Competitive people who memorize don't necessarily have "better memories" than the rest of us; instead, they learn and perfect a variety of mnemonics (memory aids) to improve their ability to quickly learn and recall just about anything.
Make the verse into a song, and sing it whenever you can! Remember that God cares more about how much your heart reflects the verses you memorize; He doesn't care as much about how many you memorize, so long as you follow His Word.
Built on Ruby on Rails, with a CouchDB backend and some JQuery magic, Memorize.com doesn't do a whole lot, but what it does do it does pretty well.
Shoulder aim with M-4, then look in binoculars on full zoom, and memorize where does his head appears on binoculars, then go back to M-4, make a shot (all the while holding very still).
"Memorizing poetry does seem to make people a bit better at memorizing poetry," Geoffrey Nunberg has observed, "but there's no evidence that the skill carries over to other tasks".
Just memorizing vocabulary doesn't make you fluent.
As such, making meaningful inferences about learners' listening or speaking abilities based on a limited number of memorized lines does not seem plausible.
They were just fine if they had to drive without worrying about math or word memorization, and they could memorize and do math all right if they didn't also have to drive.
Indeed, most people are convinced that only people can remember: it is universally believed that while apes who have learned fairly complex gestures are able to reproduce them, they memorize but don't remember them.
There's a neurological connection which helps you memorize by doing this.
