Is memorising pro cuber solves a good practice method?

[Martyt7777]

Recently ive been thinking about this idea, and if it could build stronger cross+f2l intuition.

What kinda inspired this is how Magnus Carlsen has memorised 10k+ games, and how his memorisation of games would have likely have helped build better reasoning and intuition for middlegames.

Like chess players, us speedcubers sometimes watch examples from people who are better at the sport (example solves in cubing, top player games in chess) and how we can learn and improve from them.

But I was thinking, what about memorising example solves too? I know that Xuanyi has done this (source: 0:31-0:41 of the below video) but im not sure if its really effective, I haven't tried this myself. What do you guys think? Have yall tried this before?

 

[PhanPhuocan]

In my opinion, watching example solutions from top speedcubers to improve is a great idea! It helps you understand the techniques they use to become extremely fast and how they use those methods optimally.
As a chess enthusiast like myself (even though my ELO is around 1000-1200), I've learned to watch high-level games (like championship matches) to improve my openings, middlegames, and endgames.

 

[OtaMota]

Recently ive been thinking about this idea, and if it could build stronger cross+f2l intuition.

What kinda inspired this is how Magnus Carlsen has memorised 10k+ games, and how his memorisation of games would have likely have helped build better reasoning and intuition for middlegames.

Like chess players, us speedcubers sometimes watch examples from people who are better at the sport (example solves in cubing, top player games in chess) and how we can learn and improve from them.

But I was thinking, what about memorising example solves too? I know that Xuanyi has done this (source: 0:31-0:41 of the below video) but im not sure if its really effective, I haven't tried this myself. What do you guys think? Have yall tried this before?

Idk about 3x3, but in 2x2 it’s somewhat common to memorize random solves and give them names like Luke [Garrett] 1.30 [2x2 average] first [solve]

 

[Jared Burkhart]

Recently ive been thinking about this idea, and if it could build stronger cross+f2l intuition.

What kinda inspired this is how Magnus Carlsen has memorised 10k+ games, and how his memorisation of games would have likely have helped build better reasoning and intuition for middlegames.

Like chess players, us speedcubers sometimes watch examples from people who are better at the sport (example solves in cubing, top player games in chess) and how we can learn and improve from them.

But I was thinking, what about memorising example solves too? I know that Xuanyi has done this (source: 0:31-0:41 of the below video) but im not sure if its really effective, I haven't tried this myself. What do you guys think? Have yall tried this before?

It is fun to try drilling WR reconstructions! For Tedor's 2.76 single I got 4.75 after almost an hour in total of practice time

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

I don’t really know about intuition, since iirc, the word “Intuition” is rooted from “Intuitive”, which if I understand it correctly, is basically just puzzle solving. It’s like “if I do this, it will probably lead it that” or something. Now back to the question, I don’t think memorizing a top cuber’s solve will help with your intuition because intuition (in a cubing sense) is gained through understanding. Memorizing and analyzing are two similar but different things. If you can understand why a top cuber does the decision they chose, then you can apply that to your own solves. In the case of chess, I feel like you have to understand the moves in a game before actually memorizing it. I feel like there’s a lot more logic in chess than cubing. In cubing, most of your solve is just triggers and algorithms.
BUT
A place where memorizing a solution can help is in TPS/Execution training. Basically you just memorize the solution then repeat it again and again until you manage to beat the original time (assuming you are memorizing the solution of another solver).

 

[Jared Burkhart]

I don’t really know about intuition, since iirc, the word “Intuition” is rooted from “Intuitive”, which if I understand it correctly, is basically just puzzle solving. It’s like “if I do this, it will probably lead it that” or something. Now back to the question, I don’t think memorizing a top cuber’s solve will help with your intuition because intuition (in a cubing sense) is gained through understanding. Memorizing and analyzing are two similar but different things. If you can understand why a top cuber does the decision they chose, then you can apply that to your own solves. In the case of chess, I feel like you have to understand the moves in a game before actually memorizing it. I feel like there’s a lot more logic in chess than cubing. In cubing, most of your solve is just triggers and algorithms.
BUT
A place where memorizing a solution can help is in TPS/Execution training. Basically you just memorize the solution then repeat it again and again until you manage to beat the original time (assuming you are memorizing the solution of another solver).

w advice bro