how many numbers can you memorize in a minute?

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i just memorized 31, but i only did two sets of it. i wrote it down in order and leave blanks if i don't know the number in that space. i guess this is photographic memory. i know aspies have an extremely good memory. i memorized the numbers from the digits in pi and they were in groups of 10 on the site that had it, so it was easier to memorize.

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My short term memory is terrible. I could probably memorize... 3.

Dozens, depending on what familiar sequences or patterns are available in the numbers. The sequences or patterns could be based on other numbers I've memorized, or on my synesthesia. Either helps.

Pi is of course my favorite number to memorize more of. There are a lot of other numbers that are just fun to know to arbitrary levels of precision.

Not sure, I've never tested it that way.

But based on some other things involving numbers and memorization that I'm good at, I'd think It would be a decent amount

For example, I've solved those fifteen puzzle things in under 30 seconds before, and once with an advanced sudoku I was able to find all of the numbers in a 9-square section without writing in anything else. But with both of those examples, I could visualize each number and where it should be/how to get it there. So that might not be too helpful in trying to figure out how well I do at memorizing numbers fully in my head

Let's say you have a series of numbers, like: 4758938
It is easier to memorize them if you think of them as a whole number. 4758938 becomes 4,758,938.

Not too many.

Anywhere from about 25 to 100 or so, depending on whether the musical patterns they make (number-form synaesthesia) flow smoothly or are more complex.

without a pattern, 3. if theres a pattern more but i have to repeat them and io may lose them suddenly ans have to look at them again.

absolutely ZERO! Me and numbers have never and can never be friends... I have always struggled a lot with numbers...

No idea. I can't see why I'd want to find out. Numbers bore me to tears. Not that kind of aspie I'm afraid.

I've been practising associating numbers with notes, because I have dyscalculia, and can't write numbers down. Fours turn into sevens, turn into ones... Threes turn into fives, or eights... fives turn into twos, it's a mess.

But I've discovered since playing with my son's mobile phone that when you type numbers into it, it assigns notes to each number. I can remember strings of sounds!

My short term memory is terrible, but my long term memory is awesome! I can remember about 10 phone #'s, and a bunch of addresses also

None, unless I make a huge effort, and even then I wouldn't feel able to trust my recall particularly well. I gather a lot of Aspies have a special interest in numbers, but I don't seem to have that talent at all.

To me, numbers are cold, forgettable things, too meaningless to remember. I know of course that they often do have a great deal of meaning, but their meaning rarely jumps out at me straight from the digits. For example, telephone numbers are just arbitrary strings of arbitrary symbols, complete nonsense. It took me several years to learn my own telephone numbers, and I still don't have the faintest idea what my moblie phone number is. I used to have to tell people that it was a new number so they wouldn't think I was weird or dishonest. And if somebody tells me a number, I'll forget it within seconds, guaranteed. Somehow numbers go in one ear and out of the other.

But it's fairly well known that people have trouble learning numbers. There is a number-learning strategy that converts numbers into words, the assumption being that people can recall words more easily. Each digit is assigned to a specific consonant, so that the subject can convert a pair of digits into a word just by inserting an appropriate vowel. My problem was always remembering the assignments, which seemed pretty arbitrary.

That word "arbitrary" often occurs to me when I'm struggling to remember information. It's as if my mind doesn't want to commit anything to memory if it seems arbitrary.

I do seem to have some talent for rote learning, though I hate to depend on it for anything important. I can learn the words of songs without a lot of trouble, just by singing them over and over until the pattern sticks. Apart from allowing me to sing the songs without looking at the lyric sheet, it's not a very good way to store and retrieve information though. You tend to have to go right through the data set from the start, to retrieve something at the end of the thing, which takes some time.

i can memorize many numbers if i can see a relationship between them.

i remember telephone numbers for some unknown reason. if i press out a number sequence once, i will remember it for the rest of my life (unless i get demented).
i also remember number plates on all the cars i have paid attention to.
i can not say how i remember it but it is like i look at my mental snapshot of the car and i see the number plate clearly. even if i did not think it was noteworthy at the time.

That's one of the questions on the AQ test, I think. The person delivering the test was surprised that I didn't do that, and figured that I might have some specific problem with numbers that wasn't related to AS.

That's how I've learnt to cope with phone numbers! Instead of memorising the numbers themselves, I work out where they are on the keypad then play my 'music'! I can still hear my mum's mobile number in my head! On the other topic of memorizing numbers, I got to about 4 in my memory test...