I memorized the entire Periodic Table. Here's how.
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Күн бұрынFor the 2021 USA Memory Championships, I had to memorize the entire Periodic Table of Elements. Here's how I went about it and some tips for you to use when memorizing some big data.
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Table of Contents:
0:00 Intro
2:00 What are we memorizing? / Be smart with your data
3:53 Lay down the foundations
5:30 The first 10 elements
8:38 Layering extra data
9:33 Chunking
10:51 Layering examples
12:18 Parallel storage
14:04 Outro
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@NelsonDellis 2 жыл бұрын
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@recordgames153 2 жыл бұрын
2:12 you looking like a guy having a mid-life crisis
@NelsonDellis 2 жыл бұрын
@@recordgames153 Jesus, how old do you think I am? Haha
@recordgames153 2 жыл бұрын
@@NelsonDellis I’m just sayin’ shorts, tee-shirt and a hat that’s a little crooked, looks like you’re trying to look like a teenager
@NelsonDellis 2 жыл бұрын
@@recordgames153 ha. I’ve honestly dressed that way since 2002
@recordgames153 2 жыл бұрын
@@NelsonDellis well, anyway thank you for the videos, last night I watched the braille video and had it down within an hour.
@Peoples0420 Күн бұрын
the editing is pristine
@infrit12 2 жыл бұрын
This is so awesome! Any recommendations on which technique(s) to use to memorize chess opening lines/theory and variations? Thanks!
@SpencerTwiddy 2 жыл бұрын
great suggestion!
@jameswright5627 2 жыл бұрын
Not studying anything but am addicted to memory techniques and your videos. I almost lost it when you mentioned James Bond and the batteries and said, you weren't even going to try to come up with an image for that one. I, however, came up with a doozy (it would get me tossed off YT) if i mentioned what it is. Lol. Thank you Nelson as always for your educational videos.
@TheBuslaefff 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! It is very encouraging, keep posting new videos!
@advikgupta5922 2 жыл бұрын
I literally just needed this. Its like you read my mind.
@R4PTORZWIN 2 жыл бұрын
Wow this was really helpful. It's one thing to read about how to use memory palaces, but it's another having an actual expert guide us through the way!
@magpie913 2 жыл бұрын
Two weeks ago I was searching for a video of yours on this subject. This is just was I was looking for.
@Alexknowsbiz 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing how you accomplish this task. This was a really great and insightful video.
@herdnivke3366 Жыл бұрын
Very helpful and memorable as usual! 🙌
@magicmindmoviesuk 2 жыл бұрын
Love it. We used the 118 elements as an example for lists recently and used pretty much the same idea. The idea of making a note of every fifth 'junction' in a memory palace that you can easily jump to, we ended up calling a 'Hard Junction'. (PS: 59 is fun one to turn into an image isn't it :) )
@quantumbits1952 2 жыл бұрын
This is the video I was waiting for..... Thank you.
@lukaszswistun3197 Жыл бұрын
wow - thanks for sharing your process ❤️
@anitaengland6897 2 жыл бұрын
That's awsome my friend Happy New Year
@furkanylmaz2077 Жыл бұрын
This is really helpful thanks a lot. Waiting for more memory videos.
@henton75 2 жыл бұрын
Incredibly useful, Nelson! I've been wondering how to go about memorizing data sets like that for the long term in a systematic way. Huge thanks for breaking it down into steps and especially the layering technique. You've been inspiring me a lot this year through your videos and I started to train my memory seriously with the help from the current Swedish memory champion. This led me to recently enter the Swedish Memory Championships, which was my first competition. I learned a ton from that experience and now I look forward to the next one.
@NelsonDellis 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!! How did you do at the competition? So cool.
@thehapki 2 жыл бұрын
That's just a very useful video about mind palace. Thank you for sharing this extremely useful video.
@rivinurupasinghe8476 Жыл бұрын
Thanks to you, I memorized 42 elements in order.
@Velorant2 4 ай бұрын
Me 72 😂
@user-mm5oi3xx7m Күн бұрын
@@Velorant2 Woah guys.... I can't even memorize 20 T-T
@Nihil2407 3 ай бұрын
Usually I can't quite remember the drill of liking and subscribing. But hey, your memory techniques certainly have an effect!
