"If you can memorize a shuffled deck of cards, you can memorize anything." - me
Practice makes perfect and perfect makes an awesome party! Use this app to sharpen your memory skills. Never drop a real playing card on the floor ever again.
On you desktop:
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On your phone:
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Having trouble thinking of your own associations? Try mine.
These are my Person, Action, Object associations for playing cards (PAO). Using this technique, we can compress three cards into a single image. A shuffled deck of cards takes 18 mental locations to memorize.
| Card | Person | Action | Object |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | bench pressing | a barbell | |
| FloJo | placing on her neck | a gold metal | |
| Tom Hanks | running with a bum leg | through some trees | |
| Louisa Hunt | snuggling | with Baxter (dog) | |
| Julian Assange | vanishing in | a puff of smoke | |
| Taylor Swift | strumming | a guitar | |
| Albert Einstein | travelling at light speed with | a shinny star | |
| Pamela Anderson | diving into water to save | a drowning child | |
| Steve Jobs | taking LSD and inventing | the iPad | |
| JK Rowling | writing a story about | Harry Potter | |
| Jesus Christ | walking on | a lake | |
| Michelle Obama | star-jumping on | the whitehouse lawn | |
| Barack Obama | fly-swatting | a buzzing fly | |
| Michael Jordan | slam-dunking | a basketball | |
| Anna Kournikova | sunbathing on top of | a red towel | |
| George Clooney | dealing | a deck of cards | |
| Sandra Bullock | floating without gravity | in a space suit | |
| Joseph Stalin | smoking | a pipe | |
| Madonna | dancing in | a pointy top | |
| Isaac Newton | getting hit on the head by | an apple | |
| Marilyn Monroe | dress blowing up over | a subway vent | |
| Bill Gates | typing furiously on | a blue-screened PC | |
| Oprah Winfrey | interviewing on | a couch | |
| Zeus | throwing | a lightening bolt | |
| Princess Kate | serving delicately | a pot of tea | |
| Prince William | riding | a horse | |
| Mike Tyson | punching | with red boxing glove | |
| The Williams Sisters | lifting into the air | the Wimbledon trophy | |
| Sylvester Stallone | shooting from the hip | a giant machine gun | |
| Angelina Jolie | karate kicking | an ancient tomb | |
| Hitler | goose-stepping into | a bunker | |
| Tonya Harding | ice skating | with white ice skates | |
| Thomas Edison | screwing in | a light bulb | |
| Medusa | turning to stone with a glare | a statue | |
| Mark Zuckerberg | poking | his dumb hoodie | |
| Hillary Clinton | waving above her head | the USA flag | |
| Pope John-Paul II | tearfully forgiving | a random mugger | |
| Beyoncé | twerking | a colorfully lit stage | |
| Jay-Z | rapping into | a giant microphone | |
| Usain Bolt | running ridiculously fast with | a relay baton | |
| Annika Sorenstam | driving | a golf ball | |
| Ace Ventura | pushing himself out | a rhino butt | |
| Tina Fey | making funny faces | with her glasses | |
| Osama bin Laden | recording a ghetto video with | a suicide bomber | |
| Lady Gaga | wearing a meat dress for | the Paparazzi | |
| Bill Nye | pouring colorful liquids into | some test tubes | |
| Rosie O'Donnell | furiously eating | a bag of Doritos | |
| Tim Ferriss | doing pushups on | a yoga mat | |
| Sarah Palin | rifle-shooting | a moose | |
| The Dalai Lama | praying to | a Buddha | |
| Victoria Beckham | applying lipstick in front of | a mirror | |
| David Beckham | kicking | a football |