That's almost what I did actually. A cute ruby opal crossed the bridge south over King Stream to the gym by the ocean, Jetpunk wand memory party glide.
It is often much easier to use some kind of mnemonic. There's a reason the people who win memory contests use them. I know someone like that and he can tell you about countless tricks for different scenarios. He once was in a German TV show betting he could identify every city in the world with a population above 500,000 by its satellite photo – and he won the bet (well, it was a sample of five pictures, not every city, but still). Actually, now that I think of it, he'd do really well on Jetpunk.
Gimmick? Dude, that's a valid memorization technique. Are you arguing that anything else (including outright wrote memorization) isn't a "gimmick"? Because that's absolutely inaccurate if you are.
Man, why so judgy? The "reason" is that we find it easier to do it that way. For many people, it's easier and faster to remember one narrative sentence than fifteen unconnected words. I mean, good for you if you don't do it that way, but what does it matter to you if other people do it differently?
Someone never learned the value of mnemonic devices!! It would be pretty unintelligent in this case to NOT use a "gimmick" to memorize things when the whole task is rote memorization lol. Ever heard the phrase, "Work smarter, not harder"? To not use a mnemonic device in this case is actually less efficient and slower than the alternative.
That tip really helped! This is what I made: On a private jet, a lobster with a diamond wand watched a person named Vince golf. He cheers every time he saw a snail or a deer. Then he sat on his rug, looked at his leg, and drank milk. then he realized his tricycle was rusting so he ran home to his garden. :)
I just remembered them. By categories/associations (chain of common ideas or sounds) or just position, but I didn't find it very hard. (I did get 15...chin, corn, plutonium, president-castle-horse-shepherd-cape-dude-pope-mass-mother, memory, nevermore, sink)
I had 'finger, Troy, white, wolf, space, cheer and Africa' as the first 7 words, so I had Troy Bolton use his fingers to throw a basketball into space, but the African team 'wolves' still won, over the Wildcats, who have a white logo xD
The chicken and the pig and dragon had a bath on the roof in Paris. The vampire's head said Boo to the choir in London. Homer's stomach was full of tomatoes.
Hercules the turkey ate a full carrot, along with a lake with pencil shavings and glue sprinkled ontop of it. The taste... it was like kale. I was bored of watching television though, so I went on a walk. I encountered by adversary, Jacob. I had to stand. He got off of his motorcycle, of which he had a toilet strapped at the back of, and put a seal on me. I woke up and found myself in a military bunker.
Typehundred of General Apollo, the game of Risk. I, Hercules, am normal, and eat Gator paste and Elm trees everyday, on a sofa. I spend 500 euros everyday to swim on a ship, and buy a tie.
Dude, stand on the Mars pig's finger. Jupiter sea cow chickens beg you. My hamster who lived in Hollandmass-produced risk boards made of silk, with a monkey printed on them.
Jupiter JetPunker just wore a sweater made of pork. His knee fell on the floor, and his tooth fell on the table. I feel depressed. I went upstairs to eat an eggplant, but my fork fell on the stairs. I then ripped off my hair, and put them in a pitcher. I wore a jacket
Emily sat on a chair while the river in France flowed nearby. Next to her was a proper fox, and Homer standing. She inspected the molecules of the sheep, while the mother of England was singing. It helped to visualize the story, for example I pictured a fox in a suit and tie.
Exactly right. I did a couple cold, and only retrieved about 7 or 8 words. When I started making up stories, it became simple. I was even able to do it after being interrupted and returning to the quiz just before the time ran out.
that's what i did too. learned about it in ap psych last year—we watched a video of a guy who remembered all the parts of a half-hour speech with a minute-long story.
(i forgot a piece of my story so i got 13/15, but still better than i probably would've gotten without any sort of tricks lol)
Don't mean to be rude. But don't people do this automatically?? I am surprised to hear that people "heard about it somewhere" or never heard of it and only doing it after hearing the tip here.
