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nirav May 8th, 2007

Found this via Braingle’s RSS feed:

We have talked about how the average short-term memory can only hold around 7 pieces of information. Here is a test to see how good your short-term memory is.

Slowly read each line once and then look away and try to recall the numbers. The first few should be easy. Once you get to 7 or 8 digits, you will start to have a very difficult time.

4 8 6
2 5 7 8
5 8 2 5 7
9 1 3 4 0 6
6 7 2 8 4 3 8
1 9 8 3 0 7 5 2
0 9 3 7 0 4 6 9 1

I could easily do upto 6 numbers, but then had to use some techniques to remember longer series. The way I normally do is visualize the numbers and repeat them out from the visual memory! This is good for short term retention! I would have to associate the numbers (rather the combination of numbers) to some funny thing for long term retention!

How far can you go?

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nirav February 13th, 2007

Braingle is a fabulous place to look for puzzles, brain teasers and trivia. There are also a lot of techniques on creativity, that I used when I did the creativity workshop in Magnet. It’s worth adding to your regular reading list - well they even have RSS feeds.

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