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Memory Sport
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. The primary worldwide organizational bodies are the IAM ( International Association of Memory) and WMSC ( World Memory Sports Council). In response to a conspicuous rivalry between two challengers to the same Guinness Book Record, Memory Sports Promotion and Control Ltd., (Company number 3548879) was incorporated on 6 April 1998, by the invigilators Dr Peter Marshall and Ms Anne Perrett. The company operated under the business name The World Memory Sports Association. One common type of competition involves memorizing the order of randomized cards in as little time as possible, after which the competitor is required to arrange new decks of cards in the same o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mind Sport
A mind sport is a game of skill based on intellectual ability. Etymology The first major use of the term was as a result of the Mind Sports Olympiad in 1997. The phrase had been used prior to this event such as backgammon being described as a mind sport by Tony Buzan in 1996; Tony Buzan was also a co-founder of the Mind Sports Olympiad. Bodies such as the World Memory Sports Council use the term retrospectively. It is a term that became fixed from games trying to obtain equal status to sports. For example, from 2002 British Minister for Sport, Richard Caborn said: ...I believe we should have the same obligation to mental agility as we do to physical agility. Mind sports have to form UK national bodies and get together with the government to devise an acceptable amendment to the 1937 Act that clearly differentiates mind sports from parlour board games. Many of the games' official bodies which had come together for the Mind Sports Olympiad, formed larger organisations such as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Memory Sports
Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is Encoding (memory), encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future Action (philosophy), action. If Foresight (psychology), past events could not be remembered, it would be impossible for language, relationships, or personal identity to develop. Memory loss is usually described as Forgetting, forgetfulness or amnesia. Memory is often understood as an information processing (psychology), informational processing system with explicit and implicit functioning that is made up of a sensory processor, short-term memory, short-term (or working memory, working) memory, and long-term memory. This can be related to the neuron. The sensory processor allows information from the outside world to be sensed in the form of chemical and physical stimuli and attended to various levels of focus and intent. Working memory serves as an encoding and retriev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jonas Von Essen
Baron Sven Christer Jonas von Essen (born 24 April 1991) is a Swedish two-time world memory champion. He was a memory sports player from 2012 to 2015. In April 2019 he co-founded memoryOS, an ed-tech startup developing memory improvement software. Biography He was the third place (behind winner Johannes Mallow and eternal runner-up Simon Reinhard) in the 21st World Memory Championships in December 2012. He won the 22nd World Memory Championships in December 2013, and 24th World Memory Championships in December 2014. On 12 March 2016, he recalled correctly 13,208 digits of memorized pi for 4 hours and 40 minutes according to the Pi World Ranking List. This was a Swedish record until 2019, when it was beaten by Henrik Lilliestråle. In the spring of 2018, he participated in TV4's Talang. In his audition, he memorized the first names of all 500 people in the audience, which led to David Batra giving him his golden buzzer and thus sending him on directly to the final. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Johannes Mallow
Johannes Mallow (born June 7, 1981 Brandenburg an der Havel) is a German memory sportsman. Along with his post-split title 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, he has won the World Memory Championships once pre-split in 2012. He studied successfully Communication Technology at the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg and finalized his PhD thesis in 2016 at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He also works as a mind coach and scientific author. Victories * 2018 IAM World Memory Champion on-Champion in 2018 World events, with scores of the World Memory Sports Council (WMSC), the other memory sports governing body organizing World Championships, taken into accountref name=":0" /> * 2017 Memory Champion of the IAM-AMSC Korea Open * 2016 Memory Champion of the Regional German Open Memory Championship * 2015 Memory Champion of Germany * 2015 Extreme Memory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Wang Feng (mnemonist)
Wang Feng (born 1990) is a Chinese mnemonist, the two-time winner of the World Memory Championships and the first non-European to win the title. On December 5, 2010 he won the 19th World Memory Championships in Guangzhou Guangzhou, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Guangdong Provinces of China, province in South China, southern China. Located on the Pearl River about nor ..., China with a record score of 9486 points, taking him to the top of the world rankings. In December 2011, he won the 20th World Memory Championships again in Guangzhou, China with a score of 8477 points (in line with 2011 Millennium Scoring Adjustments) retaining his number one world ranking. References Mnemonists Living people 1990 births Wuhan University alumni Date of birth missing (living people) {{PRChina-sport-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gunther Karsten
