Funny BLD Story Method Stories!

[JLarsen]

So anybody that has done a story method for memo before knows that the more rediculous the story the better, here, if you can remember them, put your most rediculous story. Badmephisto's are awesome. =]

My first story ever just today; Were deep in the middle of the ocean, and a fish implodes. A Kraken comes and eats it, because it was hungry, and dead fish are delicious, as everyone knows. On the surface, my friend Jared is fishing when he hooks something. He reels in to find an exploding grenade, and an anaconda in his face....=](The more rediculous the better!) The fish from the beginning then begins to ingest the organs of the Kraken, when suddenly an atom bomb goes off, and everything is killed. The end.=]

Decent for my first one ever ah?

YOUR TURN!

 

[fanwuq]

It's very long. Permutation should be less than 20 images/words. I actually do 1 visual journey one a clock for EP, 1 visual picture for EO, and about 7 random syllables for corners (I sound it out as about 2-3 words). So you can say it's only 4 chunks of information or 20 pieces.
Nice story! I was never so creative and try to rely on my short term memory.

 

[JLarsen]

It's very long. Permutation should be less than 20 images/words. I actually do 1 visual journey one a clock for EP, 1 visual picture for EO, and about 7 random syllables for corners (I sound it out as about 2-3 words). So you can say it's only 4 chunks of information or 20 pieces.
Nice story! I was never so creative and try to rely on my short term memory.

Naht the words arent an issue, and when I'm actually recalling the story, i don't remember it so much as words but events. Like as I was doing that I started with the Fish, F,then I implode, then Kraken was K, etc etc. It's the easier to recall this than a string of numbers, and this is soooo much funner.=]

 

[cmhardw]

I have a hard time remembering whole groups of locations from my journeys, since they are each discrete and unrelated stories for me.

Some of my funnier locations are:

Johnny Depp repeatedly hitting Jabba the Hutt in the face with a huge 6 foot fly swatter.

Jeebs from the movie Men in Black (the guy in the shop who gets shot in the head by Tommy Lee Jones, and green guts go everywhere) explodes his head and Neo (from the Matrix) does his crazy bending over backwards while staying on his feet move to dodge the guts, and the guts land on a librarian who is sitting behind Neo.

I'm having a hard time remembering some other ones, but the next time I do a solve and get a funny location I'll post it here.

Chris

 

[JLarsen]

I have a hard time remembering whole groups of locations from my journeys, since they are each discrete and unrelated stories for me.

Some of my funnier locations are:

Johnny Depp repeatedly hitting Jabba the Hutt in the face with a huge 6 foot fly swatter.

Jeebs from the movie Men in Black (the guy in the shop who gets shot in the head by Tommy Lee Jones, and green guts go everywhere) explodes his head and Neo (from the Matrix) does his crazy bending over backwards while staying on his feet move to dodge the guts, and the guts land on a librarian who is sitting behind Neo.

I'm having a hard time remembering some other ones, but the next time I do a solve and get a funny location I'll post it here.

Chris

Hahahah that's nice, I'll come up with a much better one tonight, and hopefully get my first full BLD.

 

[Sa967St]

I make a sentence/phrase out of words starting with the letters I get for edges. here's one I had a while ago:
Horse Jumped Quickly Over Laundry While Slowly Eating Nazi Cookies
yeah....

 

[wryyl]

I think my first ever story had something to do with UFOs catching fire from uranium and landing on a dark lord holding an umbrella.

I don't make stories now though.

 

[cookingfat]

all of my stories are weird and funny, but I can't recall one just now. hold on, let me do a bld solve and I'll talk it through...

Edges

I shoved a Bone down an Owl's throat, the owl spewed out bent spoons (Yuri) and they were used to Row away to safety. While rowing, the water turned to Oil which exploded like a Gong, the gongs were all wearing Wigs which turned out to be tiny hairy Robots wearing Bow ties, which matched the one my Granny wears. She was naked but wearing a Gown.

Corners

Ca Fa Li Ma Po Gi Ga

I don't so much remember the exact story for the edges, I just remember the link between each object.

 

[JLarsen]

all of my stories are weird and funny, but I can't recall one just now. hold on, let me do a bld solve and I'll talk it through...

Edges

I shoved a Bone down an Owl's throat, the owl spewed out bent spoons (Yuri) and they were used to Row away to safety. While rowing, the water turned to Oil which exploded like a Gong, the gongs were all wearing Wigs which turned out to be tiny hairy Robots wearing Bow ties, which matched the one my Granny wears. She was naked but wearing a Gown.

Corners

Ca Fa Li Ma Po Gi Ga

I don't so much remember the exact story for the edges, I just remember the link between each object.

I Think I might just learn the sentences with words beginning of with one letter, it takes FOREVER to make a story.

