Memorizing a Deck of Cards

Re:Memorizing a Deck of Cards by psychometry on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @09:53AM (#24567053)

What is the benefit to such an exercise?

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Re:Memorizing a Deck of Cards by benrbray on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @09:58AM (#24567105)

Testing your mental limits.

Cheating at cards.

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Re:Memorizing a Deck of Cards by herendin2 on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @10:07AM (#24567208)

And also a type of intense mental exercise that is probably healthy

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Re:Memorizing a Deck of Cards by galuggus on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @10:10AM (#24567248)

It made me much better at deliberately remembering information. I also believe it improves imagination. In the first place ( incidentally a phrase that originates in mnemonics) you are practicing making mental images. The less quotidian the better. Secondly you are required to put together wildly different objects to make easy mnemonics

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Re:Memorizing a Deck of Cards by dEnigma on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @10:50AM (#24567756)

> In the first place ( incidentally a phrase that originates in mnemonics) [...]

Do you have a source for that or is it a gut feeling? In a quick Google search I couldn't find anything about the history of this idiom.

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Re:Memorizing a Deck of Cards by galuggus on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @11:44PM (#24575025)

Here is a discussion: https://artofmemory.com/blog/first-place-second-place-5806.h....

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Re:Memorizing a Deck of Cards by dEnigma on Sunday October 04, 2020 @06:10AM (#24677719)

Thank you! I will read through that later. Sorry for the late response, I didn't see your reply until just now.

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Re:Memorizing a Deck of Cards by redrobein on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @09:44PM (#24574486)

Mnemonics are an easy way to remember a lot of information. Similar techniques are used for blind solving Rubik's cubes, remembering 2000+ chinese characters etc.

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