On one of my favorite shows of all time, the mentalist there's an episode where
the protagonist- Patrick Jane is told a long list of numbers and a few
hours later, he's able to recall the numbers in the exact order
and tell someone else. I thought that was really cool and really fascinating so
this week I decided to become somewhat like Patrick Jane
and I learned to memorize 100 digits of pi in four hours!
And you can probably do it in even less time so here is how I did it.
So the way I learned to memorize the 100 digits was using a method that is very
similar to a system called the major system but I decided to put my
own twist on it because I found the major system a little bit difficult, so
the first step in the process is to assign a letter to each number
between 0 and 9 and not just to assign the letters
randomly but to assign them in a way that you would remember it. For
example to the number 0, I assigned the letter
O because they look alike, to the number 2, I assigned the letter P
because you know when you hold up a 2 it kind of looks like a peace sign and
peace starts with P. I'll pop up on the screen
now the whole number to letter key. Then after I had
successfully assigned a letter to each number, I tried to memorize the key.
Really to do this I just used the random number generator so when it gives me
9, I would just try to recall what is the letter assigned to 9. And after a
few minutes I was able to remember the key and the numbers I assigned to it
and really the ones that were most ridiculous were the ones I remembered
better which makes sense. Now after this I wrote out all 100 digits of pi
and the corresponding letters, so for example the first three digits of pi are
14 1 and then the letters associated with
that are I F I, then with all the letters I
formed a cohesive story, our brains are really good with
storytelling so I realized that that would be a really good way to remember
this so the beginning of each word was always
the letter that I assigned to the number. For example, using the first three digits
of pi which is 141 and the letters are I F I
I started the story which is Isaac felt insecure, forming a cohesive story using
all 100 letters was definitely a challenge but it didn't take
too long and I was able to form a story so this is the story
I formed "Isaac felt insecure but nothing Patrick said about that exactly because
Kim now cared nicely enough promoting exuberant kindness following
students Patrick's sadness feels efficient enough
keep expecting polite qualities nature but oliver prince kicked kevin's face in
night care I screamed no exceedingly no, no even cops bolted.
intuitively Oliver bolted kicking Patrick over
no cops followed no friend followed but naughty prince escaped our confines.
Kevin insisted Samantha follow Oliver swiftly. Promptly, Kevin Samantha pursued
Oliver keenly. Next night Kevin sold Patrick's
kaleidoscope on eBay. Finally, Kevin paid back every faithful penny including
insurance copay, oh sweet completion and finally, after I'd come up with the
story, I memorized it as you can expect. This didn't take me too long and that
day I was super tired which is why i said I would expect that if you do it
it will even take you a shorter amount of time because you can do it on a
rested brain. But yeah so now here are the 100 digits
of pi. [DIGITS ON SCREEN]
[DIGITS ON SCREEN]
So yeah those were the major steps that I took in memorizing 100 digits of pi,
it's pretty useless to know 100 digits of pi but at least now I know this
memorization technique and I can use it all the time, also I
would add that if I had tried to memorize the 100 digits just like
using the numbers through rote memorization
I'm not sure I'll be able to do it or at least it'd take me a really long amount of
time but using this method was fun and it was
like really interesting it was random and I think I'll be able to remember it
for a long time to come. Anyways thank you so much for watching
let me know in the comments if you have memorized 100 digits of pi or if you
plan to.