BTW first BLD attempt -3 corners =]

 

[rjohnson_8ball]

What a coincidence. Last night at a bar, I comprehended how difficult sequences of numbers can be to remember. So this morning (before I knew of this thread) I decided to try a story method by associating objects to the numbers.
edge cycles: (1 11 6 3 2)(4 10 9 8 12 7)(5)
I converted the edge cycles into the story "I throw a pencil (1) through goal posts (11) at the Star of David (6 pointed star) but it lands near a stool (3 legs) and rolls under some sexy legs (2)." Next I have the story, "A cow (4 legs) drops an egg (10 has a zero) onto a Cube (9 is 3x3) which an octopus (8 tenticles) is considering speed solving (12=clock) but he plays craps instead (7=dice)."

Sorry my stories are boring, but it was my first effort ever with a memory method. I think the story helped a lot in this case of mine. The corners were easy to memo, so no story was needed for me. The orientations were no big deal either. I used an E-perm to change corner pairs, and a T-perm to solve parity. This marks my 34th successful 3x3 solve. I still take way too much time, but I enjoy it.

 

[joey]

Go Rjohnson! You'll soon catch up to my ~700 solves (this is way to small a number , I need to practice more!)

You can go faster, just need to believe it!

 

[rjohnson_8ball]

Go Rjohnson! ...
You can go faster, just need to believe it!

LOL, makes me think "Go Forrest! GO!" We'll see. I'm not sure I'm ready for speed yet until I feel more comfortable. Memo time is a problem for me. Oh, and execution time too.

That free-style stuff for BLD seems the way to go. Maybe one day I'll work on that. And Chris H says 4x4 BLD is a rush -- a stepping stone to larger cubes too.

 

[joey]

Trust me, you could easily be faster. Only memorise so you're like 75% sure

 

[Mike Hughey]

I agree. rjohnson, you really should start carefully timing all of your solves. And then go for some improved speed. I'm sure you can easily get sub-20 on your next solve, and sub-10 within 5 to 10 solves.

Why should you do this? Because at 25 minutes per solve, you're seriously limiting the number of solves you get to practice. If you get to sub-10, you'll be able to do lots more in less time, which buys you more time to do other things, and also means you get to do more solves per day. It's really worth it.

After a few solves at sub-10, you'll be able to go as slowly and carefully as you want to and still be sub-15. And if you'll push yourself just a little more, we'll be saying that after a few solves at sub-5, you'll be able to go as slowly and carefully as you want and still be sub-7:30.

Trust me, you can do this.

 

[tim]

I Think I might just learn the sentences with words beginning of with one letter, it takes FOREVER to make a story.

In fact, it does.

RJohnson: Stick to stories, they are great in competitions .

 

[joey]

No, seriously, it takes FOREVER

 

[cookingfat]

Mike if I can ask you a question please....

My successful solves are generally under 10 minutes now, but I'm trying to get faster. At the moment I'm getting a lot of DNFs cos I'm trying to rush the memo. What advice would you give for me to improve? Should I slow down and get the memo concrete before donning the blindfold, or should I continue to try and get the memo faster and just accept the DNFs?

thanks

 

[joey]

The second. Or the first. Or both

 

[Mike Hughey]

Joey has good advice. Basically, your best bet is not to get comfortable with anything in particular - just try different things. When you slow down and get the memory solid, you can usually execute really fast, and it helps you practice thinking ahead. When you speed up the memo, it helps you work on memorizing properly in a single shot, rather than relying on multiple repetitions to get it solid. Both help.

Looking back on when I started BLD, when I first got sub-10 (which happened fairly quickly), I started experimenting a lot with different memory methods. I used letters directly, stories with words beginning with the letters, images associated with the pieces to do person-action-object, etc. Playing around with that for a couple of months, I got where I was averaging around 7 minutes. Then one day I tried switching to visual for the edges, and instantly I jumped below 5 minutes. Now I don't use visual again, since I have a better memory system so I can use it almost as fast as visual.

I must admit I've never changed anything with memorizing corners - I just use digits 1-8 for the permutation and hexadecimal for orientation, which I've done since the beginning.

 

[cookingfat]

Joey has good advice. Basically, your best bet is not to get comfortable with anything in particular - just try different things. When you slow down and get the memory solid, you can usually execute really fast, and it helps you practice thinking ahead. When you speed up the memo, it helps you work on memorizing properly in a single shot, rather than relying on multiple repetitions to get it solid. Both help.

Looking back on when I started BLD, when I first got sub-10 (which happened fairly quickly), I started experimenting a lot with different memory methods. I used letters directly, stories with words beginning with the letters, images associated with the pieces to do person-action-object, etc. Playing around with that for a couple of months, I got where I was averaging around 7 minutes. Then one day I tried switching to visual for the edges, and instantly I jumped below 5 minutes. Now I don't use visual again, since I have a better memory system so I can use it almost as fast as visual.

I must admit I've never changed anything with memorizing corners - I just use digits 1-8 for the permutation and hexadecimal for orientation, which I've done since the beginning.

thanks for your advice, Mike. I will experiment with different methods and I will practise both getting the memo concrete and also speeding up the memo as well. At the moment I do My corners very similar to you, but I use Consanants for the corners and 3 vowels for orientation. I use Letter Pair images and a link/story system for edges, like on badmephisto's vids. I think that's slow though, so I may change it.

I'm back full time at work, so I don't really get chance to practice, but I will try to do at least 1 or 2 every day, more at the weekend.