So I spent 30mins a day for the past week coming up with my new card system. Ben Prid. said he has 2704 image which allows him to remember two cards with one image. Dennis Mul. says 2652 images as you will not get the same cards twice. I agree with the latter, as I will always remember one deck at a time and not intrashuffle the decks.
Of the 2652 images, 1326 are people, 1326 are objects (which I've yet to do as objects are easier than prescribing than people)
Rather than code for the images in wordy system like Bens, I chose to catergorise my system, it's easier for me and also it only includes images I'd like to remember. I don't like following the trend of something, appearantly Ed Cooke and James Ponder are delving into the Ben system. German wise, Dennis Muller and Simon Reinhard have a second level card master system, so I assume this is where the memory sports train is headed if one is to succeed. All aboard!!!
My system is quite nice because I have friends, family, old school teachers and that as images. All the objects I intend to make very personal like the Jerusalem plate my mum bought 18 years ago, which I broke, or the Japanese fisherman antique plate...which I broke.
So once I get this system out the way then it's decimal digits time, then binary time. And hopefully come up with a system for names and faces which is numerically prescribed depending on the features of the person.
I've decided I'd like to be quite good at memory, the only reason I don't go all out on compotitions or practice is that I know there is a better sytem for me...hopefully this is it.
Training for the Swedish championship is slow. I might do some binary and decimals after I written this.
I intend to use this new system for Wales and the UK Open 2010. Hopefully, it'll be smoothed out by the WMC 2010.
Also, cheers James Paterson for reading my blog.
Friday, 4 September 2009
Monday, 24 August 2009
Has it Really Been 5 Months Since I Wrote on this Thing?
Sorry for my absence. Two people have admitted to reading my blog and I can't let down my two newest, bestest, empathetic friends.
The UK Open Memory Championship was good. Did 4 personal bests and ended up with a score of 4093. My Silver Trophy looks amazing by the way. Gonna aim for 4400 to 4500 for the upcoming Swedish Championship next month.
I like totally screwed up my 10 minute cards which I think is my best disciplin during practising, I consistantly get 3-4 decks with perfect recall, I blame it on the recall sheets so I took it upon myself, after advice from Idriz, to provide my own recall sheets for cards.
The comedy is at a complete standstill at the moment, I still got the jokes I'm just not in the jokey jokey mindset. I don't really like going to comedy clubs, they're not funny apart from the compare and they're always drawn out long winded events. If I were to do comedy it would have to be original (obviously), quick, deep comedy if that makes sense, and include jokes only 10% of the audience would get at a time, that way they talk about it afterwards.
I'd have to include memory and maybe something else but I don't know what, I'll work on a random skill and include that.
Oh yeah, alos the Japanese equivalent to BBC came round two weeks ago. They were cool, they gave me a perfectly wrapped Baby G watch, pen and deck of cards.
As soon as they arrived they asked me to memorise a list of words, fair enough, but like I don't like words. I memorised 50 and made 3 mistakes...oops. They came with me to the gym, watched me whilst I dilated my biceps then came back to my house to finish filming and conclude with an interview.
Erm, what else is new? Throwing cards has slowed down because they got all bent and I don't wanna open a new deck.
Sorry if my writing style is hard to follow, my diction and grammar is based on conversational and informal talking styles rather than textbook literature, hence the reason why it doesn't read that smoothly. I'm gonna try and read The 48 Laws of Power and something else before I go back to university.
Also, in the last month I put on 2 kilos and look bigger, but I need to strip off some of this fat, esp from my spare tyre.
Owf Veederzeyan.
The UK Open Memory Championship was good. Did 4 personal bests and ended up with a score of 4093. My Silver Trophy looks amazing by the way. Gonna aim for 4400 to 4500 for the upcoming Swedish Championship next month.
I like totally screwed up my 10 minute cards which I think is my best disciplin during practising, I consistantly get 3-4 decks with perfect recall, I blame it on the recall sheets so I took it upon myself, after advice from Idriz, to provide my own recall sheets for cards.
