Just recenty I've discovered the Dominic memory system, by eight time winner of the World Memory Championships Dominic O'Brien, and I've been studying his book "How to Develop a Perfect Memory". It's a very effective tool for memorizing a lot of different things, including: numbers, foreign words, lists, names and speeches.
To remember numbers in the Dominic system you must first memorize the names of 100 people who represent the numbers from 0-99, so there is some pre-work involved. Along with the names, each person also needs to have an action or object associated with them, so it could take a week or two to memorize the names and a couple of months practice to get really good with them, but the system is very powerful once you get it working. Used with the journey technique, many numbers can easily be remembered in a very short amount of time.
If you don't want to learn the number system, the journey technique itself works great and is very easy to learn.
Below is my list of numbers with associated people, the word "personal" denotes names of people who are personal friends or who aren't well known. In this system, the numbers 0 thru 9 each have a unique corresponding letter.
00 = OO = personal
01 = OA = Ryker, (Star Trek)
02 = OB = Obie wan Knobi, swinging light saber
03 = OC = Orange County chopper guy, welding
04 = OD = Oscar De La Hoya, boxer
05 = OE = personal
06 = OS = prisoner (TV series)
07 = OG = James Bond, with pistol
08 = OH = Oliver Hardy, with plank on his shoulder
09 = ON = Paul O'neil, throwing a baseball
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10 = AO = Bo Derek (Ten)
11 = AA = personal
12 = AB = ABominable snowman
13 = AC = personal
14 = AD = personal
15 = AE = Albert Einstein, writing on a blackboard
16 = AS = Isaac Asimov
17 = AG = Art Garfunkel
18 = AH = Alfred Hitchcock
19 = AN = ANdy Griffith, flashing a sheriff's badge
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20 = BO = personal
21 = BA = Buzz Aldrin
22 = BB = Bilbo Baggins, puffing a pipe in bare feet
23 = BC = Thor (B.C. comic), riding a stone unicycle
24 = BD = personal
25 = BE = Barbara Eden
26 = BS = Bart Simpson, riding a skateboard
27 = BG = personal
28 = BH = Bob Hope
29 = BN = BeN Franklin, flying a huge kite
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30 = CO = Conan O'Brien,
31 = CA = Ceasar Augustus
32 = CB = Cristy Brinkley
33 = CC = Charlie Chaplin
34 = CD = Charlie Daniels
35 = CE = Carmen Electra
36 = CS = Carl Sagan
37 = CG = personal
38 = CH = personal
39 = CN = Chuck Norris
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40 = DO = personal
41 = DA = Don Adams, with shoe phone
42 = DB = Deep Thought (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)
43 = DC = George Washington, chopping down cherry tree (Washington DC)
44 = DD = personal
45 = DE = Dale Earnhardt
46 = DS = David Spade
47 = DG = personal
48 = DH = personal
49 = DN = David Niven
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50 = EO = Ed O'neil,
51 = EA = Eddie Albert, with a pitchfork
52 = EB = personal
53 = EC = Eric Cartman
54 = ED = Fred Gwynne ("Car 54 Where Are You?")
55 = EE = Eddie the Eagle Edwards, skiing
56 = ES = Ed Sullivan
57 = EG =
58 = EH = Eddie Haskell, smirking
59 = EN = Ed Norton
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60 = SO = Shaq O'neil
61 = SA = Sparky Anderson
62 = SB = Sandra Bullock, driving a bus
63 = SC = personal
64 = SD = personal
65 = SE =
66 = SS = Samantha Stevens (Bewitched)
67 = SG = Sara M. Geller (Buffy)
68 = SH = personal
69 = SN = Sam Neill
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70 = GO = personal
71 = GA = Gillian Anderson
72 = GB = personal
73 = GC = George Castanza
74 = GD = Gina Davis
75 = GE = personal
76 = GS = personal
77 = GG = Gandalf the Grey (The Lord of the Rings), barring the way with his staff
78 = GH = George Harrison
79 = GN = Greg Norman, driving a ball
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80 = HO = Haley Joel Osmet
81 = HA = Hank Aaron, hitting a home run
82 = HB = Heywood Banks, drumming on a toaster
83 = HC = Harry Carey
84 = HD = personal
85 = HE = personal
86 = HS = Han Solo, shooting his blaster
87 = HG = personal
88 = HH = Harry Houdini
89 = HN = Harriet Nelson
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90 = NO = Noah
91 = NA = Neil Armstrong, walking on the moon
92 = NB =
93 = NC =
94 = ND =
95 = NE =
96 = NS = personal
97 = NG = personal
98 = NH =
99 = NN = Agent 99
A good resource for finding names of famous people
More on the Dominic system
More on memory systems in general
To remember numbers in the Dominic system you must first memorize the names of 100 people who represent the numbers from 0-99, so there is some pre-work involved. Along with the names, each person also needs to have an action or object associated with them, so it could take a week or two to memorize the names and a couple of months practice to get really good with them, but the system is very powerful once you get it working. Used with the journey technique, many numbers can easily be remembered in a very short amount of time.
