It seems like their are too many words to have ‘go to’ images for in Words. Do you have them or do you make up your images on the fly?
If you don’t have ‘go to’ images, do you have a systematic way of creating images or whatever comes to your mind?
Do you look at what you got wrong after a game and see how you could have made a better image? Since it seems it would take a long time to see the same word again, do you think that is helpful?
I come up with images on the go. It’s my favourite part of the words discipline since it helps getting better at coming up with images for even abstract words quickly (which helps me a lot when memorizing for my studies). I don’t have a system behind coming up with the images, I just go with what comes to mind first.
I do look at my mistakes, but that’s more to learn from what I’ve done wrong in the process of creating the image, rather than that I’d like to have that specific image ready for next time. Usually the take away is either that the image wasn’t vivid or concrete enough or didn’t properly represent the word it was supposed to. So I wouldn’t purposely create a “library” of images for words; but that might happen unconsciously since the things that “come to mind” have to come from somewhere, and that’s usually from past experiences (which might as well be images that you once came up with on the go while memorizing memory league words).
That’s how I’m doing things, but I wanted to see if there were any other experiences.
My experience is the same as SilvioB’s. I come up with images on the go, but I think my process of making images may differ. My settings for words are based on looking at 2 words at time and when I see them I don’t make 1 image for each word instead I make a whole scene from it based on that two words. It’s rather some sort of situation or properties of an object. I can create even a phrase from that 2 words that will remind me of something. It depends on these 2 words which method I pick. It’s also much better for me if there is at least one person in image. As well my image may contain some details not directly associated with that 2 words but these details make my “scene image” whole and meaningful. And don’t forget to make a cause-consequence part for an image to recall words in exact order. I find that working pretty well for me.
It may seems complicated and slow but at the moment my PB is 50 words in 39 secs. I had a bunch of attempts from 30 to 34 seconds but there were always a few errors, so I did 47-49 words
Keep in mind I’ve trained a lot, it’s also my favorite discipline and I’m used to ML’s set of words
Interesting. Can you give a couple examples?
Both.
Alphabet lists and Double Alphabet lists help with both rapid encoding based on the pool and spontaneous encoding without referring to it.
If I have difficulties to transfrom word into a memorable image, I look up for ideas here:
It’s worth inspecting every memory recall mistake and I do, when I remember). Sometimes I am just too eager to do another test.
Would you, please, rephrase what you wrote? I didn’t understand it.
He only means memorize images for all the letters in the alphabet, and memorize images for twoletter syllables