Basic Badminton
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When playing badminton, the serving side (left or right) depends on the current score of the serving team:
- Left side: 1, 3, 5, …
- Right side: 0, 2, 4, …
For many months (years?), I kept confounding the two.
Even field experience would not make it any easier to remember which one is which.
At some point, I devised the following mnemonic:
- Badminton <-> Basic. Both start with a B.
- Basic => Visual Basic => Counting starts from 1 (not 0).
- As such: Left is 1.
This way I can always remember1 that Left is 1 (odd), Right is 2 (even).
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Sometimes this information is cached, sometimes it needs to be retrieved from “““disk”””, but this mnemonic never fails me. ↩︎