I have completed my 100 PAO System using a VES = Visual Encoding System Technique for two-digit numbers (00 - 99). The following number to letter encoding system was used, simplified as one letter for each digit 0 through to 9 as follows, hence a simplified one-to-one correspondence making the system effortless to learn:
The advantage of VES as I see it, is that one can literally read both ‘numbers to letters’ and ‘letters to numbers’ with minimal of effort, given the obvious similarities between the set of letters chosen to be used due to their similarity in ‘shape’ to their corresponding numbers. I acknowledge, that given that I have used three of the five vowels as ‘coding place markers’ in the VES (that just happen to translate so well from ‘letter to number’ and visa-versa for me), that it could be argued that both actions and objects can’t be found using VES itself. I concede this point but have linked independent actions and objects to the cast of characters 00 - 99. The easiest two-digit numbers to learn were the 10 palindromic ones (i.e. OO - II - NN - MM - AA - SS - GG - LL - BB - PP). To learn the other 90 remaining ones (i.e. the non-palindromic ones), I coupled them in pairs reversing the order of the initials. So for #27 (NL) Niki Lauda, when reversed gives the ordered pair of #72 (LN) Leslie Nielsen:
This effectively has cut my learning of the remaining 90 characters down to only 45 characters, far more manageable a task, as I have connected them in their respective corresponding ‘non-palindromic pairings. Thus, when thinking of Niki Lauda, I see him performing the actions/objects of Leslie Nielsen which happens to be baking (action)/ cookies (objects) as a spoof from one of Leslie Nielsen’s scenes in the Naked Gun series where as a retired police detective he stays at home and bakes cookies’. In a similar vain, I ascribed Niki Lauda’s (action) of burning/ to his (object) F1 racing car with Leslie Nielsen. This I find was just a quick and easy way to engrain the remaining cast of 90 characters quickly to memory. Once I have practiced the PAO system till I have it remembered as easily as I can count from 00 -99, I would have three separate peg words systems of 100 images each for each of my Persons/Actions and Objects. The proof of the pudding is in the ability of being able to stick 6 digit numbers as single images into each of my chosen ‘loci’. I am confident however that this system will work effectively once practiced enough.