How many phone numbers do you know by heart?

Hi jillhill, Before the epidemic of mobile phone or cell phone I knew so many phone numbers. Some were of friends some of relatives and some thirty to forty. Alas! these cell phones have started working as virus and all those home phone or land line phone are into the oblivion. Now I remember only four people's cell number. Three of them are of my colleagues and one my own. I do not even remember my wifes cell number. Yes the soon I transfer those number to a note book or a phone number book the safer I would feel.

I have an unbelievable memory for numbers. Am able to code numbers to remember them. For example a friend gave me her cell number last week and I didn't need to program it into my cell. The last 4 digits are the month and year of one of our kid's birthdays. Can also do this with home addresses. I think this explains the reason I can play Keno and do a memory recall of numbers and win. However there are times I can't remember what I did or ate yesterday...lol

Ha ha, the only ones I really have memorized are the two of my direct family who I see. But I still have many of my old, old nostalgic friends' old home phone numbers, and we still joke around, as it's been way over a decade, some of them 2 decades since they have existed for them and used them! I guess since before the cell phones came out (and caller ID, memory phone book, etc.) we always memorized their numbers. :o)

I could never remember my own number. But come to think of it. I always remember my husband's number, even if he changes numbers like crazy, all the time. Mainly because he loses his phone too many times. He's a total klutz but I love him. Funny, as I could never remember my number but I could totally memorize his in a heartbeat. A real mystery...

Before cellphones came into my life i could memorize all of my friend's home number. Even when i had my cellphone already during the first few year i can still memorize all of my friends' cellphone number. But then i got lazy and couldn't remember any of their numbers anymore as they were also fond of changing it once in a while. So now i can only memorize my husband's number without looking at my cellphone.

Most of the numbers I know by heart, but that does not help when you are in an emergency as you forgot even yours. A taxi hit my last born daughter when I was attending a afternoon classes,when I came back from my lectures,I was told that a taxi hit my baby, I wanted to call my relatives, her father and my boss but all those numbers were not where to be found as I cried for the life of my daughter, I could not remember even one,I had to go to my contacts on my cellphone so that I can be able to call. What I am trying to say to you its not lazziness, but depend to the situation you are in that particular time and place not to remember or remember.

Like you Jill before I got my mobile I knew Numbers of by Heart and I do still know some of them but Mobile Numbers I have a hard time to remember lol But I do have them written down As well

Other than my own, I *might* know four or five, perhaps six. One was our home phone number growing up 1975-2009, two of my aunts, my friend's home phone number that she's had for 20+ years, and both of my old home phone numbers, one of which my ex got. I also think I remember several of my dad's former business lines and my last employers phone number. So I really think the only cell number I know is my own--every other number is a long time land line!

I'm not a phone person to begin with so there are very few numbers that I know by heart. Right now I'd say about 4 or 5. Interestingly, I was just thinking of this the other day - I remember the phone number we had when I was a kid about 40 some odd years ago. I also remember the number of 2 of my neighbors. I guess some things you don't forget. I recently had my cell number changed because it was a very hard number to remember. Now it's easy to remember.

I must say I'm guilty as you are, or even worse as I can't remember both my sister's phone number

Cell phones with their phone books have also made me lazy to remember numbers. However all the numbers that are on my cell phone are also written into my notebook address book. I started doing that after one cell phone quit woking on me and was unable to access the phone book to get numbers. I had to wait for people to call me so i could get their numbers. As they did i added them to my notebook address book.

I can remember more than 150phone numbers in mind. Yes friend, it is true. My family numbers, my friends numbers, my teachers numbers, my advisors numbers, My well wishers numbers...etc., like wise there are above 150+ mobile and phone numbers i have stored in my memory. When i am open that stream of numbers some of my friends are fallen on ground, you know. I have a large space of memory. And i m doing that with some memory techniques...

Before i had bought a cellphone i knew many numbers in my mind but when i started to buy the mobile slowly it decreased. But still i know the numbers of my family and some of my close friends. I have a backup of all the contacts in my system, even if mobile contacts erased i can take it back from my system

I know only some numbers know by heart which would be my home phone number, my cellphone number and that's all! I guess i'm not very good with this. Oh wait, i do know my parents number phone too! Now i'm happy!

Personally I might know about maybe 5 or so Phone numbers by heart. Possibly more if I thought about it, but most of mine are programmed in my Cell phone to where I would be lost if something ever happened to mine. I know that it has become so much easier anymore to just program a person's number etc. into your Cell phone memory and then just hit contact and dial them from there. Makes you wonder how we ever got along in the old days for sure.

I know quite a bit since I don't have a cell phone and if I did, I would be afraid I'd fall into forgetting if I did. I think if I did have a cell phone, unless I was in a hurry, I wold go ahead and dial it out, just to keep the number in my own memory..

I wouls say that I only know about 5 numbers without looking them up....my parents, my parent-in-laws, sister, closest neighbor, and son's #. And, it is getting crazy with home numbers, cell numbers.....

Well, I don't memories many phone number. I only know one number which is mind. Have a great day!

None! It took me years (or at least months) to learn my own phone number. I have no numeric memory whatsoever.

well for me 4-5 no i know from my heart. My dad,mom,big sis, my gf and my best friend number. Their number just is in my heart. So That's all!