How long to spend learning letter pairs?

[Leo123]

Hello guys I am new to blindsolving how long should you spend learning letter pairs? Should you learn them so for example someone sais what does SD equal and you can tell them straight away or should you not spend loads of time learning them so you learn them briefly.

 

[~Adam~]

You just need to know them or be able to improvise. You can ask Bertie to send you my list and practice web page.

 

[LucidCuber]

Hello guys I am new to blindsolving how long should you spend learning letter pairs? Should you learn them so for example someone sais what does SD equal and you can tell them straight away or should you not spend loads of time learning them so you learn them briefly.

I just had my first BLD sucess 3 days ago, and I don't know all my pairs off by heart yet, of course that makes my memo a bit slow now, but you'll pick it up over time. You've got almost 600 combinations so you don't need to memorise them before you start blindsolving.

 

[Goosly]

Hello guys I am new to blindsolving how long should you spend learning letter pairs?

When you are new to blindsolving, you can just improvise words during memo.

 

[Berd]

I can lend you my list, or give you tips on hard ones.

 

[timeless]

I can lend you my list, or give you tips on hard ones.

im having trouble some letter pairs as well, like XU, XV, XE,

 

[Berd]

im having trouble some letter pairs as well, like XU, XV, XE,

Switch to Y!!!

 

[Leo123]

I can lend you my list, or give you tips on hard ones.

Did you make up your letter pairs or did you get it from a website. If you did please link me.

 

[Leo123]

Switch to Y!!!

How many words do you have to memorise in a solve?

 

[Berd]

Did you make up your letter pairs or did you get it from a website. If you did please link me.

I'll forward you Adams. Pm me your e-mail. Also, a cube is ~20 letters = 10 words

 

[TDM]

How many words do you have to memorise in a solve?

20 letters/10 letter pairs/10 words/3-4 images for one 3BLD solve.

 

[A Leman]

I think it's good to know them by heart. I know every pair almost automatically and can go through all of them very quickly. The better you know them the less energy it takes to use and recall them. I learned them by drilling them. For a while, I would go through every edge image while holding a cube Blindfolded and imagining the shape of the commutator cases every night before going to sleep.I'd also practice by picking a letter and timing how long it took to go through the 26 letter pairs. It takes ~7-10 seconds. With the amount of drill and kill that I have done, I don't think I will ever forget my letter pairs. I don't need to drill much anymore and occasionally practicing keeps them fast.

im having trouble some letter pairs as well, like XU, XV, XE,

XU=Xu is Vietnamese currency
XV=Xavier from X-men
XE=Xenophilius Lovegood from Harry Potter

 

[sneaklyfox]

I think it's probably best to come up with your own images rather than use someone else's list. Usually the first things that come your mind are best I think. But I guess as long as you know the list well it doesn't really matter in the end.

 

[tseitsei]

im having trouble some letter pairs as well, like XU, XV, XE,

XU = I have nothing good. In my scheme I can use X or Z they both mean the same piece and I use zulu for ZU
XV = XaVi (spanish football player) or XaVier (Charles Xavier from X-men)
XE = XEna the warrior princess

 

[Ollie]

Because the common theme of X is dead/electrocuted something, for me XU is "kill you" but it has to sound like this.

XV- Vinnie Jones. Not sure why, it used to be a few different things, but you can just arbitrarily assign cool images to bad letter pairs. Use Anki to rehearse them and other hard ones.

XE - sexy, or eXEcute

 

[~Adam~]

I double up QZ and XY to make finding a word easier.

 

[Hssandwich]

Try to include innuendos or something that will make you remember the memo. Works for me!

 

[timeless]

I double up QZ and XY to make finding a word easier.

what do you mean double up? like u can interchange those letter?

 

[~Adam~]

what do you mean double up? like u can interchange those letter?

Yes. Can usually jump straight to one if the other isn't on the tip of my brain.

 

[Rocky0701]

For pairs that start with X, I just use the Shh sound, so XU would be shu (shoe). Some others would be XP (ship), XQ (I think of Shaquille O' Neal since people call him Shaq or a shack, or shocking someone), XG (I think of Shaggy from Scooby-Doo, or someone shrugging. It makes X much easier.