Hello Ryan, That is very good important question! I while ago, I have been trying to memorise the corners of the cube visually, and that seemed to work fine... I always thought that making up big stories and images in your head was something for people that can't memorise very well. :). But now I found out that people that memorise a deck of cards in under a minute also use techniques like this, and it doesn't have to mean you are wasting time at all...
So how can that work? Why is it interesting to transform the information into a story with things that don't have anything to do with cubing? Well, as for the method I am trying to learn now, (person, action and object method): when you are memorising, you are memorising things that the human brain is used to. All your life, you have been storing memories with people that you know well, that are doing things. That's just what your brain can automatically do. Storing images of people doing things in you head is more 'natural' ;) for the brain to deal with than a bunch of positions on a cube. That's why I think it will be feasable to use this system. (John Louis, am I right?). - Joël. --- In [email protected], Ryan Heise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been reading the various threads about memorisation, and have to > wonder what is appealing about translating information from one domain > into a completely unrelated domain in order to memorise it. > > We have discussed memorising a cube using numbers, sentences and cards. > Why not memorise the direct visual imagery that we get by looking at the > cube? With training it should be possible to form memory associations > based on the spatial relativity of same-coloured facelets, and observe > shape outlines formed by these sets of facelets. This is how our brains > are natively wired to perform visual analysis, anyway. > > By the way, a sequence of 4 random chords (4 notes each) constrained to > a range of just 2 octaves, contains more data than a single random cube > position (if you only care about the data that allows you to solve the > cube). If you can see visual patterns to the same extent that musicians > hear auditory patterns, then a single random cube shouldn't take more > than a few seconds to memorise. > > Ryan > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/speedsolvingrubikscube/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
