I'm posting here a new memo idea I had today. If this becomes a method, I'm going to call it:
Intentional Collision System (ICS)
If you know what an
hash table is, you already know what I mean by collision (don't worry, I will explain).
Note 1: I will describe this system as a letter-based one, but it can be easily modified so that it doesn't require letters at all.
Note 2: I haven't tested this system yet, and I think it will be hard to do it for me, because my memo scheme is stuck in my mind so much that I can't even change a single letter (and I've tried to do it).
How I thought of this system
For people whose first language is kinda "poor" in terms of different possible sounds (vowels and consonants), it might be hard for blindcubers to find a decent memo scheme. So in the end on might have different letters that are pronounced in the same way (for example, I have C, Q and K in my scheme, which is a total disaster for an italian-based audio memo system). My idea was: let's turn this disadvantage into an advantage!
The idea
So you need 22 different letters for your edges memo scheme? Use the 11 most common in your language (possibly consonants). Now, someone will reply saying that 11 = 22/2. Good point. So, you'll have the same letter twice, in two different spots around your cube. To make the system easier, place them in two very different spots (like UL and FR, not like, for example, DB and DL). Now, if you memorize pieces in pairs, you will have 4 different pairs represented by the same pair of letters: this is what I mean by collision. Now, a few techniques to solve this problem:
1.
Visual Help
Since you gave the same letter to very "different" pieces, visual memo may help you: memorize letters with audio loop (or something else, but I think audio loop will fit better than anything else), while "having an idea" of where your cycle is. This can be a very fast method, but it isn't safe at all; only possibly useful for 3BLD.
This is the technique that requires the most experimentation, but also, in my opinion, the only one that can really be better than more common techniques (I think the other 2 techniques have exactly the same potential as other methods like standard letter-pairing or images).
2.
Vowel insertion
Inspired by
this. For each pairs of pieces with the same letter, label them either
0 or
1 (so you will have, for example, C0 C1 B0 B1 etc...). This will be easier, again, if the two different pieces are
very different, so you can dived them, in your mind, in, for example, good and bad, or right and wrong, or any other pair of opposite adjectives. Now, Your memo pair will look like
XaYb with
X and
Y consonants and
a and
b binary digits (bits). Assign to each possible 2-digit binary number a vowel, like this:
00 = a
01 = e
10 = i
11 = o
Now, memorize the word
XabY with your favourite technique.
Example: memo is
C1D0;
10 = i, so you memorize
CID.
Depending on the language you use, this can be useful for fast memorization or for longer duration purposes.
3.
Image-modifiers
For this technique, we combine letter-pair images with the idea we used before, but now to each 2-digit binary number doesn't correspond a vowel, but an image-modifier (I couldn't find a better name, I mean something that is for an image what an adjective is for a word).
Example:
00 = destruction
01 = small/young
10 = big/old
11 = plurality
If the letter pair corresponds to, for example,
dog, the 4 option will be something like a dead dog, a puppy, a mastiff and 101 dalmatians (from the movie). Applied to the
house image this will be something like a burnt house, a small wooden house, a skyscraper and a city.
This will be useful for multiBLD or big cubes: will have 440 images at the price (effort) of 110! (where "!" doesn't mean "factorial").
That's all folks.
Does this look any good?
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