# "Compounded" Peg Lists

**URL:** <https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/compounded-peg-lists/95095>\
**Category:** General Memory Chat\
**Tags:** peg-lists\
**Created:** [July 31, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/compounded-peg-lists/95095 "2024-07-31T21:42:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lukelustre](https://forum.artofmemory.com/user_avatar/forum.artofmemory.com/lukelustre/32/31233_2.png) [@Lukelustre](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/Lukelustre)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/compounded-peg-lists/95095/1 "2024-07-31T21:42:55Z")

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Potentially someone else might be able to expand on this topic and give other examples, because I think it could be an interesting way to extend a peg list without expending much more memory on it.

Here’s a list of 5 Pokémon, in the order the games have tracked them:

 ![The final evolutions of the first 5 Pokémon lines in Pokédex Order](https://forum.artofmemory.com/uploads/default/original/3X/5/7/57034015e003fd6fa6ad14651454116376450adf.png)

Making a peg list of these are fairly straightforward and pretty easy to retain. However, each of these Pokémon have 2 pre-evolutions attached to them as well.

 ![The 15 Pokémon in total](https://forum.artofmemory.com/uploads/default/original/3X/1/e/1ee16521def46c92034ec46e023f4543b402dde3.png)

There’s no point including the other 10 in a peg list as it would be redundant, but while it requires pre-requisite knowledge to actually know the Pokémon, it’s a case where you don’t need to memorise everything in a list in order to still recall them all.

I’ve coined in “compounded” because I think it works by 1 peg being compounded in memorising up to 3 overall; and I’m curious if there’s any major utility to this as a concept, or some other examples where you can retain pegs implicitly.

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**Author:** ![Leksanders](https://forum.artofmemory.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c37758/32.png) [@Leksanders](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/Leksanders)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 6:34am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/compounded-peg-lists/95095/2 "2024-08-01T06:34:45Z")

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The utility is that you have 2 extra peg lists for free. The only immediate downside that I see is that going through the pre-evolution peg lists will probably require recalling the base list first, and then deciding which pre-evolution list you want to jump to. But that’s until enough repetition makes you familiar with both.

Another way to look at it, though, is that you now have a peg list that is 3 times longer, in which your path is POKEMON1 → POKEMON1 PRE-EV1 → POKEMON1 PRE-EV2 → POKEMON2 → …