How to memorize 70,000 digits of Pi

The “memory palace” is a famous technique that makes incredible feats of memory possible (the world record for “number of digits of Pi memorized” is a whopping 70,000). And yet, most of us struggle to remember a new phone number. We perform some simple tests on ourselves to make better use of our frustratingly limited recall.
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[@VergeScience]

What’s the largest number of digits you can easily remember on the spot? Give it a try!

[@ettorefagioli1012]

Verge Science 20 more or less

[@MrNotSelc]

Keep it up with the good content 👍

[@georgplaz]

3

[@michri9467]

10

[@Armsvid]

Maybe 1 lol...

[@slicer-dicer7998]

Well it's pretty easy for me to remember 70,000 digits of Pi. Not in the right order though ..

[@KevinP32270]

LOLOL

[@nanay400]

16284683162843561826435619284653162865625465646284682462868246292845562464928468246284653538858828191828281643957619284646792,5646461525646735343464656182846728243162894675489264685764285755

[@emansol9588]

3.14159265358972 is all I know. Might even be wrong.

[@Okotin]

Eman Sol Almost correct, the last digit is 9.

[@JustSvx]

@Ninja Reflexess no its 3.14 i believe..

[@diiarno]

*me at 8 pm* : im going to sleep early tonight *me at 3 am* :

[@hrckhm]

Are you spying on me

[@uenoyama4900]

you at 3am: Your profile pic

[@dorupero]

"ANormalPerson"

[@datboi795]

Lol it’s 2 40 rn

[@charizardb2029]

Fff it's 3:10 in UK rn LOL xD

[@littlebeanze8210]

I can remember infinite digit of the number 0.3333333333...

[@deidara_8598]

wouldn't one say 0.3 repeating or 1/3?

[@SpiffyCheese2]

Its just 0.4 in base 12....

[@sentienttoaster1739]

Ha I can remember that and .66666666666666666666666666666 ...

[@misokahorrow7784]

Thats 0.33^bar

[@ba-wp5zs]

@@deidara_8598 I'd say point three recurring.

[@JTheMelon]

Looks like grandma is cooking 70,000 pies again...

[@KevinP32270]

LOL

[@obystarxs.o.1297]

OMZ THSIS LOL

[@obystarxs.o.1297]

THIS IS

[@had5709]

again?

[@thefrustratedneetaspirant7777]

Are you telling me this has happened before?

[@TommoCarroll]

Well right now I’m having amnesia and deja vu at the same time - *I think I’ve forgotten this before.* 🤔

[@Man-rg4sn]

Aspect Science ,

[@KevinP32270]

LOLOL

[@PowderedSalt]

Hold on. U GOT THIS FROM TYPING.COM EXPOSED

[@LowkeyyDumb]

*DEJA VU*

[@jamesyu7284]

jamais vu u bloke

[@teeblackgold97]

Hey Vsauce, Verge Science here.

[@rohanbadari4063]

Tee Black Gold 97 lol

[@parajsashqiptare9118]

missing Vsauce videos 😢

[@williamchen5627]

Where are your fingers?

[@ThatGuyWithSomeSubs]

lol

[@MrPianoMan]

I thought this was a vsauce video! Lol!!

[@user-xu1dh6jt7r]

I just make it into a song. *^cough cough^* AsapScience 😉

[@blackberrysyrup808]

That literally the only reason I can name 100 digits of pi. Its soooo catchy !!!!!

[@leorio1231]

Hello there Peson haha yup I watched that one more than once!

[@jeffbuckleyfan313]

THATS THE ONLY WAY I CAN REMEMBER

[@jeffbuckleyfan313]

Snowy Galaxy THATS THE ONLY WAY I KNOW LMAO

[@imanimaldonado1626]

3.14159 this is pi followed by 2653589 circumference over diiiiameter 79 323 omg can’t you see 8462643 and now we’re on a spree 38 32 now we’re blue of who knew 7950 then a 2 88 41 so much fun, now we run 971693993751 HALF WAY DOOOONE That’s all I remember 🤪 Edit: I clicked a 9 instead of an 8, my bad; fixed it

[@loool1969]

The apple in the toilet is iconic.

