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World Memory Championships

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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] It was
originated by Tony Buzan and co founded by Tony Buzan
and Ray Keene. It continues to be organised by the same
partnership. Four Brits, three Germans, one Chinese, one
Swede, and one American have achieved the title of world
champion.[3] The first winner was Dominic O'Brien of the
United Kingdom.[4] The current world champion is Alex
Mullen of the United States.[5]
The cards to be played in the competition

Contents

1 Format

2 Venues and winners

3 Records

4 See also

5 References

6 External links

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:

1. One hour: numbers (23712892....)

2. 5 minutes: numbers
3. Spoken numbers, read out one per second
4. 30 minutes: binary digits (011100110001001....)
5. One hour: playing cards (as many decks of cards as possible)
6. Random lists of words (house, playing, orphan, encyclopedia....)

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7. Names and faces (15 minutes). World record: 164 names.

8. 5 minutes: historic dates (fictional events and historic years)
9. Abstract images (black and white randomly generated spots)
10. Speed cards - Always the last discipline. Memorize the order of one shuffled deck of 52 playing cards as
fast as possible.

Venues and winners

# Year Venue Winner

1 1991 London Dominic O'Brien

2 1993 London Dominic O'Brien

3 1994 London Jonathan Hancock

4 1995 London Dominic O'Brien

5 1996 London Dominic O'Brien

6 1997 London Dominic O'Brien

7 1998 London Andi Bell

8 1999 London Dominic O'Brien

9 2000 London Dominic O'Brien

10 2001 London Dominic O'Brien

11 2002 London Andi Bell

12 2003 Kuala Lumpur Andi Bell

13 2004 Manchester Ben Pridmore

14 2005 Oxford Clemens Mayer

15 2006 London Clemens Mayer

16 2007 Bahrain Gunther Karsten

17 2008 Bahrain Ben Pridmore

18 2009 London Ben Pridmore

19 2010 Guangzhou Wang Feng

20 2011 Guangzhou Wang Feng

21 2012 London Johannes Mallow

22 2013 London Jonas von Essen

23 2014 Hainan Jonas von Essen

24 2015 Chengdu Alex Mullen

25 2016 Singapore Alex Mullen

26 2017 Shenzhen TBD December 2017[6]

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Full results from past championships can be found on the World Memory Statistics website.[7]

Records
An up-to-date list of world and national records can be found on the International Association of Memory statistics
website.[8]

See also
Eidetic memory
Grand Master of Memory
List of world championships in mind sports
Memory sport
Method of loci
Mnemonist
Mnemonic major system
Extreme Memory Tournament

References
1. The World Memory Championships - Memory Training - Accelerated Learning (http://www.happychild.org.
uk/acc/tpr/mem/0998wrld.htm)
2. "World Memory Championships | World Memory Statistics" (http://www.world-memory-statistics.com/c_w
orld.php). www.world-memory-statistics.com. Retrieved 2016-12-21.
3. "World Memory Championships | World Memory Statistics" (http://www.world-memory-statistics.com/c_w
orld.php). www.world-memory-statistics.com. Retrieved 2016-12-21.
4. "World Memory Championship 1991 | World Memory Statistics" (http://www.world-memory-statistics.com
/competition.php?id=wmc1991). www.world-memory-statistics.com. Retrieved 2016-12-21.
5. "World Memory Championships 2016 (Combined) | World Memory Statistics" (http://www.world-memory-
statistics.com/competition.php?id=wmc2016). www.world-memory-statistics.com. Retrieved
2017-01-02.
6. "2017 WMC - The World Memory Championships" (http://www.worldmemorychampionships.com/2017-w
mc/). The World Memory Championships. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
7. "World Memory Championships | World Memory Statistics" (http://www.world-memory-statistics.com/c_w
orld.php). www.world-memory-statistics.com. Retrieved 2016-12-21.
8. "World Records | International Association of Memory Statistics" (http://iam-stats.com/records.php).
www.iam-stats.com. Retrieved 2016-12-29.

External links
World Memory Championships website (http://www.worldmemorychampionships.com)
Memoriad - World Memory Olympics website (http://www.memoriad.com)
Official Memory Training Tool of World Memory Championship (http://market.android.com/details?id=com.
Tester&feature=search_result)
List of Memory Competitions (http://mt.artofmemory.com/wiki/Category:Memory_Competitions)
RNG v1.0 (http://mytechit.blogspot.com.es/2014/01/rng.html) Random Number Generator for training
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