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 organized by the World Memory Sports Council (WMSC), which was jointly founded by Tony Buzan and Ray Keene. In 2016, due to a dispute between some players and the WMSC, the International Association of Memory (IAM) was launched.[3] From 2017 onward, both organizations have hosted their own world championships.
The current WMSC world champion is Huang Jinyao of China.[4] The current IAM world champion is Tenuun Tamir of Mongolia.[5]
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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:
- One hour numbers (23712892....)
- 5-minute numbers
- Spoken numbers, read out one per second
- 30-minute binary digits (011100110001001....)
- One hour playing cards (as many decks of cards as possible)
- 15-minute random lists of words (house, playing, orphan, encyclopedia....)
- 15-minute names and faces
- 5-minute historic dates (fictional events and historic years)
- 15-minute abstract images (WMSC, black and white randomly generated spots) / 5-minute random images (IAM, concrete images)
- Speed cards - Always the last discipline. Memorize the order of one shuffled deck of 52 playing cards as fast as possible.
Venues and winners
World Champions (1991-2016)
# | Year | Venue | Winner |
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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 |
IAM world champions (2017–present)
WMSC world champions (2017–present)
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- * – The 2016 World Championships was hosted by the WMSC and was the first world championship not recognized by the IAM, who did not host their own world championship that year.[6]
- § – Athletes generally competed in their respective countries given COVID-19 restrictions, with results combined to determine the world champion.
Records
Up-to-date lists of world and national records can be found on the statistics websites of the IAM[7] and WMSC.[8] The best of them are listed in the following table.
See also
- World championship
- 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
- World Junior Memory Championships
- World Mind Sports Games
- Mind Sports Olympiad
- Memory sport
- Mind sport
- Mind Sports Organisation
- International Association of Memory
- Mental Calculation World Cup
- Mental calculation
- Mental abacus
- WorldSkills
References
- ^ "The World Memory Championships - Memory Training - Accelerated Learning". Archived from the original on 2012-06-17. Retrieved 2007-01-26.
- ^ "World Memory Championships | World Memory Statistics". www.world-memory-statistics.com. Archived from the original on 2023-05-19. Retrieved 2016-12-21.
- ^ "International Association of Memory | Memory Sports". memory-sports.com. Archived from the original on 2017-12-06. Retrieved 2017-12-06.
- ^ https://www.worldmemorychampionships.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/WMC32-Ranking-and-Results-Dec-13.pdf. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2024-04-02. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
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(help) - ^ "IAM Statistics". iam-stats.org. Archived from the original on 2024-04-12. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
- ^ "World Memory Championships | International Association of Memory Statistics". www.iam-stats.org. Retrieved 2017-12-10.
- ^ "World Records | International Association of Memory statistics". iam-stats.org. Archived from the original on 2019-10-24. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
- ^ "World Records | World Memory Statistics". www.world-memory-statistics.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2018-12-20. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
External links
- World Memory Championships website
- WMSC Statistics website
- IAM website
- IAM Statistics website
- Memoriad - World Memory Olympics website
- List of Memory Competitions
- RNG v1.0 Random Number Generator for training Working Memory