The 20 Word Challenge - with World Memory Champion Alex Mullen

[@Atratzu]

Thanks for the video, I remembered all but 1 of them (and admittedly it's because I got distracted), I really like your advice because i'm a visual learner and always take steps to visualize what I'm trying to remember, this just takes it a step further. Still seems challenging but maybe this trick will be useful later on down the line.

[@Hippohappytt]

Was it useful?

[@aarongrooves]

I had to pause a second to recall "fan," but most of them came instantaneously. I just discovered memory palaces while reading "Moonwalking with Einstein" by Josh Foer, and I was sad when I finished the book last night, because it was such a thrilling experience going on this journey with him. He broke the US record for cards just a few years ago, but you've completely decimated his record, and even made the US a world-class competitor. I'm really curious to know what your system is for cards and numbers. Is it P.A.O.? To what depth? Anyway, thanks!

[@mullenmemory]

Hi Aaron, thanks. Moonwalking is a great book; it's how I first heard of the memory world myself. I've collected some basic writings about my memory sports systems on our website here: mullenmemory.com/alex-mullen-memory-sports

[@aarongrooves]

Mullen Memory, thanks so much for that link; it contains answers to so many of my questions! I've spent that past 24 hours considering how much I want to invest myself into practicing and becoming proficient with a complex system, and I think I'm just going to start simple. I seriously doubt I'll ever compete; but we'll see how my motivation evolves over the coming weeks lol. Thanks again!!

[@vsmworld11]

I had one question- how to memorize long sentences or paragraphs........ Please answer it I was deadly waiting for your answer -"Alex"......

[@leyreferrer]

This is absolutely amazing! I'd often heard about the memory Palace but didn't really understand how to use it. Your video's made it crystal clear by using real spaces. I've been amazed checking how easy is to remember when having a frog witted in front of you or a candle burning!! I still wonder how to memorise large texts, foreign language vocabulary or a set of cards or numbers but I'm gonna dive into your videos and share this find with my kid. Thank you very much! Subscribed and like from Barcelona, Spain.

[@mullenmemory]

So glad you like the video! :)

[@thisiztheewae]

I have extremely bad short-term memory even though I am only 30. Normally with 20 words like this, I am only able to memorize around 6 words and as I approach the others, I will gradually forget the ones in front. Surprisingly, this technique allowed me to recall 16 of them without even needing to wait for the video to reflash those images. Many thanks for sharing this amazing technique!

[@jonaskromannrode8103]

I haven't seen this video in over a year and I still remember many of the things. It's a great technique

[@johnsonaxel8784]

06:10 Is that a giant spoon on the wall? Btw, nice place!

[@flummox3d]

Love the vid ^^ I memorized everything on the first try, though had to pause at two of the loci to buy some time to recall, but hey, it was a first try. :) Subscribed!

[@soumyadeepnath_sdn]

I recalled every items on the list correctly ! Thanks for the technique , Alex !

[@carlaraney3793]

This is awesome! I got everyone one of them fast , i didn't need to pause to think about the list when you started the list of locations! It would be great if you did more videos

[@scottwygal8747]

I use this method to study! It’s a game changer for sure!!!

[@willh2822]

i paused the video and it took me a bit more than 5 minutes to be able to recall it forward and backward.only technique i used was picturing the list in my head and making rhythms with the words. the way you taught makes it much easier tho

[@landondu4983]

This is magic! Thanks for the amazing video!

[@kianata6705]

I told myself a story and remembered all 20 words that way. A rabbit ran into a house looking for his carrot. He found it on a rug in the living room. Next to the carrot, he found some papers from a Rapunzel picture book. On the papers, he saw image of Rapunzel using an electric fan in her castle. She fantasized about leaving and actually had made a rope using her hair as a concept she thought about. She came to the window and looked up at the star before making the jump. Just then, as she looked down, she discovered a van made out entirely of sharps, and she got scared. The rabbit then looked around and saw a frog in the form of an ornament hanging on the Christmas tree nearby. The frog was compact and cute. Below the Christmas tree, there was a candle sitting on some fake grass carpet. Just then, rabbit heard a loud noise and he saw a panda walking up the stairs. The panda saw him and paused, just right at the fork. Panda seemed to have a fever, and there was mud on his feet. This panda though, looked more like a robot than a real one. Tying all these ideas with characters from Disney and Grimm (rabbit from alice in wonderland, rapunzel, princess kisses the frog, kungfu panda) makes it super fun. I'll try this castle memory method as well.

[@amiyaranjan2900]

Bingo !! It's magic. All 20 done .

[@macaraigjosh3450]

A week ago, I taught this to my 6 years old sister and she memorized 20 words in an instant. She still knew the order of the words that I have given to her but she haven't realize it yet. I am not in rush but how could I make her interested about this stuffs?

[@nicelypenn]

You've done half of what you need to do, at least from what you've described. You've taught her how to do this. But now you need to create the idea in her head that what she is doing is a good and fun thing to do. To accomplish this, give her positive reinforcement whenever she succeeds. Whenever she does not, do not criticize or punish harshly. Just suggest that she can do better the next time she tries and with more practice. The afore conditioning will have set in her subconscious mind that what she is doing will receive social validation. Her being a human being necessitates that this social validation is a good thing. Her believing that it is a good thing will encourage more frequent using of it, especially as she gets older and has the fundamentals so much so that she can do it with ease. But also teach her not to show off or look down on other people in such a way that would lead them to disliking her because of how she acts. Such interaction might lead to a negative disposition toward the mnemonic technique and she might therefore avoid it. Essentially, instill the idea that it is a good thing to do this and she will naturally gravitate toward using it. Expose her to new ways of using the techniques, perhaps for school. She will learn its usefulness and start applying it to other things.

