How I learned to memorize anything.

[@pinguefy]

Yes, this is a reupload. I got a copyright strike from for the Hollow Knight soundtrack and it makes the video so bad that I would rather just reupload to have something I'm proud of on the channel haha. Here is the original video if you want read the old comments: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqiZpHuijNlpmpY

[@wepl]

oof

[@sheepism470]

That's a rip

[@2noodles525]

sad

[@-t-e-d-]

It’s a great vid don’t mind watching it 2 times lol. This is the vid that made me sub

[@ColemakDH]

F

[@nickstanbul7653]

I started taking notes in college, and I would title every lecture's notes based on how I felt that day, like "FIN 466: The Pain Of Getting Up Edition." I think it helped me get into the right mindset to understand the material better because I was making a connection between my mood and recent experiences and the topics in lecture.

[@kiwis2blue]

Oh ur the nice dude from his typing vid!

[@Xiannnnnnnn]

That’s the most genius idea I’ve ever read from a youtube comment

[@redwolfplayz996]

Not gonna lie I hope he starts uploading again I really enjoyed his videos.

[@Baskingballer]

yeah what happened guess he got tired of using social media

[@sivert8300]

Same

[@deadpl55]

Yeah man he's only person where i see myself

[@JunDoesGym]

His focusing on his mental health if you go to his twitch

[@finminder2928]

@redwolf playz he is back!

[@heav3786]

When he isnt streaming i realize that i really miss this guy

[@shinkiro69420]

Same

[@Fenix.x00]

Where’d he go?

[@heav3786]

@@Fenix.x00 i really wish i knew man. He said he is working on youtube stuff a few months ago but idk

[@kevineats8196]

@@heav3786 maybe hes learning a lanuage

[@mangu4558]

@@kevineats8196 Check his twitch

[@Shoudori]

This video (and this channel) is fucking beautiful. It's inspired me to fix my life. For years now, I've been sailing off talent, playing video games for hours and hours instead of revising, and constantly scrambling for motivation to work, to learn, and enjoy life itself. Thank you man. This video as well as your viewer interviews have really helped me.

[@mangoes.]

Ohhh, so that’s why I felt like I watched this before, it’s a re-upload

[@pinguefy]

yep, sorry bout that haha

[@thekorekoi]

Thought the same thing lol

[@ju7904]

OH, that’s why it has like no views

[@hedge931]

I got straight A's, but also didn't learn "how to learn" in school, and actually kind of hated learning afterwards. 7 years later, I tried to finally pick up learning Japanese again... I had some motivations that kept me going long enough to discover that I loved learning, and that mnemonics were the key for me. Now I try to make them up for anything that I want to remember. Complete game changer. When I was memorizing kanji meanings by keywords, I made up mnemonics for about 20 at a time. It was a bit time consuming to make up the mnemonics but I was able to recall all the meanings with only a few flashcards reps each to reinforce them. I was even able to write them from memory when prompted (given that I had learned the basics of writing kanji previously). Did this for over 1000 kanji over a few months and now reading through native material is so much more doable. Yeah, mnemonics are pretty cool. I also learned the basics of Python even though in the past I thought I was destined to be bad at programming. I actually enjoy it!

[@numbertj4730]

I can attest to the idea of no one being inherently bad at math (this obviously has some exceptions for serious mental disabilities. Even then people are always surprised by what they can do.) I used to know so little math, I never got past third grade, and I remember crying because I couldn't do three digit addition when I was young. My grammar and spelling were pretty bad, and I didn't know much geography either. I remember one of the first things I taught myself was my months. I had never been taught my months because I was homeschooled, and it seems my parents forgot to teach me a lot of subjects. I actually owe Roblox a lot for my improvement in spelling and grammar. The site has actually been around since 2006, and it used to be a lot more creative, and a lot less of a mobile trash dump. I also learned programming on Roblox. At the time I didn't really understand the difference between scripting, and programming, so I wasn't really sure how applicable what I was learning was, but I liked it a lot. After many years I actually became good enough at it where I needed to start learning some math to do what I wanted, which is what made me decide to go to high school. I did pretty well because of my interest in math from programming, and I'm now studying computer science at college. I don't think I ever would have learned math if I didn't have a use for it, and over time I actually grew to like the subject. I think that's the hard part to every subject, finding what you like about them. Also, Plague Inc was a huge help with my geography. Still don't know many capital cities though.

