Would this be a good method for memorisation?

[Muesli]

Scramble with your preferred orientation;

B2 F' R2 B2 F2 R2 F L2 D2 U L' R2 F L D2 U' R2 B2 F R' F D' B' U L'

From a buffer at UR this is what I would see.

D H I L D C G K' E' F C' J' A J

And remember it like this;

"Daniel the Happy Iguana Likes Dancing Clowns. Good Killing Enemies Feed Cowards. Jews Are Juggling."

The method I (try) to use means every edge is labeled A-L.

Spoiler

UB is A,
UR is B (and the Buffer),
UF is C,
UR is D,
BL is E,
BR is F,
FR is G,
FL is H,
DB is I,
DL is J,
DF is K,
DR is L.

A ' mark shows to me that the edge needs flipping. To remember this I think of a negative word beginning with that letter. For example, Killing is negative so it stands for K' (meaning the edge needs to be shot to K whilst being flipped) whilst Happy is positive so it stands for shooting straight to H.

Do you think this is a good method?

Another probem is that I can't do corners for toffee. Is visual really the best way to do them?

 

[Escher]

WHY DO JEWS HAVE A NEGATIVE ASSOCIATION?

anyway,
re: corners, try and stick with visual and practice it a lot, it can get very fast. If you really can't do it at all, perhaps you could try giving corners letters too? Or maybe you could memo permutation using numbers/letters/phonetics and orientation using visual?

I would recommend changing that system to just have a letter for every edge sticker, I think that way you have less to think about (in terms of interpreting a good/bad word).

 

[Muesli]

WHY DO JEWS HAVE A NEGATIVE ASSOCIATION?

It's the first thing I came up with. . I couldn't think of a negative word beginning with J so Jew is a bit of an exception to the rule.

About the corners, I think that visual orientation and lettered Permutation would be a good idea. I'll give it some practise. .

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

WHY DO JEWS HAVE A NEGATIVE ASSOCIATION?

It's the first thing I came up with. . I couldn't think of a negative word beginning with J so Jew is a bit of an exception to the rule.

About the corners, I think that visual orientation and lettered Permutation would be a good idea. I'll give it some practise. .

I TOLD YOU TO USE JELLYFISH YOU RACIST

 

[Muesli]

WHY DO JEWS HAVE A NEGATIVE ASSOCIATION?

It's the first thing I came up with. . I couldn't think of a negative word beginning with J so Jew is a bit of an exception to the rule.

About the corners, I think that visual orientation and lettered Permutation would be a good idea. I'll give it some practise. .

I TOLD YOU TO USE JELLYFISH YOU RACIST

Jellyfish don't sit in sentences as nicely as jew. You can have Jew, jewish, jews...

 

[Uular]

WHY DO JEWS HAVE A NEGATIVE ASSOCIATION?

It's the first thing I came up with. . I couldn't think of a negative word beginning with J so Jew is a bit of an exception to the rule.

About the corners, I think that visual orientation and lettered Permutation would be a good idea. I'll give it some practise. .

I TOLD YOU TO USE JELLYFISH YOU RACIST

Jellyfish don't sit in sentences as nicely as jew. You can have Jew, jewish, jews...

"Jinx" for one rather negative word. And it can be used as a verb aswell.

 

[Sakarie]

From http://memory-masters.com/2009/10/19/better-mental-images-with-smashin-scope/

Positive. Make your images positive and pleasant. We are better at recalling happy images while negative memories are usually suppressed. When your images are bright and positive you will enjoy the experience of recalling them.

About that jew-thing. That's not funny. I'm not jew myself, but if I were, I would be extremely offended.

 

[joey]

It shouldn't be taken offensively.

 

[Muesli]

Lets not make this a race issue. I just couldn't think of anything negative for the letter J, so that is the first J word what came to mind. I'll use juggling as the negative word if you like.

 

[F.P.]

D H I L D C G K' E' F C' J' A J

And remember it like this;

"Daniel the Happy Iguana Likes Dancing Clowns. Good Killing Enemies Feed Cowards. Jews Are Juggling."

The method I (try) to use means every edge is labeled A-L.

Spoiler

UB is A,
UR is B (and the Buffer),
UF is C,
UR is D,
BL is E,
BR is F,
FR is G,
FL is H,
DB is I,
DL is J,
DF is K,
DR is L.

A ' mark shows to me that the edge needs flipping. To remember this I think of a negative word beginning with that letter. For example, Killing is negative so it stands for K' (meaning the edge needs to be shot to K whilst being flipped) whilst Happy is positive so it stands for shooting straight to H.

Do you think this is a good method?

