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I just did the greenwich one. That was fun - thanks. One complicating factor is that they re-use faces in the lineups, so you end up recognizing people from two faces ago. (intentional, no doubt).

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I did that one, as well. 9/14, which is a lot better than I expected - I did "cheat" though. I picked details on their faces, and concentrated on remembering them.

I have aphantasia (to a degree). For example, I had difficulty recognizing my mother when she dyed her hair a few years ago.

Thanks for introducing me to aphantasia, which I hadn't heard of. For others that haven't, it means not being able to imagine images or sounds in your mind. It was only discovered recently, and I think it was popularised by this blog post by Blake Ross, which is well worth a read.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-...

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