Meatball Monday

How’s your memory and is it good enough to enter the world of “Memory Sports” to see if you can prevail?

Memory is something that not everyone has a knack for and if you are like me – some individuals are worse than others and I bet you know some?

We all go through it being forgetful for such things as birthday’s, picking up something at the store or even the date of your anniversary.

Sound hard to believe but it’s true and if you want to perfect your talent you could enter the Memory sport competition.

Sometimes this is called competitive memory and it is a competition where all of the participants attempt to memorize the most information that they can.

This “mind sport” has been developed dating back to 1991 and it includes international championships.

The annual World Memory Championships there are ten specific memory tests:

• One Hours Numbers
• 5 Minute Numbers
• Spoken Numbers, read out one per second
• 30 Minutes Binary Digits
• One Hour Playing Cards
• Random Lists of Words
• Names and Faces
• 5min Historic Dates
• Abstract Images

Speed Cards – Memorize the order of one shuffled deck of 52 playing cards as fast as possible

The 24^th World Memory Championship this year will be (again) hosted in China in December 2015.

The planned venue will be in Sichuan, the most legendary and historical place of China.

Sweden’s Jonas von Essen defended his World Memory Champion title with a record 8189 Championships points.

This took place at the 23^rd World Memory Championships, which took place over the three days in the Baohua Harborview Hotel, Haikou, China

A record 169 Mental Athletes from 19 countries arrived in Haikou for the 23^rd World Memory Championships.

The countries include Algeria, Denmark, England, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Ukraine, USA, Uzbekistan, Sweden including the World Memory Champion Jonas von Essen, and the host country China.

During these three days, athletes competed against each other over 10 disciplines: Names and Faces, Binary Numbers, Hour Numbers, Abstract Images, Speed Numbers, Historic Dates, Hour Cards, Random Words, Spoken Numbers, and Speed Cards.

This year, a new kid’s world record in Hour Cards is created by a 11-year-old boy, Chen Zeqi. as he memorized 15 decks of playing cards in one hour.

To the surprise of many there is actually a National Memory Sports Council

http://www.worldmemorychampionships.com/#lightbox/6/