Another probem is that I can't do corners for toffee. Is visual really the best way to do them?

If you are going for speed, I wouldn't recommend you to do it this way.
I'm not sure what you mean by "I think of a negative word beginning with that letter".

Does that mean that you think of new words during memorisation or do you have a fixed list of words?

If you want to memorise it in sentences, then you could construct a Person-Verb-Object-System, which means that you will have three words/images for every letter you use.
Since you want to use "Negative words" as well, the amount of images will duplicate.

So, if you plan to create a list of fixed words and images then yes, this could be good.
If you plan to come up with new words for every solve, depending on the cases you get, this won't be fast.

 

[qqwref]

I agree with F.P., you really don't want to be thinking of "positive" and "negative" words starting with given letters on the fly. You will end up wasting a lot of time thinking "is this word positive or negative?" or making up words. Also, if you judge a word wrong ("Jews, wait, I don't remember, was that a positive or negative word?") you get a DNF.

If you're going to be using letters and a story (not that I really recommend this for 3BLD) you should definitely memorize a fixed set of words/images that you use all the time. So instead of a positive and negative word you would just have two J words, and pick the first one if you have a J and the second (alternate / prime) word if you have a J'. But if you're going to do letters, you should probably choose the 12 that are easiest to think of objects/actions for, not the 12 that come first in the alphabet. If you ever get good at this system it will not matter what letters go to what pieces because you will just be looking at a piece and instantly knowing "ah, that is S'" or whatever. So start now by picking letters that are easy to use, and later you will thank yourself for it.

One idea that I think has worked in the past for other people is to choose 12 common consonants (or consonant sounds) and just make words out of them. So if you have like s k f n m t ... you might memorize scoffin' meat or whatever. It's less to remember and it's also easier to extract info from it (rather than having to ask yourself what is the first letter of each word in your story).

 

[calekewbs]

you could use junkie. I'd say that's a particularly negative J word.

 

[Muesli]

I agree with F.P., you really don't want to be thinking of "positive" and "negative" words starting with given letters on the fly. You will end up wasting a lot of time thinking "is this word positive or negative?" or making up words. Also, if you judge a word wrong ("Jews, wait, I don't remember, was that a positive or negative word?") you get a DNF.

If you're going to be using letters and a story (not that I really recommend this for 3BLD) you should definitely memorize a fixed set of words/images that you use all the time. So instead of a positive and negative word you would just have two J words, and pick the first one if you have a J and the second (alternate / prime) word if you have a J'. But if you're going to do letters, you should probably choose the 12 that are easiest to think of objects/actions for, not the 12 that come first in the alphabet. If you ever get good at this system it will not matter what letters go to what pieces because you will just be looking at a piece and instantly knowing "ah, that is S'" or whatever. So start now by picking letters that are easy to use, and later you will thank yourself for it.

One idea that I think has worked in the past for other people is to choose 12 common consonants (or consonant sounds) and just make words out of them. So if you have like s k f n m t ... you might memorize scoffin' meat or whatever. It's less to remember and it's also easier to extract info from it (rather than having to ask yourself what is the first letter of each word in your story).

Awesome. Thanks.

 

[Micael]

Sorry I am off topic here, but, F.P., what your signature means?

 

[cookingfat]

You could have a letter for each sticker, rather than each edge. That way you don't have to remember positive or negative things.

 

[dunpeal2064]

WHY DO JEWS HAVE A NEGATIVE ASSOCIATION?

It's the first thing I came up with. . I couldn't think of a negative word beginning with J so Jew is a bit of an exception to the rule.

About the corners, I think that visual orientation and lettered Permutation would be a good idea. I'll give it some practise. .

I TOLD YOU TO USE JELLYFISH YOU RACIST

Jellyfish don't sit in sentences as nicely as jew. You can have Jew, jewish, jews...

"Jinx" for one rather negative word. And it can be used as a verb aswell.

there is a reason the episodes of poke'mon with Jinx were banned in America! lol. thats apparently offensive as well

 

[F.P.]

Sorry I am off topic here, but, F.P., what your signature means?

What part of my signature is confusing you?

 

[Chuck]

Sorry I am off topic here, but, F.P., what your signature means?

What part of my signature is confusing you?

:fp 50/50, maybe?

 

[F.P.]

Sorry I am off topic here, but, F.P., what your signature means?

Well, I'm not sure what part of "Multi BLD UWR 50/50" he doesn't understand...

 

[Uular]

"Jinx" for one rather negative word. And it can be used as a verb aswell.

there is a reason the episodes of poke'mon with Jinx were banned in America! lol. thats apparently offensive as well

You mean Jynx.