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First try at 52 pasteboards...
Mar. 2nd, 2013 02:19 pmWith only a week or so left in the $10K Memory Competition over at Memrise, I finally took a crack at memorizing a 52-card deck. It took me 6 minutes and 32 seconds to get completely through the deck.
The result is of the "almost" variety, with 48/52 recalled correctly. In the graphic below, the cards with a light red background are the ones I missed.
If I had slightly sharper eyesight, I would have more readily distinguished the two black Queens and the result would have been 50/52, which would have been closer to "perfect," but not there. And in mentally reviewing how everything went down, it turns out I "misvisualized" the 3D, and apparently used the person I associate with the 3H twice.
In retrospect, this error was made possible because I decided to use a "journey" of 26 locations, which required me to "encode" two people in each location. The way I do this for any given location is to imagine the person associated with the first card, and then link that to what I call the "attribute" (sometimes an action; other times, an object) of the person associated with the second card to be linked to a location.
Where specifically I messed up was having Marylin Monroe (QC) wear a cleric's collar (3H) in one place, and then in another, having an old magician friend of mine (who was a minister, and whose attribute is his collar) sit in a bathtub and sip a martini. As it turns out, had I mistakenly used the same person or the same attribute in two places, I would almost certainly have noticed the problem at the outset.
One interesting and unexpected result of this exercise was finding that I drifted into recalling the sequence of cards out of order. Whenever I found myself struggling to recall who was where doing what with whatever, I would skip ahead and eventually, the cards that hadn't been placed (the interface was drag-n-drop, so initially, all the cards were arranged in order on either side of the "board") would trigger recollections.
In the end, it was not a bad first try; on the other, my history at the site suggests that my next several attempts will be not as good. (Still, there's no way to tell unless I try.)
Cheers...
The result is of the "almost" variety, with 48/52 recalled correctly. In the graphic below, the cards with a light red background are the ones I missed.
If I had slightly sharper eyesight, I would have more readily distinguished the two black Queens and the result would have been 50/52, which would have been closer to "perfect," but not there. And in mentally reviewing how everything went down, it turns out I "misvisualized" the 3D, and apparently used the person I associate with the 3H twice.
In retrospect, this error was made possible because I decided to use a "journey" of 26 locations, which required me to "encode" two people in each location. The way I do this for any given location is to imagine the person associated with the first card, and then link that to what I call the "attribute" (sometimes an action; other times, an object) of the person associated with the second card to be linked to a location.
Where specifically I messed up was having Marylin Monroe (QC) wear a cleric's collar (3H) in one place, and then in another, having an old magician friend of mine (who was a minister, and whose attribute is his collar) sit in a bathtub and sip a martini. As it turns out, had I mistakenly used the same person or the same attribute in two places, I would almost certainly have noticed the problem at the outset.
One interesting and unexpected result of this exercise was finding that I drifted into recalling the sequence of cards out of order. Whenever I found myself struggling to recall who was where doing what with whatever, I would skip ahead and eventually, the cards that hadn't been placed (the interface was drag-n-drop, so initially, all the cards were arranged in order on either side of the "board") would trigger recollections.
In the end, it was not a bad first try; on the other, my history at the site suggests that my next several attempts will be not as good. (Still, there's no way to tell unless I try.)
Cheers...
