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To follow up with a bit more substance. Rather than sweat it out remembering something like this the hard way (and it would be hard using normal methods):
by kinleyd 15y ago
To follow up with a bit more substance. Rather than sweat it out remembering something like this the hard way (and it would be hard using normal methods):
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It's a piece of cake remembering this instead:
A beautiful naked blond jumps up and down.
The imagery is easy to conjure, and before I get hammered for sexism of any kind, imagine a beautiful naked blond of either gender. ;)
The key linking the two is this:
1 : t, d
2 : n
3 : m
4 : r
5 : l
6 : j, sh, soft g
7 : k, hard g, hard c
8 : f
9 : p, b
0 : s, z, soft c
A little bit of time and effort memorizing the key has allowed me to handle tables of numbers and dates of amazing sizes and lengths. Thanks to a book by Harry Lorayne I picked up by chance in my 9th grade. :)
- pramodbiligiri 15y agoI concur. I too chanced across that Harry Lorayne book in high school and it made rote memorization much less of a chore during those years :) Even now I occasionally use it for phone numbers. For the others, this is the book: http://www.amazon.com/How-Develop-Super-Power-Memory/dp/0811901815 http://www.amazon.com/How-Develop-Super-Power-Memory/dp/0811...
- lusr 15y agoHe has many other books describing his techniques but that was easily the best one. I remember being able to memorize the sequence of half a deck of cards, forward and back, on my first attempt. It's amazing what you're capable of if you put the effort in (unfortunately I stopped...).
- jczhang 15y agoWhy this specific mapping?
- kinleyd 15y agoIt's the one Harry Lorayne came up with. It could be any other mapping you choose, as long as you stick with it. However, in this method the use of consonants for numbers and vowels as fill-ins is probably already optimal. The Life Hacker post describes some other methods which I'm not familiar with. I plan to try them out to see if they are any more efficient. Memorizing a deck of cards in just over a minute, as described there, is very compelling. I've always required a little bit more time than that to do the same.