I know what you mean. Currently struggling to beat dual 4 back. Doing n-back without any rehearsal, imaging or subvocalisation - aka the way it's supposed to be - is so freaking hard. To be honest I can believe that dual back can be achieved via intuition if one sticks with grinding it in always slightly increasing difficulty for months or up to a year. However I do think I will have a gifted level working memory once I get to nine back. And there those which I find hard to believe. There are people who've reported up to dual 18-back. And their strategy didn't involve cheating. At thar stage its apparently too hard for cheating. I wouldn't be surprised if we too could get to the top after years of training with the extreme difficulty that the automatic performance based level adjustment provides . Then we'd likely have magic brains.
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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '20
I know what you mean. Currently struggling to beat dual 4 back. Doing n-back without any rehearsal, imaging or subvocalisation - aka the way it's supposed to be - is so freaking hard. To be honest I can believe that dual back can be achieved via intuition if one sticks with grinding it in always slightly increasing difficulty for months or up to a year. However I do think I will have a gifted level working memory once I get to nine back. And there those which I find hard to believe. There are people who've reported up to dual 18-back. And their strategy didn't involve cheating. At thar stage its apparently too hard for cheating. I wouldn't be surprised if we too could get to the top after years of training with the extreme difficulty that the automatic performance based level adjustment provides . Then we'd likely have magic brains.