@alfred0231 2 жыл бұрын
6:45 That post can also be called a bollard. Which would fit really nicely for this one specific recall. bollard -> boron
@BarKeegan Жыл бұрын
Love the mirrored MP solution 👌
@mjhornidge 2 жыл бұрын
Nelson Dellis, another great video. It is always fun watching you showcase the abilities of human memory. Question for you. Do you know of a way to prime our minds right before learning/memorizing something new? Much like we stretch be working out. Should we try to somehow stretch our minds before taking on new information? Thanks, can't wait to see what you do next.
@NelsonDellis 2 жыл бұрын
Great question. I’ll usually do a few laps through my memory palaces before memorizing. Or I’ll do a quick, short memory task like memorizing a deck of cards or something on memory league to get warmed up.
@ogivuk 2 жыл бұрын
Mad respect
@theslowmo1444 2 жыл бұрын
I used a technique to memorise this table. I used the Chemical Symbols to make a string of letters as follows HHe LiBe BCN OF NiNa Mg
@jamesmaples1255 2 жыл бұрын
So, that explained how you memorized it. How do you ensure that it becomes long term? How much of that data is still available now? (Do you use spaced repetition?) Thank you! Great video!
@NelsonDellis 2 жыл бұрын
I used spaced repetition. Yes. At this point, I review them all once every other week and that seems to be enough for now. Eventually I can stretch that to a month or more.
@lokinewborn3696 2 жыл бұрын
as long as you dont use same Memory palace for anything else its good to go.
@NelsonDellis 2 жыл бұрын
@@lokinewborn3696 exactly. Great point. I made sure to leave this memory palace uniquely for the elements and don’t plan on using it for anything else.
@Alex-ns6hj Ай бұрын
@@NelsonDellisI heard you can clear memory palaces. How do you go about this if it’s something to do? I haven’t made the plunge to memory palaces because I feel like I’ll ruin my personal memories with information and I’ll run out of places I know. I did use one palace for learning the Greek alphabet and it helped a ton! But idk what then, especially for learning mathematics / physics / technology and programming or something like chess openings and theory
@vaibhbiav 2 жыл бұрын
Impressive!
@prashan_lama6354 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you helpful method. For me 🇳🇵
@svkasuri7962 Жыл бұрын
Thanks, we are sailing and we see various flags on boats and we always have difficulties remembering them. Now we will be able to do it.
@partytimedavidson 2 жыл бұрын
Nelson, Did you use any of these techniques in college? I have read that you have some tough degrees under your belt, so I am curious how you would use these techniques for math and the sciences. I have heard a few snippets on how Boris Konrad went about it, but I wanted to get your take.
@AndyGooglegd1206 9 ай бұрын
When I was 12, I memorized the entire periodic table on my own, took a week or two, without visual aids. I used dumb phrases like for elements 41-51, I used "(N)ot (M)any (T)all (R)ed (R)ace (P)lanes (S)till (C)rash (I)nto (T)he (A)uditorium (niobium, molybdenum, technitium, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, silver, cadmium, indium, tin, antimony)
@ccrop3457 2 жыл бұрын
Amazing
@Pompomatic 2 жыл бұрын
Hey, wouldn't the association method work well in this scenario? You use the same mindmap and pictures for the names, but instead of person action object for the number you make the picture of the name large and choose some locations on this picture. On these locations you place other pictures for the numbers and such.
@suetaylor1816 Жыл бұрын
Would you be able to post a video on how to memorise the Solar System?
@aleksandar.sakovic 2 жыл бұрын
Entertaining and educational, Thanks Nelson!
@BeesWaxMinder 2 жыл бұрын
Well done on your achievements 👍 How would I memorise musical scales for Saxophone, please?
@spiral32 Жыл бұрын
Nobody: asap science song playing in the back of my head 24/7
@skyrider828 2 жыл бұрын
That's really impressive, thanks. But the periodic table is more than just a list; what about the horizontal and vertical groupings, which I seem to remember from chemistry lessons more than half a century ago, were the real magic in the periodic table! How did you add these concepts?
@avrilb72 2 жыл бұрын
I had that thought too. My guess would be a separate memory palace. You would need a separate palace for that as blending all those layers of different info might get too complicated... The story with all the necessary info could get very long and it would take a long time to work through your stories to work out that piece of info. Especially if you're in a competition setting.
@BarKeegan Жыл бұрын
Is there a hierarchy to layering and a limit to how far you can stretch the associated story? I know there’s usually a recommended limit of 5 stations per room in a memory palace. Do you have to approach layering similarly so you don’t get lost?