Gunther Karsten (born 23 September 1961) is a German memory sport competitor and author. Biography Karsten graduated in chemistry and in microbiology. He runs a translation agency for patents as regular occupation. Besides, he is a leading memory coach and offers seminars on mental-, learning- and memory training. Gunther is married to former memory competitor Michaela Buchvaldová-Karsten. He has published three memory related books. He became German Memory Champion 7-times in a row from 1998 to 2004 until he was defeated by his compatriot Clemens Mayer in 2005. In 2007, Gunther was crowned the World Memory Championship, World Memory Champion. He set world records in several disciplines. For example, he held the record in ''One Hour Numbers'', in which he was able to memorize 1949 digits within one hour, until 2009. He became vice world champion in 2001, 2005 and 2006, furthermore World Team Champion with the German team in 2005 and 2006. Since 1985, he is a member of the hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ben Pridmore
Ben Pridmore (born 14 October 1976) is a former world memory champion, memory sport competitor and accountant. Achievements Pridmore is a three-time World Memory Champion winning the title 2004, 2008 and 2009. From Derby in the United Kingdom, Pridmore achieved this by winning a 10-discipline competition, the World Memory Championship, which has taken place every year since 1991. He has also earned the prestigious title of Master of Memory. He held the official world record for memorizing the order of a randomly shuffled 52-card deck, and has memorised a pack in a time of 24.68 seconds on television. This record was beaten in 2010 by German memory athlete and lawyer Simon Reinhard. Pridmore's victory at the 2009 World Championship was his eighth consecutive memory competition win since coming second at the 2007 World Championship. He is the title holder for the UK Memory Champion for the years 2007–2011 and 2013 and Welsh Open Memory Champion 2009–2012 and 2014. Bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Clemens Mayer
Clemens Mayer (born September 25, 1985, in Brannenburg) is a German memory sports person. He was World Memory Champion in 2005 and 2006. At the age of 19 years and 10 months, he became the youngest-ever world memory champion in 2005. 12 years later, in 2017, then-18-year- and 11-month-old Mongolian Munkhshur Narmandakh became the youngest champion ever and Mayer lost this record. Narmandakh lost this record to Wei Qinru who won the 2018 world championships at age 14. He uses the method of loci. He originally intended to be an Olympic runner, but decided to go into memory sports after watching Gunther Karsten Gunther Karsten (born 23 September 1961) is a German memory sport competitor and author. Biography Karsten graduated in chemistry and in microbiology. He runs a translation agency for patents as regular occupation. Besides, he is a leading memor ... on German television. Since participating in the South German Memory Championship on 24 June 2007, he did not compete in any ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Andi Bell
Andi Bell (born 1972) is a three-time winner of the World Memory Championships. He used a method similar to method of loci The method of loci is a strategy for memory enhancement, which uses visualizations of familiar spatial environments in order to enhance the recall of information. The method of loci is also known as the memory journey, memory palace, journey .... References Living people British mnemonists 1972 births 21st-century British people Place of birth missing (living people) Date of birth missing (living people) {{England-sport-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jonathan Hancock
Jonathan Bruce Hancock is an author, broadcaster, and memory expert. He is best known for breaking two Guinness World Records on memory and becoming the inaugural World Student Memory Champion, and later the World Memory Champion. He has authored 15 books on memory and learning, founded the Junior Memory Championship, and spent 15 years working as a radio presenter on BBC Radio Oxford. Early life and career He was born in northeast England, on 12 February 1972, but moved at an early age to North Yorkshire where he spent his early childhood, and then to Nunthorpe, a suburb of Middlesbrough. After school, he did charity work in Australia before moving to Oxford to study English at Christ Church, Oxford University The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest continuously operating u .... At age 16, Han ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Grand Master Of Memory
Grand Master of Memory (GMM) is a title previously awarded by thWorld Memory Sports Councilto people who are able to successfully negotiate the following three memory feats: *Memorise 1,400 random digits in an hour *Memorise the order of 14 decks of cards in an hour *Memorise the order of one deck of cards in under 40 seconds. The standards need not all be achieved at the World Memory Championships, nor do they need to be achieved at a single competition, but they must be achieved at competitions that have been officially approved and arbitrated by the World Memory Sports Council. First awarded in 1995, the titles changed in 2013, with the addition of "international grandmaster" (IGM) and "international master" (IMM) titles, like chess titles. In order of decreasing difficulty, the titles are IGM, GMM, and IMM. All titles are given out at that year's World Memory Championship. As of January 2013, to achieve the IGM title, a competitor must achieve more than 6,000 total points. GM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Piphilology
Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember many digits of the mathematical constant . The word is a play on the word "pi" itself and of the linguistic field of philology. There are many ways to memorize , including the use of ''piems'' (a portmanteau, formed by combining pi and poem), which are poems that represent in a way such that the length of each word (in letters) represents a digit. Here is an example of a piem: "Now I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics." Notice how the first word has three letters, the second word has one, the third has four, the fourth has one, the fifth has five, and so on. In longer examples, 10-letter words are used to represent the digit zero, and this rule is extended to handle repeated digits in so-called Pilish writing. The short story " Cadaeic Cadenza" records the first 3,834 digits of in this manner, and a 10,000-word novel, ''Not A Wake'', has been writte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
