Do you mean solves with 3-cycles with eyes open, or just normal sighted solves (CFOP, Yau, free slice etc)?
I meant 3-cycles with eyes open.
Please sum up some thoughts, because I think I've reached my memo speed limit that cannot be overcomed just by trainings. And anyway, it can be helpful to other people too.
Oh, ok.
-Get a good memo system. Sort out your letter pairs, get comfortable with your words and sentences or images or whatever you use.
-Choose a good order to memorise the pieces. Find the one that works the best for you. For me it always worked like: a linear part of most pieces, and then a short-term memory part for the rest. I solved those first, then went through the linear part just like I memorised it. For 5BLD I left edges and corners to the short-term part and memorised the rest as the linear part. In 4BLD the wings were the linear part, centers and corners went to short-term memory.
-For 4BLD: realise that the amount of information you're memorising is really not that much. If it is, you're doing something wrong, and probably your memo system is to blame. You should really compress your memo, there's no time for verbosity. Rehearse as little as possible, and definitely only trace the pieces once. Since wing memo is a bit lengthy, I used to forget how it started by the time I got to the end and had to re-trace the first few pairs - so I started doing mini-rehearsals after the first 8 pairs of wings, and this way I could remember it all at the and and was still much better off than as if I went back to find some wings again.
Learn how to recognise whether you have covered all wings or there are some missing. More on this later.
Learn how to quickly find a good orientation. My rule of thumb is: choose a side you don't like shooting centers to - D, B, you name it. Now when starting a solve, you can instantly tell if it has a real good orientation. If so, go with it. If not, you have like 2 seconds to fixate the side you chose before to its correct position, and then choose the best of the remaining 4 possibilities. Remember, you lose much more time looking for the best orientation than by memoing one or two extra center pairs.
-For 5BLD: realise that you're rehearsing way too much. Rehearse less. Also, really try and connect the stories of different piece types. In general, you should always make your memo coherent, connected and continuous (in the linear part).
-When disturbed by the memo of previous attempts, try to set some themes for your stories. I started doing this for 5BLD: the first memo was to be very weird and funny, the second to be a bloodshed, the third very sexual - this covered the "best of 3", but I had some other themes as well (frightening, disguisting etc).
-If you find yourself forgetting the very beginning of your memo (or your memo for a specific piece type), use alternative ways to memo the first few pairs - remember the position of the pieces or even touch them, imagine writing down the first two letter pairs or maybe typing them, imagine the hand motion associated with the first few comms, say the beginning out loud etc.
Also, try to make your memo rhythmic. I honestly don't know if this works out for others as well or just me, but it definitely helped me a lot. What I mean by this is that even though I didn't use a strict PAO or similar system that would structure the words in my memo, I still kind of grouped my words in groups of four. Or not - let's say I used the word 'doctor' as the substitue for the letter pair DT at some point, but some time later I would memo 'doctor' to mean 'DC TR'. If if memorised with images I never would've been able to tell these two apart, but by giving a rhythm to my sentences, I always knew if a word stood for one or two letter pairs. So I could keep the freedom of my memo and still note the structure of it, which helped me a lot when it came to counting the cycles targets in my wing memo. This way I didn't really have to count, my memo groups made the number of targets I have already covered clear. Then again, this might be a bad idea and it's very much possible that this slowed me down during multi.
Well, this started out by stating the obvious but I guess I managed to put some valuable tips in there as well. Hope it helps!
You're still gonna go to prom with Noah Arthurs though, right?
Sure thing.
