I’m just starting out in the world of memorization, but there are so many techniques that I’m getting confused. How can I memorize names or acronyms that don’t have an inherent meaning? For example: Mm6, SCDC0. What about terms that lack a clear, easy-to-visualize context—like UDP or TCP? Is there a specific method for those? Also, how can I memorize relationships between systems—for instance, when System A sends information to System B, and System C receives information from System A?
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For the abstract vocabulary question, try this search for “abstract” in the vocabulary category:
https://forum.artofmemory.com/search?q=abstract%20%23vocabulary
How big is the network? Would it help to draw it on paper?
I’m not sure if they contain what you’re looking for, but here are some related discussions about memorizing networks:
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Hi. You can give meaning to those things or create a text to clarify it.
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Mm6: A big M&M and a little M&M swinging a golf club.
SCDC0: A scythe hitting the congress building in DC and a donut coming out of it.
UDP: An udder with a pea.
TCP: Tic Tacs with a pea.
My system has an image for every digit, letter, and letter pair.
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Can you explain more about your system?
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I have images associated with many different patterns.
0-9: 2 is a swan.
00-99: 57 is a leg.
000-999: 344 is a mirror.
a-z: e is an easel.
aa-zz: gf is a giraffe.
Example: 344gf57e2
In a mirror (344) there is a giraffe (gf) that throws a leg (57) at an easel (e) and a swan (2) swims away.
In addition, I have practiced with many foreign symbols too.
气 is a revolver.
I also have a memory palace with 1000 locations.
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Hi. For what you use so many locations?
How did you drill the whole system to instant remembrance? Anki?
I’m almost done creating my own PAO system I don’t know how to design my Anki cards in such a way as to capture each possible combination to remember it.
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Flashing Random Number Generator Game | Art of Memory
The art of memory developers - I think Josh - made this great flashing app. Just put it on for as many digits at a time as you feel like. Sure you may get some digits more often than others, but in the long run this doesnt require any anki cards, and is kind of fun when you can eventually do it on faster speeds. I dont recall, I just do the images.
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Also try this newer one that lets you drill smaller sections of a system: Practice Mnemonic Number Systems
There are some other number tools on the memory training tools page.
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With words you aren’t familiar with the meanings of, you can go by the sounds. So, “Bereshit” can be a bear on toilet, and if you know a certain meaning of “CP” then TCP can be Chris Hanson (“Why don’t you sit over there?”) in a teacup. Though I think it might help to think about their meanings a bit more, so that TCP can be Chelsea Manning (Trans on a mission) holding an N64 CONTROLLER that controls C3P0 (a PROTOCOL droid).
To memorize systemic relationships, ideally you’d want to think about and personalize the relationships quite a lot; it’d be easy to get relationships backwards if you don’t really understand them, but the description you give seems easy enough. Vespiquen (a distinctive Bee pokemon) user a looking glass to see Mr A (a character without a face) send up an A with a smoke signal. Maybe a C → Cyclops is an umpire “recieving a pitch” from Mr A? It’s that kind of thing.
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The numbers and letters I used Anki for memorization. I don’t use Anki much for that any more. Now I practice them occasionally by flashing each of them automatically on the screen while visualizing them. Everything else I just create images on the fly while I am memory training.
Not much right now. I am just using the locations for memory training.
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How many time do you spend learning your system?
It depends how fast you want to get with it.
The thing with Hypersonic’s memory approach - where he can create images on the fly - is because he is using a system that can sometimes generate a Word for him, based on card or number combinations.
For example, 462 may be Rain, in the system he uses. Or 821 may be Vet.
This is called the Ben Pridmore System, which is an adaption of the traditional and older and classical major system. It goes consonant, vowel, consonant.
Some combinations of numbers generate words like that, some do not.
If you use the classical major system, all your numbers need to be spelt out by consonants. Only some words are made up to two consonants, at least in English.
It also depends whether you want to commit to memory images for 00 to 99, or just know the code, in order to come up with an image or word on the spot. Depends what sort of things you are into CC.
Actually, I use the consonant-consonant-consonant system from The Memory Book by Tony Buzan. It usually follows the rules, but there are a few numbers that don’t have corresponding words like 933. I use beam maker for 933.
The trick to all mnemonics is: what you memorize must make sense to you.
If it makes sense to you, you’ll remember. If it makes no sense to you, you’ll never remember why you memorized it that way.
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