For about a year ive been playing cityquiz.io and its the most fun i have personally had on a geography related game. This isnt an ad but the community is relatively small and id love to see it grow. the reddit is r/iafisher. at the moment i can recite around 2700 cities/townships.

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How to improve my mind / memory.

I’m terrible with faces, names, conversations, retaining information sometimes because anxiety and depression get in the way

any suggestions to get better?

My therapist said that people without a bunch of trauma see their childhoods as like being in chapters and that people with trauma see it as more snapshots? I personally see it as more snapshots but I remember specific facts (like how I used to go to my friend's house every day one summer).

Let me know

I just wanted to know what is up with my mom and I.

My mom has a really good memory for remembering faces, doesn't even have to get close to someone or talk to them, she just remembers them if she comes across them and can tell you where she saw them first.

I have a strangely good memory for conversations. I can recall all conversations and I can even tell them word for word. I usually creep people out just from the fact I can remember conversations from over 10+ years ago. I could even repeat conversations told to me word for word, as if I lived that experience and was telling the story. I don't even know I have those memories, they just pop up when l'm having a conversation with that person. Suddenly it's like I have a whole archive of conversations with said person at my disposal.

Is this something that's inherited?

What is the most frustrating thing about memory ebooks/courses you have read or used?

Let me know down in the comments.

Say I know the first 100 digits of pi. But what if someone asks me, “what is the 45th digit?” I want to be able to learn how to memorize so that I don’t have to sequentially go through the first 44 digits of pi in my head to answer this question.

Does anyone have any tips so that I can memorize and then answer this question as fast as possible? Most number memorization methods I’ve come across are about memorizing numbers which are sequential, but those methods don’t really help me here

To get extra credit in my Science class I've got to memorize the periodic table song or the elements song by Lehrer. Doesn't matter which one but I've got a month to memorize. What's the best way?

To be sincerely honest, in my humble opinion, without offending anyone who thinks differently, and without hiding any thoughts in my mind or telling lies, to speak the actual truth with a clear, open mind and a clean heart, expressing what I've been holding back for a long time, which I didn’t say because I was nervous — today, by gathering all the courage and motivation, I just want to say that I actually feel and think that I have absolutely nothing to say 🏃🏃🏃

I stole this text from a comment on a manhwa series and I want to remember it so that I can say it if I meet people who speak English

Hi! I have to memorize 200ish words in Italian by Tuesday. I have a very bad memory, mainly working memory (5th percentile) and was wondering if anyone had any tips on how to memorize. I don’t want it to talk up hours of each of my days like it usually does

I know I'll be using a memory palace to memorize the U.S. Presidents in order, but I also wish to be able to recall which president they are, know it backwards, and also know their terms dates, birth & death dates, and some fun facts about them.

So:

• Chronological order
• Out of Order
• Birth dates
• Death dates
• term spans
• And fun facts

I know memory palace will work for the chronological part, but I assume to recall then out of order...

i.e. "Who was the 23rd president?"

...that I'll have to use a number peg system in conjunction with the memory palace...?

The fun facts I feel are unique enough that I can memorize them without any techniques, but what approach should I take for the dates & spans, and how should I associate/integrate those into the other techniques?

Thanks y'all.

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I am so bad at memorising something. Like literally. I just opened up a new bank account, and a few minutes later, as I was about to log in to that said account online, the password was incorrect. I was so pissed at myself (still am) like, how??? and WHY??? Passwords are my worst enemies. I can't for the life of me remember any of it. If I actually do, I will second-guess myself, thinking it was wrong, so I have to triple-check everything before I type it in. I hate it.

I specifically want to get better at keeping track of cards played in cassino (not that well known card game). The flow of the game is basically as follows:

1. First round, each player (4) gets 4 cards and 4 cards are placed face up in the table.
2. After every player has used up their cards (1 card per turn), the round ends
3. Then a new round begins by giving players 4 cards each, again, but not placing 4 on the table. Table cards are only placed on first round.

This repeats until a 52 card deck is done.

