How To Test Your Ability To Remember Numbers

How can I test my ability to remember numbers?

Here's a very simple memory test. Numbers are fairly abstract for the average person. So a memory test for yourself would be having somebody write down a list of seven random sequence of numbers. They're going to call the numbers, and see if you can remember those, repeat those numbers in a perfect sequence. And then try it with ten numbers. If you can get five numbers out of the seven, that's one percentage that we could say your memory is fair. If you're getting seven out of seven, that's excellent. If you get ten out of ten, your memory for numbers would be excellent. Remembering lists of series of numbers, look for a relationship in the numbers. If it's three, four, seven, you'd say "Oh, three plus four is seven." You start to look for connections, and group them. Three or four numbers in a group, another three or four numbers in a group, another three numbers. Before you know it you can have ten or twelve numbers in a perfect sequence. But making active pictures of numbers, there are techniques to remember: making numbers into pictures.