[@ryan2-518]

Snuffles lol

[@anw4aar]

Lol

[@TheAlexzork123]

I thought those are the new apple products.

[@cortster12]

Nah, it's fitting.

[@zeugens]

How many numbers you can keep in working memory also depends on the number of syllables, not just the number of items. That's why people remember more or less numbers when their working memory is tested in different languages (Arabic < Spanish < English). This even applies to sign language, where a list of words that take longer to sign are more difficult to remember than a bunch of short signs.

[@user-nj7rw5my9h]

The Life of Pi

[@kirbeh5567]

never ends

[@dad6451]

Step one, eat a calculator

[@fastakeenan4699]

lol

[@shashwatkalbandhe1082]

I M laughing out really hard RN

[@reinoutmeijer6777]

so how do i remember 70.000 digits of pi? i mean thats what i came for, right?

[@hugomusic9504]

You asign each letter a consonant and group every digit into a group of 3. Then you fill in the vocals for example 155=dll=doll and then you proceed to place them in your memory palace

[@lucasmorais4471]

for me this don't work, i memorize 120 digits of pi by just decorating the numbers in a group of two.

[@JorgetePanete]

mean, that's*

[@jackmiltons5979]

Hugo Rousu nerd

[@zacharystevens8751]

Lucas Morais I memorized 100 digits in 3 hours...

[@georgplaz]

"I can barely remember a phone number when someone reads it off to me" That is already way more than I could. I am happy if I can remember 4 digits for ten second

[@maksymillian]

Georg Plaz hahaha funny joke stop underestimating

[@LeynaSept]

My brain likes to wonder when I have a time limit. Like if someone tells me their number for example, my mind goes blank under pressure and I forget everything they just say. I really have no clue why people think we would remember that...

[@dekippiesip]

Those skills have probably worsened as well. I just put every number I get in my phone, so my personal number is literally the only one I know. While like 15 years ago it was more important to actually memorize numbers.

[@MegazoneMusic23]

For the memory palace as they put it (when I was studying how to increase the capacity for learning) it is better when you pick places in your physical room to assign the "cards or objects" there clock-wise or counter clockwise as opposed to random locations in your room. It does work.. I was studying engineering and had to remember formulas for this class and I created a story in my bedroom and the formulas were in different parts of my bedroom..

[@Versaucey]

5:12 lmao, why is she 144p?

[@hassanm.1887]

She's frozen un time

[@agoogleuser455]

Here before this comment blows up

[@pepehimovic3135]

I don't get it

[@stinkyjoe4675]

Lmao I was wondering the same thing.

[@birdsnestbacon3136]

@@agoogleuser455 Well that didn't work..

[@Arka_Das]

but why would you want to do something as useless as memorizing 70,000 digits of Pi ??

[@NoName-un4np]

MaryoBuilds And?

[@arent2295]

MaryoBuilds that's it? How useless lol

[@rake1087]

Really. Having a world record and being in the Guinness World Record Book is an amazing feat.

[@j.a.1776]

Having a world record just for the sake of having a world record means jack. What they basically found in this video is that anybody can do it if they waste enough time. So why would you?

[@rake1087]

Whatever. You guys are literally getting your panties in a wad on something that will never affect you in anyway whatsoever. Have a nice day:D

[@22.7a5]

I now just realized how much that Guinness world record adjudicator had to suffer. LOL

[@charlesvanderhoog7056]

Some programmers have a memory palace for one programming language. They entertain a number of memory palaces. The memory palace is the way story tellers used in the past and in India still use to quote the Vedah or Homer from memory at the community fire. The memory palace is a most remarkable tool that has been known and has been in use for at least 3,000 years now. But there are other methods, too. Ask Quintilian, Book XI, Chapter 2, sections (Latin lines) 18 - 35.