Each round, I would have to memorize 16 new cards in no particular order (except for the first round, when there are 20 new cards). I find it difficult to construct a mind palace of cards played because of the speed (Not crazy fast, but still a challenge) the game is supposed to be played at, combing with the multitasking of having to think of my own plays. This is my current memory skill level with the cards:

• I have assigned each emblem (Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs and Spades) a specific category and each card of each emblem a specific mental image.
• I can memorize the order of a deck using a mind palace in less than 30 minutes (Ik not that impressive).
• Also can retain the mind palace of the deck easily.

Any tips how to memorize something once and have it remain in memory for a long time unchange?

I'm looking for an app that you can give a long text, and it will then read you X seconds of the text using text-to-speech tts, and then wait for you to read it back using speech recognition, then go on to the next X seconds, etc.

For help with learning to recite poetry, say prayers, etc.

If I tricked someone into thinking they have a photographic memory and they greatly believed me.
Could they achieve a photographic memory?

I just started university and wanted to set up some studying things and found out that gravity was removed. I'm looking for another gamified memorization tool

I am interested in learning more pi. I have about 98 places (not counting the 3) memorized already. When reciting , do I start from the very beginning? From where I left off? Some arbitrary point in the middle? Curious to see if anyone has found themselves in a similar place and how they tackled the issue.

Is it really possible to forget someone yelling in your face if it was 5 years ago and you still follow them on social media?

Hi,

We have been making progress on a memory training site where you can train different events. I would love to get more feedback on the site and any issues there might be. We tried are best to get most out. The events you can train are names, biography, binary, decimal. alphabet, sounds, echopic, and cards.

You can check it out here: https://www.blitzmemory.com/signup

We would appreciate any feedback. Thanks!

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Hi all, I rediscovered my love for being a walking encyclopedia recently and am looking for things to memorize. Right now, I’m using HelloChinese to brush up on my Mandarin and have been absolutely binging the character component quiz section. I’m also using Seterra to memorize world geography and country flags. But I’m still hungry for more. What other apps do you guys know like these that I can use to learn more stuff just by sheer exposure and repetition? Barring that, what should I focus on next? I’m thinking the periodic table, or photosynthesis/the Krebs Cycle etc. or human anatomy…or anything!! Give me all your ideas!!

I’m not interested in learning another language aside from Mandarin at the moment, so no language app suggestions, please. I’m most interested in developing a mental repository of info on STEM stuff, i.e. things and engineer, physicist, biologist, ecologist, etc. should be able to call up from memory. I’m also into music theory, animation and art/art history, world history, history of the universe, astronomy, English language and literature, poetry…really anything but sports and celebrities. Not that those things aren’t great! I’m just most interested in info that doesn’t change…and has a bit more universal meaning.

Yes, I’m aware just consuming tons of info isn’t the same as being able to think critically about it. But I just love knowing stuff for myself. I get immense satisfaction from it, and I love discussing and sharing fun facts with my friends.

While I prefer free apps, anything goes, as long as the source is trustworthy. I really appreciate any suggestions you may have!

Hi guys,

I watched numerous videos about memory palaces and all on YouTube. I still don’t understand how it works because to me it just seems like memorisation but you just associate it with an object?

In my course I have to remember a lot of verbatim definitions, for chemistry around 200. I use anki but I feel like it isn’t effective enough.

If anyone has any techniques, links or tips I would greatly appreciate it!

These are mathematical systems that help you bank balls in billiards more accurately.

I’m reaching out to this sub to see if there’s an easier way to memorize all this data.

If it works I could apply it to the rest of the system. Consistent of 29 patterns.

I am struggling to quickly memorise the Major System 1-100 numbers but found the linked method is really helping - hope it helps someone else too! If anyone's interested I'll upload 51-100 too when it's finished.

Sorry for some of the graphic references but as we all know when visualising, sexual/arresting/unusual associations are proven to be the easiest to remember! With that in mind I have also tried to make the images themselves funny/unusual etc..basically MEMORABLE!

For those new to this system for remembering numbers or lists, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_major_system which gives you an idea how it works, but in summary each digit from 0-9 is represented by one or more specific/very similar phonemes eg 2="n" sound and 1="t" or "d" sound so words are then established from the two sounds together ie 21 = "Net".

Note in my personal system I just use number shapes for 1-10 as I already have those firmly in long-term memory!

Also if anyone wants the source Excel file to edit/change some of the words/images let me know.

PDF here:

Major Memory System 1-50