The comedy is at a complete standstill at the moment, I still got the jokes I'm just not in the jokey jokey mindset. I don't really like going to comedy clubs, they're not funny apart from the compare and they're always drawn out long winded events. If I were to do comedy it would have to be original (obviously), quick, deep comedy if that makes sense, and include jokes only 10% of the audience would get at a time, that way they talk about it afterwards.
I'd have to include memory and maybe something else but I don't know what, I'll work on a random skill and include that.
Oh yeah, alos the Japanese equivalent to BBC came round two weeks ago. They were cool, they gave me a perfectly wrapped Baby G watch, pen and deck of cards.
As soon as they arrived they asked me to memorise a list of words, fair enough, but like I don't like words. I memorised 50 and made 3 mistakes...oops. They came with me to the gym, watched me whilst I dilated my biceps then came back to my house to finish filming and conclude with an interview.
Erm, what else is new? Throwing cards has slowed down because they got all bent and I don't wanna open a new deck.
Sorry if my writing style is hard to follow, my diction and grammar is based on conversational and informal talking styles rather than textbook literature, hence the reason why it doesn't read that smoothly. I'm gonna try and read The 48 Laws of Power and something else before I go back to university.
Also, in the last month I put on 2 kilos and look bigger, but I need to strip off some of this fat, esp from my spare tyre.
Owf Veederzeyan.
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
Dalai Lama Skating on a Bowl of Noodles
So I'm back from the Welsh Memory championship. Leading up to it back in October November, I was really excited about competing, still am, but then I changed my system and tried to consistently get my personal bests. Then in December it tailed off and only got practising a week before the competition. I had a month of deadlines and coursewerk leading up to the championship, and the last one had to be in the Friday before so i was a bit rushed.
When we got to the Welsh thing, I had a bit of trouble sleeping that night, I was so excited, there's nothing better than hearing your scores even if there not that great, cos they kind of mean nothing, it's just exciting. So we got to the venue, we shared a taxi with Katie Kermode, and let on to the arbiters n competitors and set up shop.
Random words are of course better with practice but it's about the luck of the draw most times. It's suppose to be 85% nouns and image based words and 15% abstract. They were quite easy to be honest, bring, ugly, chair, flower, tree etc but I wanted to be 100% they were correct during recall, I got 49 words. All went good, new world record for Katie with 109 in 5 mins.
Then binary reared it's ugly head, Ben did 840, quite impressive, I did 351 after I asked for mine to be remarked, I had pefect recall of what I remembered but I didn't observe it all that great a lot of switched 0 and 1's
Historical dates I always wing it last minute. "Someone gets married in Charlotte Church" was a memorable one. oh and Policeman arrests himself". 15 minute numbers failed a bit, I missed loci during recall then rewrote the same digits about 4 -5 times before running out of time. Damn.
10 minute cards went well...ish. I got 3 decks in 10 minutes, but the 4th deck I did I got up to 31 cards into, but messed up on the recall.
Then lunch came thank God. Went to a qaint little pub looking place for a Welsh feast. The meat was rationed but the vegetables were help yourself. We spent over an hour in there, I thought we were gonna be late for the start back.
Erm...in the afternoon, images were not great, 5 minute numbers were not great, spoken numbers were not great, speed cards were not great. I'm being a bit too harsh on myself, but I could have done better in all the events. I put it down to not being used to the competion and being a bit too frowny and tense. I had a face like an orphan most of the time.
It all rounded off nicely, Ben, Katie then Me and James in fourth.
Then we all went round to Dai's for liquid refreshment, James was giving us a lift behind Phil, but We were supposed to be behind Warren and Dai but they went through a light and left us. So we finally met up that night, had a drink, had a musical undertone, bit of curry, and headed off back to Travelodge, shared a taxi with Connor.
