Comments on: How to Memorize a Shuffled Deck of Cards in Less Than 60 Seconds (Plus: $10,000 Challenge)

By: bramlet

bramlet — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:07:09 +0000

When I first started out I would have actions that would be performed at each location by whoever was in that location. One guy would be on the balcony, the next would be locking the first guy outside and then I would imagine them both. One celeb would be pushing the button on the microwave, the next would be melting inside. I had many of these type of things, I don’t use them anymore but they were helpful to me when I was just starting out. So rather than trying to come up with different actions for Barack every time he is on the couch, I would just always imagine the person on the couch pointing a remote control at the TV.

By: Daanish

Daanish — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 03:57:39 +0000

I’m having trouble with the pegging. I have 13 locations in my apartment that I’m using for the first suit. But I often forget which person was standing where. I try to make it more memorable by employing actions, which other memory tricks utilize. That worked fine the first time. But now that I’ve tried this 10+ times I’ve run out of unique actions. There’s not that many things the Ace of Hearts ie Obama, can do on my couch.

Any way around this?

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 03:26:33 +0000

Memory palace, mate ! Some Roman senator came up with it, I think ?

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 14:12:00 +0000

Hahahah wow this looks awesome!!! I’m gonna have to come back to this post and dedicate a good while to doing this.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 01:01:52 +0000

Hmmm.. but in a sense it’s like saying:

Memorize this number: 13579111315171921

Is it faster to memorize this number like it is, or by memorizing one rule. It’s the first 11 odd numbers (1-21)

Not the best example, but it works.