Thanks, Sylle.
What have been your experiences with multideck memo, then and now?
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When I was still using shadows and training for Vienna, I was usually around 28-30 decks for one hour (using your and Katie’s software) but usually only around 13-14 for 30 minutes, due to the fact that I was training for the 30-minute version with real cards. I’ve done visualisation tests over 40 consecutive decks both now and back when I used shadows, my current system is much much better on that drill, but I haven’t yet done any proper multideck memo as I’ve been focusing on single deck speed, but I’ll start again with 10-minute and 30-minute Cards next week!
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I’ve only been using memory techniques for practical but you mean people are always making me see this thread and I’m starting to be curious!
I am thinking of finding a pack of cards but I am just wondering, why you use a real pack of cards instead of technology ? Doesn’t it slow down the process and therefore does not reflect real speed of memorizing? I think very agile people will be much faster no?
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I’ve always been slower with a real deck of cards compared to a deck of cards on memory league. It’s probably that I just can’t move the real cards as fast as I can press a button. Not sure if that’s the case for everyone though, some people can move these cards in their hands faster than I ever could.
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I keep breaking my own records! Yay! My first sub 40 seconds with actual cards! I memorized a shuffled deck of cards in 39 seconds! I’m very proud of myself.
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I am currently (after about three weeks of training) at the 3:00 minute mark. Something very interesting I noticed is that I am faster with certain card brands – my favorite is the Viennese card producer Piatnik. The reason is, that they make the face-cards very different from each other and in such a way that i need a fraction of a second less to recognize them. Also I don’t keep mixing up clubs and spades as I do with other card decks. Did anyone else notice such a thing?
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Very nice progress Daniel! 
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Yes, you should be. Your quick gains are impressive PAO can be unwieldy, but you’re wrangling it.
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Well then, I’ve had a perfect deck at 10minutes, and my best with 2 errors at 6:45. The one I was most pleased with was a 8:45 where my recall was the same speed as the memorizing. Otherwise, I’m running 3:1 in recall:memorizing times.
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Im thinking of trying this, But I only have a number pao . I wonder how effective it would be to have a system covering only the suits in 4 (256 combinations) and one for the number+face cards.
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I stayed under 2:30 for the first time with zero mistakes. Woo-hoo!
(Training for 5 weeks so far, PAO)
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Hey Sylle, I hope it’s ok to ask that here, but what is shadows?
Thaaanks.
…probably talking about shadow-system
Hi Sylle! What’s a two block system? Is it a 2-card system? Thanks!
Some people call it shadow system, some call it two-block system, some call it something else, I feel there’s quite a lot of confusion as to what these are. A two-block system is a two-card system using only 1352 different images. There are different ways of reading two cards (encoding) but the jist of it is that there are two different two-card combinations that can give you the same image. To encode which of the combinations it was that you encountered, you can decide to either link the image to the previous one on the same locus or to put the image on the next locus. You could also decide between putting the image under or over the locus. Or something else.
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