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I was struggling to memorize large blocks of text for a test and was looking for an approach, so I started Googling for "actor line memorization" techniques--I figured they were the experts at this sort of thing.

I found this interesting approach where you replace each word in the text with the first letter of the word itself. So Mary had a little lamb. It's fleece was white as snow! would be M h a l l. I f w w a s! You can then look at the letters and practice reading the text without having the actual text to cheat. I couldn't find a name for it, so since the letters "tickle" your memory, I called it the "Tickler Method."

Not having any actual science behind this, my theory is that it forces your brain to fill in the words, thereby reinforcing the words. A huge benefit here is that you can practice by yourself.

How do I do it?

Easy. Just copy and paste your text below and hit "Go." If you want to paste several sections at once, you can put something like "Section" or "Question" before each block and tell The Ticker Memorization Tool to ignore lines with "Section" or "Question" in them. That way, you'll have context for each section, rather than just pages and pages of letters. (For techies, the ignore line textbox can take regular expressions.)

When you're done, just paste it into notepad or Word and print it out, or email it to your Kindle.