Letter pair training

Would it be worth memorizing a complete list of images for every possible letter pair to improve my memo?
That's what high-level BLD solvers do, but I think most of them learn them over time just by doing a lot (lot) of solves, rather than actually trying to sit down and memorize them as one would do with algorithms. Don't take my word for it though, I don't practice BLD often.
 
Yeah, as Aerma said, just doing a lot of solves made pairs form in my head, many of which where bad, in which case you can refer to the link Skittleskp provided. But memorizing a list doesn't work all that well, I tried. It works but not good,
 
Would it be worth memorizing a complete list of images for every possible letter pair to improve my memo?

For me it was totally worth it. It took a lot of time to create a good list and to learn it afterwards, however, transforming a letter pair to an image and vice versa becomes super fast. This was something I was spending a lot of time on in the beginning which was very frustrating. Right now, I am very happy that I did it.
Please note, that I decided to create a full list when I was only one month into blindsolving. So I don't really know whether this automatic forming of words after many solves would have worked for me.

Edit: You should also evaluate how serious you are going to be about blindsolving. If this is just a casual thing, i.e. you want be able to do 3BLD and maybe small MBLD attempts, I absolutely don't recommend putting in the effort to create such a list. You will make much more progress by just practicing.
 
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But memorizing a list doesn't work all that well, I tried. It works but not good,

I was actually surprised how well it worked when a used an anki flashcard app. It basically shows you letter pairs more often that you mess up a lot. But it also makes sure that you see all pairs every couple of days. Using this, I was able to learn my list of almost 600 pairs in three weeks with ~30 minutes a day. I expected it to be much harder.
 
Yeah, I'm learning 3-style starting with intuitively coming up with commutators, so I'd say I'm serious about becoming good or at least learning the necessary skills to be good at blind.
 
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