All in all, it was great, enjoed it. I am gonna make no hesitation in starting my 3 digit system for the UK open championships. Also, stuff which I never practice, dates, images, names, words, I'm gonna make an effort to be at least half decent.
I could make the whole Welsh memory championships sound a bit more interesting but I need to do my stand up comedy routine for next Monday, so take care of your shelves.
When we got to the Welsh thing, I had a bit of trouble sleeping that night, I was so excited, there's nothing better than hearing your scores even if there not that great, cos they kind of mean nothing, it's just exciting. So we got to the venue, we shared a taxi with Katie Kermode, and let on to the arbiters n competitors and set up shop.
Random words are of course better with practice but it's about the luck of the draw most times. It's suppose to be 85% nouns and image based words and 15% abstract. They were quite easy to be honest, bring, ugly, chair, flower, tree etc but I wanted to be 100% they were correct during recall, I got 49 words. All went good, new world record for Katie with 109 in 5 mins.
Then binary reared it's ugly head, Ben did 840, quite impressive, I did 351 after I asked for mine to be remarked, I had pefect recall of what I remembered but I didn't observe it all that great a lot of switched 0 and 1's
Historical dates I always wing it last minute. "Someone gets married in Charlotte Church" was a memorable one. oh and Policeman arrests himself". 15 minute numbers failed a bit, I missed loci during recall then rewrote the same digits about 4 -5 times before running out of time. Damn.
10 minute cards went well...ish. I got 3 decks in 10 minutes, but the 4th deck I did I got up to 31 cards into, but messed up on the recall.
Then lunch came thank God. Went to a qaint little pub looking place for a Welsh feast. The meat was rationed but the vegetables were help yourself. We spent over an hour in there, I thought we were gonna be late for the start back.
Erm...in the afternoon, images were not great, 5 minute numbers were not great, spoken numbers were not great, speed cards were not great. I'm being a bit too harsh on myself, but I could have done better in all the events. I put it down to not being used to the competion and being a bit too frowny and tense. I had a face like an orphan most of the time.
It all rounded off nicely, Ben, Katie then Me and James in fourth.
Then we all went round to Dai's for liquid refreshment, James was giving us a lift behind Phil, but We were supposed to be behind Warren and Dai but they went through a light and left us. So we finally met up that night, had a drink, had a musical undertone, bit of curry, and headed off back to Travelodge, shared a taxi with Connor.
All in all, it was great, enjoed it. I am gonna make no hesitation in starting my 3 digit system for the UK open championships. Also, stuff which I never practice, dates, images, names, words, I'm gonna make an effort to be at least half decent.
I could make the whole Welsh memory championships sound a bit more interesting but I need to do my stand up comedy routine for next Monday, so take care of your shelves.
Friday, 13 February 2009
Memory Training? That's a joke.
So anyway, I got really committed to memory training in September til November but ever since my birthday when I started going tpo the gym I've been very lazy. But hopefully I'm back on track now.
I have a limited number of decent loci. I tend to use very sentimental loci and get used to erasing them constantly rather than seeking new loci which I know is detrimental especially to a mental athlete. Even though I tend to use houses, I use restaurants and gyms and workplaces for the longer disciplines. Because the Welsh Memory championships is all on one day I haven't got the luxury of the loci being refreshed overnight. So I worked out I need a supplimentary 200 locations if I aim to acheive my personal bests in each discipline.
I'm quite confident with cards, but with numbers I get a bit jittery and it's usually 50/50 on whether I get over 200 digits in 5 minutes. Names and words and images and that I'll practice for a week in advance. I'll hopefully get a decent score but nothing to write home about.
The reason I've been a bit disloyal to my memory training is because I found a new outlet for my creative and idiosyncratic perspective. At least I think I am I'm probably just average, but anyway I've started writing stand up comedy. Memory wise I think it brilliant. Using all the associative powers that a memory trainer has and the ability to mental recite jokes is awesome.
So that's what I've been doing instead of memory training. It's a blend of memory, timing, psychology and confidence which I hope to do quite well in.
