Corners or Edges, What comes first?

[Alex B71]

I recently got back into BLD (About a month ago after a 3 year break) and i noticed that i'm solving edges first... When i used to solve corners first. I have no idea where i learnt the parity method from but it was in there, and that lead me to wondering what is better? Edges or Corners first, i guess their are pros and cons to both and i would like to know what you do and why.

I'm also pretty proud with my progress over the past month, Learning corner comms very fast as of recently, i have been keeping a written documentation of all my attempts and ideas. Exactly 40 days ago i had a PB of 7 mins and no possible average or mean, and now my PB stands at 1:11.434 with a Mo3 of 1:30.994 and (When i'm aiming for accuracy) usually around 2 minutes with an 85% accuracy.

I use edges first because parity is very simple to avoid, corners are easier to store in images. I like to string the first 8 letters of edges into groups of 4 with any remaining edges going into a very short term image whilst i'm sounding out the first 8 and then i remember flipped edges and twisted corners visually.

Let me know your process. (And any tips i can try to improve)

 

[TDM]

I don't know if it makes much difference at the top level, but it can make memo easier for beginner/intermediate solvers.

It depends on which memo method you're using. If you're just learning audio memo (which is faster, but difficult to use for longer strings of letter papirs) then it could be easier to memo edges first with images, and then corners second (but executed first) with audio. However if you think your audio memo is good enough, then edges first would be quicker, since more information would be memorised with the faster technique.

It doesn't affect execution much, though with M2, parity is much easier with edges first. However you can always leave the last corner target until the end of the solve.

 

[Mastermind2368]

I do Edges first memo, then corners. With corners there is less and you can have it in your short term memo whereas edges you need to keep for longer.

 

[Underwatercuber]

I do Edges first memo, then corners. With corners there is less and you can have it in your short term memo whereas edges you need to keep for longer.

Wait your signature... when did I say that? XD Its awesome. Was it on a 4bld dnf?