[@l.1020]

Yeah, same here. I think in school they just accept when you’re bad in math, like it’s so normalised instead of trying to interests the students in the subject and making it more accessible. Because if you don’t learn the basics, you can’t “level up” in math. I was really bad in math especially calculating things, but my understanding wasn’t too bad in some subjects and I realised too late that the school curriculum was just really sh*t in explaining things. Nowadays I do a lot bester but calculating by hand and under time pressure is still hard for me, but my understanding is good and I realised I’m actually not too stupid for math

[@Genovan]

Recommended when video came out "1 minute ago"

[@landonnunez2850]

lol ikr ngl your great at everything i just need motivation

[@landonnunez2850]

@@jakeo4817 lol sure

[@ilikechineseteaespeciallyj7262]

I feel so sorry for Pingu, the quality of this video is on par with his other content; he gets 500k views, and then yt bends him over and fists him algorithmic style 😭😭😭

[@pinguefy]

i'll take the 500k tbh, i'm not that upset about it haha

[@ilikechineseteaespeciallyj7262]

@@pinguefy true that pingu senpai☺️☺️☺️

[@kwen9826]

Well the algorithm did him good today. I don’t even like typing, but his most recent vid was on the recommended section and I gotta say that it was PHENOMENAL

[@Yaj_22]

@@kwen9826 yup👏

[@existence.5806]

@Lite Cosmo UwU

[@mrfootfxtish9430]

when the recommendations are faster than post notifications

[@pinguefy]

that's crazy LOL

[@mrfootfxtish9430]

@@pinguefy ikr

[@Visiblychris]

This vid actually inspired me to get into a lot of improvement/memory stuff, so thanks for the new obsession(s)!

[@Visiblychris]

(I’ve already learned a ton of geography and I’ve improved at typing an incredible amount!)

[@triachinidx436]

Inspiration is 10% of the work Did you still have inspiration 1 week later?

[@Visiblychris]

@@triachinidx436 for once, yes!

[@Veqlla]

I know i’m pretty late but i really appreciate this video. i was homeschooled all my life and i did not get a lot of education at all. it’s refreshing to see someone with the same struggle. lol

[@pierogipete3527]

This is the second video of yours that I've watched (the first being the Dactyl Manuform keyboard video). This is...so relaxing to listen to. It's like sitting and talking with a friend at 11 at night.

[@morky4653]

Much love man. Hopefully get some time to tune into the stream again soon. I'll always support your content.

[@Sakura-zu4rz]

Happy Holidays! Thank you so much, wishing you the same. We hope this season ends on a joyful note and continues into a safe and prosperous New Year for you and your Family.

[@suzaneoriordan4366]

Yo ping, you probably will never come across this message and I know this video is 3 months old, but I want you to know that u are very big inspiration, see I was stuck because I love math and I also love video games, and wanna learn coding but I felt like I could only choose one, but you talking about improving has really gave me hope that I can do school, maths, science, learn coding and video games just organised and a goal to improve in each one, coding and video games have been a thing I have been in between about, but from watching you improve in each one, I no longer have to choose, I can get better at video games and learn coding, thanks ping, I've known ur channel for a while now, almost 2 years, so thank you, you probably wont come across this message and ik it's super long, but I just wanted to say this, and when I have doubts, I come back to your vids, good luck and I hope to see u upload again soon!

[@pinguefy]

thanks for the kind words

[@megataizzulillmi7964]

Hope you learning and doing well

[@LDogSmiles]

His outlook on life is so motivating and positive! People made fun of me for always getting the “most improved” award, saying it means I started out dumb. But I say that it’s a badge of accomplishment. Love you man

[@camillotejan]

The nice thing about mnemonic devices is that there is no need for any logical or causal connection for them to work. Often trying to find one helps memorizing already, and if it is illogical or strange that can help as well, because memory works by separating the general or "boring" from the special. The brain doesn't need to memorize "normal" stuff, but special stuff.

[@5nui_lovr]

okay this Might sound like a backhanded compliment but i mean it only in a good way: knowing that you are uh. less than stellar at rote memorization has made me very happy and has given me a very big boost in confidence at least for now, because it kind of cements the thing i've been told all my life that like "oh, everyone's good at different things, don't worry about being good at everything" because i was watching your channel and thinking "damn this guy is good at everything :/" and then BAM. hit in the face by the fact that you thought baghdad was the capital of like. belarus or something. and that really helped me, because i'm shit at a lot of things, but maybe there are cool things that i will be able to get good at a little easier due to how my brain works, like how some of the things on your channel were probably a bit easier for you, unlike geography. (not trying to downplay your hard work here! you obviously put a lot of effort into everything you do). but then? you went and figured out how to get good at this shit? like wow, maybe we can't be naturally inclined to be good at everything, but there's a way for us to get better at anything we devote our time to, if we just figure out what works for us! and that gives me a lot of hope and confidence in myself. i'm gonna try to like. learn a new thing or something! at least do some testing to see if i can find how i learn best. thanks for doing all the stuff you do! hope this makes sense and isn't weird or anything

[@IInferno]

Practice, patience and a penguin is all it takes.