@warai309 2 жыл бұрын
I got lucky. Im a future medical student and this is exactly what i need thanks nelson
@faris6755 2 жыл бұрын
Great
@BarKeegan Жыл бұрын
One more question, I’m sure you’ve used base camp for separate info before. How does that work, without erasing another long term set of info?
@SORA-oj1xb 2 жыл бұрын
How do you memorize the decimals?For instance,atomic mass of Chlorine is 35.453.And how can you differentiate which atomic mass has decimals and which doensnt?I use 2digits PAO but still struggling with decimals.
@naomiweed4593 2 жыл бұрын
Where can we watch the next memory championship? #Online
@prorigami2444 2 жыл бұрын
Can you please make a video for guitar fretboard memorisation. I remember asking few months back
@NelsonDellis 2 жыл бұрын
Yes! I still owe you this one. There’s a great video on KZfaq already about it titled something like “memorize the fretboard in 5 minutes”. It’s pretty good but I think i can do it a bit better. Goal for 2022 to make that video!
@ollijonderko491 2 жыл бұрын
i am currently studying Physiotherapy and wanted to ask if you can make a video on memorizing Anatomy and Medical Biological Knowledge. I find the topics to be pretty abstract so I struggle with memorizing them
@partytimedavidson 2 жыл бұрын
You should check out Alex Mullen. He is a resident doctor now, but when he was making videos he was in med school and goes over a bunch of ideas for these topics.
@johnporcella2375 Жыл бұрын
I was once taught on a train journey "CHOP"! This is to remember who discovered hydrogen and oxygen. Cavendish hydrogen, oxygen Priestley.
@NertoFurity 2 жыл бұрын
what other stuff did you have to memorize for the competition? i can´t find it online
@NelsonDellis 2 жыл бұрын
This year it was : USA Winter Olympic gold medalists (name, sport, Olympics year and location), Pulitzer Prize winners for poetry (author name, poem name, year, publisher), and periodic table (number, element, symbol, mass, state, boiling point, year discovered, and discoverer)
@fivefingers9949 2 жыл бұрын
I had memziose first 30 elements. Can you make a video to memziose all 118 elements
@SergyOrloff 2 жыл бұрын
I don't entirely get "parallel storage". I am not sure how you can connect two locations from different palaces. You probably can do that because both palaces are well developed in your memory and you have a lot of practice with both? I am not sure I would be able to keep that connections, like remember that location 25 in memory palace 1 is location 25 in memory palace 2? ... I need to practice that more. I have a lot of stuff that I want to memorize.
@NelsonDellis 2 жыл бұрын
Yes, I had mentioned that in a section but cut it to not keep the video from being too long. For the parallel storage idea to work well you need to be quite familiar with both palaces. The ones I used for these are very well travelled so I know them quite well.
@alexandraapolline8434 Жыл бұрын
"And the names are long and French and complicated" I love that 😆
@srikrishsanthosh6898 2 жыл бұрын
I just learnt the Periodic table song.
@olivewoo522 2 жыл бұрын
When I was in grade 7, 37 years ago, I memorized the Preamble. I just always liked to say it.
@fricktmg6122 Жыл бұрын
Nelson how to memories coding Language and systax
@user-kp5ql8dn6t 2 жыл бұрын
Could you make a video about memorizing math equations
@orionx4729 2 жыл бұрын
Yes that would would be great. Please make a video if you can. Either way, you are my inspiration 👍
@NelsonDellis 2 жыл бұрын
I’ve been meaning to a video about that! I’ll work on one over the next few months
@orionx4729 2 жыл бұрын
@@NelsonDellis thanks a lot. And congratulations for becoming the memory champion for the fifth time.
@johnporcella2375 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video! If I wanted to learn just the atomic number and name of the associated element WITHOUT a memory palace, how could it be done? Thanks. John
@amirPenton 2 жыл бұрын
Hey John! I’ll give my method, it may not appeal to some but it worked really well for me. 1. Group the elements into groups of 10. 2. Look at all of the atomic symbols for one group. For example, let’s look at elements 41-50: Nb Mo Tc Ru Rh Pd Ag Cd In Sn. 3. Combine these to 1-2 “words.” For this example, I did NbMoTcRuRh PdAgCdInSn (I just pronounce them how I think it would sound). Notice how I grouped them into groups of 5 to make it easier. 4. Associate these “words” with their numbers. For example these are elements 41-50, so you can just associate them with the number 4. I can’t go into more detail without writing a lot more, but this worked for me. As I did this, I learned what element each symbol stands for, so I know elements 41-50 are Niobium Molybdenum Technetium Rubidium Rhodium Paladium Silver Cadmium Indium Tin. Grouping them by 5 where possible allowed me to reasonably quickly find the number I’m looking for.
