I do better with patterns than numbers, too. A few years ago, JtS had a Cougar with a number pad on the door. I had told him that I couldn't remember numbers very well. When he saw that I could open the car using the pad, he was confused. I explained that I could do it, not because I knew the numbers, but because I could remember the pattern of where to put my fingers.

Different numbers are easier for me to remember than others, too. JtS recently had to change cell phone numbers, and it really pissed me off, because the one he used to have was relatively easy to remember, but the new one is extremely difficult. I do better with numbers that sound like poetry when they are spoken, or that have easy shapes to remember and repeated numbers and zeros. A difficult number would be (just a random example) 497 673 2851. An easy one would be 303 404 5505 (easy shape and repetition) and my old childhood address, three forty five, Capron Farm Drive (poetic).