Don't you automatically make things up to remember them better?? I am honestly surprised. I always make links to remember things better. (It can be all sort of things, alliteration, association (a puppy in the garden for instance), wordlength, genre (two types of vehicles for instance) )
Sure, I think associations of some sort are pretty common (all those variations on "my very educated mother just served us nachos" for remembering the planets, for example) but I'd never considered making up a story to remember things that weren't actually that story. Memory aids are common, I think, but that particular one was new to me, at least.
yes, cricket bag, radish pizza, turkey in berlin, plum shirt, a salt fjord and a vampire named adam playing basketball which is a game played with a leather ball. :()
I got pretty easy words to do that with - monkey/banana, window/glass, mother/bear, water/steam, Tokyo/Jakarta, then funk, snooker, zodiac, record, and lamp weren't that difficult to remember singly.
Yup, that's what I did. Just remembered the last column, and that a chicken with a dollar coin stuck in its throat and couldn't breathe oxygen was playing tennis using an empty mirrored olive tin against a lemon.
What's also helpful is to make the story completely outrageous or even NSFW. If you'd be embarrassed to repeat it to someone else, you're on the right track to something truly memorable.
I did this and got all but one. {quarterback, recess, Milan, diamond, boo, plutonium, shelf, lion, salad, steep, grape, flood, hundred, elephant, Singapore}
My story:
There was a quarterback that was tired, so he took a recess. Now, he was playing in Milan, where there was a fashion show with diamonds. A diamond was stolen and it gave a lady a big scare (a "BOO!"). The diamond was replaced with plutonium on a shelf. Now the robber went to the zoo and spotted a lion then he ate salad and steeped some tea. He went back to his home a vineyard filled with grapes and remembered the terrible flood. Hundreds of grapes were lost. That is why he visited the elephants in Singapore for comfort.
This is exactly what I did. EINSTEIN the POET was great at JETPUNK because his GYM in NORWAY taught him about BIRDS in TEXAS. His JACKET, which he got from a GOULASH in ROME, was BLUE. The GOAL of GERMANY is to BIKE like a PRINCE.
My strategy is "snipping tool" in windows. The bigger question is, how do you flag people who cheat? Should there be a mechanism where if all the answers are entered in order too quickly, at least the question is asked?
I did that too! Or at least something similar. I created still images/situations instead of stories. I can still imagine the [gold]en elephant ((it actually was [eggplant], i misread it and had to give up :/)) at the [door] with bowls of [cream] and [water] on its back. As well as the [vampire] on a [ship] wearing a [shirt] and a [scarf] holding a [snake]. I can also recall a [pine] tree growing [pear]s on a [boat] trapped on a [boulder] in [space].
This is one of the most unique quizzes on the site. Kudos for creating this. It's fun, and frustrating :) You really have to look at the words for awhile before you start the quiz.
Here's my story! A man from "Harvard" went to a "Russia"n "Palace" and "saw" a "bird" and a "rabbit". He went to "Liverpool", "France" and bought "grapes". Then he heard his "uncle" went to a "talent" show and saw a "duck"'s "leg" on a "boat". I got 100%!
Instead of making a story, I try to visualize something with lots of details related to the word I'm trying to remember, and then I "place" my images at every corner on a specific route I have been traveling very often.
This way you will be able to not only remember the words in the right sequence, but you can do it both backwards and forwards.
An elephant on a hill plays on a rust-colored snooker table using a key while a wealthy raven sits on a throne as a rabbit tries to sell him Jupiter. Meanwhile an eagle with one hand in his jacket talks to a witch with steam coming out her ears. 29 seconds.
There was a palace in the West , an awesome ant, shark, bird and hamster lived there. They grew tomatoes standing, and served them in a plate. A blue mansion was beside the palace.
I managed to get 15 on the third try. The easiest way for me was to utilise the fact the words are split into three columns of five. From there I'd make three stories, each from five words. Example; bonnet, spinach, bus, highway, cheek - The cheek of someone to put spinach on the bonnet of a bus on a highway.
