I strongly recommend you change this to only 1 word, like "WoRd" or "WoRn" or "WoRm".
Using 2 words when most of your other words are only 1 word will mean that shooting to WR will be a "bad" or "slow" target to memorize. Just a suggestion of course, I but I strongly believe that it will allow you to memorize much more quickly on average. In fact, I recommend to make ALL of your target names only 1 word, no matter what. So, for Obi wan Kenobi just say "Obi", implying you're on a first name basis with Mr. Kenobi
I strongly recommend you change this to only 1 word, like "WoRd" or "WoRn" or "WoRm".
Using 2 words when most of your other words are only 1 word will mean that shooting to WR will be a "bad" or "slow" target to memorize. Just a suggestion of course, I but I strongly believe that it will allow you to memorize much more quickly on average. In fact, I recommend to make ALL of your target names only 1 word, no matter what. So, for Obi wan Kenobie just say "Obi", implying you're on a first name basis with Mr. Kenobi
BW = BoWl, BoW (the verb to bow down), BoWie (David Bowie), BoWser (zomg!)
RW = RoWe (Hessler), RoW (a rowboat), RaW (raw meat), ReWind
YB = YaBa (Yabba Dabba Dooooo!!!), YoB (the book of Job, but mispronounced), YooB ("You better!" said waaaay to quickly and abbreviated - this only works in the south ), YoBo (like a hobo yo-yo, a yo-yo for hobos. It sounds mean, but it's memorable in that evil funny sort of way)
I see that you are trying to find a word for every sticker, using the starting letters of the colors to make your words.
In choosing your words (especially if you want to progress to using letter pair images which gives a list of 500+ words) I reccommend to stick to certain "rules" for your words.
These could be:
single syllable words: the target letters are the first and last letter BR = BeeR instead of BRick
two syllable words: the target letters are the first letters of the two syllables YG = YoGi (bear)
three or more syllables : the target letters are the first two letters of the word WO = WOnderfull
When I was still using a single word per sticker I had a different approach which made it very easy form me to recall the colors of the piece.
I based my words on the actual colors of the pieces.
for the green orange edge:
green sticker: parrot (green bird with a little bit of orange)
orange sticer: carrot (orange with a little green)
You should also know that in the single word /image per sticker you have to deal with a very long memo.
But if you can pull it off you will see a huge improvement once you switch over to letter pair images.
Each sticker on each edge is assigned a letter, starting with A, ending with X.
Memorizing edges is easy. I memorize in groups of 4, for example, "COWJ" I memorize as "Cow-J, or Cow-Jeffrey".
It makes the groups of 4 easy to turn into "pronouncable" words. The other great thing is it's very east to tell when the centers are flipped when you have an edge in the memo that has to go in the middle layer. For flipped edges, I just remember by tapping the edge, then when I'm done with everything, I try to remember if I had any flipped edges, and flip them accordingly.
Corners are annoying. Rather than assigning the corners A-H, and turning the corner memo into 2 letter groups, such as BB, I use taps. When you are a beginner, it takes longer than you'd think to get used to it, since there's no memo in your head, you're just going by muscle memory. I never have to think about the sequence of the letters in the corner memo because the tapping just goes along with it. While memoing the corners, and when I'm done, I count the Y-Perms for parity, and memorize any corners that need to be flipped. I usually do this in the beginning. I'm pretty slow at memo, but I hope I can get faster =P.
Here's a new one that's currently working for me, may not work for you.
Background - Old Pochmann, current memo method is Person-Verb-Object using letter pairs (so, you get groups of six). Trick is, At the end of your edge memo, if you have an edge to flip, how do you remember to "flip" it and not to "solve" it? I don't like adding another letter in a normal sense, in case I do the wrong thing. So I came up with the following.
Think of a letter (i.e. a sticker) on the edge you need to flip (either sticker will do).
Imagine the person in your final image, doing whatever else their doing, with a frying pan in one hand, flipping (or saute-ing, or stir-frying). Whatever he's cooking, that's the piece you need to flip. Here's a sample list.
A Asparagus
B (Burger without bun) or bird.
C Crepes
D Dog (a dog. Yup a dog)
E Eggs (like a fried egg)
F Fish
G Greens (green vegetables)
H Hamburgers (including the bun)
I Ice (cubes... or that blue naughty stuff that Heisenberg makes)
J Jellybeans
K Kidney
L Lobster
M Mince
N Noodles (like Pad Thai or something)
O Onions
P Pancakes
Q (Ch) - Chips (U.S. French Fries) or -
R Rice (Like a wok full of fried rice)
S Sandwich / Steak
T Turtle (Yes, a turtle)
U Underpants (someone frying a pair of underpants in a frying pan)
V Veges (like a stir-fry)
W Wok
X (Sh) Sh*t (a cow-pat)
Notes
1) Yes, I know, I really only need half this list (as we're flipping pieces, not stickers).
2) I do a similar thing for corners and "brute-force" the direction of twist. Seems to work so far.
3) As it's "image" memo, I'm OK differentiating pancakes/crepes and burger (no bun)/hamburger(with bun).
4) I back this up with "sort of just remembering what needs to be flipped".
Anyway, as I said, it's currently working for me (because I cook a lot). This may or may not be useful long term. I plan to do lots of MultiBLD, so, might come in handy. And it doesn't need to be food either. Some dude with a frying pan with a cat in it? Yeah, you'll likely recall that OK. Use whatever you want.