[@Mitatt0]

Someone in this world can memorize 70000 digits of pi while i cant even memorize where i left my keys

[@FlavioNoNavio]

"stuffed animal"?? yall out here hangin with annabelle and don't even know it

[@derpinickd4626]

Flavio Carlos Nieiro LOL RIGHT. ESPECIALLY WHEN ITS GUARDING THE DOOR. CREEPED ME OUT AT 3 AM

[@sarahhobbes7832]

Yup really scary

[@okboing]

I have 60 odd digits of pi memorized and the way I've done it is pretty unique. I used to only know 3.14159, but I slowly added more digits, 2 to 5 at a time, and through the course of four years, I now know so many digits that writing them on a screen surprises me everytime, because it's so much. I distinctly recite it 2 to 5 digits at a time, in the same groups always. 3.14159 26 535 8 979 323 8462 64 3383 27 9502 88419 7169 3993 75 105 8 2097 494 459 I often keep track of unsure digits, such as a 2. It is an unsure digit because I think it comes next after everything but I have to check to be sure.

[@Essutos]

It's funny to me that different people group most of them differently but there are specific parts where almost all group them the same. Here's my grouping: 3, 14 15 926 535 8979 3238 4626 4338 3279 50 2884 1971 69 3993 75 105 820 974 944 5923 0781 640 62 862 0 899 862 80 34 825 34 211 70 6798 214 80 8651 32823 0 664 7093 8446 09550 5 82231 725 35 940 8128 Which is hard to write since I've started making bigger groups containing previously smaller groups. This makes sudden appearances of single/double digits where in reality although they are a small group, they are also part of bigger 9-15 digits group. I wonder if real record breakers also make groups of groups, and if so, how many times do they group smaller groups into the bigger ones

[@MrVankog]

Memory paths / palaces work remarkably well... As long as you don't reuse the mental connections too often for new memory sets. My memory failed again when all the things or connections at certain spots on an imagined path blended together again, because I mixed up my memory sets. I think you have to use a different location or path for every new set you want to memorize. And there it starts to become limited.

[@HayderAbdulridha]

But how am I supposed to remember the object that I assigned to each card?

[@mephi5t0]

I forgot my verge account so I came here to comment :) This is beautifully done video. Grate work and nicely shot, special effects, cuts. Just amazeballs. Thank you

[@subscriberswithnovideosc-mk3up]

bruh id rather study than have a brain workout

[@alexvasquez5053]

This kind of makes sense, in a way. I can read a book and go back and pick out a quote easily, because I remember where in the book I saw it (which side of the page, how far down, what percentage into the book).

[@olivewreath0145]

this science channel has me running laps, favorite channel💯🌎💡

[@malcolmabram2957]

I could only get as far as memorising pi to 69876 digits but struggled with the last 124. I am impressed.

[@mapleandmojiunplanned9838]

"only get to 69876" THATS FREAKING AMAZING. YOURE AMAZING!! good job:)))

[@bryanbagayas8447]

Sherlock holmes memory palace

[@oppaiyuichan9477]

i love having a low memorize brain, i can watch a same good anime twice in a row and still forgot the plot. so the movie always be new and fresh

[@ChrisandSohee]

Fantastic Video, Keep up the good work!

[@spaminbox]

i prefer the videos with fresh, new science, but really enjoy the channel overall, so thanks. :)

[@zoranhacker]

fidelio I prefer people with real passports

[@alessandrodonadi1368]

Glory to arzstoska!

[@pabelcontreras3461]

Papers, please

[@stevencroft2550]

For those of you more interested in memory read: Moon Walking With Einstein

[@yusufyigit4168]

Great work. Please keep it up !

