World Memory Championships

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.

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.

Contents

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 China (TBA)

See also

Eidetic memory

Grand Master of Memory

List of world championships in mind sports

Memory sport

Method of loci

Mnemonist

References

^ The World Memory Championships - Memory Training - Accelerated Learning

External links

World Memory Championships website

World Memory Olympics website

USA National Memory Championships

Memory Techniques from Australian Memory Champion Tansel Ali

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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

Categories:
Memory
Mental-skill competitions

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	China (TBA)

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