What's harder for you? Corners or edges?

[adimare]

I've noticed that when I DNF I'm more likely to have messed up corners than edges. So I got curious about how others usually DNF their solves. This is why corners are more problematic for me:

Yes there's less corners than edges during memo, but each corner has 3 orientations instead of just 2, and when memoing in a hurry I sometimes place the corner in the right spot but with the wrong orientation. This doesn't seem to ever happen to me with edges.

During execution there's only 2 layers to play with instead of 3, so sometimes the setups to comms are a bit more complicated (they might involve moving 2 pieces, or moving one piece and executing a rotation), and when trying to solve the cube rapidly I will often do insertion->interchange when I should be doing interchange->insertion (or vice versa) because I lost track of which piece goes where during the setup.

 

[sqAree]

I use M2/OP and thus almost never have execution mistakes for either corners or edges. I memo corners first and exhaustively, so I almost never mess up on the memo. No.1 DNF reason are two flipped edges for me.

 

[h2f]

I do 3style and memo edges first and my mistakes are equal: sometimes corners, sometimes edges, sometimes both.

 

[Underwatercuber]

I find edges harder to memo (just because there are more of them) but execution usually so pretty consistent on both

 

[lucarubik]

corners, for the same reason, i mess up U L' (U', L' D2 L) and U2 R' (R' U R, D) a lot, also corner isometries are harder to see, wich makes it look like there are way more cases, i use loops for edges and letter pair images for corners, so at least that compensates a bit i guess

 

[Gold Cuber]

I put down edges because I only know corners, and I presume that edges are harder because you have to memorise 4 more letters than corners

 

[T1_M0]

Slightly more during edges. I memo corners first and execute last, and sometimes I find it hard making up memo that stays well enough in my mind (after successful edge execution, I have forgot my corner memo). Edges there are just more, and the most common problem for me is flipped edges.

 

[AlphaSheep]

When I used OP and later TuRBo for edges, I definitely made more mistakes on edges. Now that I've switched to M2, I think I make more mistakes on corners.

 

[newtonbase]

I'm learning comms and corners are much harder.I'm also more likely to make memo errors due to there being more stickers. I probasbly make more recall errors in edges as I do quick audio memo and try to avoid reviewing.

 

[Meneghetti]

I usually mess up the last edge cycles or the flipped edges, because I really don't have a good system for those...
My system works fine until the 8th edge target, after that it kinda depends on how hard the corners were.
I memo edges/corners and solve corners/edges, so difficult corners usually make my edges recall worse.

 

[Dr_Detonation]

I get most of my DNFs on my edges. I just started m2, so my problem is on those two long algs.

 

[CubingKid]

Edges because audio edges is less consistent than phrase/image corners. I feel like if I do memo slower (while keeping the same ammount of passes) I get faster recall and more consistent, but, just like slow turning, works and on theory isn't hard, but having the self control needed to do that instead of tps spamming is hard.

 

[AJT17]

Edges because audio edges is less consistent than phrase/image corners. I feel like if I do memo slower (while keeping the same ammount of passes) I get faster recall and more consistent, but, just like slow turning, works and on theory isn't hard, but having the self control needed to do that instead of tps spamming is hard.

Please stop bumping old threads; you're not adding anything of value that hasn't already been discussed before. If the thread is more than a few months old, you really shouldn't be posting in it unless you're going to add something meaningful.

 

[abunickabhi]

Corners are generally tricky for me.

Wait: I just realized this post was bumped from 2017 lol