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Newsflash!!!
World Memory Championships 2000:
Dominic O'Brien
Retains Title against Formidable Opposition
In its 10th year the World Memory Championships once again proved to be an exciting, closely fought event that saw the greatest trained memories from around the world demonstrate their outstanding abilities. After battling it out over two days the competition saw 3 new world records, a new Junior World Champion, a new Women's World Champion, 2 new Grand Masters of Memory and a breadth and depth of emerging talent from Malaysia never before seen from a single country.
Andi Bell, the 1998 World Champion, threw down the gauntlet to reigning champion Dominic O'Brien when in the opening event he broke the Hour Numbers record by memorising 1820 digits in one hour. It took Dominic a while to recover and it was not until the 4th event that he took the overall lead. He maintained this lead and so retained his title and became the World Memory Champion for the 7th time, a new world record in itself.
In achieving this remarkable feat, Dominic set a new world record for Speed Numbers by memorising 316 digits in 5 minutes. Challenging strongly for a medal position, Gunter Karsten the current German Champion established the most astonishing world record. About 5 years ago, Dr Elizabeth Valentine of London University predicted that the most number of digits that anyone could remember if they heard them at a rate of 1 digit every 2 seconds was 100. In the World Memory Championships this event is called the Spoken Number event. A person with an average IQ of 100 can remember 7 digits in this fashion and someone with a genius IQ can remember 10. With this in mind, what on earth can Gunter Karsten's IQ be as he set a new world record by memorising a 400 digit spoken number, shattering the previous record of?!
The Women's World Memory Championship was won by the vivacious Michaela Buchvaldova, the reigning Czech Champion who managed to fight of the challenge of Christiane Stenger of Germany who was defending her title. At 13 however, Christiane, the German Junior Champion, became the new Junior World Champion in a close-fought battle that saw her overcome the strong challenges of the Malaysian youth squad, in particular Wan Jiun Wong who at 14 years old became a new Grand Master of Memory. Robert Carder of Great Britain also became a Grand Master of Memory.
EVENTS
Spread over two days the following events were contested:
| Event Title | Description | Memorising Time | Recall Time | World Record |
| Speed Cards | Memorise a single pack of playing cards as fast as possible (two attempts) | 5 mins | 10 mins | 34.03 sec |
| Hour Cards | Memorise as many packs of playing cards as possible | 60 mins | 75 mins | 22.5 packs |
| Hour numbers | Memorise as many decimal numbers as possible | 60 mins | 75 mins | 1620 |
| Speed Numbers | Memorise as many decimal numbers as possible (2 attempts) | 5 mins | 10 min | 314 |
| Binary Numbers | Memorise as many binary numbers as possible | 30 mins | 45 mins | 2745 |
| Spoken Numbers | Memorise as many decimal digits as possible spoken at a rate of 2 seconds per digit (3 attempts increasing digits each time) | 100 Nos
200 Nos 400 Nos |
5 mins
10 mins 20 mins |
333 |
| Poem | Memorise a previously unpublished poem | 15 mins | 20 mins | 260 points |
| Words | Memorise a list of random words | 15 mins | 20 mins | 174 words |
| Names and Faces | Memorise names and faces from photographs | 15 mins | 20 mins | 140 points (70 names and faces) |
A full breakdown of the results can be obtained by clicking here
(use "back" on your browser to return to this page).
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Links are given in the table below to the areas of Accelerated Learning
written by Michael Tipper for Project HappyChild.
Michael organised the 1999 and 2000 World Memory Championships but his ever-increasing workload - speeches plus presentations to businesses and schools (see bio) - has compelled him to step down from organizing further Championships. If you would like to find out more about registering as a contestant (or to be an arbiter/judge) for future World Memory Championships, you can e-mail Buzan Centres here.
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