how is your memory? with numbers.
 

example.

when we gas up our work cars, we have to enter a 6 digit password. i have that memorized.

we then have to key in our odometer. i have coworkers that need to write that down when they exit the car. i found out they use a sharpie and write the pin# on their gas caps or somewhere on the vehicle.

if i take the time and effort to visualize the number written down..it is on lockdown. done. last time i filled up my odo was 89911..VERY easy to remember:D chit,,i still remember it.

you blurb out a phone number and it may as well be written in smoke. gone.

i still remember the firing order of a small block chevy. i cant remember the beloved flat-6. i dont know why.

Excellent if I want it to be....can't remember names and faces....at all ;)!

Wanna know the serial # off my Schwinn banana seat bike from '67 :)?

I remember every phone number we've ever had. Even our address when I was 6 years old - 12 NW 72nd Street, Apt D, Gladstone, MO. Phone number 436-7775. :)

I worked at Service Merchandise in high school (1982). They used a 6-digit number (called an EDP number, for added trivia) for "self service" items. I still remember a lot of those. Glad trash bags? 901397.

At one time I didn't even need a personal phone book (contacts these days). However, that diminishes as you reach old age. However, if I call a number within a month or so, I can recall the number.

Certain functions like copying a number off the screen is tougher. I don't know why. Say it out loud to me and I can hit the number every time up to a reasonably amount of digits — maybe 10, the amount in a phone number. CC numbers are too long for me to recall unless I memorize them.

I remember phone numbers from 40 years ago and have to spend time thinking about WHOSE phone numbers they are.

The IP address my workstation had until early 2000 was 207.203.200.200 ... The IP of the Quake server a buddy of mine set up for me at MIT was 18.89.0.72 - it went offline in '98 ...

I have a hard time remembering information that isn't really connected to anything else, if that makes sense. Names I suck with, and random bits of information are quickly forgotten. But something in context, like a grouping of data related to a specific topic, I retain. It's weird.

18436572
couldn't get that number out of my haid if I tried.


Our phone number in SLC back in the mid 60's was 298-8983.
But I struggle to remember my phone numbers nowadays.

I remember almost all my numbers like S.S., bank accounts, driver's license, PINs, etc. Sometimes the cashier person at the credit union does a double take when I rattle off one of my account numbers when I want to do some transaction. But I'm noticing I'm not nearly so good at remembering numbers now as I used to.

damn..i'll change my google password now.

If it's a number with a purpose, I remember it. DL's, addresses, phone numbers, PIN numbers, even a CC# I had when I was 18. However, within the last 5 years or so I will still remember the number but transpose 2 numbers almost always. Dunno why. My childhood phone number was 438-8831 however I now remember it (visualizing the number written down) as 483-8831. Even though I KNOW it's 438, not 483. If that makes any sense whatsoever.

Einstein said:
"never memorize something that you can look up"
I must be a genius because my memory has never been good. ;)

I have a terrible, TERRIBLE, memory for practically everything but numbers. I'm sure my wife thinks I do it on purpose but its just a bad memory.

But need a PIN number from that ATM card you haven't used in 14 years and I'm your guy. Can't figure out what the disconnect is in the brain, but it would be nice to even out a bit.

Makes sense to me...yet for some reason I remember asking the operator to call "641". Yep, it was a small town back then.

The answer is 42

I still have my original driver's license memorized... all nineteen digits...

when my son was in middle school, they gave the class 8 minutes to memorize pie. He got to 37 digits but his friend, Jenna beat him when she wrote out 42 digits.

I told him to memorize the periodic table of elements because it would make it easier in chem class. It took him a day and he still remembers it after college.

He must have got it from my wife, I can't remember crap.

Not good... not good at all. I got locked out of my Speedy Rewards card because I couldn't remember the stupid 4 number code... all I wanted was a cup of coffee but noooooooo. Stupid, stupid code.

I can’t remember anything. What was the question?

I never remember a name but I always forget a face.

