I have been practicing memorizing random words for about 3 months although I am not seeing a difference .I asked the people in this forum for techniques except mind palace and linking .
If you have a technique then please tell me . I want to memorize 100 random words under 1 minute . My current personal best is 30 words in 30 seconds
I got the answers like think crazy but nobody told me?
How to think crazy?
How to see vivid images ?
How to think colorful images and involve senses in the image?
How to give the movement to the images ?
And i also heard that I should think pictures like cartoon but how to do so ?
If somebody have any techniques or effective suggestions then please help me with providing so .I will be glad to get them
Why? What’s wrong with mind palace and linking techniques?
Did you try the simplest of all memory techniques----Rote Memorization? Try it!!! If you want to avoid MP,Linking,Images,etc of mnemonic techniques,then you are left with only one technique-and it ‘rote memorization’! In rote memorization,you don’t need any image,MP,linking,etc!
Congrats on your current personal best: 30 words in 30 seconds is already an extremely good performance! If you can keep that tempo and accuracy while memorising for 1 full minute, you’d be among the best in the world (not kidding). However… I wrote a reply in your earlier thread and I will write it here too: your goal of 100 words in under 1 minute is extremely unrealistic.
Your bio here on the Forum says that you are from Nepal. Did you get the impression that 100 words in under 1 minute should be possible based of what you have seen from the “memory king”? There have been two posts recently in this forum about what he allegedly is able to do:
I’d highly recommend you to read the answers, especially to the 2nd topic. @Josh made several comments there that I think sums it up quite nicely. The bottom line: based on all that we know about memory techniques and the best verified performances (as of today), memorising 100 words in under a minute is impossible.
Maybe you have to practice for a longer time. Three months are possibly not enough to be twice as fast as the best memory athletes in the world, some of whom have been in training for years or even decades already.
I ignored memory palace (locations) for 20 years and hence could not reap the major benefits of memory techniques till then. I used major system for numbers and some association in those 20 years.
Major breakthrough happened when I really understood the importance of location and the natural way my brain just knows the location and need not spend any time to remember it. Now I am able to retain long lists, many topics and long passages using the memory palace, linking, association and images.
I wonder why someone can leave locations out of the techniques. I believe once we understood the significance of location in retention we never look back.
You are right. Including location and attaching new information to existing location knowledge takes time. So does the other methods even rote memorization takes time.
We need to choose a technique which will yield more ROI. If the location technique gives us more retention then we may choose that one for certain information.
Once we know that it takes time, we can start figuring out ways to reduce that time. Like when I attend a new lecture or seminar which is important to me, I already prepare a good memory palace location in my mind (priming) and when the seminar starts it is quicker to attach the information to that palace.
I believe some considerable time will always be needed to associate images and making connections with the new information. When people do that quickly they have done priming earlier, for example if you develop a POA system that is a considerable time already spent to fix the images for common steps in order and while learning new knowledge you just apply the associations with the existing system quickly.
Here using POA is say 70% time already spent in developing POA which is reusable by the way. and only 30% time then needed to associate new information. This I will say will be one technique to reduce the time needed for retaining new knowledge.
The world record , atm, is what? 300 odd words in 15 minutes-something like that? I would hesitate to say 100 random words in under a minute can’t be done but it would put you beyond mnemonics, beyond chick-sexing, beyond bored-on-a-blue-daze , beyond S. and beyond even perhaps Peek’ian ‘scanning’.
Well I don’t have any technique for memorizing words but I think that the technique in this
forum post here can help you to recall 2x more words and at double the speed or maybe even memorize them at twice the speed and the technique in a video below may help you to memorize more and I think a bit more than 2 times faster according to my thoughts -
and you can also use the technique given in the forum topic below to recall faster -
And all of the techniques above are The Memory Palace Technique with some changes,So I think that they can be combined and used with some or no changes needed to still get the Memory Palace Technique which is very useful,
