2013 World Memory Championships Results

The 2013 World Memory Championships just ended yesterday. Congratulations to the new World Memory Champion, Jonas von Essen, the new Grand Masters of Memory, and all the competitors! Here’s a video from the official website:

Here is some reading about the competition:

• World Memory Championships 2013 forum thread
• A good memory helps in every area of life, says eight times champion
• World Memory Championships: the current record holders
• Jonas Von Essen demonstrates how to memorise a pack of cards
• World Memory Championships: The 10 tests for competitors
• World Memory Championships: ‘It’s as if Las Vegas imposed exam conditions’
• Official scores (may not be complete at the time of this post)
• World Memory Championships: in numbers
• I was a lazy student, that’s how this started

I’ll update this post as soon as the complete rankings are online.

Edit: the country team scores [PDF] are online:

1. Germany
2. Sweden
3. Mongolia
4. Philippines
5. USA
6. China
7. England
8. Poland
9. India
10. Japan

Edit #2: more links:

• Memory-Sports.com coverage
• Unforgettable upset at World Memory Championships
• WMC Video — 2 hours of footage
• Memory athletes say our minds hold potential
• Brain power put to the test as hundreds come to Croydon for World Memory Championships

Edit #3: a video:

World Records

Johannes Mallow broke the world record in speed numbers with 501 digits memorized in five minutes:

Not all of the scores have been posted yet, but if there were additional records broken I will update this post.

2014 World Memory Championships

Dates and location for the 2014 World Memory Championships have already been announced.

If you have news or want to discuss the competition, visit the forum thread or leave a comment below.

It has been a while since I posted in the blog, because I’m working on launching some new features. That is also why I wasn’t able to attend the 2013 World Memory Championships. More news soon!