[@trouble.mp4372]

Right so you know how today is Pi day? In maths my math teacher gave us this game or something about remembering pi and after he revealed that his brother memorised 70k digits so I think the guy he was talking about at the start of the video was my maths teachers brother? 😂

[@Logan-no7qi]

Lying*

[@trouble.mp4372]

K Pvp were you there? No. I didn’t think so, so just keep your mouth shut if you don’t have anything nice to say.

[@wood_barrel]

Lies...

[@annatsukiya]

I was memorized 828 of Pi digits 8 years ago. Kinda agreed with the explanation, I used to associate any group of numbers onto something but not necessarily an object. It could be something important like birthday, graduation day, phone number, ID number and etc. And now I just forgot all the numbers I had memorized. xD

[@YukisEdit]

Say the the first 10 digit of pi in the right order no cheating loll

[@alexdunda]

Pfft I can remember all of the digits of Pi

[@lincolnpepper816]

same

[@blasty1715]

It's true, I was the pi

[@deltastrike1586]

Same but just not in the right order

[@Noah-fi9js]

3.141596520582048294829482948738393774939227483937482928647492974742982744728284732936522537362929473932002774822846617283783722648276482763828638283638473that’s all I can remember

[@connordiehl1031]

@@Noah-fi9js It is not like you went to google and said give me pi

[@kikkasluca]

Fun thing is that everyone can get a sequence of pi right just by saying some random numbers, because those numbers will eventually occur in the infinite pi's digits.

[@gabibates5098]

I once learned 173 digits of pie last year around October through constant repeating and writing the numbers down by grouping but I've forgotten it now. I have the memory of a goldfish though, if I don't see someone in a couple months I'll forget who they are and why they have importance in my life.

[@Maltbrew]

By being insane?

[@cloudcover540]

Is it actually having a better memory or just being better at remembering a certain thing you've practiced?

[@xanderisk]

Actually both though, most memory champions have talent+hard work+correct technique

[@declup]

At 2:57, she says "people like you and me"! Not "like you and I"; she actually used the appropriate grammatical form of standard professional English. In a time when even New York Times columnists routinely default to the hypercorrect form, color me impressed.

[@yayatix]

0:42 lol his name is William Poor and he's the producer! amazing!

[@destroy6237]

Oh yea just in case you are asked what are the first 70000 digits of pi in exam

[@alexgelfo6739]

That has nothing to do with this video.

[@kirbeh5567]

if you don't watch this vid and that happens it's flunkville for you

[@my.drawings7053]

The first 100 digits of the pi 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067 well that’s all I know

[@Madhav4]

Great video 😎

[@macavmoudbhawanxutra876]

Ayyy tatti

[@dannyreed2887]

The capacity of memory was dramatically manifested by the man that the movie "Rainman" with Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman was based upon. He actually would read a book two pages at a time, speed reading, with one eye reading each page simultaneously and he remembered EVERYTHING he read. To be fair, he had a form of Autism Spectrum that gave him the ability to do amazing things. He lived near me and he had to live with his parents or a caretaker until he died. Of course, he had limits, but it was like a man able to suddenly move mountains with his bare hands. Yet, he couldn't take care of himself. I remember buying a memory system many years ago (YOU SEE?! IT WORKS!) that used a similar progressive association of odd memorable objects or images interacting or being placed in a succession of rooms or locations in a room. I can tell you that I can remember hundreds of people from nearly 40 years ago because they occupied a series of rooms in health facilities that no longer exist but in my memory. They were not related to me but I worked with them over years of time. This was when I was 18. As I got older it became more difficult to recall the more recent ones. Still I can recall clearly the ones from about 40 years ago. I have had Attention Deficit; Inattentive Type without Hyperactivity and I can tell you the stimulants do NOT improve my memory. I find I can spend A LOT of time and Attention on what I am interested in (AD/HD kids can play video games in their parent's basement for DAYS IN A ROW) so paying Attention has to do with INTENTION. Like "Rainman" we may recall things but forget to put our pants on unless we have a Routine with Sub Routines or Habitual Behavior. Still, there is a terrible lesson to learn: A woman left her infant daughter in the backseat of her car with windows rolled up in a parking lot on AUGUST 23 for over 9 hours. TRUE STORY. You imagine she "forgot" her. No. In fact, in Court the Judge ruled she was NOT AT FAULT even though her daughter died in that car. She is a Scientist for a large Corporation having a routine of dropping her daughter at the Day Care on the way to work. That morning she was NOT distracted or hurried. In fact, she was early for work. Nothing unusual happened. After 9 1/2 hours the Day Care called her at work asking why she did not bring in her daughter. She panicked wondering if someone kidnapped her daughter. Being upset, her mind had the worst thought imaginable and she ran out into the parking lot at top speed straight for her car to find her daughter still strapped into her car seat in the back. She called 9-11 hysterically telling them what happened, that she left her daughter in the car, but nothing could be done. She replayed that morning over and over. All she could think of was something different where at the Day Care she looked at children's paintings. She may have thought that she dropped her off then when in fact she didn't. The anguish was intense. Finally, she had to DO SOMETHING so she formed the Bag In The Back program to have parents place something in back they CANNOT leave the car without: A Bag, a purse, a wallet, a shoe, keys, ANYTHING you CANNOT get out of the car and leave without. The BAG IN THE BACK program.

