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How do people remember pin numbers

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    #92
    x43r0
    Registered Users Posts: 4,277 ✭✭✭x43r0


    cournioni wrote: »
    I never remember my Personal Identification Number numbers. Especially the ones at the Automated Teller Machine machine. Same with my Personal Public Service Number number.

    This post restored my faith in this thread. I was beginning to think I was the only one annoyed by people saying "PIN Number" or "ATM Machine"


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    #93
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    SpaceTime wrote: »
    I'd agree though it is becoming a problem

    I have locked myself out of Verified by Visa more times than I care to remember.
    I HATE VERIFIED BY VISA!!!!!


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    #94
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    x43r0 wrote: »
    This post restored my faith in this thread. I was beginning to think I was the only one annoyed by people saying "PIN Number" or "ATM Machine"

    That's what happens when an acronym becomes a word in its own right.


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    #95
    Midnight Sundance
    Registered Users Posts: 798 ✭✭✭Midnight Sundance


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    I HATE VERIFIED BY VISA!!!!!

    I dread every time I see this pop up, always followed by a , I've forgotten my password phone call :(


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    #96
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    I think the biggest problem with verified by visa is that it makes you set up the password when you're in the middle of a transaction.

    Then you pick something so clever you can't even remember it yourself.


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    #97
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,084 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    How do people not remember than pin already includes number? PIN number makes no sense unless you go to UCDD.


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    #98
    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,411 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    10% of people use 1234 apparently so it's probably the first number thieves will try.


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    #99
    ifeelill
    Registered Users Posts: 502 ✭✭✭ifeelill


    kneemos wrote: »
    10% of people use 1234 apparently so it's probably the first number thieves will try.


    Wha !! :confused::confused: where would you get a statistic like that ?


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    #100
    ectoraige
    Registered Users Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭ectoraige


    I have a single four-digit 'master' pin that I combine with the last four digits on the card to produce a PIN for that card. I do the same mathematical operation with the two numbers to product a PIN for each card.
    That way if somebody were to determine the PIN for one card and proceed to steal my wallet, they still wouldn't have the PIN for the other cards.
    I only have to really remember one number, and a maths function.

    For example, two cards:
    4988 5300 0012 1234
    5425 2300 5424 9510

    If my master PIN was 1111, and the operation was to subtract it, my PINs would be:
    1234 - 1111 = 0123
    9510 - 1111 = 8399

    Most of the time I recall the PIN for each individual card but when I blank, I just have to glance at the card itself to come up with the PIN.


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    #101
    MonstaMash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭MonstaMash


    ectoraige wrote: »
    I have a single four-digit 'master' pin that I combine with the last four digits on the card to produce a PIN for that card. I do the same mathematical operation with the two numbers to product a PIN for each card.
    That way if somebody were to determine the PIN for one card and proceed to steal my wallet, they still wouldn't have the PIN for the other cards.
    I only have to really remember one number, and a maths function.

    For example, two cards:
    4988 5300 0012 1234
    5425 2300 5424 9510

    If my master PIN was 1111, and the operation was to subtract it, my PINs would be:
    1234 - 1111 = 0123
    9510 - 1111 = 8399

    Most of the time I recall the PIN for each individual card but when I blank, I just have to glance at the card itself to come up with the PIN.

    Clever bugger, go to the top of the class ;):p


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    #102
    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,411 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    ifeelill wrote: »
    Wha !! :confused::confused: where would you get a statistic like that ?

    Google pin.


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    #103
    Tornaxx
    Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭Tornaxx


    I've never changed my PIN on any of the cards I've had. I find it easier to just remember the number that has been allocated to the card. Mad, eh?

    I tend to be good at remembering numbers, though. I still remember my exam number from when I did the Inter Cert (the older version of the Junior Cert, for you youngsters out there) in 1988, and I even remember birthdays of people I went to primary school with.


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    #104
    Mr. G
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 4,621 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr. G


    In the last place I did some work for, I had to remember a code to open the doors, I just memorised it. As for the pin number for an atm card, I do the same thing. I tend to be quite good at remembering numbers. If you're not, try to think of a number that only you would know (not the year of your birth or your birthday though!

    If someone has their pin as 0000 or 1234 they may as well not have a pin. I think 0000 was the number one mostly used pin number, I remember it being said on today fm one time.


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