Ratio of Memorization:Solving

[byu]

I thought this might be an interesting topic.

What is the ratio of your Memorization:Solving?

Mine is 35 seconds:2 minutes (120 seconds)

35:120 simplifies to 7:24 which is pretty close to 1:3.5, which means 1 second of memo is almost the equivalent of 3.5 seconds of solving.

What is your ratio?

 

[fanwuq]

I haven't solved it for a while, but at my best, my average is something like 80s memo:110s solving.

 

[Lucas Garron]

My ratio is over 1.

 

[byu]

What method do you use? It must be either very fast, or your memo is very slow.

 

[cmhardw]

When I was at my best (before I stopped practicing as of late) I could do:

3x3x3 BLD:
45 seconds memorizing : 40 seconds solving = 9:8 ratio

4x4x4 BLD:
3 minutes 30 seconds memorizing : 3 minutes 0 seconds solving
7:6 ratio

5x5x5 BLD:
8 minutes memorizing : 7 minutes 30 seconds solving
16:15 ratio

Chris

 

[tim]

3x3x3 BLD:
30 seconds memorizing : 50 seconds solving = 3:5 ratio

4x4x4 BLD:
3 minutes memorizing : 4 minutes 30 seconds solving = 2:3 ratio

5x5x5 BLD:
6 minutes memorizing : 12 minutes solving = 1:2 ratio

 

[Pedro]

my execution is alway slower than memo, but I'm not sure of the averages
I can get low-20 to ~35 for memo
and anywhere between sub-40 to 60 for execution

 

[Ellis]

My ratio is almost always around 1:1, I'm really bad at memo.

 

[Gparker]

im not exactly sure, im inconsistant, my memo is sometimes 4 minutes and sometimes 6, and my execution is about 3 minutes

 

[Sa967St]

50:80 = 5:8
I really need to work on my execution

 

[TheBB]

Interesting. Looks like execution, and not memorization, as previously believed, is my problem.

 

[Ville Seppänen]

3x3x3: 13/30
4x4x4: 1:40/2:40
5x5x5: 3:30/4:50

I really don't know what my average memo times are. On 4x4x4 it's normally from 1:10 to 2:00, on 5x5x5 from 3:00 to 4:20.

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

20-40 for 3x3?

 

[AvGalen]

2 minutes memo, 3 minutes execution for single
10 minutes memo, 7 minutes execution for 2/2

 

[Mike Hughey]

byu, in case you haven't picked up on it yet, yes, your case is EXTREMELY strange. It'll probably change fast now that you're switching to M2/R2. You should really be getting close to world class speeds, based on your memo times. Of course, so should I, but I'm not anywhere near it because I'm probably just about the worst at execution relative to memorization out there, other than you.

3x3x3: 0:45 memorizing : 1:30 solving
4x4x4: 4:30 memorizing : 5:00 solving
5x5x5: 9:30 memorizing : 8:30 solving
6x6x6: 19:00 memorizing : 18:30 solving
7x7x7: 27:00 memorizing : 30:30 solving

It's really interesting to me how my solving gets faster and my memorization gets slower as I get to larger cubes, at least to 5x5x5.

On the really big cubes, it looks like I'm still not really comfortable with solving. I know I tend to REALLY slow down on the inner X and + centers on 7x7x7 - I always find those particularly hard to do. I don't think the obliques cost me much, which is why I'm still faster at solving than memorizing on 6x6x6.

 

[tim]

It's really interesting to me how my solving gets faster and my memorization gets slower as I get to larger cubes, at least to 5x5x5.

I think that's quite normal. If your memo is good and you don't have any recall delays, you can solve in almost linear time, but you definitely can't memo in linear time.

 

[Mike Hughey]

It's really interesting to me how my solving gets faster and my memorization gets slower as I get to larger cubes, at least to 5x5x5.

I think that's quite normal. If your memo is good and you don't have any recall delays, you can solve in almost linear time, but you definitely can't memo in linear time.

Meaning you're quite abnormal? Seriously - why are you so slow at 5x5x5 execution? You're a way faster cuber than me (even at 5x5x5) - I can't imagine why you'd be so slow at 5x5x5 execution.

 

[dChan]

I average probably 2:30 memo with 2:00 execution currently. Of course, I'm not any good right now at BLD so it always changes up. Sometimes I get 1:30 memo on normal solves and then sometimes I just find it so hard to memo permutation that it goes up to 3.

 

[KJiptner]

3x3x3 BLD:

Old method
25 seconds memorizing : 45 seconds solving
Memo was often faster. Solving was often slower. I can still use this method pretty well but I forgot most of my CO algs.

New method
45 seconds memorizing : 45 seconds solving
I will get faster.

4x4x4 BLD:
4.5 minutes memorizing : 4.5 minutes solving
Memo should be faster. Exec is sometimes sub-4.

 

[Markus Pirzer]

im not exactly sure, im inconsistant, my memo is sometimes 4 minutes and sometimes 6, and my execution is about 3 minutes

I have almost the same times than you. I'm very slow at memorization, but I don't practise blindsolving much.