[@atravellingbleach8668]

Step 1: Survive until 2200 Step 2: Buy a youth machine to not die Step 3: Buy a "Pi Number Installer" onto your brain Step 4: Go back to Present Day Step 5: You're done. *If you're too lazy, try this:* Step 1: Remember to go to the past and give yourself a youth machine and a Pi Installer Step 2: Concentrate and your future self will give it to you

[@aidenwinter1117]

I'm on 400 digits right now and I thought I was cool

[@tommysmyth1210]

401+ is 330572703657595919530921861173....

[@kirbeh5567]

i got 100. teach me your ways

[@khushi4786]

Well I'm on 70 And I thought I'm genius 😂

[@adri801]

@@khushi4786 I got 37 😂😂

[@ratiemand4529]

Lol I got almost 14,500

[@way2chilly]

5:04 Was That Lil Dicky ? Lmao 😂😂

[@ryan2-518]

Twice Rankz 😂

[@gunnarthegumbootguy7909]

I tend to remember numbers by their colors, but sometimes that doesn't work because both 4 and 7 are yellow, also all months and years and other concepts have their own colors and shapes that i remember... all letters also have colors but a, u and y are all yellowish y is lighter yellow and u is almost lion brown, but in a word all letters effects the color and feeling of the whole word buy mostly the vowels, which is why i confuse saturday and sunday because they both contain the letter ö... in swedish, lördag, söndag, also tuesday and friday are both "light" whitish days because of the e and i in "tisdag" and "fredag", while monday, wednesday and thursday are the darker days. I would never confuse a thursday and a tuesday ever, but a tuesday and a friday possibly, because to me they're both white or at least light colored. Of course some days are very bright like Tuesday, January 11, which is the whitest day of the year, I have never tried memorizing pi but i always remember the first few digits from the first day i learned pi in school, by their colors and i tend to not forget facts that i've learned by people speaking to me, but if i read them in text i'm much more likely to forget... also I can recall most conversations i've had since i was about 5 years old, and several from earlier that too... but then i'm not very social so i guess i have fewer conversations to remember

[@JinxG3]

0:47 - I have that Luckies scratch map! Kudos to you sir!

[@BJ-vj1wd]

This video should be called 'How to waste your time'

[@stellaarteois1355]

There's a great book called Moonwalking with Einstein about this subject.

[@rowenedward1682]

I've watched this video... and whenever i wanted to watch this video again i've always forgot the video title 😂

[@SnakeWasRight]

I find the memory palace just doubles my memory load. Picturing something works really well for me, but only if it's that very same word I'm trying to remember, whether it's a picture of the object, or the letters that spell the word. If I assign a symbol to it, I just have to remember the random symbol, and then I have to remember what the symbol stands for.

