depends on how it's delivered. If it's all at once then around 7 as it would be my maximum for working memory. If I could make the input piecemeal then 100+ with great effort would be possible. For the first few days I would need to hit the research about mnemotechnics and learn it how to do it.
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You get paid the moment you get it right. So you can go on forever if your brain is big enough to store all the words.
My streak would depend if someone would tell me the phasprase once or multiple times? Would they pause on request, every five words or tell everything without stop?
Its like: the words comes up on a screen in front of you, a prerecorded voice says the words in the average speed of all english speakers, and its pronounced in the accent of your current region, 5 seconds apart, like this:
Time = 0 second (word appears on screen)
Correct Horse Battery Staple
(5 seconds silence)
Correct Horse Battery Staple
(5 second silence)
Correct Horse Battery Staple
Time = 30 second (word disappears from screen)
That's it. No pause, no repeat.
The next day, the old words don't get shown again, its only the new word.
Then the critical moment would be around 7 and 14 words in. Would I manage to memorise two and three sets of working in allotted time?
It could only be answered empirically. It would be make it or break it moment.
When I was busking I had about 60 songs memorised. The first few I learned took ages to cement themselves, but the more I learned the easier it was to learn new ones. Memory is like a muscle; the more you use it the better it works. I haven't played in public in about ten years, but I've still got a couple of dozen songs I can remember, and it only takes a little brushing up to get back the ones I'm rusty on.
I think people would do better at this challenge than they expect.
I'd give it about a week before my cryptolalia betrays me.
At the very least, there's a 50/50 chance I get $1000 dollars for free...
If it's song lyrics like the first lyrics to something like Soul Coughing's So Far I Have Not Found The Science or Crush 40's Free then I am safe. Otherwise, good chance I forget.
Wait you're saying that after N days you get N(N+1)/2 total dollars? I think you're underestimating yourself saying you'd max at 12 words. Doing 1000+ doesn't seem outlandish. You get a day for each additional word, you can use part of the day to make up mnemonics and so on. Lots of people memorize digits of pi to 100s or 1000s of places and this is kind of similar.
After 1 year you're at $67K, 2 years $267K, 3 years $600K, and so on. Pretty cushy gig after the first year if you can keep it up.
Edit: that should have all been in K$ as pointed out below. So $67M after the first year.
Bruh, 3 years is 1100 words 💀
No way lol, I stuggle to remember things a lot, too much depression and brain fog.
Not as tough as it seems. People routinely memorize much more in shorter periods. Try learning the complete Kanji (Asian Pictograms) or heiroglyphics. It's not inconceivable to memorize 10,000 random words. Think of how many songs you can recite the lyrics to. I learned Billy Joel's, "We Didn't Start the Fire" in a day. That's pretty much what this challenge is about - a random list of words.
Literally zero people in here could remember 1000 random words in the correct order this way. No one. Most people couldn’t do 10. No one would get close to 50.
Hermann Ebbinghaus has entered the chat. He studied this sort of thing with nonsense syllables. You have to work at it, but yes most people can learn and repeat hundreds of them.
Oh come on, 10 is pretty easy. Here is 10: comply-pone's-mi's-NyQuil-Agassi-fowled-should-gabs-tipis-carrel
Try writing them down on a piece of paper, repeat them to yourself once or twice, then see if you can write them on a 2nd piece of paper from memory, referring to the 1st piece as needed, but not just copying. Then do the same with a 3rd piece of paper and so on. You should be able to remember all 10 within a few minutes of that. Then do something else for 30 minutes, then try to write down the phrase again, referring to an earlier paper if you have to.
Would I do that just for giggles? Maybe not. For $1000? Heck yes. I'm sure you could too. Getting to 50 by adding 1 word a day for 1.5 months, no big deal either. Like almost every nerd I memorized some pi digits (I stopped at 50, unlike some) as a kid. I still remember them. Many people I know did 100+ and some I don't know have done 1000+. In fact the record seems to be above 100,000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology
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I memorised 100 digits of pi 20 years ago so I'll just use those, I can get $100k easy. Finally this will come in handy for something
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Zero days because I don't do stuff for money that I don't enjoy.