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13 min readThe Method of LociHow to memorise things by walking through buildings inside your head. A 2,500-year-old technique, still the best one we have.
13 min readThe Major SystemEach digit from 0 to 9 becomes a consonant sound, so any number reads as words you can picture. The full code, worked examples from this site's 00 to 99 chart and a timed drill to practise on.
14 min readPerson, Action, ObjectGive every number from 00 to 99 a person, an action and an object, and six digits fit in one picture. The same trick holds a deck of cards in eighteen stops.
13 min readThe Link and Story MethodTurn each item on a list into a picture and make each picture act on the next, and the whole list comes back as one chain. A worked example, then twenty words in five minutes with no system to build.
11 min readThe Peg SystemA numbered shelf for your memory: the three beginner peg lists, how to hang items on them, and the point at which you should move to the Major System.
11 min readRemembering Names and FacesNames fail in the first ten seconds. A five-step method that turns a name into a picture and pins it to the face, with a plan for practising it alone.
11 min readThe Dominic SystemDominic O'Brien's number system: ten letters, a hundred people with actions, four digits per image. How it works, how to build your list, and how it compares with the Major System.
13 min readMemorising PiThe first hundred digits, three methods in rising order of power, and a plan that puts fifty picture-pegs on a route through your own home.
13 min readMemorising a Deck of CardsA picture for every card, a route to put them on, and a fourteen-day plan. The beginner's path to reciting a shuffled deck, with the mistakes that stall it.
15 min readEvery Type of Mnemonic Device, With ExamplesA mnemonic device ties something new to something you already know. Here are fourteen kinds, each with an example, grouped by why they work, with a ten-item list you memorise on the way through and the honest limits.
19 min readThe Keyword Method for Foreign VocabularyA sound-alike keyword and one interacting image put a foreign word in your head in thirty seconds. Fifteen worked examples in Spanish, Mandarin and Japanese, the research, the review routine that keeps them, and a ten-minute test you can score tomorrow morning.
15 min readSpaced Repetition for Mnemonics: When to ReviewTomorrow, then about a week, then let every clean recall stretch the gap. The forgetting curve with its real numbers, SM-2 worked out in days, and how to review a picture at a locus rather than a fact on a card.
16 min readHow to Memorise a SpeechMemorise the points of the whole talk and the words of only the parts that matter: one image per point in a palace, rehearsed with the script closed.
15 min readMemorising the Presidents in OrderForty-seven presidencies, forty-five people, and a picture for every number, so 'who was the 19th?' comes as fast as 'who was the first?'. With a seven-day plan and a free drill.
19 min readMemory Techniques for Studying and ExamsRetrieval practice and spacing first, mnemonics for the facts that refuse to stick, two dated revision plans, a protocol for the night before, and what exercise, place and sleep add.
16 min readMemorising the Periodic TableOne fixed peg per atomic number, so 47 is always a rock and the rock is always silver. Worked tables for elements 1 to 20 and 100 to 118, the Latin symbols, and a three-week plan.
20 min readHow to Remember What You ReadFinishing a book feels like remembering it. A before, during and after method: closed-book recall per chunk, a chain or palace for the skeleton, and reviews at widening gaps.
16 min readMemory Competitions for BeginnersA memory competition times you on remembering digits, cards, words and faces. Here are the ten championship events and Memory League's one-minute games, how each is scored, what a respectable first score is and a twelve-week plan to your first event.
22 min readA Complete PAO List, 00 to 99A hundred rows, built on Major System sounds so every person's name spells their own number. Adopt it whole, swap what does not land, and compress six digits into one picture.
15 min readMemorising Historical DatesA year is four digits and two pictures: seven famous dates pegged, the century fixed, and a palace walked as a timeline.
15 min readMemorising the Countries and Capitals of the WorldA picture for every country, a sound-alike keyword for its capital, and one room of a memory palace per region: South America in twelve stops, the capitals everyone gets wrong, and the countries with more than one.
18 min readMemorising Chinese CharactersComponents before characters, one short story per character, the sound clue most characters carry, the honest difficulty of tones, and how many characters each HSK level asks for.
22 min readMemorising Multiplication TablesThe swap rule and the easy tables cut the grid to fifteen hard facts, doubling rebuilds most of those, number-shape pictures fix the stubborn few, and a few minutes a day keeps them.
14 min readFifty Memory Palace Locations You Already KnowYour old school, your commute, the supermarket and forty-seven more places you can already walk in your head: how many stops each gives, how to test a candidate, and when to reuse a palace or build a new one.
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