Morgoth890
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Hello,
I wanted to present to you the method I'm using for edges memorization. It is an audio-based method that has the advantage of producing a very condensed audio sequence, and not requiring to translate the letters into words or images. You basically memorize just one long word composed of multiple syllables that don't mean anything, but that has no translation at all (what you read from the cube is exactly what you memorize).
* The method
Each edge sticker has two associated letters/sounds: 1 consonant sound, and 1 vowel sound.
The idea is that you start by memorizing a consonant, then you memorize a vowel, alternating the two while producing syllables until the sequence is complete. This is the main thing that allows to have a very condensed audio word that does not mean anything per-se, but that can easily fit in the short-term memory (you'll want to memorize edges last and solve them first).
Using this method, you'll be able to memorize 2 edges per syllable, memorizing all the edges in a word of generally around 6 or 7 syllables.
* Consonants
For the consonants, I assign all the distinctive sounds to each stickers (so for example, I'm not using 'c' and 'k' because they sound the same). After doing this, I'm left with 4 non-assigned stickers to which I assign sounds composed of two consonants, such as "pr", "sp", "sk" and "sh" (see image below).
I left the UF cube empty as this is the edge I'm using as buffer.
* Vowels
For the vowels, this works a bit differently because there are just not enough distinctive vowel sounds to assign to all edges. What I do is I only assign 11 distinctive vowel sounds: 1 per edge (and not by sticker) minus the buffer cube.
To memorize the exact sticker I'm on, I use some kind of accentuation of the syllable. If the sticker is on the top, on the bottom or on a side layer facing front or back, I just memorize the vowel normally. If it is on another sticker, I memorize it using a stronger/accentuated sound, like if I was shouting it.
This syllable accentuation takes a bit of time to get used to, but with a bit of practice it gets very easy to differentiate between weak and strong syllables, to know on which sticker it should go.
Just like with the consonants, the bottom stickers are composed of slightly more complex sounds to fit the remaining cubes.
Note that I have been using this method with the French language, meaning that I'm using some sounds that don't really exist in English (like 'an', 'in', 'on', 'ou' that each have a vowel sound). I have tried to adapt it as best as I could to the English language, it should work pretty well with vowels such as these:
This is just an example of how you could setup the vowels.
I indicated the strong vowels placements with a following '!', but feel free to rearrange the weak/strong positions in the way that makes the most sense to you.
Here are some example words to indicate how the sounds from the vowels example above would pronounce:
A: Arm
E: fathEr
I: hIt
O: hOt
U: pUt
È: mEt
AY: fIve
UE: blUE
OY: bOY
EY: sAY
YU: pUre
* Examples
Here are a few examples. I indicated the strong vowels/syllables by printing them in capital letters. My buffer is UF:
1)
Scramble: F2 U F2 R2 U F2 D2 U' B2 U2 B2 L2 F B2 U' L2 D' L' B2 D F2
Edges sequence: BD-LU-RF-FL-RD-LD-FD-BU-RU-BL-BR-UR
Memorized: XAsoZOYVEhupi
2)
Scramble: R2 U' F2 U' L2 D B2 D2 B2 U L2 U F' U B' F R' F2 R F2 R2
Edges sequence: DR-BR-UL-LF-DL-UB-LB-UR-DB-RF-DF
Memorized: shèBOspemiSCAYPR
3)
Scramble: F2 U2 F2 D' L2 F2 D B2 D' B' D' R F U L B' L R D' R' D'
Edges sequence: BL-FD-DB-FL-LD-UB-UL-RU-BR-LU-FR-RD-FR
Memorized: NUEskoweBIPATYUT
* Ending notes
If the sequence ends with a consonant, then there is a parity.
I hope you will find this method interesting and that you will want to try it yourself.
I'm very interested to hear what you guys think of it, if you think it's good or bad, if you have ideas to improve it, or anything else.