A HORSE with a POTATO TOOTH had TASTE for SISTER SUSAN's OAK tree, but never liked the CROWN GIRAFFE with a knack for catching FRISBEEs. On RECORD, the HEART will beat one HUNDRED times a minute when on a BOAT, unlike the SOUL.
a ghost wearing a cape and waving a napkin recited poetry to the choir. Then a viking wearing a jacket came in through the window and shouted boo. then he remembered he had to go to the salon so he soared there then snored as his head rested on the furniture
Because different people's memories work differently. Some people have very good visual memory and can "read" the words from their memory of the grid. Others are auditory learners, and would probably do best if they recited to words to themselves a few times in order to feel the flow and rhythm of them. Still others find it easiest to remember things if there is some sort of a narrative involved, making it essentially one thing to remember rather than fifteen.
Because "reading them from top to bottom 3 times" is more trouble for some than simply connecting the words.
It isnt even about good or bad memory. reading a list over and over again can be more of a chore and even more time consuming than (deliberately or not) using your imagination and seeing it as a story or a picture.
For me personally that happens instantly, so reading the coloms "pounding" the words in is more trouble. Plus that way it often leaves the brain just as fast as it went in. When you would ask for the words in a week or something, you might remember 2 at most. While those that made the story (they do need to remember atleast 1 word for the memory to get triggerd) will be able to retell 80-100%
And the reason they write it down here is because they want to share there experience and the interesting stories it brought forth. I like reading them. The world could use a bit more colorfull imagination.
I added colorfull, because a lot of people are allready good at imagining stuff, but not the creative inspirational stuff. But imagining other people don't matter, that they have more right to something than someone else, imagine that will allways be others to pick up their figurative mess, so why would they care etc etc.
On the flip side, their are people that imagine their are worth nothing, they imagine they look horrible, they imagine they have no right to anything..
So there is allready a lot of imagining going on. unfortunately, not the kind that can bring joy and growth.
My suggestion for this quiz would be to limit the amount of time that takers have to see the words before they have to answer - if that's technically possible. Otherwise it is too easy to memorise the lot by whatever means and score 100%.
this is not true. If this was the case you would be able to memorize 1.000 words without any difficulties.just look at them for several hours.. It is about short term memory! so how long you can retain the info as soon as you dont see it anymore.
And I am not sure what you mean by "byany means necessary" you have got memorizing and you have got cheating. If the "means" you are referring to involves writing it down or taking a picture etc, that is simply cheating. If you mean memorizing it the way that works for you, in a row, alphabetically, as a rhythm/song or making combo's that make sense to you. (like dog+ball And tank+highway).
It doesnt get easier the more time you have. looking at it 1 min or 10, does not make you be any better. you do need a bit of time to let the word set in though, so like 10 seconds ( or whatever time it takes to read them al once would be to short, because by the last you have forgotten the first (well that one usually sticks..) I think you need about 5 seconds per word, to make the word sit and stay, instead of hold and let go ( if you make connections you could need less, because for instance you are remember dog+ ball as one, so only need the time for those combined)
I grouped the rows, making five images: a hundred jalapeno warts, a bear memory plate (like a commemorative plate of a bear?), a cheetah curtain in the garage, a lime rabbit in the study, and a west African chimp. (That last one was admittedly easy to put together, by coincidence.)
The door to Germany is not lined with a kilt; you may as well shove a cabbage into a cartoon, or roll a grape off a roof. It is the land of pumpkins and chickens, which follow suite with celery. A zebra likes water but will be empty in Liverpool.
Patting my own back here, but I impressed and surprised my own self. I got it on the first go with 2:12 seconds remaining and I had only studied the words for only a short bit. I made up a little story with each word added in as I read them and I said the story over once and that was it. It's funny because I always sucked at these memory games as a kid
A key from the ocean walked to the north and searched up on Wikipedia a person named Olivia who is a geisha from Japan. It then took the risk to spray some acid on to an elm. It said, 'I want to hear from the hippo who lives in the castle by the beach and the turtle who lives with him'.
Silk beef playing hockey with an islam hat on a shelf made of cotton fan with an onion rust against a dragon with a spoon in norway- arson waist(couldnt make up anything for the last 2)
I got them all aswell and have memory issues too, it is a bit better than a few years ago, enough to hide it for others (by changing the subject for instance when i do get lost) But I notice it every second. When playing a game I allways used to keep score, now adding 15+8 can take 5 seconds instead of 0.05 but what seems an eternity to you others don;t notice.