My memory has actually got better. It depends on how good my sleep has been. Recently my sleep has been very good and I've been remembering all sorts of things. I'm good at password numbers and personal identification numbers.

I'm good with numbers. Maybe not as good as some of the guys here, but I regularly surprise coworkers. I have all sorts of things memorized, yeah, SBC firing order is one of them. It's not that long or hard, but when I was in College in the early 90s the number for Gumby's Pizza that delivered to the dorms was 977-2000.

I usually have a couple of credit card numbers memorized, a bunch of passwords (not all numbers), phone numbers, etc....

8675308

Penny, Penny....

I have my Bail Bondsman number down by heart.

Tattooed on upside down just above your nipple so you can read it when you look down?

Some numbers are easier to remember. 34D was my girlfriend's number when I was in college. Easy to remember even after all those decades and that's all I'm gonna say.

Here's a number many will remember:
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867-5309

Lol..

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when I am asked my number in HF- I have said, One eight o four, eight hundred sixty seven- 5 thousand 3hundRED and 09.

also 2.54 cm per inch....

A lifetime ago I had a friend who had a photographic memory, it was unnerving how smart he was.

One day he asked me to take out my DL, and look at it. I did, and he rattled off my DL# without looking at it from memory. This was the moment he was coming clean about his memory.

I asked how he knew it, he said I took it out in a bar we were at when I was getting ID'd and he saw it for a couple of seconds. That was all it took he knew my DL license # from that day on.

He was a Paramedic, he liked the rush. He decided he wanted to be a RN, so he want to school crushed the courses and went into nursing. Then he got bored with that and got back into Paramedic, last I heard he was a Traumahawk paramedic attached to Holmes Regional in Melbourne Florida.

I am pretty good with numbers, I have to be, I measure houses all day, I was just telling my wife my helper forgot to look down one side of a house and it was busy. We were just about the start measuring it, he draws them up in a field book. I told him to go draw it up and I would start on the front of the house. I measured up 6 walls on my own then walked over to him pointed and said around the front, then rattled off all 6 measurements.

The numbers were all odd, like 20.6, 4.3. 2.3, 20.7, 4.5 and 14.7. That was probably them. I was reciting them in my head adding each new one until I could download on him.

He looked at me like I was nuts.

Ask me to remember your name or face? tall order.

Remember to do something my wife asked me to do... yeah, I am always disappointing.

But I can remember the numbers.

My memory has definitely gone downhill at 59.

Like Zeke, I used to remember 100’s of phone numbers for work in construction. With the cell phone, I no longer had to remember. Now my problem is trying to remember who I need to call for what task.

My first phone number was 203-227-6306.

We lived at 43 Marion Road, Westport, CT 06880.

The other day, I gave the cashier Jenny’s number. She smiled and said wouldn’t it be funny if Stacy was Jenny’s mom or something like that.

If you get to pick your number - use a word and a phone pad. I have a half dozen or so safes at work all with 2x3 combos. That get changed every 6 months. Remembering six words is far less painful. Six words, we can manage...

My wife remembers numbers very easily. She looked at her newest license tag when she picked it up and had it memorized. She is scary with numbers, and any error I have ever made, which is very rare for me.

I can't remember numbers for beans. Names are just a challenge for me. I can remember stupid trivia about my computers, and how to do a task in a program I use only a few time per year. Maybe that is what drew me into computers.

The smart phone is why most of us are dumb about phone numbers now . Hell, it goes all the way back to the first phone that stored contacts with their numbers. Probably some sort of mini brick phone.

What was this thread about again?

I remember numbers by the shape they make on a 10 key pad.
Being able to say, "Hey Siri, Call Pizza" makes me forget their phone number.

My gun safe is 3845. Not really, it has a key, but a good number though.

As a kid when we'd pick up the phone an operator came on..."Number please."
No rotary dialing yet.
My good friends # was 832 and our # was 2255W.
A long time ago. We were fortunate to even have a phone.