M2M Day 12: No more metronome stress
This post is part of Month to Master, a 12-month accelerated learning project. For November, my goal is to memorize the order of a shuffled deck of cards in less than 2 minutes.
I stopped using the metronome today, which has removed a lot of my memorization stress. I can now memorize without constant chirping in my ears.
Yesterday, I hypothesized that, without the metronome, I would perform noticeably better during recall. This turns out to be half true.
When practicing with only half the deck (26 cards), I can easily complete my memorization in 1–1:15 minutes, with perfect recall. Memorizing two half decks in a row, I’m getting times around 2:15–2:30, which would suggest I should be able to memorize a complete deck in around that time.
However, when I try to memorize the full deck at that speed, I can’t seem to remember anything.
I’m going to play around with my recall strategy tonight, and see if that helps.
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