Picture your padlock flying through the air surrounded by FLaK. To memorise a padlock number like 857, first turn it into letters - F-L-K - then insert vowels (which are ignored in the system) to make a word - in this case FLaK will do. But as a teenager I was really taken with Dr Bruno Furst's Major System (we had a copy of the course at home), and it has stuck with me ever since. And you might also think it’s a real faff to remember all this stuff just so you can remember other things. Now you might think this all seems a bit tenuous. The full system then adds in all the other consonants that are similar sounds to those above, so for example 1 can be either t OR d (because d and t use the same tongue formation). So the secret for remembering numbers (for example dates in history or Person ID numbers, aka PINs) was to turn those dry numbers into an image.The basic code (every new memory guru comes up with variants) was as follows.ĭigit Letter 0 z (for zero) 1 t (T has one downstroke) 2 n (n has two downstrokes) 3 m (m has three downstrokes) 4 r (r is the fourth letter of four) 5 l (L is Roman 50, so it’s sort of linked) 6 j (J is a bit like 6) 7 k (k is like two 7s stuck together) 8 f (a cursive f looks a bit like 8) 9 p (p is a backwards 9)* An important principle of the so-called Major system that Dr Bruno Furst (the 'leading expert') promoted was that words and images are easier to remember than numbers.
“You CAN Remember” was the headline, with claims that a leading expert had discovered a way to help you improve your memory and hence succeed in life. How do YOU remember your PIN ? Turning numbers into memorable imagesįor several decades, the Guardian newspaper had a prominent advertisement in the bottom corner of the front page.
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