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The World Memory Championships is an organized competition of memory 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, with the exception of 1992. [ 2 ]
The highest designation set up by the World Memory Sports Council, which organizes the World Memory Championships, is the Grand Master of Memory. Subclassifications include international grandmaster (IGM), grandmaster (GMM), and international master (IMM).
Alex Mullen (born 3 March 1992) is an American memory competitor, three-time world memory champion, and physician. [1] [2] The first American to win the world title, he won for three consecutive years the 2015, 2016, and 2017 World Memory Championships and held the IAM world No. 1 ranking from 2016-2019.
At the 26th World Memory Championships in 2017, Enkhshur memorized 5,445 binary digits in 30 minutes and her twin sister Munkhshur memorized 37 decks of playing cards in an hour-long competition that earned both of them a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.
World Memory Championships: 18th overall (2014), 8th place (2015), 3rd overall (2017) National Championships: Bronze medal (2014), Silver medal (2015) Highest World Ranking: No. 7 (September 2018) As of 2018, Yanjaa holds three world records in memory sports: 15-minute Names & Faces: 212 names (2017) 5-minute Random Images: 360 images (2018)
The organization was originally founded by a subset of memory competitors and organizers who had previously been involved in competitions run by the World Memory Sports Council (WMSC), the memory sport organizing body which hosted the first World Memory Championships in 1991. 45 competitors and arbiters signed their names to the initial ...
Looking back on December's three-day World Memory Championships in Chengdu, China, Mullen still figures he was one of the "dark horses."
2006: First Guinness World Record for memorizing 225 random objects in a span of just 12.07 minutes; 2007: Wins World Memory Championship (Gold Medal in the Kids Category) for the year 2007; 2008: National Child Award Gold Medal; 2009: Second Guinness World Record in the category of ‘Longest Sequence of Numbers Memorised in 1 Minute'