Embassy Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 If you had to memorize a number and you couldn't write it down, how would you go about putting it in your long term memory? The number is only 4 digits longs - 8529 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momofkhm Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 If you had to memorize a number and you couldn't write it down, how would you go about putting it in your long term memory? The number is only 4 digits longs - 8529 They are the middle digits on the phone going up, then 9. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristusG Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I'd make up a little tune and put it to song. Practice singing it over and over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternalknot Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I have very odd ways of memorizing random numbers like that. My first inclination would be to visualize my sister (born in 85) and my SIL (who is 29 - and hopefully I'd just remember the number by the time her 30th birthday came around LOL!) But I turned into a pictorial rhyme instead. If I say each digit quickly in French, it makes a chant easy enough to remember but weird enough to stick in my brain. I say it quickly enough that it sounds like gibberish - in any language - while picturing a window looking out onto a field of wheat (8), from the position of a Texan sink (5 - "sank") with dirty dishes (deux - DD) and my FIL with his hands on his hips growling "'Nuff!" (9) in his old-man grumpy accent. I warned you it would be odd :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMDRAD Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 If you had to memorize a number and you couldn't write it down, how would you go about putting it in your long term memory? The number is only 4 digits longs - 8529 What came to my mind was 8-5=3 5-2=3 3X3=9 I memorize a lot of #s this way. I also use patterns on the phone keypad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 They are the middle digits on the phone going up, then 9.This. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakia Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I'm weird because I have always been able to remember random numbers. So for that, I would just repeat it a couple of times, and it would stick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dansamy Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I'm weird because I have always been able to remember random numbers. So for that, I would just repeat it a couple of times, and it would stick. :iagree: It baffles me that people have to make up little memory joggers to remember short strings of information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktgrok Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I could remember it as eighty-five twenty-nine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternalknot Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 :iagree: It baffles me that people have to make up little memory joggers to remember short strings of information. I have horrible recall from short-term memory. I have to physically write everything down if I'm going to remember it. And even then, 75% of the time I'll need to see my notes to trigger the memory. I struggle even with typing things into my smartphone; I have to literally pencil-write everything down if there is any chance I'm to remember it in the short-term. Highly inconvenient, and I have scraps of notes surrounding me the way Pigpen does a dirt cloud! :lol: I can tell you what outfit I was wearing on any given day of significance from about 1985 onward, but I'll get into the car and not remember what I went to the grocery store for -- even though I was mid-cooking and ran out for a single item to finish off the meal. It's a PITA LOL and I envy those of you with phenomenal recall! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perry Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I'm weird because I have always been able to remember random numbers. So for that, I would just repeat it a couple of times, and it would stick. I always used to be able to do that too. Just wait a few years.....:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smrtmama Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I wouldn't have to do anything. I have good short-term memory and I'd just repeat it mentally until it went into long-term. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 If you had to memorize a number and you couldn't write it down, how would you go about putting it in your long term memory? The number is only 4 digits longs - 8529 85 is the year my dad died, 29 the year of his birth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 :iagree: It baffles me that people have to make up little memory joggers to remember short strings of information. We all have differing skills and abilities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest janainaz Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I have odd ways of remembering things too. When I'm 85 I'll be wishing I was 29. And that would honestly work for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impish Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Its weird, but would work for me. 8-3=5 5-3=2 2+3+3+1=9 Basically, set it up as 9 being the first and final number. to get 8, you subtract 1. Then add up all the subtracted numbers at the end. I'm probably not explaining it quite right, but it would work for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 (edited) I would just memorize pairs - 82 59. Repeated redearch has shown that most human are only capable of memorizing up to 7 random items (numbers, colors, letters, names, etc. in short term memory. That is why license plate number are always 7 digits or less. Same with phone # minus the areas codes. If you know your area code, then you only have to memorize the number. If it is a person that you would call regularly in a different time zone you would memorize that time zone seperately and then memorize their number when given to you. ETA: Ha. Apparently my short term memory is so far gone that I am not even capable of what most humans are. Obviously the number under discussion is 8529. Providing that I was actually memorizing the correctly number, I would still do it in pairs, 85 - 29. Edited August 25, 2010 by KidsHappen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I would say that I was class of '85 in college and my parents were born in 1929. I use clues like this, plus I repeat it several times with a sing-song-like cadence that helps me remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumiller Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 (edited) It depends on how it is used. I am a very visual person so if I was typing it into a keypad I would memorize the shape that the number made on the keypad. In this case the numbers start at the top middle and go straight down and then loop back up to the next column of numbers. Not too tough. :iagree: I'm very visual too. I couldn't tell you what my pin # is at the atm because I've memorized it only as the pattern on the keypad as I type the numbers. Once I had the pattern down, I tossed the paper with the numbers on it. It works for me. I've gone months without going to the atm and I've never forgotten my pin # . . . this is incredible because if you ask my dear family they will tell you that I have a lousy memory for those kinds of little details. :D Oh, this is also how I remember friends and family phone numbers. Edited August 24, 2010 by Sumiller spell check. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embassy Posted August 24, 2010 Author Share Posted August 24, 2010 Wow, it sure is interesting to read how different learning styles learned the same information. For me, I did 8-3= 5 5-3=2 3x3=9. I realize some people don't need any sort of strategy, but I'm not one of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teachin'Mine Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I'd remember it as August 5, 1929. One of the last days of the roaring 20's. