| I agree, if you speed up by 50% I guess that's an speed improvement... as for mnemonic techniques I've learned them from books, didn't cost me more than £50 and three months of 2 hours practice per week. Roman Room (remembering lists by visualizing a house with rooms) is one of more popular ones. The other popular one is 'chain' method where you remember just one element connecting to another and this leads you to whole list. There are mode advance ones like 'mnemonic tables', the idea is simple - you remember 100 elements perfectly with their number in the table (they're just images/slides whatever coded to numbers in your head), once you know them perfectly you add adjectives to extend the table to 1000 elements so... number one would be a pioneer, 101 would be wooden (or whatever) pioneer, number 1101 would be let's say wooden pioneer riding on a tiger (riding on a tiger is for 1k). That's how you can use it to remember for example dates - at point of most practice I was able to remember around 40 historic within two-three minutes (permanently). Why it works for everything else than dates? because memorizing things is a process of creating and connecting new neural paths and as we repeat this paths becomes stronger and that's one of the things that leads information from our short term to long term memory. Mnemonic tables are great because you already got something in your brain you know perfectly on/to which you 'hang'/'connect' the new information so half of the job is done - just as Roman room, a bit more advanced, but I guess you could make a hybrid technique where house rooms have numbers ;) The key is to make these images in your head as funny, vivid or emotional (can be scary or any other strong emotion) as possible. That will make sure your brain will have better chance of making strong neural paths. Sorry, wrote to much stuff off-top, but maybe will be useful for someone. |