 Are you having trouble memorizing the carpal bones of the hand? Don't worry. I'm going to teach you how to memorize the carpal bones in less than 60 seconds. Let's go. Starting at the thumb going towards the pinky with so long to pinky and back to the thumb with here comes the thumb. Let's say it's together now, scaphoid, lunate, tychoetrum, pisiform, hamate, capitate, trapezoid and trapezium.