what is the best way of memorizing numbers??

Answer 1

By thinking of patterns

Answer 2

It depends on your skill set and the situation in which you memorize them and then regurgitate them. If they are not just arbitrary numbers, their meanings can be very useful as well.

Let's say you are in a navy mess hall and a much older man sits across from you and talks about his work with geniuses. Gets to numbers and suddenly rattles off an arbitrary ten digit he uses for this purpose, and wants you to repeat the number back to him. You do because the navy has been training you to be part of the communication chain, relaying information and orders without any need on your part to undertand them or use the information. (In my case, the guy shut up and let me eat in peace.) The point is that if you get the numbers in that manner and have to rattle them off immediately afterward, do it by thinking of absolutely nothing other than speaking the moment the interrogator shuts up. Practice it by doing exactly that with the things people around you say (but let them know you aren't doing it to aggravate them!). Do no thinking whatever, just begin speaking the moment they shut up. You will be AMAZED at just how long and complicated a thing you can repeat word for word like this.

If the numbers are going to be in a list and you will have clues to them in answering, for instance in a matching type test rather than an essay style test, you will have to tough it out and try to see a pattern in smaller portions of each number that will help you order them later. For instance, digits 4, 5, 6 might increase if regarded as numbers themselves as you go down the list (say you have 1023887463 and 1005648835 — digits 4-6 for each are 388 and 564 so later you see the two in a list and remember that set of digits rose in value so you put them in proper order without actually ever memorizing the numbers at all). Although a multi-pronged approach of memorizing some aspect of them as well as perceiving patterns provides you with unrelated aids so you can work with smaller sets of them when putting your answers together.

Best of all are numbers which make sense to you for some outside reason. Perhaps you are looking at phone numbers, or prices for sports cars or jewelry. Then, when putting your answers together, you not only have the extra detail remembered since the numbers "made sense" to you when memorizing, but also have clues like one sports car is a Mercedes and just has to be less than the Lamborghini.

Good luck though. Maybe you can shut up a bore some day who is implying that neither you nor anyone in earshot is genius enough to be worth his professional attention and everyone can eat in peace while the bore re-evaluates his criteria for judging genius.

Answer 3

Find a mnemonic device that works for you and get cracking. For me its patterns or a simple form of "chunking". By that I mean, for example, taking numbers in groups of two, three, or four and memorizing them by starting with two or three groups and adding one or two more groups at a time until you've reached your target. Once you've learned the method you've chosen and have practiced using it, you'll have no trouble. If you have trouble, change methods, use your imagination. You're only limited by your imagination.

Answer 4

search the internet for "mnemotechnique" or "mnemonic" or something like that. basically, most of these "mnemotechniques" will base on restructuring numbers into symbols, which the brain is more used to handle. Thus, it will be easier to memorize. Look in my cited source. That's a beginning.

Answer 5

i try to find micro patterns

for my bank account : 4350324,
i remember 4, one less, two more
this pattern also is true for the last 3 digits

my phone number : 12394059
i remember it starts with 123, 94059, the numbers are mirrored in the 0

Most of the times i can find such pattern in numbers.

Answer 6

Associate the numbers with more familiar numbers. For instance, I call my friend's phone number Joe Carter Wayne Gretzky (2999) because these are familiar associations for me.

Answer 7

Grouping them into sets of four and learning them that way works for me.

Answer 8

Make it into a song, so that you can remember more numbers.

Answer 9

By spliting it into groups, making it into stories or making into a song.

Answer 10

by making a song out of it
like that one tommy tutone
song

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