Engineering how to Memorize a 600 page book for realz

[smith.francis]

Using the fact that you can count from 1 to infinity by memory can you order an entire 600 page book in this way so that you can store the book in your life long-term memory store. Ive managed to cast (n + 1) = x like a net but im having trouble creating an index so that you can recall the information off one image. The image ive come up with is a 10 by 10 which adds up to 100 square as an index image

[smith.francis]

One technique I’m trying is converting all of the text in the book into binary. That way all you have to do is remember a symmetry line and that way you no how to navigate 300,000 letters of text and print the whole book.

[smith.francis]

Need help engineering the new memory technique so feel free to add your comments to help me and yourself take this journey of building a memory technique that beats the memory world champions.

[Ganxel]

If we assume every page contains 300 words of text that are an average of 5 letters long, skipping spaces, then convert it all to 8-bit binary (assuming 1 byte per character, so ASCII only), then you’d have to memorise a sequence of 7.2 million bits. Or if you mean storing each character as a decimal ASCII code and can form at least one image for each of the 256 values (actually you might not need anything below the first 32 or so), then you could memorise a sequence of 900,000 of those.

I’m sure this is possible for humans to do, but is it worthwhile? You may as well memorise the binary values of an MP3 file or computer program and type them in.
If your goal is 100% accurate reproduction of every character in the book, it’s probably still more practical to learn a sequence of words rather than characters or bytes or bits. Then during retrieval practice, make a note of difficult sections where you make mistakes, and come up with a specific strategy for each section (eg is it a graph or figure, are you trying to memorise a typo in the book).

[bjoern.gumboldt]

@smith.francis

One technique I’m trying is converting all of the text in the book into binary.

Well, braille is binary and you can encode the entire alphabet this way…

Learn Braille In No Time Using Your Binary System

Here is A, B, and C in Braille: …and here the rest of the alphabet: https://www.louisbrailleonlineresource.org/braille.html# You can connect them to your existing binary system by placing the binary system’s object next to a picture …

Would also work for math or music…

Using Braille to Memorize Mathematical Formulas

Continuing the discussion from Learn Braille In No Time Using Your Binary System: There have been quite a few times that people here have asked for ways to memorize mathematical formulas and things of that nature. Just like in the post linked above, you can use braille for that as well. Quick recap: If you have a 00-99 image system, you can create a binary system, and that in turn let’s you encode braille cells. So all of this can be done using your existing system. Click the link above to see…

As far as…

@smith.francis

a memory technique that beats the memory world champions.

I do use it for binary, but it’s not going to beat others systems only because I use a different grid…

What system do you use for memorizing binary numbers [POLL]

My binary grid is 2 wide and 3 high; similar to a braille cell. 11 10 00 …in braille this is the letter “F”. In competitions it’s my image for 31 putting one PAO (i.e., 2x3 = 6 wide) per location. That then is 5 loci per row. Has the advantage that PAO images don’t spill over into the next row as they would if you did 6 digits at a time (i.e., 3x6 = 18 binary digits per PAO). Also, it keeps the same way of reading when reading braille or encoding letters of unknown words or codes into braille…

[smith.francis]

If you search “Cube Duel” on youtube you can see what i bought and im using it to memorize. its a 4 x 4 x 4 cube and if you can imagine timesing this cube number by 10 then multiplying it by 10 and then 10 again it will give a number of 64 x 10 x 10 x 10 = 64,000. Thats how many cubes within a cube that it gives. My training strategy is based on blindfold chess. I can and many people can and know how to successfully play a game of blindfold chess so im developing a way to play blindfold cube duel, red for 1’s and yellow for zero’s. One thng that you’ll notice with blindfold chess is that it allows you to recall binary and if you know how to play up to 100 moves blindfold thats thousands if not millions of binaries.

[smith.francis]

how did you use the method of loci in combination with braille? How does that work?

[bjoern.gumboldt]

Not sure I understand your question… you place them just like any other image.

[Grimba]

This system does what your describing The Lanier Verbatim Memory System | Part One: Intro & Part Two: How It Works

Also the ‘cube within a cube’ approach isn’t optimal because your spatial locations need to be distinguishable in some way in order for them to be memorable. For instance you can have multiple swamps but you should try to give a unique element to each one (and possibly even a name) to help you distinguish the locations.

As far as the ‘people learn to play blind fold chess’ I would agree. There are plenty of examples of people improving there visual memory (architects, artist learning to draw from memory, chess.)

That being said, I would recommend not getting too obsessed with trying to intentionally train your visual memory. if you just get used to thinking in images and make a continuous conscious effort to see your images clearer and clearer then you should get better.

[smith.francis]

ive found an interesting way to perfectly order the entire book in binary and braille but then it turns the whole task into a mathematical jigsaw puzzle. The final position or letter is 19 ones: 1111111111111111111 and in total there are 500,000 binary positions and total amount of letters in the book. So what i did to try to unscramble the letters was create an index of 1-100 for the binary. For example: 1111101010110000111 = 75 in the index which gives a list of letters indexed as the number 75 which tells you where to put the letters down or what letters are recalled in that binary or braille position.

[smith.francis]

But yeah every indexed number 1-100 all contain 5000 letters. So now its structured like putting the textbook back together like an actual jigsaw puzzle. If you solve the jigsaw you’ve managed to memorize at grandmaster level performance (world champion status too) by memorizing a 600 page textbook word for word verbatim.