Report on the Pan-European Memory Championships By Phil Chambers (President, The Guild of Mind Sports Arbiters) The 2018 Pan-European memory Championships saw a record number of kids and junior competitors. It is unfair to throw first time, young competitors into a full-blown international style, 10-discipline competition. Instead, the competition was split between the kids in […]
Learning how to Learn – Dominic O’Brien on CNN
Click on the picture to play the video Dominic O’Brien (10 August 1957) is a British mnemonist and an author of memory-related books. He is the eight time World Memory Champion and works as a trainer for Peak Performance Training. He began developing his mnemonic techniques in 1987 when he saw Creighton Carvello memorize a pack of 52 playing cards in less than […]
Dominic O’Brien wins the PanEuropean Memory Championships
The Man with the best memory in the UK is revealed – and he is 60! It used to be that the biggest fear people had was to stand up in public and speak. Today, and ahead of the fear of spiders, fear of heights or even death, is the fear of losing our marbles […]
Synapsia Magazine sponsors Pan European Championships
Synapsia magazine offers winner’s prize in Memory Championship The 2018 UK Open and Pan European Open Memory starts tomorrow Monday 11 June and continues over Tuesday. Synapsia magazine (www.synapsia.net ) has today announced the donation of the following prize to the overall winner of the competition: Two Eurostar tickets London – Paris return plus a […]
First Universities Memory Championship in the World
The first Universities Memory Championship in the world was held on 19th-20th April 2018, organized by the Directorate of University Services, Biskra-Chetma, under the supervision of Dr. Riadh Bensaoucha the founder of the Arabian Memory Championship. The competition was attended by 43 competitors from 26 Algerian universities, 27 of them females and 16 males, The […]
TONY BUZAN’S GIFT TO THE WORLD – THE WORLD BRAIN ACADEMY
INVEST IN YOUR BRAIN … JOIN THE GLOBAL MOVEMENT On his 76th birthday, Tony Buzan, UK originator of the global phenomenon that is Mind Mapping launches a new online Academy to pursue the massive goal of Global Mental Literacy within next five years. www.WorldBrainAcademy.com Supporting his goal of providing everyone in the world “the operating […]
Promoting the cause of Global Mental Literacy
My Friends and colleagues Greetings from the most beautiful City of Guangzhou in China where I have been the most honoured guest of Dr Guo and the Chinese Memory Sports Council these past few days. There was a truly wonderful turnout for the press conference announcing that the World Memory Sports Council’s Chinese National Memory […]
The first Algeria University Memory Championships
The first Algeria University Memory Championships Visit the Championships website – CLICK HERE Rank Name Institution Country Score Championship 1 Amina KHELIFI Higher School of Commerce: Kolia Algeria 4182 Algeria University Memory Championship – 1st Edition 2018 2 Khaoula BENCHANAA DUS Chetma: Biskra Algeria 3893 Algeria University Memory Championship – 1st Edition 2018 3 […]
What’s the point of Memory sports?
President of the World Memory Sports Council, Raymond Keene OBE
2018 UK Open and Pan-European Open Memory Championships Announced.
The 2018 European Open will take place earlier than usual this year on the 11th and 12th of June in London. We have been working hard in the UK to grow a new generation of memory competitors by starting where memory techniques can do the most good – in schools. As a result we have […]