I'm a bit nervous over the Welsh championships. I don't want to screw up. I wanna get my personal bests, and hopefully make it into the top world 30. I don't want to let down Dai, I'm his hero. j/k
NB Peace.
I have a limited number of decent loci. I tend to use very sentimental loci and get used to erasing them constantly rather than seeking new loci which I know is detrimental especially to a mental athlete. Even though I tend to use houses, I use restaurants and gyms and workplaces for the longer disciplines. Because the Welsh Memory championships is all on one day I haven't got the luxury of the loci being refreshed overnight. So I worked out I need a supplimentary 200 locations if I aim to acheive my personal bests in each discipline.
I'm quite confident with cards, but with numbers I get a bit jittery and it's usually 50/50 on whether I get over 200 digits in 5 minutes. Names and words and images and that I'll practice for a week in advance. I'll hopefully get a decent score but nothing to write home about.
The reason I've been a bit disloyal to my memory training is because I found a new outlet for my creative and idiosyncratic perspective. At least I think I am I'm probably just average, but anyway I've started writing stand up comedy. Memory wise I think it brilliant. Using all the associative powers that a memory trainer has and the ability to mental recite jokes is awesome.
So that's what I've been doing instead of memory training. It's a blend of memory, timing, psychology and confidence which I hope to do quite well in.
I'm a bit nervous over the Welsh championships. I don't want to screw up. I wanna get my personal bests, and hopefully make it into the top world 30. I don't want to let down Dai, I'm his hero. j/k
NB Peace.
Friday, 5 December 2008
Is it still called stress if you refuse to deal with it?
New memory personal bests this week. A deck of cards in 63.48 seconds, and 176 cards in 10 minutes, wouldv'e been 196 cards if I didn't miss the 8 of spades. Darn.
Liking uni as always. Can feel the tightness in my back and chest from the gym. Hopefully do more amino acid composition this evening after sports assignment. Erm...nothing much else new, Money trouble hindering me but I'll survive, eventually.
Hoping to improve on all my scores since UK 2008 Open. Especially speed numbers and 10 minute cards, two of my best disciplines I screwed up. After Wales I hope to start a new system, 1000 characters, 100 actions, 1000 objects. The reason for the only 100 actions is to make the final scene only 8 digits instead of 9. When memoriseing a row of 40 it's easier to make everything fit and you don't back track over past digits. I have 10 scenes per house and loadsa houses so it's easier for me. Also, if you have too many actions they become indistinct, my actions are general and allow me flexibility. The binding part of the scene aloows me creativity and induces just the right amount of effort without straining my concentration or time. Got enought chracters, just need to organise them.
I'm off home to print of some binary and random digits. A few decks of cards and something to eat. Since my job means less to me now than when I started I think my only option is to not waste time. Memory, gym, nutrition is my life.
I say life, I mean my passions.
I say passions I mean devout hobbies.
Yeah, that'll do.
Liking uni as always. Can feel the tightness in my back and chest from the gym. Hopefully do more amino acid composition this evening after sports assignment. Erm...nothing much else new, Money trouble hindering me but I'll survive, eventually.
Hoping to improve on all my scores since UK 2008 Open. Especially speed numbers and 10 minute cards, two of my best disciplines I screwed up. After Wales I hope to start a new system, 1000 characters, 100 actions, 1000 objects. The reason for the only 100 actions is to make the final scene only 8 digits instead of 9. When memoriseing a row of 40 it's easier to make everything fit and you don't back track over past digits. I have 10 scenes per house and loadsa houses so it's easier for me. Also, if you have too many actions they become indistinct, my actions are general and allow me flexibility. The binding part of the scene aloows me creativity and induces just the right amount of effort without straining my concentration or time. Got enought chracters, just need to organise them.
I'm off home to print of some binary and random digits. A few decks of cards and something to eat. Since my job means less to me now than when I started I think my only option is to not waste time. Memory, gym, nutrition is my life.
