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How do people remember pin numbers

  • 31-07-2013 01:29PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,865 ✭✭✭Mrs Garth Brooks


    How do people remember their pin numbers and passwords?

    I have a couple of passwords to various websites like email, facebook etc. I just type them all in and one of them works.

    Its the pin number to your bank card which is the problem. I know you can change it but what 4 digits can you use thats easy to remember besides your birthday. I have mine written down in my wallet which is very risky if i ever lost it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    I remember them with my mind.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    I usually use my brains


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,557 ✭✭✭KeithM89


    Weirdly, its the same as the first four numbers of my mobile number.

    And also my boards password.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    I repeat them over and over in my head until I can remember


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    How do people remember their pin numbers and passwords?

    I have a couple of passwords to various websites like email, facebook etc. I just type them all in and one of them works.

    Its the pin number to your bank card which is the problem. I know you can change it but what 4 digits can you use thats easy to remember besides your birthday. I have mine written down in my wallet which is very risky if i ever lost it.

    There is usually a white strip on the back of the card where you can write stuff. It is perfect for writing your PIN on, never have to worry about forgetting it. Much better than a piece of paper in your wallet, as you may lose that!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,749 ✭✭✭Smiles35


    A fake telephone number in my wallet. Last few digits is the pin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,952 ✭✭✭aujopimur


    I have it written in big black letters on my bank card.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,184 ✭✭✭Kenno90


    Store you pin as a contact in your phone, never in the wallet, Strange i've never had a problem with passwords or pins. Guess i'm lucky


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,282 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    You just have to threat it a a phone number and learn it off.
    You can also use a number such as the year of something that happened in your life that wouldn't be obvious!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 629 ✭✭✭blinkey 101


    I put my pin number on the back of my bank card and I have a sticker on the

    back of my iPhone with my pin on it. it works for me :p


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    Is this a Troll Thread? if not, just change your pin to a 4 digit number you will remember....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    Make a tune of it like in them adverts...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,168 ✭✭✭BunShopVoyeur.


    I'm surprised that this is even a problem tbh.

    A four digit number should be easy to remember once you repeat it to yourself once or twice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 213 ✭✭JP85


    Seriously, a 4 digit number!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭Sciprio


    I remember a lot of numbers. My ATM,my current mobile phone number,my previous mobile number, all of the house telephone numbers we had over the years(over 4+) different passwords for facebook,emails etc. :D

    My PPS number various wifi passwords and not including others peoples numbers store in the oul noggin'! I'm pretty **** at maths though! :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭elfy4eva




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,749 ✭✭✭Smiles35


    2222 still remember my bike lock code from college


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,622 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    It really isn't that difficult for normal people to remember 4 numbers. If you're bad at numbers, perhaps try memorising a pattern on the keypad (e.g. 2580 would be a straight line down the middle of the keypad).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    You're never going to get me to divulge such secret information ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 863 ✭✭✭GastroBoy


    How do people remember their pin numbers and passwords?

    I have a couple of passwords to various websites like email, facebook etc. I just type them all in and one of them works.

    Its the pin number to your bank card which is the problem. I know you can change it but what 4 digits can you use thats easy to remember besides your birthday. I have mine written down in my wallet which is very risky if i ever lost it.

    Hello, I'm based in Nigeria, we could use someone like you over here......


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭Reamer Fanny


    I know my debit card number from memory so I never need it with me when buying stuff online, eat that OP!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    My pin is made up of two years that a football team won a trophy. Genius.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Agricola wrote: »
    My pin is made up of two years that a football team won a trophy. Genius.

    19-- or 20--

    Almost cracked.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,697 ✭✭✭elefant


    This has to be a piss take.

    How do people remember 4 numbers? Must have taken you ages to get the alphabet!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 863 ✭✭✭GastroBoy


    Agricola wrote: »
    My pin is made up of two years that a football team won a trophy. Genius.

    9212?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭actuallylike


    Same as the price of a cheese pizza and large soda at Panucci's Pizza


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,977 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    Ive had for same number for years, so i don't actually think of the number ,my fingers just hit the right numbers on the keys, but about a year ago i was ask "put in your pin "at shop ,for some reason i tryed to think of the number in my head, rather then do it automatically, could not remember the number for the life of me!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,060 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    I remember my pin by a pattern on the keypad, not the actual numbers.

    What pisses me off are the keypads which start from the bottom (789456123). They wreck my buzz


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,156 ✭✭✭srsly78


    Kenno90 wrote: »
    Store you pin as a contact in your phone, never in the wallet, Strange i've never had a problem with passwords or pins. Guess i'm lucky

    How do you remember the pin for your phone tho? Store it as a contact on a second phone?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    GastroBoy wrote: »
    9212?

    Nope. Go again :D


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