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Speedcubing, Blindfold Chess, and Memory Training Advice w/ James Cumming

The Craft of Memory Podcast

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What Are Some of the Techniques for Memorization?

I used to compete pretty regularly, not too often. And then ultimately I went to the Rubik's Cube World Championship in 2013. What you do is you assign letters to each location on the cube. Then you just memorize like this thing, which is called your buffer. So for that you would use a letter pair of combination and have an image associated with that.

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