@HimanshuKumar-mq9yq 2 жыл бұрын
Hey John, so my teacher taught me this it's very easy. First you have to learn the periodic table , i learn it group wise because properties are almost same for a group . I used mnemonics . So for example group 16 oxygen family has O , S , Se, Te, Po, Lv . So if you know the atomic no of oxygen you know the rest . At no of O is 8 , now if you look in the periodic table there are 8 elements in the '3rd Period ' and S is in 3rd period so just 8 + atomic no of oxygen , you get 16 it's the at. no of S . Similarly there are 18 elements in 4th period and you now know at. No of S is 16 , just add 16+18 you get 34 that's the atomic no Se . Period 5th has 18 elements , just add 18 +34 =52 , that's at no of Te. Period 6th has 32 elements , (why? because 6th period has lanthanoids too) . Just add 32 + at no of Te =84 . That's at no of Po. In this way if you know the at. no of first element of group you can calculate at no of any element . Period 1 has 2 elements , 2nd has 8 3rd has 8 4th has 18 5th has 18 6th had 32( lanthanoids too include) 7th has 32 elements . Hope this helps you....
@johnporcella2375 2 жыл бұрын
Hi Himanshu, I think your method assumes that I know what groups and periods are...I do not! Happy to be able to learn them as a list 1, 2, 3, 4 etc with the associated name of the element. I do not really need beyond that. John
@NelsonDellis 2 жыл бұрын
Another option is if you have a peg system for numbers. If you have pegs for numbers up to 118, all you would need to do is associate an image for the element to the peg. The hardest part would be coming up with the pegs if you haven’t already
@HOPE_-lo8mz 11 ай бұрын
I used the Dominic system to memorize whole periodic table
@24030113 Жыл бұрын
👍
@bokajbokaj 7 ай бұрын
Why do i have to learn the full periodic table and like 50 billion more things for my chemistry 1 test? And it is only my first out of three exams in chemistry 1 :/
@DragonAbode 2 жыл бұрын
Story telling is an excellent method. Using key word correlation (and systematic math) I memorized every detail of the periodic table in 8th grade. For a big test. I later used it in high school just to memorize a board of i think 25 random unrelated nouns in 5 minutes I’m honestly not even smart. I just enjoy learning
@Malcolm.Y Жыл бұрын
If you use a bear for beryllium, what do you use for barium ? lol
@ropeaccessdubaihaminepali4107 2 жыл бұрын
Abhi Vijay Shahi kidhar hai sir
@Cookie-hj1di Жыл бұрын
Do u know how to memorize math math is hard to remember for me
@naomiweed4593 2 жыл бұрын
What are some useful things to memorize?
@user-kp5ql8dn6t 2 жыл бұрын
How do you learn a new language
@ninjapirate123 Жыл бұрын
I memorized the first 20 digits of pi
@nktdoubt6354 2 жыл бұрын
I see how the first 10 can be memorized easily but all 118, that takes skill
@richardfredlund3802 2 жыл бұрын
I've learned the names of all up to 118 but still a little bit shaky on symbols, and I didn't learn boiling points and discovery dates or anything. Pretty much just the same as for 10 elements just more locations. I used my old college because it seemed to have that Chemistry association. And just learned one row at a time. Work out how many locations you need for a row, plot a route and then just add the images. I guess I did one new row a day or something like that. Still I probably do need to keep reviewing it or it wont stay in long term.
@siddhaantmondal1916 Жыл бұрын
Learn the blocks separately
@Team-gw5uw Жыл бұрын
How did he come up with 16 with Weightlifting and 15 with chalkboard? stumped
@pakistanicanadianvlogger 6 ай бұрын
It would help a lot if you went through the whole periodic table instead of just 10
@tracymiller1149 2 жыл бұрын
Sounds familiar somehow. 🙂
@Addy__ 2 жыл бұрын
Hydrogen should be location 0 in that array 😝
@NelsonDellis 2 жыл бұрын
Haha touché
@Steezy_Marx 2 жыл бұрын
My science class in 6th grade expected me to have memorized it by the end of the first semester... Long story short, I didn’t do well in science class.
@suetaylor1816 Жыл бұрын
Easy way to memorise solar system 🎉
@ninjapirate123 Жыл бұрын
only 9 plants to remember compared to 118 elements in the periodic table
@onkar6970 2 жыл бұрын
Indians did before you
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