Gosh, more than a year has passed already. It’s time to blow away the dust and revive this thread. Shockingly the goals are still the same. I wonder how this can be 
Anyway, in the past few weeks I’ve reworked my 3-digit system in order to make the images more vivid and memorable. Many of them were still from the time when I started with memory training.
I’ve also updated the memory palace that holds all 1000 images so that I can look them up if necessary. It consists of ten bigger areas, each having ten distinct sub-areas. A sub-area can be a room, a shop or a corner of a garden for example. Ten number images are stored in each sub-area, nine of them clockwise (or counter-clockwise), the last one in the middle.
When I forget the image for number 483 for instance, I just have to jump to area 4, sub-area 8, then look what is in the back left corner.
Back when I created my 3-digit system, I also made a shape image for every number. So what I’m using is basically a Major System, but combined with the number-shape system extended to three digits. For instance the word for 50 is lasso, as 5 = l and 0 = s. But you can also see the image in the shape of the number: The 0 is the loop of the lasso, and the 5 is the winding rest of the rope. See this thread for more informations on the Shaper System.
Initially I planned to skip updating the shape images too and rely on the memory palace only. But this turned out to be a bad idea. At the three-hundreds already I looked at the numbers and didn’t know what they meant in most cases, even after several days of training with flash cards. Adding number shapes really makes it easier to recognize the images, so that’s what I’m working on right now.
I’ve also re-designed the journeys that I’m using for Memory League games. The stations come in groups of five now. Although this rule is mainly meant to improve long term memorization, I guess there are also some minor benefits for memory sports. At least it’s easier now to figure out the number of the location, and it hopefully prevents shifting errors too.
That’s it for now.
The next step aside from finishing the number shapes will be to install a routine for daily practice. Ten to twelve rounds a day on Memory League should be enough to ensure steady improvement. I think I’ll start with Images, Words and maybe International Names because they need no preparation aside from journeys. Numbers will follow as soon as I’ve finished training all the 3-digit images. The same applies for Names and Cards as I intend to create a 2-card system as well as images for the most common names.
Just for documentation purposes (because I hope to break some of them within the next weeks or months), here are my current personal records on Memory League:
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