Funny BLD Story Method Stories!

[JLarsen]

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.

What's hexadecimal? I'm not really liking 0's A's and C's for orientation.

 

[tim]

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.

What's hexadecimal? I'm not really liking 0's A's and C's for orientation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal

 

[Mike Hughey]

Here's where I described the method. Back then I used 3OP for edges too, so I described it for both sets of orientation. Now that I use M2, I only use it for corners.

For multi, I now encode my hexadecimal into letter pairs, and then use my letter pair images to memorize them. I use the following encoding:
1=I
2=W
3=H
4=R
5=V
6=X
7=S
8=G
9=N
and then A-F are just A-F. It works really well - I need two pairs to cover the corner orientation, and I just put those two images at one location together to store the orientation.

 

[rjohnson_8ball]

What's hexadecimal? I'm not really liking 0's A's and C's for orientation.

I still use hexadecimal for the edge orientation stage of 3OP. Each edge can be designated as a "1" (needs flipping) or as a "0" (no flip needed). So for the 4 edges on top we have a set of ones and zeros. Likewise, 4 edges on the 2nd layer, and likewise 4 edges on the bottom layer. Each set of 4 can be treated as a hexadecimal number. For example, 0001 1111 0111 would be 1F7 in hex. The "1F7" is not hard for me to memorize.

I read how Mike H uses hexadecimal for corners. He flags each corner on top that needs to go clockwise, and makes a hex number. He also flags each corner on top that needs to go anti-clockwise and makes a hex number. He does this for the bottom too. The result is 4 hex numbers. Personally, I prefer to memo corner orientations as patterns like "wheels", "chameleon", "pi" similar to the method at http://cube.garron.us/BLD/CO.htm although right now I use nothing but monoflips to twist the corners.

 

[Faz]

I just had a really easy M2 memo for edges

bituknfg

I memoed be a toucan you fag -lol apparently toucan is spelt with a c so i shot to c instead of k resulting in a DNF.

 

[JLarsen]

I just had a really easy M2 memo for edges

bituknfg

I memoed be a toucan you fag -lol apparently toucan is spelt with a c so i shot to c instead of k resulting in a DNF.

hahahahahaha thats great, a mishap in spelling = epic fail!

 

[fanwuq]

I just had a really easy M2 memo for edges

bituknfg

I memoed be a toucan you fag -lol apparently toucan is spelt with a c so i shot to c instead of k resulting in a DNF.

How do you not accidentally execute:
BATUCNUFG?
I would have used: bitu knife G.
Perhaps I should adopt this method for edge memo? I know there is the chance of pronoucing and executing a vowel that's not actually there and confusing C and S, C and K and Q, G and J, etc. That's why I did not use this at first. However, 12 random letter isn't too bad, it's not a lot of info to use. It's actually more efficient than my syllable system. Being about to use M2 rather than 3OP is a big advantage over visualizing a clock. However, memorizing this sound would cause me to get confuse if I use syllables for corners, which would force me to do visual 3OP corners using (rather than clock, a compass).

Any other ideas for memorizing edges? (not image/journey or visual?)

 

[AvGalen]

I use numbers for edges and letters for corners and make up random stuff to memorise it. Last week I got this for corner memo: AFGH | BE. I don't think I will ever get easier things to memo (AFGHanistan, BElgium). Stories take to long, you only need the most important words.

 

[Hadley4000]

During Decatur Open, Chris Hardwick was memoing, and started laughing on the stage. After the solve(DNF), he couldn't remember it. I really wanted to know

 

[McWizzle94]

I don't normally use a story method but today it worked well for my edges. Here it is:

Warner-Bros (WB) gave (GV) pajamas (PJ) to headquarters (HQ) at MLX (MLX). I don't really know what MLX is but I just made it up for the sake of memorizing.

 

[shafiqdms1]

During Decatur Open, Chris Hardwick was memoing, and started laughing on the stage. After the solve(DNF), he couldn't remember it. I really wanted to know

oh yeah I remember that. I wanted to know what it was too.