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NEW World Memory Champion Crowned
The difference between being a World Memory Champion or the runner up was just one second at the 24th World Memory Championships which has just finished in the in the giant domed conference centre of the Jintang Hengda hotel in China. Alex Mullen became the first USA...
Guinness World Records recognises WMSC World Records
Earlier in 2015 Craig Glenday, the Editor of the internationally world famous Guinness Book of World Record, and his team, visited the UK Open Memory Championships in London to meet the founders of the Mind Sport of Memory and to learn about how the sport works. As a...
Day Two at the World Memory Championships
Day Two report With only the final day to go in the 24th World Memory Championships , a Tsunami of new world records has swept across host city Chengdu. The records have poured in under the Overall, Junior and Kids categories of the various disciplines. This is ample...
Living Memory
The Living memory story from World Memory Championships A young Chinese college girl was recommended for admission to a university graduate school. When she entered the university, her score at the university ranked her 400th. She wanted to do much better, so started...
Day One of the World Memory Championships
On the very first day of the twenty fourth World Memory Championships in Chengdu established longstanding world records already began to fall, as Poet John Milton Metaphorically put it, like the leaves in Vallombrosa. After Completion of Names and Faces, Binary...
Opening of the 2015 World Memory Championships
On Tuesday December fifteen the twenty fourth World Memory Championships were declared open in an impressive three hour ceremony in the giant domed conference centre of the Jintang Hengda hotel. The ceremony featured a Smorgasbord of traditional Chinese Cultural...
The secret to improving your memory is technique and self-confidence
World Memory Championships 2015: By Fiona Keating - International Business Times Reliance on Google for fact-checking and finding basic information has made us forgetful, say scientists. A study has found that people view internet search engines as an extension of...
What the sport of Memory all about?
The Mind Sport of Memory is both a fun, valuable hobby, as well as an amateur sport. At the fun end of memory, informal competitions take place in Brain Clubs and in other Mind Sport groups taking many different forms. At a competitive level, there are specific...
Welcome new Council members
As we move into the next 25 years for the Mind Sport of Memory, we are seeking ways to bring the benefits of competitive memory to a far wider audience. Helping us in this quest are our new Council members who, as ambassadors for the Sport, will help to spread the...