Located in Area 3 at Project Happ圜hild - linking children all across the world The main index to Michael Tipper's pages on Accelerated Learning is at Silver Medallist in the World Memory Championships. The Accelerated Learning pages at Project Happ圜hild are written (free) by Michael Tipper, Due to Michael's hectic schedule, he may not be able to write back, but will do his best to cover the main issues raised, in future articles. To ask about any aspect of Accelerated Learning, e-mail himself (at). If you're interested then please contact Mind Sports Worldwide (link on the main Accelerated Learning home page). School or college? Why not enter the Memoriad next year? Perhaps between some of your friends or against another Why don't you set up your own memory competition, Perhaps soon there will be a British national Before then both the American and GermanĬompetitors will have taken part in their own nationalĬhampionships. Next year's world championships will take place in London Memorised 630 Binary Digits in 30 minutes. Year old David Seidel from Germany who successfully When the Junior World Binary Record was shattered by 7 The 1998 World Memory Championships also encompassedĪ Junior Competition and this year saw a giant leap forward World-class competition and to create the belief that success Important to cope with the stresses and strains of

Regular aerobic exercise will ensure a goodįlow of oxygen to the brain that will enhance its Rapidly memorise three packs, quickly review them and thenįitness also plays an important part in competition Want to achieve and refining and rehearsing your strategy.Ī typical strategy in the one hour card event may be to Practising your methodology to reach the standards that you Of people to represent playing cards and link them in pairsĪt stages of a mental image of a journey around somewhere For example one technique may be to create images Will only believe it and do the necessary work.įor each event it is important to have a technique and a Take dedication and effort to which few are prepared toĬommit, but anyone is capable of high achievement if they Well, training for the World Memory Championships does So is success in the competition the reserve of an elite few? Memoriad have been set by one of these three Hancock won the title in 1994 and this year the new worldĬhampion is Andy Bell. TheĬompetition has for a number of years been dominated byįive times world champion Dominic O'Brien. Hour is 1620 numbers, for cards it is 22 ½ packs in an hourĪnd for binary numbers it is 2385 in 30 minutes. The current world record for random digits in one When Andy Bell memorised a single deck of cards in 34

Single pack of cards was broken in this year's competition To give you an idea of the standards of the leadingĬompetitors in memory competition, the world record for a Zero because of a single mistake at the first digit. Memorise 300 digits (a staggering feat in itself) but score It has been known for World Champion contenders to Stream of numbers marks the end of the correctly recalled On a sudden death basis so that the first mistake in the The spoken number event is even less forgiving. Then the line only scores 20 points but if there are two When recalling the numbers, if one digit in a row is wrong ForĮxample random digits are presented in rows of 40 numbers. Much information as possible from a 15 minute video.Įach event has its own rules and scoring system. Include remembering a list of words in 15 minutes, a poem inġ5 minutes, numerous names and faces in 15 minutes and as Presented at a rate of two seconds per digit. Packs of cards in one hour, a single pack of cards in underįive minutes, random digits in one hour, binary digits in halfĪn hour, random digits in five minutes and a spoken number Competitors are invited to memorise separate The competition consists of 10 events that take place over UK, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Malaysia, America, Always an international event,Ĭompetitors attend from all over the world including the Sports Olympiad, held this year at the Novotel ConferenceĬentre in Hammersmith. More recently it has become a key component of the Mind One of the world's leading experts in memory and learning,Īnd Raymond Keene, the British Chess Grand Master and Memoriad ) began in 1991 and was set up by Tony Buzan, The World Memory Championships (also known as the Numbers as you can? Well, competitors in the World

Memorise as many packs of cards or as many random Can you imagine sitting down for an hour and attempting to

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