Does practicing names & faces events improve face recognition skills? [POLL]

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This is a question for people who use train for names-and-faces events in memory competitions.

Do you find that the training helps you improve your ability to recognize faces, in addition to remembering names?

How were your face-recognition skills before and after you started training? Did you have normal face-recognition abilities, are you one of the super-recognizers, or do you have some level of prosopagnosia (face-blindness)?

I’m wondering if people are experiencing improvements in face-recognition ability, whatever their skills were when they started.

Polls

Anyone can answer this first poll:

How well could you recognize faces BEFORE starting your training
  • Can’t recognize any faces
  • Often can’t recognize people
  • Below average
  • Normal
  • Above average
  • Excellent
  • Super-recognizer
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Only answer this second poll if you train in names & faces events for memory competitions:

How well can you recognize faces AFTER you did training
  • Can’t recognize any faces
  • Often can’t recognize people
  • Below average
  • Normal
  • Above average
  • Excellent
  • Super-recognizer
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I’ve included some related articles below.

See also: UNSW Face Test for Super-Recognizers

Articles About Prosopagnosia

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Mate, I’m good at remembering “Names & Faces” in real life but when I start training my memory on memorizing “Names & Faces” I couldn’t memorize 12 ‘N & F’ in 5 minutes and I got some of them wrong. My Self Confidence got hit by a train.

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Did it feel like practicing reduced your ability to recognize or remember faces, or did it just affect your confidence?

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I didn’t find actual results of ml names and faces improving my real life names memorization skills. Partially that might be because I train English names and in real life I don’t find literally a single person have that name.

While compare to English common names, hindi have varieties of names that I can’t even prepare like for english.

Cards - not sure where to use it

Images - haven’t used in real life

Names & Inter - didn’t actually improve, my before names memorization and even after getting speed like 30 sec speeds in names. I can’t actually perform that well in real life names. I literally forgot many people names.

Words - some might get disagree. But I don’t actually find this useful either in real life. memorizing words vs actually memorizing verbatim where we have lots of time, we don’t need to actually translate each words. rather than sentences. and also after understanding that concept we can write in our own words. It’s not necessary to literally memo all text word to word.

Our main goal should be understanding not just memo that all texts verbatim without even knowing what’s that. Atleast word is useful event than above 3.

Numbers is the only event that helps me learn numbers faster than what I used to memo before learning it. That’s the reason I like it.

Rest event I was performing better before trying this events practice.

Everyone have different perspective, I’m not saying anything wrong to any event. Just what I felt. That I don’t find actual improvements. Even after trying that for years. Just the numbers that I actually used in real life.

Rest is active recall, teaching myself, chunking, space repetition, flashcards, anki. things like this helped me more than above events to memo something. And I were using it unknowingly before even joining memory.

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The brain has the ability to recognise faces and remember them easily, even more so if you interact with that person. When you see them again, you know you’ve seen them somewhere, even if you can’t remember their name.

Now, this doesn’t translate into practice. At first, I could remember some faces, but not others. In other words, I forgot where I had placed them, although this happened to me whether I did it quickly or slowly.

Later, I identified the mistakes I was making. One was not giving them facial expressions. The brain is the first thing that analyses a face. For example, if someone looks at me badly, if they are angry, you also know it. If it is a face of rejection, sadness, etc., Other methods are to look for unique details, which I was not very good at. many faces looked similar to me, I only changed the name, so sometimes it was their personality that changed. Then I started to observe in a more orderly way, from the hair to the chin, in a numbered way. In some cases, I used the person’s own voice and attitude, or I used Bruno’s method with animals. For example, a person who took on the personality of a dog that barks at what it does not understand. You can imagine the face of that person who cannot be beaten in a debate, a monkey that imitates with a curious face, a peacock with its egocentricity and haughty face, etc. There are too many ways.

I only do this for faces that are in images, but those you know physically or observe in movement, not mentally, that is, on the physical plane, are better memorised because you are really there. The images must be made present to the senses.

This is remembering that I usually memorise 100 new people a day. My memory palaces are based on people, as if we were talking about a theatre, so I always use them to memorise things, since my memory palace is verborum and I memorise more words with characters than with memory objects.

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