When you want to remember number 1, you think of bun, and immediately the image of the bun with the washer in between it should pop into your head. Wings carrying Michael Jackson up to heaven (Jackson)īy linking our peg words to words we want to remember it is easy to recall everyone on our list. Baby chicks chirping and then being stepped on by Harley Quinn (John Quincy Adams)ħ. A beehive with a bee that comes out and stings Marilyn Monroe (Monroe)Ħ. A door that when you open it leads to Madison is on the other side.
A tree with nickels instead of leaves (Jefferson, he is the one on the nickel)Ĥ. A shoe with a bottle of Samuel Adams beer inside of it (Adams)ģ. A bun with a washer inside of it instead of a burger (Washington)Ģ. So if we wanted to remember the first 10 presidents of the United states using this system we would imagine something like this:ġ. These are called "Peg Words" which are words that we know. What you do is commit this easy to remember list to memory and make a mental picture for each word. Here is an example of a list of code words based on rhyming. These code words you create a mental image for each one so they are easy to recall. The way it works is by creating a list of code words for each number. if you are in school you can use the Peg System and Major System to memorize pretty much anything that can be put into a list super fast as well as HUGE numbers like the first 100 digits in pi. This is a technique used by memory athletes that compete in speed memorization competitions as well as many mentalists and magicians.
Or in the time it takes to select the next spectator. the Peg System in combination with the Major System is a way to remember things as fast you can write them down.
If you have ready any books on memory like Harry Lorayne's How to Develop a Super Power Memory, Corinda's 13 Steps to Mentalism, or Zufall's Memory Tricks you might have come across something called a Peg System or Major System.įor those of you that have no idea what I am talking about.