World Memory Championships
The cards to be played in the competition
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.
Format
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.
Venues and Winners of World Memory Championships
| Year | Venue | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | London |  Dominic O'Brien |
| 1993 | 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 | Wang Feng |
| 2012 | London | Johannes Mallow |
| 2013 | London |  Jonas von Essen |
| 2014 | Hainan | Jonas von Essen |
| 2015 | Chengdu |  Alex Mullen |
See also
- Eidetic memory
- Grand Master of Memory
- List of world championships in mind sports
- Memory sport
- Method of loci
- Mnemonist
- Mnemonic major system
References
External links
- 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
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