Method for memorizing historic dates (like that of competitions)

[aavashkafle]

Anyone know about the century location method for memorizing dates?
One of the top athlete Prateek Yadav (best in historic dates) said
" I use the century location method " …

[Erol]

Have a look at this which may help;

P.A.I.L. System

[This thread was copied here from the old forum.] Mukkinese 25 October, 2012 - 06:52 A system I use for dates/history is the P.A.I.L. system, this is a simplified PAO system with yet another category added. With so many steps it isn’t great for speed memory, but the natural grouping of dates helps considerably with memorizing lots of things for study. It uses ten each of Person, Action, Item(object) and Location, each representing 0-9. This gives a total of 10,000 pegs 10x10x10x10. Easy to…

[aavashkafle]

yeah looks like that is the one.

[Parkouristx]

I know having a 3 digit number systems makes this event a lot easier since you only have to really memorize the last 3 digits to the dates. I know Johannes Mallow did this and held the record for a long time

[aavashkafle]

yeah you are right but feel discouraging to learn all those 1000 images.

[Parkouristx]

I know what you mean! But if you want them to be easier to memorize, then you need the 1000 images!