[@saiskanda]

Where is Justin Y??

[@TommoCarroll]

He will be here soon. We'll wait. He will come.

[@TommoCarroll]

Haha he's become folklore now

[@ReallyReal_1]

I legit found his comment at the bottom

[@thefourthdimension5467]

Sai Skanda he's not everywhere

[@trent2043]

TheFourthDimension oh but he is

[@galaxy_apollo13]

O can remember the value of 1/3 (0.3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333.333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333 0.3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333.3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333330.3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333.3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333330.3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333.3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333330.3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333.333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333.......)

[@bryceramiro808]

So can you remember the part where it has a 0.3 part?

[@dekippiesip]

@2:33, now that cat knows a lot of pi digits.

[@fluentgamer8611]

When a tv show actually gives you actual real technique and I'm talking about The Mentalist

[@dyl4nam]

*I think I forgot why clicked on this video*

[@miljantrajkovic1862]

Please make a video on dislexia

[@ernest7744]

I would've learned all of the digits of Pi, but that would have been... irrational.

[@zipy9966]

im pretty proud of the 50 digits of pi i memorized

[@josiahwelch2796]

One Time I learned 100 digits of pi in 5th grade

[@wolfboi5842]

1:52 is it just me, or does the way she talk kind of annoy me especially the tongue movements

[@aidanwansbrough7495]

Very intriguing!

[@Raja995mh33]

what also is important is that people memorize things totally differently. For example I have big problems memorizing a 5 digit number after hearing it but I memorized 45 digits of pi after reading it once... I forget a lot of things after hearing them but I memorize a lot after seeing it, especially numbers. The "memory palace" also don't work for me very well. I have no idea how people can work with this. It's almost impossible for me.

[@scope223]

You can't there I saved you 6 minutes

[@kottonhaloz]

Happy pi day!!

[@wallyalhomaidi6411]

Guys plz tell me I am Normal, because this is the kind of stuff I watch at 1-3am. Like right now it’s almost 2am. Am I crazy? Or it’s just a thing?

[@ashlin1422]

i came hear to byheart at least a few digits of pi but i left with the meaning of life

[@prod.erebus]

rip social life for memorizing the 70,000 most useless numbers in your life

[@kirbeh5567]

what if you have infinite spare time?

[@vinichenzo4811]

@@kirbeh5567 no one has that

[@mahfuzurrahman3396]

William poor Will I am poor

[@matt9512]

It's called the Method of Loci, not the "memory palace." Also, we understand quite a bit of the neuroscience behind this. The majority of spatial memory (which is what is taken advantage of in this method), is formed and maintained in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, CA1 region of the hippocampus, and the dentate gyrus. From an MRI or fMRI there are not many structural differences between a normal person and a "memory athlete" because the changes are predominantly found within and near the synapse. It's mostly a function of a phenomenon termed "Long-term potentiation" or LTP. In LTP, specific receptors of the neurotransmitter glutamate called AMPA (or α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptors), congregate near the synaptic cleft and various structural changes take place. If you were to look at this under a microscope, you would see the dendritic spines of the affected neurons become shorter and mushroom-shaped, which accounts for stronger and more precise signal transduction. In the animal model of memory this is commonly observed through immunohistochemical methods and is the result of memory training. Stronger memory = more LTP in precise regions of the brain (in a nutshell).

[@amandine8954]

the fact that I did understand your comment better than the whole video is amazing

[@BlazingIce]

How I remember EVERY Digit of Pi : You dont

[@HACKINGMADEFUN]

But Y?

[@sebastianzaczek]

HACKING MADE FUN because Justin

[@mazharjadoon3190]

I thought I don’t remember stuff because of masturbation

[@mz7315]

Did you actually hear that some where or do you think that's funny? It's not funny. (P.S. It's fine if you heard that somewhere as an actual scientific fact, just... don't joke that way. its gross.)

