However, one major drawback of the system caused me to quit it. Verbal decoding is impossible.
If a colleague asks you for a phone number, rather than being able to simply announce 303-906-5245, you have to decode and write down the number on a piece of paper or dial it yourself.
You can announce the phrase “MuSeuM PaSsaGe LiNeR eeL”, but you cannot announce the number!

Time for us to develop an improvement! Here’s an an idea I though of:
> Instead of 2=N, how about 2=T
> instead of 5=L, how about 5=F
> Instead of 9=P, how about 9=N
259 would now be DiVaN, not uNLaBelled.

So, when you slowly announce “Di Va N”,your colleague can respond: “My you have a funny accent. Did you just say “Ti Fa N-” or Two Five Nine?

With a bit of practice you can pronounce Di Va N as Two Five Nine yourself. You could never have done that with uNLaBelled.

Does anyone reading this have any other ideas? Let’s get together and modify the Major System.

http://www.tanselali.com/how-i-memorized-the-yellow-pages-phonebook/

Very interesting post!
But is it just me or aren’t all sentences displayed properly?

I see things like:
4 = r (the last letter of “four� is “r�)
5 = L (you have five fingers on your Left hand)
6 = j, ch, soft g, sh (�J� is a near mirror-image of “6″) (Ex: Jelly, CHips, garaGe, SHoe)

Thanks,

Leon

Thank you for commenting! It’s great to have you here. I envy you greatly. Have you found any downside to having an eidetic memory?

Best,

Tim