[@pinguefy]

i love that haha

[@IInferno]

@@pinguefy

[@Kolblue]

I don't know why you dropped off of the face of social media, but whatever you're doing, take care of yourself, man.

[@hei7846]

New video just dropped

[@newevanjuice1203]

i love this man, i think i watched every single one of his vids and i think. a skill you should learn is geometry dash or a dance of fire and ice. basically rythm games that are fairly difficult

[@meepacheep7186]

i wouldnt call geometry dash "fairly difficult"

[@andeevfx8115]

@@meepacheep7186 boi geometry dash is hard asf. look up npesta

[@Baskingballer]

ngl i wouldnt call geometry dash a rhythm game

[@forkgodsdescendant2503]

@@meepacheep7186 Everyone listing top extreme demons(hardest levels even for the best players) out of the bat lol. I’ll accept your opinion if you Beat X-Step in less than fifteen or twenty attempts.

[@hiro3656]

your videos are very motivational, keep up the good job man!

[@hero9402]

This will be a viral one I got it on my recommendation too. KZbin recommendation is super good lately.

[@azublu2266]

Dude you really inspire me to be the best I can, seeing the hardwork and effort you put into things you want to get good at and seeing the human side where you struggle, helps me believe that I can achieve what I want to achieve too, it makes me want to pick up a pencil and work on improving my art skills :)

[@Tomart0]

To boost your channel, here's a comment for Master algorithm.

[@martelo589]

here's a reply

[@Tomart0]

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[@tristanros6148]

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[@ishanthnaga4376]

@@tristanros6148 here’s a reply to a replay to the reply to the reply.

[@rolandaung9071]

here's a reply to a reply to a reply to a reply to the reply

[@asherthe3rd]

everyone should rewatch the whole thing for the algorithm

[@silberdracheowie1486]

I wish you would do even more videos, cause your vids are rly high qualty and i rly enjoy watching them. :)

[@Walcaty]

Good that I find out this video in my recommendation section, that brings me motivation.

[@exoizlyfe6079]

8:11 This is a huge problem for intuitive dominant thinkers. People are who more sensing dominant can just absorb the information more directly but we need to actually paint these abstract connections in our brain to remember

[@notagain3732]

Just you talking about school in the first 2 min got me into ptsd mode bruh lol. What a life. I hope it all works out one day for everyone here including myfriends , family and myself

[@stainlesss00]

This is such a good channel

[@EJ90890]

This was quite cool to watch, though the idea of making stories to memorise things struck me. I am learning Japanese and the amount of chinese-originating characters that are used is a lot (+2200 common ones). I came across a method from an author called Heisig who calls it "imaginative memory" on how to memorise them. Many characters are made up of smaller parts, mostly other simpler smaller words within them. And to remember the character, you can make a story out of these words relating to the key one. To this point, I've memorised +1600, a bit sketchy here and there, but the majority is fine. That is something I definitely never thought I'd achieve.

[@huanunited]

omg master, this is so powerful. thank you for the video. please make more i love you.

[@cubedroid5087]

Happy new year! come back soon :)

[@seba-uu4tl]

this is one of my favorite videos

[@desertplayz3955]

I feel like i just heard my future self speaking about how to fix my life. This man is my spirit animal

[@SilverFlame819]

I find it really interesting that so many brains are drawn to learning the same things. Like, I go through phases where I challenge myself online with WPM and geography stuff, and recently bought a Rubik's Cube, since I've always wanted one but never had one, and have begun to learn that as well. Many nerdy folks also get into music and web/video design, which I also find interesting, because those are supposedly "arts", rather than "sciences", but I think there's something very cerebral about creating things that can be heard, seen, graphed, etc. Music is very mathematical, and you can tell stories with audio and video. I think there's not as much of a divide between the arts and sciences as we tend to think, the way we approach creation is just a bit different (more methodical types, and the more free-form arty types). I've got some health issues going on that have given me terrible brain fog, ruined my memory, given me aphasia issues, made it hard to type/write (adding letters, changing tenses, reversing parts of words, combining words, replacing words, skipping words), and just made me feel incredibly stupid, and feeling my intelligence doing a sudden freefall has made me start to practice more and more things, and become obsessive about weird shit, because it's disconcerting to be able to literally feel your brain struggling to process things when you've spent your life being incredibly intelligent. I feel like the only way I'll be able to hold onto my brain is to make it work overtime, teaching it constant new things, and striving to be more than it was before, even though it can't accomplish the common things it used to do with ease. It's weird, and I realize I'm probably just in denial about the state of things, but until I'm dead, I'm going to keep teaching myself more pointless shit... even if I never remember it. *lol*

