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I've had a habit for my entire adult life, of sorting the letters of words alphabetically in my head. The longer the word the better. It's even better when th
by zentiggr 5y ago
I've had a habit for my entire adult life, of sorting the letters of words alphabetically in my head. The longer the word the better.
It's even better when the sorted letters turn out to make any sort of repetitive pattern.
And I count stairs, unless I specifically override the internal voice and say "1", "1", "1", "1,".... to myself.
- Zababa 5y agoI used to count stairs when I was younger too, and remember that most of them had between 16 and 18 steps for a floor.
- agency 5y agoI don’t mean to be glib but are you really good at Scrabble? I believe the strategy at the competitive level is similar to what you’ve described: Memorizing essentially an index of words by the alphabetized sequence of letters, then you keep your tiles in alphabetical order and “look them up”
- teddyh 5y ago“‘You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room.’ ‘Frequently.’ ‘How often?’ ‘Well, some hundreds of times.’ ‘Then how many are there?’ ‘How many! I don’t know.’ ‘Quite so. You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed.’” Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson, A Scandal In Bohemia, 1891
- snarfy 5y agoOh no, is counting things bad? I'm always counting things and also counting how long they take.