Do you ever have trouble remembering the meaning of a braille cell and then get frustrated when you can't locate its dot pattern quickly on your standard "cheat-sheet"? One solution is to arrange the cells by dot patterns instead of in the standard order. The standard order is great when you are starting with a print letter or sign and want to find the corresponding braille cell but it isn't so useful for going the other way.
The Find-A-Cell Chart contains all 63 braille cells plus the space. The braille cells are arranged according to dot patterns with the most common literary braille meaning of the cell given directly below the cell. (Reminder. Many of the cells have additional meanings not shown.)
All of the braille cells in the same horizontal row as you move across the Chart have the same dot pattern for the left-hand columns of the cells. For example, the cells in the first row don't have any dots in their left-hand columns, the cells in the second row have one dot in position one and none in positions two and three, and the cells in the last row have dots in positions one, two, and three.
All of the braille cells in the same vertical column as you move down the Chart have the same dot pattern for the right-hand columns of the cells. For example, all of the cells in the third column have one dot in position five but no dots in either position four or position six.
If you are interested, there is more information elsewhere on this site about the Find-A-Cell method and also about the standard order.
You can print either version of the Chart directly from your browser or download it to your computer.