Am I Tripping Or Have I Come Up With A Better Way?

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I’m relatively new to the memory world, having lived, worked and retired without ever having been exposed to the methods

In my advanced age, I’ve returned to playing chess, although only online, and have started studying memory techniques, doing math in my head, solving puzzles. I was also really fascinated by cryptography and codebreaking.

That is my backstory.

Now in the present, I’ve been studying the Major System and the Dominic Method. I find the Major understandable, but the resulting words, hard to form images, such as LM for LiMe.

While the Dominic System is easier, but the initials it comes up with is hard to create easy to remember names from.

So I created, to my knowledge, a better system utilizing the frequency list from the English language, from my cryptography background.

Simply assign the 0-9 to the top 10 most frequent letters in the alphabet.

So why does this make a difference, you may ask.

It’s because the top 10 letters don’t just affect words, it affects names.

Here is how easy it is to create names.

0 = E
1= T
2. A
3. O
4. I
5. N
6. S
7. H
8. R
9. D

00-EE-Erika Eleniak, Jumps Out Of Cake
01-ET-Elizabeth Taylor, Boating On The Nile
02-EA-Ed Asner, Yelling At Ted Baxter
03-EO-Elizabeth Olsen, Floating & Casting Spells
04-EI-Eddie Izzard, Telling A Joke
05-EN-Eliot Ness, Shooting A Gun
06-ES-Edward Snowden, Hacking On A Laptop
07-EH-Edmund Hillary, Climbing Mt. Everest
08-ER-Erwin Rommel, Driving A Tank
09-ED-Eliza Dushku, Staking A Vampire
10-TE-Thomas Edison, Turning On A Lightbulb

There is at 1 or 2 famous people I know for each number!

Try it and let me know what you think.

If it’s new, I’ll call it the Korean System because I’m Korean!

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Idk if it’s new but the most important things for a mnemonics system is to be easy to understand. So if that letter combination works better for you that’s great.

I don’t really like the Dominic system because I’ve always been completely uninterested in famous people so most times I can’t even come up with the first 10 people for it, much less a hundred (or more).

So I use the major system instead, but I also use a modified version with different letters for each number.

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So here is the beauty of my system. I had used a website that generates famous people for the initials.

But… Because my system uses the English language letter frequency chart, it can affect any words you come up with in the English language.

Not only that, every language on Earth has its own, different frequency lists. Some nations use alphabets. Others uses multiple alphabets. Some uses images and others use tokens. But every word or sound has a component part that is used to make words or thoughts, and so a frequency analysis can be done to it or there is one already made.

Which means, you can use any subject that interests you to peg to the numbers.

Maybe you like animals? So 00=EE=Excited Emu!!! Picture an Emu running around you Excited to see you!

What about Science? 00=EE=Entropic Engineering. Picture an Engineering book on :fire:, increasing Entropy.

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The best system is the one you use. In memory as a hobby youll often be making your own systems or tweaking existing ones. But the proof is in the pudding and what works for some won’t for others.

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You made me think of another way to use this system!

It’s like the Dominic and Major had a baby!

Because mine uses the English cryptographic tables or word frequency count, it is easier to form actual words than Major.

For example.

To encode 67, you’d get words like this using the Major System…

shuck, Ajaccio, cheeky, cheque, chigoe, chock, chukka, echoic, check, Jackie, cheek, Jacky, chic, jag, chick, Jake, choice, jokey, choke, joky, chuck, Joyce, chug, juke, hijack, shag, jack, jig, shaikh, jock, shako, jockey, shaykh, jog, sheikh, joke, jug, juice, juicy, shack, shaggy, shake, shaky, sheik, shock, shook

In my system 67 is SH. Since I play wordle, I can find 5 letter words that either begins with SH, Starts with an S and Ends with an H, ends in an SH, or matches the onomatopoeia of the SH sound, or only animals containing SH or a combination of al of these.

For example, a list of common 5 letter words containing S and H.

sixth
shush
smash
smith
swish
slash
slosh
sloth

Word that matches the sound of SH = Shush
Begins with S and H = All
Animals = Sloth
Actions = Shush, smash, smith, swish, slash, slosh

Or let’s use 00 which is EE.
Wordle words that begin and end in E are…

eagle, elate, elide, elite, elope, and evade

Animal = eagle
Action = elope, evade
Emotion = elate

If you keep the letters together…

Action = mEEt,
Sound = EEk
Food = bEEf
Animal = EEl

If you use 2 separate word…

Person Action = Erika Eleniak, jumping out of cake or stripping

Action = Eating Eggs
Poetry = eternal eloquence
Science = exponential energy
Latin = Eter Egrum, Eloquenti Eterna

You can take my system and use it however you want, in whatever way you can come up with!

I’m so excited to see what you guys come up with!