Comments on: How to Memorize a Deck of Cards with Superhuman Speed

By: Bob Hampton

Bob Hampton — Mon, 06 May 2013 03:29:52 +0000

I have an even better system because after memorizing 52 playing cards, you can call out any number from 1-52 and I can tell you instantly what card it was. I don’t have to go through any mapping to get to the card! Look for my new book, “How to remember every card in the deck”. It is being published by Baron Barclay and should be out any day now.

By: ketan

ketan — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 14:12:27 +0000

it took me 15 min to memorize card of deck. I was able to recall it in reverse order too :)

By: alexeyw

alexeyw — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:46:59 +0000

android application for training
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avolodin.memory.cards

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:35:22 +0000

very interesting! thanks Ron!

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 13:10:32 +0000

To empty a map you’d just walk it and imagine an empty peg. Works fairly well for me.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:11:08 +0000

I’d like to re-ask a question above. How do you empty out the map for your second attempt. If you ask me to tell you about my most recent visit to Yellowstone, I will inevitably accidentally recall memories from my previous visits… I can see a first run-through seeping into successive tries.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:08:34 +0000

I have a hard time remembering the names of people I meet – let alone the order of a deck of cards. Maybe I need to check out your course.

By: Clark

Clark — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:47:33 +0000

Great book called Moonwalking with Einstein which is all about a guy who decides to enter the memory championships and learns techniques from the masters. Highly recommended read!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 07:56:17 +0000

For beginners I’d say the map described here is a bit too crowded. I personally like when observing the peg where I put the image is the only peg in sight, so there’s less chance of them disturbing each other.
And again I prefer to take journeys from video games because the world there is smaller and with less distractions. I’d recommend to give it a try.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 01:59:04 +0000

The great thing about this system is that there are as many uses for it as you can come up with. I’ve read a few memory books over the years and each one has a variation of this procedure. British psychological illusionist Derren Brown does something similar with what are called Memory Palaces. Great to see this kind of multi-use brain stuff here along with the other great content on AoM.