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I thought you have discovered a new method.
I started off with the dominic system, and then same as you discovered new images, but with shapes instead, because most of the characters didn’t have any images I could use. And I was seeing images in it’s shape form and it led me to create all the number shapes from 00-99.
I have a discussion post here on this link.
With the shape images, it’s now almost instant for me, I don’t translate it from dominic or major, it’s simply the shape of the number digits matched with the images.
If you practice your own images perhaps 1 hour a day by following a visualisation method, it will probably take you about 2 to 4 weeks before they are vividly clear in your mind. This probably depends from person to person, but try to follow a method of visualisation when you look at your number digits which will certainly help to recognise them all as images and eventually you’ll be much faster than you are now.