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SproutMamaK Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I'd start a thread on WTM about it so that I could reference back here for the number when I needed it. You? ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaT Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I would remember it as '85 and that I was pregnant with oldest, and my age 29, the year I was pregnant with my third son. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WishboneDawn Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 (edited) If you had to memorize a number and you couldn't write it down, how would you go about putting it in your long term memory? The number is only 4 digits longs - 8529[/QUOTe] 8 and 9 and in sequence. 5+2 = 7 which makes it 7,8,9. I know, I know. Ridiculously complicated and people generally just stare at me when I try to explain but If I look for relations and patterns, even (or rather, especially) when I use some arithmetic then it stays in my head forever. I'll know that number months from now. :D EDIT: I read the other responses and realize I'm not so weird afterall. :) I do have another method I should mention. I would visualize the numbers being slowly burned or carved into something so I could recall the "picture" of that later. Edited August 24, 2010 by WishboneDawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizzyBee Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 85 is the year I moved to Okinawa and age 29 is a year that lots of people dread the next birthday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I could remember it as eighty-five twenty-nine. That's how I would do it too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I could remember it as eighty-five twenty-nine. Me, too. Then it would only really be two numbers. I'd repeat them to myself several times and I'm sure it would just "stick." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danestress Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 If you had to memorize a number and you couldn't write it down, how would you go about putting it in your long term memory? The number is only 4 digits longs - 8529 it would be very expensive to have to fund a 529 for 8 kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakia Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I always used to be able to do that too. Just wait a few years.....:D :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrappyhappymama Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 They are the middle digits on the phone going up, then 9. :iagree: I use my mental keypad often to memorize numbers. What came to my mind was 8-5=3 5-2=3 3X3=9 Several folks have posted this or some variation. This would not work for me AT.ALL. I'd remember that there was supposed to be some computation, but not remember where it started or how they were related. I find it fascinating the different ways our minds work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhea Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 This is what I did for my last pin: "An 85 yo and a 29 yo walked into a bar..." That's it, no punch line. It worked for me right away, I think because it was silly. When my husband wanted to know my pin I told him "An 85 yo and a 29 yo walked into a bar." He laughed and I thought that was the end of it. But he made me laugh when he called me one day with, "I know they walk into a bar, but how old are they?" So it didn't work for him at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKim Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 85 is a year after I graduated. 29 is how old I was a year after my first dd was born. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cathmom Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 LOL - this reminds me of when I was in Germany. I desperately needed more money from the ATM, but in Germany, they don't have letters with the numbers on the keypad!!! I only knew my PIN as a word, not a number. You should have seen the crazy American lady standing there saying the alphabet, trying to figure out her PIN! As for remembering a number like that, I'd either just remember it or figure out something personal to me that it related to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorganClassicalPrep Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I'd remember it as 85-29. I'd just repeat 85-29 to myself a few times. When I needed to recall it, I'd remember that it started with my birth year (85) and that would jog the rest of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 The number is only 4 digits longs - 8529 I remember numbers by the pattern on a touch tone phone: from the bottom straight up the center, then right lower corner. Or 8-3 makes 5, minus 3 makes two, jump back to nine, if I would use the number at a keyboard and I have that across the top. Or by hints: "Sister born in '85, Gramps born in 29" Or "year I moved to X, year of the stock market crash." I have dozens of 4 digit extensions in my head from work, and the first one, pattern, does the best, for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dansamy Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 We all have differing skills and abilities. Umm... I'm aware of that. Just like my sister cannot fathom why organizational skills do not come naturally to me, I have difficulty understanding that my memory skills are enviable to others. I'm well aware that there are things that are very difficult for me that are easy for others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewellsmommy Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 I could remember it as eighty-five twenty-nine. :iagree: In fact it will probably be stuck in my head now. In a few days I'll be annoyed that I remember the numbers but not remember what they are for and it will drive me crazy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrappyhappymama Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 :iagree: It baffles me that people have to make up little memory joggers to remember short strings of information. We all have differing skills and abilities. Umm... I'm aware of that. Just like my sister cannot fathom why organizational skills do not come naturally to me, I have difficulty understanding that my memory skills are enviable to others. I'm well aware that there are things that are very difficult for me that are easy for others. But, your original comment was not that you had difficulty understanding that your "memory skills are enviable to others." It was that you were baffled that others had to "make up little memory joggers to remember short strings of information." If you were already so very aware of the fact that folks have differing skills and abilities, then you wouldn't be baffled by it then, now would you? Perhaps you didn't mean it so, but your comment did come across a bit condescending in the context of this discussion, and I think the respondent's comment gently pointed this out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barb_ Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 I always used to be able to do that too. Just wait a few years.....:D :iagree: Sorta. I can still do this with numbers. Names and nouns elude me now, however. I wonder what that means.:glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 I'm weird because I have always been able to remember random numbers. So for that, I would just repeat it a couple of times, and it would stick. :iagree:If not this, then I will do this... They are the middle digits on the phone going up, then 9. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LisaMarie6 Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 :iagree: In fact it will probably be stuck in my head now. In a few days I'll be annoyed that I remember the numbers but not remember what they are for and it will drive me crazy! LOL, I agree. I now have the numbers 85 29 stuck in my brain. In a few days I will be wondering if they are a forgotten password or pin number. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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