I say life, I mean my passions.
I say passions I mean devout hobbies.
Yeah, that'll do.
Thursday, 27 November 2008
New Personal Bests
In the last week I've done like 6-7 hours practice and reached a new personal best in speed cards and speed numbers. I did 240 numbers in 5 mins with one mistake which brought me down to 220 digits which is still a best for me. Then yesterday I did a deck o cards in 67.66 seconds. which was kinda a suprise cos I kept shaking my head through it saying "oh I'll never remember that, oh dear oh dear" But I did so crisis averted.
Also I want to tell you about the magical wonderland of manchester, an aladdins cave of treasures, a place of fantasy and amazement to all those who seek to find it. It's called Costco. Absolutely brilliant. First time we went there we spent £133 on stuff. Decks of cards (bicycle), lounge pants, make up brushes, trainers, socks, mixed herbs and the stupidist purchase ever a flippin 12 pack of chewing gum. I dunno what I was thinking, I think I got carried away. At least they'll last, Unlike most people who buy them, I don't need them. Mwah ha ha.
Erm, I really like nutrition. I wanna write a book on like the philisophical aspects of it and the place of such a lifestyle subject in the context of the world. But like I have no original thoughts, and my philosophical witterings are dry and unprofound. I decided to write a nutrition poem instead. With an actual rhythm and all the other poetical devices.
PS I think cous cous is my favourite carbohydrate based food. I dunno yet. There's a lot of life, time, and places out there. Wish me luck.
Also I want to tell you about the magical wonderland of manchester, an aladdins cave of treasures, a place of fantasy and amazement to all those who seek to find it. It's called Costco. Absolutely brilliant. First time we went there we spent £133 on stuff. Decks of cards (bicycle), lounge pants, make up brushes, trainers, socks, mixed herbs and the stupidist purchase ever a flippin 12 pack of chewing gum. I dunno what I was thinking, I think I got carried away. At least they'll last, Unlike most people who buy them, I don't need them. Mwah ha ha.
Erm, I really like nutrition. I wanna write a book on like the philisophical aspects of it and the place of such a lifestyle subject in the context of the world. But like I have no original thoughts, and my philosophical witterings are dry and unprofound. I decided to write a nutrition poem instead. With an actual rhythm and all the other poetical devices.
PS I think cous cous is my favourite carbohydrate based food. I dunno yet. There's a lot of life, time, and places out there. Wish me luck.
Saturday, 8 November 2008
Detoxing My Blog
To appeal to a broader audience I have cleaned up my blog. Before it was rated 12A now it is rated PG.
Yesterday I accidentally soaked 5 cups of lentils in water overnight not realising that half a cup is one portion. Now I got the lentil population of a small village to consume by tomorrow.
I'm working on my juggling, cos appearantly every German does it, Gunther, Boris, Gaby to name a few...if not all. I like juggling with clubs better though, I like things that rotate. I Practice my memory untile I've used up my immediate store of loci which is about 300 locations in about 20 buildings, mostly houses. Seeing as though Welsh Memory thing is all on one day I need to come up with twice as many loci, I can't recylce them later on in the comp, too much interference.
I'm gonna put a Findus Lasagne in the oven now, then later do some immunology work for my presentation. Oh my days.
Yesterday I accidentally soaked 5 cups of lentils in water overnight not realising that half a cup is one portion. Now I got the lentil population of a small village to consume by tomorrow.
I'm working on my juggling, cos appearantly every German does it, Gunther, Boris, Gaby to name a few...if not all. I like juggling with clubs better though, I like things that rotate. I Practice my memory untile I've used up my immediate store of loci which is about 300 locations in about 20 buildings, mostly houses. Seeing as though Welsh Memory thing is all on one day I need to come up with twice as many loci, I can't recylce them later on in the comp, too much interference.
I'm gonna put a Findus Lasagne in the oven now, then later do some immunology work for my presentation. Oh my days.
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