4 (4BLD), 5x5(5BLD)). I used letter pairs since 2014 and got fluent with it, but I am investing my time with LQ.