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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 ]
Clemens Mayer (Germany): 2x world memory champion (2005–06) Ben Pridmore (UK): 3x world memory champion (2004, 2008–09) Gunther Karsten (Germany): world memory champion (2007) Wang Feng (China): 2x world memory champion (2010–11) Johannes Mallow (Germany): world memory champion (2012) Jonas von Essen (Sweden): 2x world memory champion ...
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.
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.
Looking back on December's three-day World Memory Championships in Chengdu, China, Mullen still figures he was one of the "dark horses." The person with the world's best memory is a millennial ...
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 ...
Akira Haraguchi holds the unofficial world record for the most decimal places of pi recited by memory. His ability is self-attributed to a strong eidetic memory, though he uses a mnemonic device. [16] [17] Sean McVay, an American NFL head coach for the Los Angeles Rams, can recall all plays from any game he has coached or participated in his ...
Johannes Mallow (born June 7, 1981 Brandenburg an der Havel) is a German memory sportsman. He is a one-time pre-split winner of the World Memory Championships in 2012. He has also won another title post-split in the IAM event in 2018, a disputed one where he would have ranked outside top 5 in the event both World events’ scores were to be compiled into a single ranking.