yep, that’s me! i journaled my whole process, so if you’d ever like to compare benchmarks after X months or whatever you can do it here, i think my rate of improvement was honestly not very special, i just sat down and got a little better every day: Zero to USAMC in 7.0? (months) - John L's Training Journal . Looking back, I think the most interesting thing is how much i struggled with words at first, and as i slowly took away over-configured parts from it and let my brain latch on more to what’s immediately memorable i started to skyrocket; words is now my best event by a mile and i’ve started to see that effect on numbers too as i get away from strict person-action-whatever. with numbers i just XXX XXX a set of 6 digits (using 000-999) and immediately get two words, giving myself the freedom to do whatever immediately comes to mind as an image/concept for them.
Here’s my post about the hitman map. much like you’ve discovered with Leaf, i think, having a route you know through the stations and not having to guess where to go next is what’s critical: Have you ever used CS2 maps as memory palaces? - #6 by Goldfish