How Do You Memorise Your Pin Numbers?

[poodicat]

I have now 4 different accounts,they say you should memorise your pin numbers,its quite difficult remembering all of them as they say you shouldnt write them down,anyone else struggle with this

[grasscarp]

it is easy if you have the same pin numbers for them all. I have only two pin numbers to remember.

[anneasquith]

you can use the same pin number for all the accounts

[sophie_1003]

Save them in your phone as a phone number with the first or last 4 numbers being your pin

[poodicat]

Good thinking,but what happens if you cant get that pin number,as someone else might have it

[carlton23]

Change them all to the same one that you can remember.

[Prudie]

Like others I use the same one for each

[denis567]

Despite the advice, that you shouldn't, I have the same pin number for all my accounts. Perhaps it is not advisable, but it sure is easier!!

[carlton23]

Thier credentials will differ from yours.

[grasscarp]

what are you talking about. You are not trying to find a number that nobody else has. you can choose literally whatever you like...........

[poodicat]

Sounds the most logical thing to do,but someone else might have that number

[poodicat]

ok grasscarp

[askyourgran]

I usually remember by making up a rhyme such as 76 (trombones)o2 (my mobile payasyougo) 22 dinky do etc.

[squarebear]

If you had to choose a unique PIN number, the banks could only have 10,000 accounts!

[Prudie]

a 4 digit pin has only a 10,000 or so combinations, loads of people will have the same one

[ChuckFickens]

LOL, It's not a problem... I have a near photographic memory when it comes to numbers and passwords (ask me what I done last week though and I wouldn't have a clue!

[ELVIS68]

I write mine on the back of the card, shuffled up of course

[poodicat]

Lucky you chuck,prudie and squarebear might have a point?

[sophie_1003]

Would be a few more than 10,000! Still not enough for everyone to have a completely unique number though!

[craft1948]

Doesn't bother me as I can remember numbers, but not names. I knew my credit card number by heart until my new one turned up with a different one :-(

[Buenchico]

Aaagh! The dreaded tautology rears its ugly head again! 'PIN' stands for 'Personal Identification Number', so "PIN number" has 'number' used twice. It's not a 'PIN number', it's just a 'PIN'.

My current PINs are deeply hidden among a lengthy list of (what appear to be) phone numbers kept in my wallet. (I used one of them today, for the first time in several years. It took me several minutes to work out what the number was, even though I knew where to look!).

However I used to keep a PIN hidden within what looked look like a list of social club 'tote' numbers. Anyone finding that list would have needed quite a bit of lateral thinking to realise that '22-2-10' was a way of writing down '0938' ;-)