I don't get roman rooms

[peedu]

First question:

Let's just say one of my rooms is my bedroom. In my memo some letter pairs like X,V J,G V,X G,J and lots others are very hard. thinking one up on the spot in your room is very time consuming and memo times will be alot longer. Also if I have learnt every letter conbination, one picture may not associate with my paticular room at all, but if I did every letter combination with one room. Thats very hard cause if some one has over 20 prepared rooms and they lernt every letter conbination with each room. Thats alot of conbinations.

I get a feeling that you have misunderstood something. You don't have to associate the room with pictures or words. Room is used to remember the order or the sequence of items/words.

Let's take the letters from your own post: X,V J,G V,X G,J.
Pair them up: XV JG VX GJ
(Of course they don't appear like that in a regular solve, but it does not matter).
I don't know what your word-list contains, but for this example we can use what Chris has online at http://www.speedcubing.com/chris/memo-images.html

XV - Xavier (X-men)
JG - jug
VX - vortex
GJ - Green Giant

Then in your bedroom you find 4 locations. Maybe:
1) On the bed
2) under the pillow
3) on the floor
4) in the closet

And always in the same order.
And picture this:
Xavier on the bed, jug under the pillow, vortex on the floor and green giant in the closet.

Later you just go through those locations in the same order, find the creatures and items in there and translate them back to letters and letters back to stickers on the cube.

Next time you put different things into the same locations, just the order of the locations is fixed.

Peedu

 

[rock1313]

OH I get it

 

[rock1313]

so do people acually blindfold lots of cubes with this method

by the way thanks preedu

 

[peedu]

so do people acually blindfold lots of cubes with this method

by the way thanks preedu

For example...
Wicaksono Adi remembered 54 cubes in 7 hours or so. He used 1 room per cube, 3 sets of 18 rooms. Each set has different season - winter, summer, autumn. Probably the 18 rooms are divided onto 3 floors in an imaginary castle or palace.

He solved 50 cubes correctly.

So, there is a lot of room to expand your imaginary rooms by inventing new planets, using different color in your rooms. Just be creative and see what is working for you.

And you are welcome!


Peedu

 

[peedu]

I forgot to mention that it does not have to be a room at all. If you are comfortable with placing the items in a line and are able to recall the letters from that line later, then just do that.

I am experimenting with that "letter pair = image -> place" system also, but I might drop back to my old system - just cram the letters with some help from visual. Somehow just the string of letters works for 1 cube. I need to escape the last postition in 4x4 BLD, so some more efficient memory system is needed.

Peedu

 

[StachuK1992]

I'm starting a site to collectively hold these lists. Listen for more!

 

[tim]

I forgot to mention that it does not have to be a room at all. If you are comfortable with placing the items in a line and are able to recall the letters from that line later, then just do that.

True. "Roman rooms" is just a restricted version of the journey method / method of loci. Some people seem to use "roman rooms" and "method of loci" synonymously, though.

 

[rock1313]

I can't find a word for the letters TQ and XJ. Can someone please help me with a word.

 

[cmhardw]

I can't find a word for the letters TQ and XJ. Can someone please help me with a word.

For images I use
TQ - Tack (A giant thumbtack that stabs whatever is next to it)
XJ - Jubilee from the X-men

For words I use:
TQ - Tack (thumbtack)
XJ - Jerk

 

[Zane_C]

Depends on your letter scheme, for instance I spread "left over" letters amongst difficult letters. eg. V, Q, Y are one piece and U, Z share the same piece.
For X pairs you might have to just think of something that you won't forget for that pair, regardless whether or not it contains an X or not.

 

[rock1313]

when is it the appropiate time to use images than words

and how do you remember XJ in the word jerk

 

[Zane_C]

Well, our brain does work with images. Think of the moon.

Now, did you imagine the word "moon", or the moon as an image?
For memorising large amounts images work best, it can be faster to use words if your just doing 3BLD though.

 

[rock1313]

Depends on your letter scheme, for instance I spread "left over" letters amongst difficult letters. eg. V, Q, Y are one piece and U, Z share the same piece.

thats a good point but I've been doing my letter sheme for a while and I am getting used to it

 

[cmhardw]

when is it the appropiate time to use images than words

and how do you remember XJ in the word jerk

I use images with a journeys and locations method. I use words for my auditory memory method. Both are described on my website.

Take a look at my X's word list. Basically X becomes something HUGE or X-RATED (sexy) or TERRIBLE or EXAGGERATED. That's how I know to associate an X with the image or word. I also often use insults for my X words, I suppose this would sort of go with X-RATED.

 

[rock1313]

about 75% of my words are images

 

[Mike Hughey]

I can't find a word for the letters TQ and XJ. Can someone please help me with a word.

TQ - tequila
XJ - currency exchange stand (like you'd find near a country border)

 

[rock1313]

what about QH

 

[Zane_C]

Not that this will aid you in finding a pair for QH, but I found that this may help you find other pairs: http://www.acronymfinder.com/

 

[aronpm]

Not an image, but a verb: whine.

I have no idea how I got whine from QH but that's what I use

 

[rock1313]

Not that this will aid you in finding a pair for QH, but I found that this may help you find other pairs: http://www.acronymfinder.com/

thanks that will help me