Thankfully I can read, somewhat.., again, because it was by the 4th word I had already forgotten what I had read. And actually same with talking, talking felt rather pointless because after a few words I didnt know what I was saying anymore :/ I still often lose track of what I was gonna say but it isnt a total blank/black hole anymore, just like when someone cant think of a song, just out of reach. only that several times an hour (with more complicated stuff, personal or explaining a viewpoint, as opposed to talking about what is happening near/around you. it is more like very few minutes. Still, loooads better than it was
As a lot of people here did, I made up a story. Something about Hercules being the king of phones. And the Sam(wise) eating celery. :D But I got tired by the last row so I did not inlcude all of them. Could not remember the 2nd last one. But I'm very happy with 14/15.
This quiz was great, but reading the comments/stories was pretty entertaining.
Mine was...
TENNIS ACE, ADAM, SNOREd in his SNOOKER CAPE while sitting at his DESK-TYPE THRONE, as his BOTTLE-nose DOLPHIN swam in the SALT SEA overlooked by his TREE GARDEN.
A GOAT and a LOBSTER were KICKed out of a MANSION. It was a BIZARRE affair. They had TIN EARS that scraped on the WALLs, which annoyed the HAMSTER who was trying to eat his SALAD. Their EXODUS had a happy ending, though: they WAISTed no time, put on their CAPs and went to live with the ZEBRA in his FJORD.
My story: holding a NICKEL and a PLATE, a girl named PAULINE JUMPed in her NORMAL SHOE watching a RABBIT POET turn GREEN after seeing a HIPPO FLOCK to JAKARTA, rumoured to be the LAND of TOAD RUST.
I did not make up a story. I formed a mental image of both a zebra in a witch hat holding its finger in a bag of milk to steep and a furry Liverpool soccer fan in a river with a mug that's empty except for one molecule, a knife in his mouth, false white teeth, and a tiny little German hat.
yall are being difficult. mine was simply theres an ANT who says BOO and hes protecting an OPAL with a LASSO. hes also a QUATERBACK for the SKY made with FUR. NEVERMORE will the SUN shine unless you stand on a TOWER. remember to wear you SHOES like a NORMAL person to go and play SOCCER. eat more RED RADISHES
Making a story up helps so much. For me I did: ADAM the DRAGON had a WART on his CHEST,STOMACH, and CHEEK because his SISTER from the MOUNTAIN feed him LEMON and PEA. If you can not find a way to use the other words just type them out as soon as the quiz starts.
My words were deer, mouth, cry, dish, couch, land, iron, glue, lion, ocean, room, soda, paper, ant, and lobster and the story I made up was
Iron-Man is throwing money while drinking soda and eating lobster on a lion sitting on a couch glued to the floor talking to a deer that he wants to eat while his mouth is watering and he's so hungry he's crying an ocean on a bunch of ants in the room next to the kitchen where the dishes are being washed on land.
That's OK doing the quiz once. I did the quiz several times one after another and I couldn't tell if Godzilla was eating the lobster with a fork or the owl combed it's hair and became a genius ....... etc etc
Maybe the quiz would be better if the words were concealed before the timer starts, then on starting the quiz the words would appear and there would then be a set time (maybe 30 seconds) to see the words before they were then hidden....?
I actually have a really good trick for this, if you just make up a story to connect the words together it's way easier to memorize a sentence or two with a little tale about them than it is to memorize 15 separate words! I got 100% on my first try doing this. LOL the more you know ;)
I actually have an even better trick for this. All you have to do to memorize them is instead of thinking of it as fifteen separate words, all you have to do it craft up a little tale consisting of only a sentence or two and this way its easier with the made up story you made up and that's all you have to do:). Happy to spread little pearls of wisdom like this:). Your welcome
hahahah happy to help. My granddaughter actually got me into this website years ago. It's so nice. It remind me of good old days in America, back before people like you and my granddaughter were even a thought in my mind whilst I was next to the grasshopper that mind you I was only up to his kneecap at that point. ahhhh. the good old days. Anyway this site reminds me just of that with the wonderful people and tips that we are always sharing with. each other on every thing ew do. LOL. I've love to come up with more tactics for passing some of the harder quizzes on this site like this one above we just did we can call it jetpunktactics dot com LOL what do you think xoxo tks
I find it really sweet that you think I'm your granddaughter's age! Unless you're granddaighter is an old curmudgeon like me then you're in for a surprise LOL! My own granddaughter showed me this site and I love taking quizzes to keep my mind young LOL
Take the last 9 words and separate them into three groups of 3 by creating some kind of phrase with each trio. Then look at the first 6 words, repeat them once or twice, hit "start" and run them off as fast as you can. At that point all you need is your three little phrases and boom done.
