Remembering Algorithyms

[Tomarse]

Hey, i was wondering, what techniques you guys use for remembering algs? anything in particular :] kinda hard to remember haha! and im useless and noticing pll =/ help!

 

[Harris Chan]

Check this page out, made by Richard Patterson:

http://www.geocities.com/rubiks_galaxia/alg_memo_richy.htm

 

[joey]

Its all about repetion, and understanding.

 

[Harris Chan]

The funny thing is that, at the beginning, learning an algorithm is hard, and seems kinda abstract. But as your get more experience, memorizing an algorithm might only take 30 seconds (or less)! You start seeing some patterns, and how the common moves/triggers combine together, and watching how the pieces behave during the algorithms.

 

[aznblur]

I don't actually remember an algorithm, I just do it over and over again, until my hands are used to doing it. Then my hands do the remembering =P

 

[Tomarse]

yeah, i did that with the few algs i know now

 

[Erik]

It's realy great: I had to learn this whole bucnh of OLL's. And I was realy lame at learning them (still got 2 to do actualy) but at one meeting or tournament I learned a bout 5 on 1 day. Guys like Ron and Joel are great at explaining what to do like: you take out this pair, do this small trick and then insert it this way.

 

[csfield]

Yeah, like Erik said, it often helps to watch what the alg does to the F2L. Joel van Noort has a great OLL section on his webiste which groups algs by family.

 

[dChan]

At first remembering an algorithm was hard for me, but not it is easy to do it. The only problem is putting it into action. I may come across a certain COLL case that I remembered but when I execute it is horribly slow.

So I would just say to repeat the alg over and over. That is the only way to get fast at the alg. Believe me, remembering is the easy part, but actually using the alg is hard. Make an effort to incorporate it into all of your practice solves even if you know you can do two algs faster than the 1. You'll not regret it later.

 

[Tomarse]

I found a nice way to learn algs, i know i made this post,
If you break down a long alg, and put parts in brackets
it works quite well like these
(R' U R') U' R' U' (R' U) R U R2 (R2 U') R' U' R U R U (R U' R)

I think its cool what do you guys think?

 

[deKeijzer]

Originally posted by Tomarse@May 1 2007, 01:26 PM
I found a nice way to learn algs, i know i made this post,
If you break down a long alg, and put parts in brackets
it works quite well like these
(R' U R') U' R' U' (R' U) R U R2 (R2 U') R' U' R U R U (R U' R)

I think its cool what do you guys think?

It`s the exact same method described in the link of the first reply. So I don`t think it`s a new method, but it is a method that works for some.

 

[Tomarse]

ahh lol, didnt see that =]

 

[doubleyou]

yeah doing that youself is guite benefitial. at least for me as well.

I have had alot of problems with mixing up several algorithms. so I did one alg for a wrong case.. that was hard to fix up.

I just started learning the final PLLs for me. the G perms.
good thing about this is that two work in pairs (they are reflections of each other) both in normal/reverse and mirror. this is extremely helpful fact to keep in mind for learning them. while the style of each is special.

I think its good to learn algs in sets of normal/reverse
but it doenst depend that much after all..

just create your own little helping sentences on your head

 

[Tomarse]

Thanks for the replies everyone :} it is helpful. i think it is also good to learn an alg and learn its opposite