Example:
HSKOCU-P
"Homer-Simpson-Knocks-Out-Cow-Udder-Flip-Pancake"
Picture Homer Simpson wearing shorts and boxing gloves giving a big knockout punch to a cow udder with one hand, and in the other hand, he has a skillet, flipping a pancake.
Means, solve stickers H-S-K-O-C-U and flip sticker P (which is BR or RB, but remember "P" so you don't undo the wrong set-up move and DNF by like 3 GODDAMN moves ARRGHGHGHGHGHGH DAMNIT! STUPID BLD! ARGHGHG!)
If you have 2 or more edges to flip, then, hey, come up with something and throw that in the pan too ~
Hmm, looks interesting. But if you're going to attempt more than 5 cubes for multiBLD, I suggest using a separate route for flipped pieces, with the first location being the first cube, and so on. This way, you won't have to worry about running into lots of flipped pieces.
For example, if corner GHI needed to be twisted clockwise, and edge L needed to be flipped, simply memorize someone Licking an ICe cream in a location.
For multi I was thinking about just using an additional letter pair image to my story for "single" twists / flips.
Using Old Pochman so buffer doesn't count.
Corner GHI clockwise could be GuHong, HIndenburg or IGuana
Flipped edge L could be LeeK or KoaLa
For two or more flipped edges I think a specific location or action would be best indeed.
This could be the lightswitch (flips too...) or indeed the pan flipping thing or when the specifice letter pair would be a person imagine him/her doing a salto.
L and G flipped: LeGo on the lightswitch
M and J flipped: Michael Jackson performing some flips (or being stir fried...)
Hmm, looks interesting. But if you're going to attempt more than 5 cubes for multiBLD, I suggest using a separate route for flipped pieces, with the first location being the first cube, and so on. This way, you won't have to worry about running into lots of flipped pieces.
For example, if corner GHI needed to be twisted clockwise, and edge L needed to be flipped, simply memorize someone Licking an ICe cream in a location.
I'm not able to solve a full cube BLD yet but I am practicing, and for flipping corners I just remember the same piece in another position twice
for example, the right bottom back corner is twisted counter clockwise I place the piece in the buffer there (putting the edge to twist in the buffer) and replace it correctly oriented. which I remember as FB FD (I use the first and last letter of a word so I'd remember that as Ferb Farted)
Hmm, looks interesting. But if you're going to attempt more than 5 cubes for multiBLD, I suggest using a separate route for flipped pieces, with the first location being the first cube, and so on. This way, you won't have to worry about running into lots of flipped pieces.
For example, if corner GHI needed to be twisted clockwise, and edge L needed to be flipped, simply memorize someone Licking an ICe cream in a location.
Say I need to flip UR and BL. The letters for UR and RU are S+W, and my letters for BL+LB are P+L. So I remember the letters SW PL after the rest of my edges on that cube. If I've got the URF corner that needs to go clockwise, then the white sticker is on FUR and my letter for that is C. The letter for URF (the oriented sticker) is S so I memorize the letters CS with my corners. Easy peasy. If I don't like that word for the corner I'll twist both stickers clockwise and remember SV (V is RFU) or VC.
Vastly superior to my try-to-remember-everything-that-is-flipped-visually method that I used at Australian Nationals 2010 and got 1/10.
Say I need to flip UR and BL. The letters for UR and RU are S+W, and my letters for BL+LB are P+L. So I remember the letters SW PL after the rest of my edges on that cube.
Why not remember one of the following codes SP, SL, WP, WL, PW, PS, LW or LS?
There is no need for four letters, two letters is enough to show which edges you need.
I remember all flipped edges as images upside down (usually suspended from the ceiling above the location) at a single location, choosing whichever letter is convenient on the piece. For corners, I memorize them in clockwise-counterclockwise pairs, with the top or bottom sticker from the clockwise piece as the first letter in the letter pair and the top or bottom sticker from the counterclockwise piece as the second piece in the letter pair. If I happen to have a triplet of clockwise or counterclockwise pieces, I make up an image on the fly for the three letters, and place it either on a clock (for clockwise) or on a kitchen counter (for counterclockwise).
Why not remember one of the following codes SP, SL, WP, WL, PW, PS, LW or LS?
There is no need for four letters, two letters is enough to show which edges you need.
Because S and P are on different edges so that could be interpreted as a 3cycle. Basically I think multi memo should be brain-dead, with no thinking required to tell if something is two flipped edges or a cycle*. That way, when you get to execution, if you think that SP was a cycle, rather than 2 flipped edges, then you DNF. With my way, that won't happen because you can't accidentally do that cycle.
*Also if you've got an odd number of flipped edges outside your buffer then you have to memorize an odd number of letters.
I remember all flipped edges as images upside down (usually suspended from the ceiling above the location) at a single location, choosing whichever letter is convenient on the piece. For corners, I memorize them in clockwise-counterclockwise pairs, with the top or bottom sticker from the clockwise piece as the first letter in the letter pair and the top or bottom sticker from the counterclockwise piece as the second piece in the letter pair. If I happen to have a triplet of clockwise or counterclockwise pieces, I make up an image on the fly for the three letters, and place it either on a clock (for clockwise) or on a kitchen counter (for counterclockwise).
I've got plenty of spare room in my routes anyway so it doesn't matter much. But, I'm not really into descriptive modifiers like that since my multi memo is more like sentences.
I've got plenty of spare room in my routes anyway so it doesn't matter much. But, I'm not really into descriptive modifiers like that since my multi memo is more like sentences.
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