World Memory Championships
The World Memory Championships is an organized competition of mental sports in which competitorsmemorize as much information as possible within a given period of time.[1] The Championship has taken place annually since 1991 and has been staged by various organisations. The first winner was Dominic O'Brien.
The cards to be played in the competition
Contents [hide]
Format[edit]The World Championships consist of ten different disciplines, where the competitors have to memorize as much as they can in a period of time:
1991London Dominic O'Brien
1993London Dominic O'Brien
1994London Jonathan Hancock
1995London Dominic O'Brien
1996London Dominic O'Brien
1997London Dominic O'Brien
1998London Andi Bell
1999London Dominic O'Brien
2000London Dominic O'Brien
2001London Dominic O'Brien
2002London Andi Bell
2003Kuala Lumpur Andi Bell
2004Manchester Ben Pridmore
2005Oxford Clemens Mayer
2006London Clemens Mayer
2007Bahrain Gunther Karsten
2008Bahrain Ben Pridmore
2009London Ben Pridmore
2010Guangzhou Wang Feng
2011Guangzhou Wang Feng
2012London Johannes Mallow
2013London Jonas von Essen
2014Hainan Jonas von Essen
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
Human memory
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The World Memory Championships is an organized competition of mental sports in which competitorsmemorize as much information as possible within a given period of time.[1] The Championship has taken place annually since 1991 and has been staged by various organisations. The first winner was Dominic O'Brien.
The cards to be played in the competition
Contents [hide]
Format[edit]The World Championships consist of ten different disciplines, where the competitors have to memorize as much as they can in a period of time:
- One Hour Numbers (23712892....)
- 5 Minute Numbers
- Spoken Numbers, read out one per second
- 30 Minutes Binary Digits (011100110001001....)
- One Hour Playing Cards (as many decks of cards as possible)
- Random Lists of Words (House, playing, Orphan, Encyclopedia....)
- Names and Faces (15 minutes, world record: 164 names)
- 5 min Historic Dates (fictional events and historic years)
- Abstract Images (black and white randomly generated spots)
- Speed Cards - Always the last discipline. Memorize the order of one shuffled deck of 52 playing cards as fast as possible. World record: 21.19 seconds.
1991London Dominic O'Brien
1993London Dominic O'Brien
1994London Jonathan Hancock
1995London Dominic O'Brien
1996London Dominic O'Brien
1997London Dominic O'Brien
1998London Andi Bell
1999London Dominic O'Brien
2000London Dominic O'Brien
2001London Dominic O'Brien
2002London Andi Bell
2003Kuala Lumpur Andi Bell
2004Manchester Ben Pridmore
2005Oxford Clemens Mayer
2006London Clemens Mayer
2007Bahrain Gunther Karsten
2008Bahrain Ben Pridmore
2009London Ben Pridmore
2010Guangzhou Wang Feng
2011Guangzhou Wang Feng
2012London Johannes Mallow
2013London Jonas von Essen
2014Hainan Jonas von Essen
See also[edit]
- Eidetic memory
- Grand Master of Memory
- List of world championships in mind sports
- Memory sport
- Method of loci
- Mnemonist
- Mnemonic major system
External links[edit]
- World Memory Championships website
- Memoriad - World Memory Olympics website
- USA National Memory Championships
- Memory Techniques from Australian Memory Champion Tansel Ali
- Official Memory Training Tool of World Memory Championship
- List of Memory Competitions
- RNG v1.0 Random Number Generator for training Working Memory
Human memory
Categories: