#readwise # Improve Your Memory With the Chunking Technique ![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article1.be68295a7e40.png) ## Metadata - Full Title: Improve Your Memory With the Chunking Technique - URL: https://lifehacker.com/improve-your-memory-with-the-chunking-technique-5946606 ## Highlights - Chunking involves creating something more meaningful—and therefore memorable—from seemingly random bits of information. One example is if you need to remember a list of things—such as buying figs, lettuce, oranges, apples, and tomatoes—you can create a word out of the first letters (e.g., "FLOAT"), which is easier to remember than the individual items. If you've ever tried to remember a phone number by making a word (or words) out of the letters on the phone's dial pad, you've used chunking. - In one study, an undergraduate volunteer went from being able to remember a 7-digit sequence to remembering an 80-digit sequence after 20 months of practice, using chunking. The volunteer had been a track runner, so he grouped numbers as running times: 3492, for example, became 3 minutes and 49.2 seconds. - Note: this is also mentioned in [[Readwise/Articles/Chunking]]