[@GD_TJ13]

Great, now let's assign an object to 70000 digits of pie! ...

[@jamall2929]

The explaination of the method omitted one important detail. Assigned objects need to be connected in the space. It allows your brain to form connection between these random objects and that enables "the flow" during recollection. Otherwise you might struggle to remember all of them.

[@lithiumox]

Your memory is "poor" padoem tss

[@TheForkSalesperson]

Welcome to another episode of why is this in my suggestions? 😂😂😂

[@ContraHacker1337]

Hahhaha! xD

[@toastedtarts4044]

So if i understand, i’m supposed to practice with a deck of cards for 6 weeks. Assign an item to each card and each item to a different place in my home? I’m also guessing card counters in casinos use this?

[@shadyshkadov1004]

When I was 12 I memorized over 300 digits of pi, after spending 5 minutes a day for a week memorizing it

[@Dimension5Productions]

Yeah I was 13 and got to 1000, still remember the first 600

[@kubagurpl8130]

I memorized up to a little over 100 digits of pi about a year ago, almost remember all of them EDIT: I remembered them all because of PI day 2019 and I learned a few more as well

[@kaylakat9075]

3.14159 thats all i got

[@SaadYSalim]

There are thousands, if not millions of people that have memorized and can recite the Quran that's over 600 pages.

[@wellharis]

Saad Y. Salim yes very true mashallah

[@paulbenedict1289]

Memorizing quran is super easy. You just have to clear up parts of your brain responsible for remembering human rights, religious or sexual tolerance, ability to use logic and respect for cultures and laws of people who accepted you into their country.

[@traplover6357]

Paul Benedict or you could just clearly say "Islam is bad, because thats what religions do".

[@wellharis]

Traplover7 Islam is not bad

[@davinchi923]

Haris Ansari I used to be religious until now, religion is bullshit buddy... they’re all different they don’t add up it doesn’t make sense like give me proof religion is real

[@julianduffy4950]

Is it bad that I can still vividly remember ski hill names and locations from when I went to Vail 5 years ago, but literally an hour ago I lost my phone to later figure out it was in my hands the whole time.

[@christiano6841]

*-keep on learning keep on learning-*

[@itsok5954]

Hey Vsauce, Micheal here

[@insertstupidserialnumberhe2727]

Long-Term-Memory is something interesting, Memory-Athlets can remember the arrangement of cards in a deck, remember names together with faces and many more things. But how do they do it? * Vsause music starts playing * And can you do it, yourself?

[@funnyvideosfans]

Tbh, whts the use of training to become "memory athletes"? I don't think it has any practical use in daily life. Boosting your working memory on the other hand, can be much more useful. Besides, you'll probably be spending more time creating these associations between the objects to be memorized and some other objects than actually trying to memorize it...

[@zeugens]

some memory athletes compete to learn the names of a bunch of random strangers all at once. they can get pretty good at this, to the point where they only need to look at a face for a couple seconds to remember each person's name

[@rvervuurt]

"I don't think it has any practical use in daily life." Good that being good at skiing, running, shooting bow & arrow and other sports have a practical use in daily life.

[@funnyvideosfans]