[@dantes3811]

very good video inspired me to learn more about learning, thank you for sharing :=)

[@Quartz5005]

Thanks for this, i've been struggling to remember stuff in school lately cause there's just so much going on.

[@pinguefy]

best of luck :D

[@lilfru]

Man I miss this guy

[@eliasalmaraz8894]

I love this method of learning and im gonna try this with skating. the thing is tho, skating causes real pain, and it just scares me and ive quit for about a month now. I know u won't see this but it will give me a new mind set when it comes to learning new things.

[@pinguefy]

sounds sick, good luck!

[@Its.mojster]

@@pinguefy post another video please

[@idkwuzgoinon]

This video was oddly comforting, glad Yt recommended me to you.

[@grqfes]

that last part where you convinced the guy to study math was kinda wholesome ngl hopw he did good at his math assignment

[@User161mensch]

I'd love to have your mindset, this is just amazing

[@ajclan600]

Thank you for putting a smile on face

[@bennru]

Hope you are enjoying your studies and life outside of social media Mr Pinguefy. But when you are able to come back, you should as your channel is amazing and I enjoy your videos to this day.

[@junkemail5575]

Man I wish you uploaded more often, I love your videos!

[@typingsounds]

hope you're doing well dude

[@meowmrrpnyanya]

Congrats on 200k!!! You deserve it

[@RenderingUser]

"and they said no good could come from bullying" -pinguefy lmao

[@thegalaxysguidetogaming7404]

I personally remember best when I write something down. I remember a time when I had procrastinated all my homework and I had to memorize a speech that was due that day. I was in a rush to get to school and I only had the first sentence remembered so I wrote it down a couple times and there it was stuck in my head. I then went on to read it aloud about 20-40 times that afternoon.

[@PimpMatt0]

We all have skills. We just don't recognize them and take it for granted.

[@stephenharbor3179]

Please make more videos if you can 😭 , they are very interesting to watch.

[@beatrice7621]

It's unlikely but hopefully he will

[@rudra.patel.001]

I memorized the entire periodic table of elements. I think my name can tell.

[@cashhmuni]

Noooo why did this reupload, this video was a masterpiece

[@webstrikecubing6959]

1:11 My immediate reaction: Spamming T perms, niceeee

[@rioluvo]

Just discovered this channel, I really like it. :) His voice is cool too.

[@degrind6496]

Too bad he isn't posting :(

[@Melanie100991]

same, i can memorize bits of information, but when the infos are a lot, i usually create a story or relate to things. atlhough it seems dumb or unrelated at all, i can remember it

[@sussysapling5984]

Dude, where are you ? It’s been a year already, we miss you .

[@beatrice7621]

":(" -pijon the destroyer

[@Abyssalith]

Never read a more relatable comment Love, Pijon the Destroyer

[@phantomr277]

Hey man, I just found your channel and I really like your content. Where have you gone?

[@qolumbia3536]

You should try to learn stenography and see if you can get 200 wpm, though because it's an actual profession that people need to go to school for to learn professionally I don't know if it's even possible to get 200 at home, or even in a timely manner, Plover apparently is good for it

[@xavroy07]

"click on antartica" 💀💀 3:17

[@exoizlyfe6079]

Yes sir. Reciting and writing what I’m hearing is effective for language learning for me. I have to work on the memory palace too still & more abstract mnemonics

[@toasty4945]

yo we missed you a lot dude where have u been? 😭

[@toasty4945]

@@rourkelee1545 oh okay hope he's doing okay

[@noah_m]

South Africa actually has THREE capitals, just to make it harder for you

[@sirinherrscherofvoid.chose2235]

Nice to see you again after 4 months away (Though I was gone for longer than 4). At this point, you may as well be a living god among us with all this knowledge because I have no sanity to do all of this

[@kiwis2blue]

I really hope he posts a new video, I love these vids

[@quantum_leap786]

Real OG's instantly recognized The Greatest airshots of all time by Solomon

[@gremmy7440]

3:56 alright you pissed me off at Bangkok lol THAT'S MY COUNTRY, BRO!!!!!!!!!!