[@hytrader3241]

how is she doing now?

[@sujay7301]

I got them all. Thank you very much

[@noelkitonga]

Awesome video champion , Thank you so much. What is the name of the image by your candles stand.?

[@drushkyy2017]

so I read some place you learning Spanish and Chinese. I know some Spanish. how do u memorize each conjugation for the verb? cause each verb has its own

[@JarodWaggener]

This gentleman reminds me of Freddie Prinze Jr.

[@aldajohnson3406]

I did it ! Yay !!!! God bless you x

[@4rjohny5]

love these Alex, i remember taking a memory workshop with my Mom when i was 16. She has dimentia now, wondering if i showed her your videos and she did these exercises it might help her. i got 2 wrong, and almost didn't get the sink one. i got 12 and 17 wrong, couldn't remember them.

[@hytrader3241]

bro, thats insane, i remember all of them in a matter of miliseconds lol

[@bhuvvai5491]

Took me 1 minute and 40 seconds to make up a story and link them all together. Can someone tell me how fast or slow am I?

[@x1expert1x]

holy crap it actually worked first try. I was wondering, how could you use this method to remember very abstract things? Simple example, L'Hôpital's rule in calculus. It seems so abstract that it's hard to tie into reality in any meaningful way. Thank you.

[@nevermindeverseen5550]

Love the video, but I have a question. How can we reuse these places? Cause the first time, it will be very easy for me to remember. But I tried with second list (some similar items), sometimes I recall wrong by remember the first list. Any idea to improve?

[@zwebzz9685]

Create several palaces and cycle through them equally not giving your favorites any preference

[@wklai7772]

When speed memorize. How to make sure image that I put to a palace are very stable, and recall without any problem.

[@jiles7726]

a giant CARROT has a RUG over it, inside the carrot are PAPERS being blown by a FAN. the carrot is pointing to a CASTLE. the castle has a ROPE attached to it tied to a CONCEPT of a STAR. Meanwhile a SHARP VAN drives by and has a plastic FROG statue on it with an ORNAMENT on the frog statue and the frogs eyes look like two Cs with a COMPACT CANDLE in each eye. There is also a sick PANDA with a FEVER because its eating GRASS with a FORK. The poor Panda slips into MUD, but a ROBOT rescues it. Thanks, this is a fun method. Now if only I could remember how to spell the words.

[@vsmworld11]

But, I had a question- how to memorize the long sentences or paragraphs by using this...... I am waiting for your answer "Alex".....

[@halwestmemory9143]

You should chose from each verse one word that is a key word for this sentences then you translate other words from the verses to the key word 🧠

[@ahoj6614]

Incredible. Thank you so much alex mullen))

[@shakeer_ahmad]

Hey Alex Mullen Plz teach me how convert Sentence or chapter in to images

[@VanTran-er9oe]

Which website do you go to practice to train your memory? Thx for your tips

[@VanTran-er9oe]

thx man!! I hope i ll reach your level in term of memory one day!

[@VanTran-er9oe]

nice video btw

[@vunguyentamphuong1043]

Thank you Alex, even it's more than 6 years, it's still helpful for me to learn English or other language!

[@akshyaksh]

you are great one day you will KZbin star Mr memory champion.can you do more videos for students

[@drushkyy2017]

what about memorizing languages and alot of medecine?

[@scoobiduscoob4591]

Oi brasil sao paulo otimo video

[@orllop620]

Lifehacker brought me here

[@mpodevin]

Great Video. Moonwalking with Einstein is a great book about all this stuff, by the way. Also, the youtube category is "Comedy"?

[@ofir_s_zada]

damn, 19/20!

[@Gioogioooo]

This is awesome..I got 20/20

[@philrichmond7567]

First try I got 18 out of 20. I didn't recall concept and mud

[@tycoonmoto2370]

please explain your card systeam plz

[@riley1774]

i forgot 2 but oh well that’s still good

[@malemaline]

The music is anxiety inducing.

[@قناةالعرب-ع4ب]

how i learn anatomy in this way

[@mullenmemory]

mullenmemory.com/memory-palace-anatomy

[@scoobiduscoob4591]

Como memorizar golpes de luta dança

[@Bellarina26]

Got them all except pne

[@VuTanhung]

❤❤❤

[@ManishaKumari]

wow

[@TheAnkitMaurya]

Oh my God!!!!

[@rajeshsaw5592]

I missed the second one that is RUG but later I remembered 😊

[@birazmerakl9570]

Keşke Türkçe altyazıda olsa

[@kundoxxxmouriran]

i can recall 16/20 word .I am feel very funny and exciting and bala..

[@jairtzinio]

at first i was going to call BS because ive tried speed reading things where they make you do the same thing and maybe they're style of teaching isn't helping not sure but i found this to be easier to understand. i ended up recalling more than 10

[@johnfernanfernandez7614]

naperfect ko

[@hallasrafik6775]

memory palace

[@ohhello5511]

got 16 WOOT

[@lifechangingtips7828]

I already watched dominic o brien quantum memory power . So I can memorise it easily

[@Ujaloyatra]

New record will be created by Nepali Boy Bijay Sahi!! You will fade Now!!

[@ManishaKumari]

nic