If you don't want to learn the number system, the journey technique itself works great and is very easy to learn.
Below is my list of numbers with associated people, the word "personal" denotes names of people who are personal friends or who aren't well known. In this system, the numbers 0 thru 9 each have a unique corresponding letter.
00 = OO = personal
01 = OA = Ryker, (Star Trek)
02 = OB = Obie wan Knobi, swinging light saber
03 = OC = Orange County chopper guy, welding
04 = OD = Oscar De La Hoya, boxer
05 = OE = personal
06 = OS = prisoner (TV series)
07 = OG = James Bond, with pistol
08 = OH = Oliver Hardy, with plank on his shoulder
09 = ON = Paul O'neil, throwing a baseball
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10 = AO = Bo Derek (Ten)
11 = AA = personal
12 = AB = ABominable snowman
13 = AC = personal
14 = AD = personal
15 = AE = Albert Einstein, writing on a blackboard
16 = AS = Isaac Asimov
17 = AG = Art Garfunkel
18 = AH = Alfred Hitchcock
19 = AN = ANdy Griffith, flashing a sheriff's badge
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20 = BO = personal
21 = BA = Buzz Aldrin
22 = BB = Bilbo Baggins, puffing a pipe in bare feet
23 = BC = Thor (B.C. comic), riding a stone unicycle
24 = BD = personal
25 = BE = Barbara Eden
26 = BS = Bart Simpson, riding a skateboard
27 = BG = personal
28 = BH = Bob Hope
29 = BN = BeN Franklin, flying a huge kite
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30 = CO = Conan O'Brien,
31 = CA = Ceasar Augustus
32 = CB = Cristy Brinkley
33 = CC = Charlie Chaplin
34 = CD = Charlie Daniels
35 = CE = Carmen Electra
36 = CS = Carl Sagan
37 = CG = personal
38 = CH = personal
39 = CN = Chuck Norris
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40 = DO = personal
41 = DA = Don Adams, with shoe phone
42 = DB = Deep Thought (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)
43 = DC = George Washington, chopping down cherry tree (Washington DC)
44 = DD = personal
45 = DE = Dale Earnhardt
46 = DS = David Spade
47 = DG = personal
48 = DH = personal
49 = DN = David Niven
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50 = EO = Ed O'neil,
51 = EA = Eddie Albert, with a pitchfork
52 = EB = personal
53 = EC = Eric Cartman
54 = ED = Fred Gwynne ("Car 54 Where Are You?")
55 = EE = Eddie the Eagle Edwards, skiing
56 = ES = Ed Sullivan
57 = EG =
58 = EH = Eddie Haskell, smirking
59 = EN = Ed Norton
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60 = SO = Shaq O'neil
61 = SA = Sparky Anderson
62 = SB = Sandra Bullock, driving a bus
63 = SC = personal
64 = SD = personal
65 = SE =
66 = SS = Samantha Stevens (Bewitched)
67 = SG = Sara M. Geller (Buffy)
68 = SH = personal
69 = SN = Sam Neill
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70 = GO = personal
71 = GA = Gillian Anderson
72 = GB = personal
73 = GC = George Castanza
74 = GD = Gina Davis
75 = GE = personal
76 = GS = personal
77 = GG = Gandalf the Grey (The Lord of the Rings), barring the way with his staff
78 = GH = George Harrison
79 = GN = Greg Norman, driving a ball
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80 = HO = Haley Joel Osmet
81 = HA = Hank Aaron, hitting a home run
82 = HB = Heywood Banks, drumming on a toaster
83 = HC = Harry Carey
84 = HD = personal
85 = HE = personal
86 = HS = Han Solo, shooting his blaster
87 = HG = personal
88 = HH = Harry Houdini
89 = HN = Harriet Nelson
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90 = NO = Noah
91 = NA = Neil Armstrong, walking on the moon
92 = NB =
93 = NC =
94 = ND =
95 = NE =
96 = NS = personal
97 = NG = personal
98 = NH =
99 = NN = Agent 99
A good resource for finding names of famous people
More on the Dominic system
More on memory systems in general
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