Quick experiment, need participants

[Kev43]

Option 4.
Easy because I had a PLL skip And the OLL was easy to solve

 

[Pedro]

Option 3, but I usually remember the PLL, not the OLL...

 

[MistArts]

Option 3; a few minutes after I voted, I remember the PLL.

 

[Daniel Wu]

Option 1. I forgot everything... XD Oh well.

 

[Enter]

OLL was RwUR'U'RRw'URU'R' the big fish and the PLL was V perm. has some one else got the same as I ?

 

[Johannes91]

A golfer can recall with much detail the conditions of a certain shot on a certain hole in a certain tournament, while a cuber can barely remember what OLL he had on his last solve.

Chess players can recall whole games even after a long time they were played, too. I don't think the difference is surprising; in speedcubing, the moves aren't that important, you just need to do them quickly, which is the exact opposite of longer-than-blitz chess and FMC. I remember many of my FMC solves quite well.

An interesting thing about being colour neutral is that if you ask me what colour cross I used, I can almost never recall.

Same here, except s/colour cross/colors/.

 

[toast]

All I remember in my head was "YES J-PERM".

 

[jsh33]

Awesome test, I Think :confused: I had "Double OLL, Second time around I got the Chameleon" with A-perm(B)

It took Me a long time to remember, I was concentrating on the times.

 

[SparkZer00]

Option 2




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[TemurAmir]

I didn't figure out how to read the spoiler until i tried to quote the message to ask... option 3

 

[Harris Chan]

Option 4.

S-OLL and N perm (kept cursing as I was locking up on the N perm, so I remembered haha).

 

[*LukeMayn*]

4
OLL: R U' F U R U' R' F' R
AUF: U2
PLL: V perm

 

[Dene]

Same here, except s/colour cross/colors/.

Yikes >.<

 

[Lucas Garron]

Stefan, do you think that doing a lot of reconstructions helps you remember things like this?
I think it might, but I already used to remember my BLD solves for hours even when I started (I've trained myself to forget faster, though).

 

[eragg0]

option 3 not bad OLL on that so i was able to remember that

 

[Stefan]

Stefan, do you think that doing a lot of reconstructions helps you remember things like this?

Don't know. You mean reconstructions like you said earlier, always trying to keep track of your PLLs in competition? I guess if you make that a habit it might cause you to pay attention and therefore remember. But I'm just speculating.

I also don't know whether it's desirable to remember. Maybe it's actually better if you can solve so unconsciously that you can't remember afterwards.

 

[Stefan]

I also don't know whether it's desirable to remember. Maybe it's actually better if you can solve so unconsciously that you can't remember afterwards.

On the other hand, I just checked the results again, and the fastest guys I know there (Harris Chan, Jason Baum, Dan Cohen) all remembered both OLL and PLL.

 

[Crystl]

hmm, really weird, I forgot the OLL ?

 

[Tortin]

I forgot the OLL. The only reason I remembered the PLL was because it was a U perm.

 

[Deleted member 2864]

very interesting, stefan. It seems most people remembered but I'm part of the group that only remembered PLL