# Card deck memorisation - post your times here!

**URL:** <https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/card-deck-memorisation-post-your-times-here/27280>\
**Category:** General Memory Chat\
**Tags:** card-memorization\
**Created:** [August 9, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/card-deck-memorisation-post-your-times-here/27280 "2011-08-09T15:50:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rompie](https://forum.artofmemory.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@Rompie](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/Rompie)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 9:22pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/card-deck-memorisation-post-your-times-here/27280/417 "2013-01-18T21:22:24Z")

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Hi guys,

@ DH Sorry to hear you’re having problems with your health, I hope you’ll get better soon.  
@ Wessells Congrats on your times! You’re doing great man. I wish I was there with you, but beware I’m right behind you, so rest not!

Personally I haven’t memorized any decks nor digits for nearly a week. The last entry in my practice spreadsheet dates from 12 Jan. Apart from being preoccupied with other stuff, personal and professional, I also felt this inner resistance to the whole memory thing. I know It’s fun, and that practice yields results (and a rush!), I know that it’s good for me, and yet I have felt this resistance to the whole thing for the past week. Do you guys recognize this?

Another reason for not having practiced is that I decided my PAO list needs revision. I’ve known this for some weeks but I kept delaying it. I’ve been unhappy with certain dull Ps, Os that just don’t work and As that do not have enough action in them. So an excuse I made up for myself was that before I could resume practicing I needed to revise my PAO list, so not carve images in my brain that wouldn’t make it through the revision anyway. So that’s where I am right now. Last night I changed around 25% of my Ps As and Os and I thought I was ready to resume practice tonight. However, there are some great ideas to be found in the forum and I couldn’t resist revising some more, especially with the help of this thread:

> **[People ANYONE could use to fill in gaps in their PAO](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/people-anyone-could-use-to-fill-in-gaps-in-their-pao/28061)**
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> I had the thought a while ago of creating a generic PAO list with items that would be familiar for anyone (I’m guessing that a lot of the personalities on my actual PAO list would not be familiar to a good proportion of people). I’m far off a...

So I’m not sure if I can start practicing tomorrow already. Anyways, the resistance is gone and I’m very eager to start again. Not having practiced for nearly a week, and having to get used to my updated PAO list, I’m expecting and accepting much slower times, but I’m not gonna panic. I’m sure I’ll go sub 1 soon.

@ DH By the way DoubleHelix, you got your happy noob! Some of my new Ps and Os come directly from your awesome list. Thanks for posting! I’ve seen quite a few PA(O) lists on the web, but yours definitely stands out when it come to originality, and I think many people will benefit from it.

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