You can probably put the last column of five into your echoic memory and quickly type them as soon as you start the quiz.
Gimmick-ahoy, me buckos!
The crying king played basketball in Avocado Valley. Fashion Dog was sent to rainy Chimp Gulag.
A story makes it much easier to remember, my problem came when I forgot how to spell fjord :P
I guess I just have that kind of memory.
englands hndu spade viking go to paris spade spade cup with wealthy empty euro chicken
(i forgot a piece of my story so i got 13/15, but still better than i probably would've gotten without any sort of tricks lol)
Don't you automatically make things up to remember them better?? I am honestly surprised. I always make links to remember things better. (It can be all sort of things, alliteration, association (a puppy in the garden for instance), wordlength, genre (two types of vehicles for instance) )
(I didn't think your question was rude)
And ( still without searching for a link, it just what i see/hear when I read it) my mind links zodiac with lamps via stars
They come up with 2 letters for every corner and make stories to easily recall what their letter pairs are.
The KING had his CHEEK scratched by a BEAR.
The POET wrote a poem about a GOLD BOWL
The man from FLORIDA wore LEATHER JEANS
They held a CRICKET match NORTH of JAKARTA.
The man in his TRUCK hit a DEER and a CAT.
Completed it in like 30 seconds after a couple of attempts just trying to remember words without a real method!
My story:
There was a quarterback that was tired, so he took a recess. Now, he was playing in Milan, where there was a fashion show with diamonds. A diamond was stolen and it gave a lady a big scare (a "BOO!"). The diamond was replaced with plutonium on a shelf. Now the robber went to the zoo and spotted a lion then he ate salad and steeped some tea. He went back to his home a vineyard filled with grapes and remembered the terrible flood. Hundreds of grapes were lost. That is why he visited the elephants in Singapore for comfort.
Instead of making a story, I try to visualize something with lots of details related to the word I'm trying to remember, and then I "place" my images at every corner on a specific route I have been traveling very often.
This way you will be able to not only remember the words in the right sequence, but you can do it both backwards and forwards.
1. You can buy a PEPPER in HOLLAND in a PUBLIC SPACE for a EURO.
2. A GOAT makes GOULASH with CABBAGE underneath a PINE in SCOTLAND.
3. In LIVERPOOL, a soccer player makes a GOAL with a GLOVE wearing a KILT near a THRONE.
It isnt even about good or bad memory. reading a list over and over again can be more of a chore and even more time consuming than (deliberately or not) using your imagination and seeing it as a story or a picture.
For me personally that happens instantly, so reading the coloms "pounding" the words in is more trouble. Plus that way it often leaves the brain just as fast as it went in. When you would ask for the words in a week or something, you might remember 2 at most. While those that made the story (they do need to remember atleast 1 word for the memory to get triggerd) will be able to retell 80-100%
I added colorfull, because a lot of people are allready good at imagining stuff, but not the creative inspirational stuff. But imagining other people don't matter, that they have more right to something than someone else, imagine that will allways be others to pick up their figurative mess, so why would they care etc etc.
On the flip side, their are people that imagine their are worth nothing, they imagine they look horrible, they imagine they have no right to anything..
So there is allready a lot of imagining going on. unfortunately, not the kind that can bring joy and growth.
And I am not sure what you mean by "byany means necessary" you have got memorizing and you have got cheating. If the "means" you are referring to involves writing it down or taking a picture etc, that is simply cheating. If you mean memorizing it the way that works for you, in a row, alphabetically, as a rhythm/song or making combo's that make sense to you. (like dog+ball And tank+highway).