Thanks for reading until here! Happy cubing
I wanted to present to you the method I'm using for edges memorization. It is an audio-based method that has the advantage of producing a very condensed audio sequence, and not requiring to translate the letters into words or images. You basically memorize just one long word composed of multiple syllables that don't mean anything, but that has no translation at all (what you read from the cube is exactly what you memorize).
* The method
Each edge sticker has two associated letters/sounds: 1 consonant sound, and 1 vowel sound.
The idea is that you start by memorizing a consonant, then you memorize a vowel, alternating the two while producing syllables until the sequence is complete. This is the main thing that allows to have a very condensed audio word that does not mean anything per-se, but that can easily fit in the short-term memory (you'll want to memorize edges last and solve them first).
Using this method, you'll be able to memorize 2 edges per syllable, memorizing all the edges in a word of generally around 6 or 7 syllables.
* Consonants
For the consonants, I assign all the distinctive sounds to each stickers (so for example, I'm not using 'c' and 'k' because they sound the same). After doing this, I'm left with 4 non-assigned stickers to which I assign sounds composed of two consonants, such as "pr", "sp", "sk" and "sh" (see image below).
I left the UF cube empty as this is the edge I'm using as buffer.
* Vowels
For the vowels, this works a bit differently because there are just not enough distinctive vowel sounds to assign to all edges. What I do is I only assign 11 distinctive vowel sounds: 1 per edge (and not by sticker) minus the buffer cube.
To memorize the exact sticker I'm on, I use some kind of accentuation of the syllable. If the sticker is on the top, on the bottom or on a side layer facing front or back, I just memorize the vowel normally. If it is on another sticker, I memorize it using a stronger/accentuated sound, like if I was shouting it.
This syllable accentuation takes a bit of time to get used to, but with a bit of practice it gets very easy to differentiate between weak and strong syllables, to know on which sticker it should go.
Just like with the consonants, the bottom stickers are composed of slightly more complex sounds to fit the remaining cubes.
Note that I have been using this method with the French language, meaning that I'm using some sounds that don't really exist in English (like 'an', 'in', 'on', 'ou' that each have a vowel sound). I have tried to adapt it as best as I could to the English language, it should work pretty well with vowels such as these:
This is just an example of how you could setup the vowels.
I indicated the strong vowels placements with a following '!', but feel free to rearrange the weak/strong positions in the way that makes the most sense to you.
Here are some example words to indicate how the sounds from the vowels example above would pronounce:
A: Arm
E: fathEr
I: hIt
O: hOt
U: pUt
È: mEt
AY: fIve
UE: blUE
OY: bOY
EY: sAY
YU: pUre
* Examples
Here are a few examples. I indicated the strong vowels/syllables by printing them in capital letters. My buffer is UF:
1)
Scramble: F2 U F2 R2 U F2 D2 U' B2 U2 B2 L2 F B2 U' L2 D' L' B2 D F2
Edges sequence: BD-LU-RF-FL-RD-LD-FD-BU-RU-BL-BR-UR
Memorized: XAsoZOYVEhupi
2)
Scramble: R2 U' F2 U' L2 D B2 D2 B2 U L2 U F' U B' F R' F2 R F2 R2
Edges sequence: DR-BR-UL-LF-DL-UB-LB-UR-DB-RF-DF
Memorized: shèBOspemiSCAYPR
3)
Scramble: F2 U2 F2 D' L2 F2 D B2 D' B' D' R F U L B' L R D' R' D'
Edges sequence: BL-FD-DB-FL-LD-UB-UL-RU-BR-LU-FR-RD-FR
Memorized: NUEskoweBIPATYUT
* Ending notes
If the sequence ends with a consonant, then there is a parity.
I hope you will find this method interesting and that you will want to try it yourself.
I'm very interested to hear what you guys think of it, if you think it's good or bad, if you have ideas to improve it, or anything else.
Thanks for reading until here! Happy cubing
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