World Memory Championships

The World Memory Championships is an organized competition of mental sports in which competitors memorize 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 World Championships consist of ten different disciplines, where the competitors have to memorize as much as they can in a period of time:

One Hours 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, Enyclopedia....)
Names and Faces (15 minutes, world record: 195 names)
5min 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: 21.90 seconds.

1 Venues and Winners of World Memory Championships
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

Venues and Winners of World Memory Championships

Year	Venue	Winner
1991	London	Dominic O'Brien
1992	London	Dominic O'Brien
1994	London	Jonathan Hancock
1995	London	Dominic O'Brien
1996	London	Dominic O'Brien
1997	London	Dominic O'Brien
1998	London	Andi Bell
1999	London	Dominic O'Brien
2000	London	Dominic O'Brien
2001	London	Dominic O'Brien
2002	London	Andi Bell
2003	Kuala Lumpur	Andi Bell
2004	Manchester	Ben Pridmore
2005	Oxford	Clemens Mayer
2006	London	Clemens Mayer
2007	Bahrain	Gunther Karsten
2008	Bahrain	Ben Pridmore
2009	London	Ben Pridmore
2010	Guangzhou	Wang Feng
2011	Guangzhou, China	Wang Feng

References

^ The World Memory Championships - Memory Training - Accelerated Learning

External links

Memory

Basic concepts	Encoding • Storage • Recall Attention • Memory consolidation • Neuroanatomy of memory

Long-term memory	Active recall • Autobiographical memory • Declarative memory • Episodic memory • Explicit memory • Flashbulb memory • Hyperthymesia • Implicit memory • Procedural memory • Rote learning • Selective retention • Semantic memory • Tip of the tongue

Short-term memory	"The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two" • Working memory

Sensory memory	Echoic memory • Eidetic memory • Iconic memory • Motor learning • Visual memory

Forgetting	Amnesia • Anterograde amnesia • Childhood amnesia • Decay theory • Forgetting curve • Interference theory • Memory inhibition • Motivated forgetting • Post-traumatic amnesia • Psychogenic amnesia • Repressed memory • Retrograde amnesia • Selective memory loss • Transient global amnesia • Weapon focus

Research	Art of memory • Memory and aging • Exceptional memory • Indirect tests of memory • Lost in the mall technique • Memory disorder • Methods used to study memory • Reconstruction of automobile destruction • The Seven Sins of Memory

Related concepts	Absent-mindedness • Atkinson–Shiffrin memory model • Confabulation • Context-dependent memory • Cryptomnesia • Effect of Alcohol on Memory • Emotion and memory • Exosomatic memory • Flashbacks • Free recall • Involuntary memory • Levels-of-processing effect • List of memory biases • Memory and aging • Memory for the future • Memory and trauma • Metamemory • Mnemonic • Muscle memory • Priming • Prospective memory • Recovered memory therapy • Retrospective memory • Sleep and Memory • Source-monitoring error • Memory improvement

Culture and society	Cultural memory • False memory syndrome • Politics of memory • Shass Pollak • Transactive memory • Memory and social interactions • Memory sport • World Memory Championships

Notable people	Robert A. Bjork • Stephen J. Ceci • Susan Clancy • Hermann Ebbinghaus • Sigmund Freud • Patricia Goldman-Rakic • Jonathan Hancock • Judith Lewis Herman • HM (patient) • Ivan Izquierdo • Marcia K. Johnson • Eric Kandel • KC (patient) • Elizabeth Loftus • Geoffrey Loftus • James McGaugh • Paul R. McHugh • George Armitage Miller • Brenda Milner • Lynn Nadel • Dominic O'Brien • Ben Pridmore • Henry L. Roediger III • Steven Rose • Cosmos Rossellius • Daniel Schacter • Richard Shiffrin • Arthur P. Shimamura • Andriy Slyusarchuk • Larry Squire • Susumu Tonegawa • Anne Treisman • Endel Tulving • Robert Stickgold

World Memory Championships

Contents

Venues and Winners of World Memory Championships

See also

References

External links