[@DarkV2.]

This is the fine dining of quality content

[@art-o-saur]

I learnt the memory palace from a memory book I have... Loved the video.

[@Harriqo]

it’s been 7 months and i still want to know the switches he uses

[@inokie6306]

He uses a black topre switch I forgot what he used specifically, but if you look at all the keyboards from topre on mechanical keyboard you can find his keyboard. (Except for the keycaps)

[@Luxcium]

I love how the younger you have the same glasses but proportionally smaller haha AMAZING ―

[@zescoot2590]

at first, I was like wait a minute did I see this entire video in one of my future predicting dreams and then I was like no that can't be because those dreams are always like 1 sec long and then I was the comment that this a reupload

[@low_bandwidth6163]

copyright strike, huh? don't worry man, i'll watch it again

[@LimeGreenTeknii]

I always remembered that the hippocampus was responsible for memory because if you ever saw a hippo on your campus, you'd remember that.

[@virwinsinstruments2209]

proof we can do anything we set our mind to with the right confidence

[@Noah-we4oc]

been almost a year since youve uploaded, i hope youre doing well

[@madr3333]

and when the world needed him most... he was gone

[@thehypershotz]

Who here is still waiting for another upload 😥

[@yeetyeet9291]

Me :(

[@juanemiliorojas1846]

Glad there is the reupload, i wanted to remember how to have an actual good memory

[@snowali805]

strangely enough, I went down a super similar route for memorization because I realised I could remember random details about memes and inside jokes. but then after making these really obscure stories that I would laugh with my friends about, I completely forgot about it the next week--i then gave up on memorization for the next year 💀

[@DuperGX]

I really thought I was crazy for doing those weird trains of thought to memorize things

[@sencres2457]

"and they said no good could come from bullying" that really got me lol

[@PatheticStan]

wow i used the memory palace thing without even realizing it’s kinda weird

[@madhades2005]

Hey pinguefy, you are one of my favorite youtubers and I watch all your videos. When you upload it truly makes my day. Whenever I watch your videos and I see the games you play I instantly intrigued by the game and want to play it but a lot of the time I don't know the name of the game. So it's there any (preferably free) game recommendations or games you play? Thanks!

[@MrKasenom]

14:20 I know you dismissed the advice given in that comment because that method of learning the capitals didn't work for you: but I think you're just approaching this the wrong way. Learning Geography isn't just about memorizing capitals, that's more of a fancy parlor trick. What matters more is to get a broader understanding of different regions in the world, what makes them different and unique, their languages, cultures, people, and history. I think it's great you did manage to learn this more effective method for going through rote memorization, but at the end of the day this knowledge isn't as helpful as if instead you read more about different countries in the world. It's the same with the periodic table, I could never memorize it in school it's just so boring, but instead I finally learned it when I understood how the table was organized and why it was organized in the way it was (each column indicated valence electrons etc etc). My point here being that it's much more easier and more useful imho to learn things in context and to connect different concepts together. Learning a bunch of random information is impressive but if you can't connect them in a useful way, it's not going to serve you for much other than bragging rights

[@kinos6208]

very inspirational also the final run was epic

[@InstantMTBRider]

Hi pingu, Also do learn about mnemonic super memory method to memorize them. I took a mnemonic class in institute call manokranti and they also gave meh a book naming super learning 1-2-3 these book have a formula to remember 100+ word and then hook them to any use like paragraph , element name anything you could literally imagine of I lived in Nepal so I have applied this method to remember 75 district name of my country at 2010 ( I could not belive myself lol I did that because I am the worst student of my school getting 0 grades haha)

[@Tionn_Dudley]

i love your channel man i just found you

[@Jed1ah]

why did you leave? and are you gonna come back?

[@nazgul2484]

5:36 hèeeeeeeey i am from Skopje

[@caliminae3260]

Hold up, this dude totally made getting over it, he even has the exact same music going on!

[@Chan-qk9eh]

When I made my own alphabet code, I used this technique sorta. For each letter, I tried to make some visual hint, somehow the extra step helped my brain a bunch. Now I don’t remember the visual hints, but even 6mo after using the alphabet and not using it much to begin with, I could probably still write it

[@watchrandomuser395onyoutube]

This guy *had* to have done good in school!

was confused by the reupload but idm rewatching lol

[@maura462]

just found this channel through the qwerty video and can't stop watching

[@chrispy-MF]

How I learned to memorize memorizing everything in the known universe