[Unofficial] First 3x3 BLD Success: Leighton Covington

[LeighzerCuber]

My first BLD 3x3 solve after about 6 true attempts.
This was done on the bus drive to a swim meet.
Too bad my friend stopped the video so soon. I stood up and went around high fiving everybody yelling,"Yes!" .

Memo was 9:18 and execution was 3:47.
The actual memo was:

Spoiler

Corners: MoW QueeR Good-Job Detroit-Lakes
Edges: LUck Detroit-Lakes FLower RoBber FU** ReF DaBble BLind BUtt FooD

 

[AustinReed]

Memo might be easier if it actually all flowed together xD
Good job though!

 

[emolover]

And I though my memo was random.

 

[Zane_C]

Congrats!

You might find it easier if you memorised flipped edges visually, that would reduce the strain on your auditory memory.

EDIT: Your edge letters have confused me, why do the letters B, D and L occur 3 times?

 

[LeighzerCuber]

Memo might be easier if it actually all flowed together xD
Good job though!

It kind of flowed to me partially. MoW QueeR doesn't make sense for the corners. For the edges LUck, FU**, ReF, and BUtt don't make sense.
The others somewhat did make sense. The Good-Job Detroit-Lakes made me picture shaking hands with the Detroit Lakes swim team.
For me when I did the edge memo DL and flower linked. Then I thought of a Robber stealing the flower. Then I was Dabbling with blind solving, and BUtt FooD was particularly easy to remember.

Most of the memo was just grinding the edges into my memory( I did tap the order of edges a lot in my memo). I find corners particulary easy to memorise, just harder to execute.

Congrats!

You might find it easier if you memorised flipped edges visually, that would reduce the strain on your auditory memory.

EDIT: Your edge letters have confused me, why do the letters B, D and L occur 3 times?

If I do recall correctly, there weren't any twisted or flipped edges in that solve, or else I would've just memorized their positions with tapping.


I use the system of having to shoot to the UF position of the cube and memorize UF as part of a word (UFO). I think that the solve just happened to incorporate a lot of D's, B's, and L's due to the edge orientation and the fact that DR was already solved and UR was the buffer position. There were only 2 pieces with R's incorporated and all of the pieces that would incorporate U happened to have to shoot to L, F, and B.

Thanks for the congrats.

 

[Zane_C]

I use the system of having to shoot to the UF position of the cube and memorize UF as part of a word (UFO).

That makes it so much clearer, the reason I first speculated that there were flipped edges was because there were 20 letters (max=16, if not including flipping edges).