Dominic O’Brien has come up with an ingenious mnemonic system that is much easier to use than the previous memory system, called the Major System. It is similar in the sense that each digit is assigned a specific sound, in this case a letter:

1	A
2	B
3	C
4	D
5	E
6	S
7	G
8	H
9	N
10	O

Step 1: Create Letter/Name List

Here, you don’t randomly create nouns or phrases based off of the combination of the letters. In the Dominic System, the way to remember 100 items is to convert the digits 00-99 into a two-lettered combination that represents famous or otherwise memorable names.

Here’s the list that I use based off of Matt Vance’s Dominic List (you’re welcome to use this list and modify it to your liking):

Digit	Symbol	Name
00	OO	Ozzy Osborne
01	OA	Neo (”the one”)
02	OB	Orlando Bloom
03	OC	C-3P0
04	OD	Oscar Delahoya
05	OE	Omar Epps
06	OS	OJ Simpson
07	OG	Oscar the Grouch
08	OH	Oliver Hardy
09	ON	Oliver North
10	AO	Annie Oakley
11	AA	Andre Agassi
12	AB	Antonio Banderas
13	AC	Al Capone
14	AD	Andy Dick
15	AE	Albert Einstein
16	AS	Arnold Schwarzenegger
17	AG	Al Gore
18	AH	Adolf Hitler
19	AN	Alfred E. Newman
20	BO	Pigpen from Charlie Brown
21	BA	Ben Affleck
22	BB	Bugs Bunny
23	BC	Thor from B.C. Comic
24	BD	Bob Dylan
25	BE	Barbara Eden
26	BS	Bart Simpson
27	BG	Bill Gates
28	BH	Buddy Holly
29	BN	Bill Nye
30	CO	Conan O’Brien
31	CA	Captain America
32	CB	Charlie Brown
33	CC	Cassius Clay
34	CD	Cameron Diaz
35	CE	Clint Eastwood
36	CS	C.S. Lewis
37	CG	Cary Grant
38	CH	Charlton Heston
39	CN	Chuck Norris
40	DO	Donnie Osmond
41	DA	Douglas Adams
42	DB	Daniel Boone
43	DC	David Copperfield
44	DD	Daffy Duck
45	DE	Dwight D. Eisenhower
46	DS	David Spade
47	DG	Danny Glover
48	DH	Dustin Hoffman
49	DN	David Niven
50	EO	Ed O’Neill
51	EA	Ethan Allen
52	EB	Eddie Bauer
53	EC	Eric Cartman
54	ED	Ed (from Lion King)
55	EE	Erik Estrada
56	ES	Edward Scissorhands
57	EG	Earl Grey
58	EH	Ed Harris
59	EN	Ed Norton
60	SO	Shaquille O’Neil
61	SA	Sam Adams
62	SB	Sandra Bullock
63	SC	Santa Claus
64	SD	Scooby Doo
65	SE	Santa’s Elves
66	SS	Spongebob Squarepants
67	SG	Samwise Gamgee
68	SH	Saddam Hussein
69	SN	Sam Neill
70	GO	George Orwell
71	GA	Gillian Anderson
72	GB	George Bush
73	GC	Gary Coleman
74	GD	Gerard Depardieu
75	GE	Thomas Edison
76	GS	Gene Simmons
77	GG	Gandalf the Grey
78	GH	Goldie Hawn
79	GN	Greg Norman
80	HO	Santa Claus (”Ho Ho Ho”)
81	HA	Hank Aaron
82	HB	Humphrey Bogart
83	HC	Hannibal the Cannibal
84	HD	Humpty Dumpty
85	HE	He-Man
86	HS	Han Solo
87	HG	Hermione Granger
88	HH	Hulk Hogan
89	HN	Harriet Nelson
90	NO	Dr. No
91	NA	Niel Armstrong
92	NB	Norman Bates
93	NC	Nicolas Cage
94	ND	Neil Diamond
95	NE	Nicole Eggert
96	NS	Norman Schwartzkopf
97	NG	Newt Gingrich
98	NH	Nathaniel Hawthorne
99	NN	Nick Nolte

Step 2: Assign Actions to Each Name

Memorizing the name/number combination is only the first step. Secondly, you need to assign each name an action that is characteristic for that name. Below are some examples that I use for some of the above names. You should come up with your own actions so that it is memorable to you.

• Ozzy Osborne: Biting the head off of a bat
• Al Capone: Driving in a Model T shooting a tommy gun
• Oliver North: Covertly Selling weapons beneath his trench coat
• Hannibal the Cannibal: Eating Fingers from a Stew
• Santa Claus: Holding Belly saying “Ho, Ho, Ho”
• Daffy Duck: Bouncing around going ‘woohoo woohoo woohoo’

The Dominic System in Action

Remembering a Large Number

Let’s say you want to memorize a 12-digit bank account number such as 130900838044. The process would be:

1. Break the large number into chunks of 4-digit numbers
2. Apply the Dominic mnemonics
3. Cause the first character from the 4-digit combination to perform the action of the second one and ‘Journey’ the numbers through a memorable, imaginary story.

An example:

First, breaking up the 4-digit numbers gives us: 1309 0083 8044.

After applying the mnemonics we get:
1309 = ACON = Al Capone/Oliver North
0083 = OOHC = Ozzy Osborne/Hannibal the Cannibal
8044 = HODD = Santa Claus/Daffy Duck

Finally, we make the first character act out the action of the second one in the 4-digit combination and journey all the numbers:

Al Capone (AC) is standing on a street corner covertly selling nuclear missiles out of his trench coat (ON), when Ozzy Osborne (OO) comes along and grabs Al’s fingers, rips them off throws them in a stew and eats them (HC). Santa Claus (HO) after seeing this goes crazy and bounces around saying ‘woohoo, woohoo, woohoo’ (DD).

Remember, the more ridiculous the easier it is to remember.

Remembering 100 Items

With the Dominic Memory System, it is very easy to remember up to 100 unique items.

The best way to do this is to peg the item that you’re trying to remember onto the corresponding digit (00 to 99), in some ridiculous way.

For example, if I was trying to remember 50 food items that I wanted to purchase, I would assign each food item to a specific memory slot, covering slots 00 to 49.

If salad dressing was the first item, I would picture Ozzy Osborne (00) performing is action (biting the head off of a bat) in some ridiculous way with salad dressing. Perhaps Ozzy’s on stage and people are throwing bats at him to see him bite their heads off. One person mistakingly throws him a bottle of salad dressing, which he bites the top off of cutting up his mouth and making him spit out the broken shards of glass.

To reiterate from the previous posts, in order to quickly remember something there has to be three things:

1. The item you want to memorize
2. A peg where you can place the item
3. Ridiculous action to ‘weld’ the two together

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