penile 1 I clearly did not say that. I said that training your memory to the level of said "memory athletes" is neither practical nor immensely beneficial. Give me instances when you'd actually need to memorize things to such extent unless you're working in medicine or preparing for some exam. Most modern exams also don't even test a candidate purely based on what they have memorized but also tests their logic and deductive reasoning among many others and these skills require a large working memory (as you'd need to keep several things in mind at the same time to make connections between them within the alloted timeframe). Instead of trying to become some sort of biological encyclopedia, your time would be much better spent on practicing these other skills instead of honing your long term memory. It would be great if these techniques would allow you to quickly toss everything you see into long term memory and make them stay there; however, they clearly don't (at least not significantly). The human brain is just wired to forget things that we deem unimportant. So unless you truly have the conscious desire to remember that particular thing you have memorized, it will eventually fade one way or another. Working memory in the other hand, helps you get things done at the present. It allows you to run many more complex processes at the same time. It's like your computer's RAM. Would you rather have a computer with 10 TB of HDD storage and 4 GB of RAM or one with 512 GB or HDD storage and 32 GB of RAM? If you wish to live as a backup computer that stores family photos from 15 years ago then the first one would work just fine. Otherwise, the second one beats the first one every single time. You would be able to run multiple heavier programs at the same time and still have a smooth user experience. Even though it has less long term memory, it's not like we would need to store an excel spreadsheet from 15 years ago do we? Well, at least that's my opinion. Which computer would you rather be?

[@funnyvideosfans]

penile 1 Yes I did. And for me, actually trying to understand the concept is much more helpful than trying to make vague and detached imageries of the thing you are trying to memorize. It does not only help me with memorizing the subject but also helps me with developing on those ideas more easily. I guess it's a subjective matter but regardless of how you perceive the arguments I have presented above, it still remains true that most people would prefer to become the second computer. To each his own.

[@funnyvideosfans]

penile 1 Then tell me, how long would it take to get the "right image"? Why would that be of any help to me when I can get straight As (A*s actually because A levels) with my current technique which does not involve any conscious, forceful effort to perform? Why would I waste any more time trying to invent the proper mnemonic for every single thing I learn? It could be that I simply have an atrocious imagination but well, that makes your point just as subjective as how you perceived mine. :)

[@meyoudodo8097]

what if and im not trained in any way, you started young and created rooms and places for different subjects basically folders. how effective and complicated could this get? the first time i was introduced to this concept was in a 2003 movie called dreamcatcher. one of the characters has a mind plaice where he files and stores all memory's but also has to delete them. is it possible and could you teach this.

[@R1CK4STL3YGAMING]

Great job now you only have 30,000 digits to go

[@kingarth0r]

This is how I memorize WiFi passwords.

[@Dany-ny5gc]

What if you have ADD or ADHD

[@RocksmithPdl]

Dany Morwa everyone has adhd its just a matter of how extreme it is

[@thecrap17yearsago35]

Rocksmith Pdl no thats completely false and incorrect

[@ryan2-518]

Rocksmith Pdl Nibba wut

[@RocksmithPdl]

Anonymous kinda but their adhd is so mild its not noticeable.

[@RocksmithPdl]

Anonymous5253 i say again if you cant tell if the kid has adhd then its probably mild

[@morgan7014]

This was awesome!!!

[@11annguyen]

To memorize phone numbers to me, I just memorize how the digits are placed in and turn it into shapes. Works well for me.

[@oskarnyberg6567]

I can only do like 300 pi decimales...

[@zaidOoOoO14]

Oskar Nyberg wow that’s terrible

[@corktail7900]

i can only do 2

[@thedarkspeedninjashadittsux]

Oskar Nyberg Only? 300 is still a lot. I can just do 100

[@kirstynem6970]

I can do 300 aswell

[@unintelligentpieceofhuman9658]

Who else came from Blocko?

[@Dany-ny5gc]

Unintelligent piece of Human me altho he said not to comment this lol

[@myrlinedubique7630]

Me

[@garveygarvey9638]

who tf is blocko

[@DarkMatterr]

@@garveygarvey9638 probably Life Noggin

[@DarthClyan]

Unintelligent piece of Human yo mama came from blocko

[@trisfairy]

to solve a rubik's cube blindfolded, the technique that most speedcubers use is exactly this. we assign each sticker a letter in it's solved state, and when scrambled, use those letters to create a story to describe how the cube is configured. then, when the blindfold is put on, we execute that story.

[@nolanbennett346]

It’s much easier to apply a tone to every number for me 0-9 being cdefgabcde and then I can slowly translate my pitch memory to number memory over time. Search pi song. It might help.