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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 ]
Memory sport, sometimes referred to as competitive memory or the mind sport of memory, refers to competitions in which participants attempt to memorize then recall different forms of information, under certain guidelines. The sport has been formally developed since 1991 and features national and international championships.
In addition to their traditional, 10-discipline memory championships, the IAM partners with Memory League to offer competitions which are entirely digital, have head-to-head matches, and are composed of shorter disciplines. [44] The five Memory League disciplines are one-minute memorization of names, words, images, numbers, and cards. [45]
The USA Memory Championship is an annual competition that took place every spring in New York City until 2016, and is currently held in Orlando, Florida, after an online qualifier. It was founded by Tony Dottino, President of Dottino Consulting Group, Inc., and Marshall Tarley in 1997.
However, the claim to eidetic memory was later disputed. [27] Nigel Richards, New Zealand scrabble player who, despite not speaking French, won the French World Scrabble Championships twice by studying the French dictionary for nine weeks, is said to possess an eidetic memory. [28] Joseph Rosen, a world famous Rabbi and talmudic scholar. He ...
The World Junior Memory Championships (WJMC) runs as a subset of the World Memory Championships (WMC). All competitors need to be between 13 and 17 years old to qualify. [1] For many countries, in addition to age requirements, one needs to go through a series of regional and national qualification competitions before they can apply for WJMC. [2]
Memory League is a memory competition platform [1] originally founded and created by Nelson Dellis and Simon Orton under the name Extreme Memory Tournament (XMT). [ 2 ] Memory League differs from traditional memory competitions in the fact that it is entirely digital, has head-to-head matches, and is composed of shorter disciplines.
Foer participated only in the 2006 USA Memory Championships. [4] [6] Foer's first book, Moonwalking with Einstein, was published by Penguin in March 2011. [7] The book describes his journey throughout the world of competitive memory and attempts to delineate the capacity of the human mind. [7] He received a $1.2 million advance for the book. [2]