El Sistema Mayor se basa en la fonética del inglés. Las palabras que aprendes son siempre en inglés, sin importar en qué idioma uses este sitio. Si estudias en español, sueco, chino, ruso o cualquier otro idioma, igualmente usas la lista de palabras en inglés. No necesitas hablar inglés con fluidez: solo necesitas reconocer unas 100 palabras simples y llamativas en inglés. La mayoría de las personas las aprende en una sola sesión.
The Major System converts numbers into words by mapping each digit 0–9 to one or more consonant sounds. Vowels cost nothing — use them freely to complete real words. Each word becomes a vivid image. Images chain into scenes. Scenes are impossible to forget.
Tap a digit to see its memory hook
Each digit covers a family of sounds. The word uses whichever letter from the family sounds most natural. Both are equally correct.
The system is over 300 years old and refined by memory champions ever since. Modern competitive memorisers use it to encode thousands of digits of pi, entire decks of cards, and long sequences of random numbers. The principle never changes: a vivid, concrete image is far easier to recall than an abstract digit.
A mitt slides down a road, lands on a giant lip, leaves a notch in it, then gets squeezed like a lime.
Five images, one absurd scene, one ten-digit block of pi permanently encoded. That is the system.
The Major System is a mnemonic technique dating to the 17th century. The 100-word list, diagrams, and this guide are by Christoffer De Geer. The Major Pincode System (pairing this word list with numpad muscle memory) was devised by Christoffer in 2024.