It doesnt get easier the more time you have. looking at it 1 min or 10, does not make you be any better. you do need a bit of time to let the word set in though, so like 10 seconds ( or whatever time it takes to read them al once would be to short, because by the last you have forgotten the first (well that one usually sticks..) I think you need about 5 seconds per word, to make the word sit and stay, instead of hold and let go ( if you make connections you could need less, because for instance you are remember dog+ ball as one, so only need the time for those combined)
The witch dude peppered Susan's leg like a genius, the fish scones clubbed rock, and then JetPunk feels grape throats to the east.
The door to Germany is not lined with a kilt; you may as well shove a cabbage into a cartoon, or roll a grape off a roof. It is the land of pumpkins and chickens, which follow suite with celery. A zebra likes water but will be empty in Liverpool.
commercial for a new ZESTY, EASY to open SODA featuring lots of GEOMETRY in a ROOM.
a NORMAL CHEETAH eats BEEF until the POPE in SILK interrupts.
2) A WOLF wearing COTTON fought a SCORPION in a VALLEY in the RAIN.
3) A PEA and a RUBY tried to REACH the fabled HUNDRED PORCHES.
Thankfully I can read, somewhat.., again, because it was by the 4th word I had already forgotten what I had read. And actually same with talking, talking felt rather pointless because after a few words I didnt know what I was saying anymore :/ I still often lose track of what I was gonna say but it isnt a total blank/black hole anymore, just like when someone cant think of a song, just out of reach. only that several times an hour (with more complicated stuff, personal or explaining a viewpoint, as opposed to talking about what is happening near/around you. it is more like very few minutes. Still, loooads better than it was
Mine was...
TENNIS ACE, ADAM, SNOREd in his SNOOKER CAPE while sitting at his DESK-TYPE THRONE, as his BOTTLE-nose DOLPHIN swam in the SALT SEA overlooked by his TREE GARDEN.
A GOAT and a LOBSTER were KICKed out of a MANSION. It was a BIZARRE affair. They had TIN EARS that scraped on the WALLs, which annoyed the HAMSTER who was trying to eat his SALAD. Their EXODUS had a happy ending, though: they WAISTed no time, put on their CAPs and went to live with the ZEBRA in his FJORD.
The Frisbee was as white as a sheep.
The Corn in Japan is sapphire.
The scorpion is a sweet as a cricket.
The rat wore a jacket on it's chest.
risk, Paris, sofa, snake, scarf, cabbage, quarterback, dog, king, pound, moat, leather, floor, jump, throat
So I put it this way:
Risk, dog, king, moat
Floor, jump, throat, pound
Sofa, snake, scarf
Paris, quarterback
Cabbage
Leather
Iron-Man is throwing money while drinking soda and eating lobster on a lion sitting on a couch glued to the floor talking to a deer that he wants to eat while his mouth is watering and he's so hungry he's crying an ocean on a bunch of ants in the room next to the kitchen where the dishes are being washed on land.
I forgot mansion
meanwhile a Pond Shark in Holland rode a Diamond Bike and crashed in Gator('s) Chest.
It actually took me no more than 2 minutes to remember this. Word starting with Uppercase are the 15 words used in quiz.
Take the last 9 words and separate them into three groups of 3 by creating some kind of phrase with each trio. Then look at the first 6 words, repeat them once or twice, hit "start" and run them off as fast as you can. At that point all you need is your three little phrases and boom done.
Guaranteed 100% every time
1. I open the DOOR, and there are OCTOPUS eating AVOCADO, and some guy SAM holding his WAIST
2. CAT WALKS, on WIKIPEDIA there is FALSE info about JAPAN
3. Since QUARTERBACK is stronger than you, it is a RISK to CHEER with him.
4. The last 2 just remember randomly.
The GREEN GEM matched the BOTTLE on the APPLE print DRESS.
The ZODIAC killer was my UNCLE, but the worst thing he ever did was throw up some PIZZA while SWIMming in the TOILET.