2013 World Memory Championships Results
Congratulations to the new 2013 World Memory Champion, Jonas von Essen, the new Grand Masters of Memory, and all the competitors!
Tip: learn how to become a mental athlete, try some memory games and view a list of upcoming memory competitions.
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:
- Germany
- Sweden
- Mongolia
- Philippines
- USA
- China
- England
- Poland
- India
- Japan
Edit #2: more links:
- Memory-Sports.com coverage
- Unforgettable upset at World Memory Championships
- WMC Video — 2 hours of footage [Unfortunately, the link is now broken. If anyone wants to search for a copy, it was formerly located at
http://www.tvapex.com/watch.aspx?i=96nrF2ZeG8Y%3D&j=World-Memory-Championship-2013-%28London%29---Final-day-Mental-Games&k=search] - 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:
[Edit: unfortunately, the video that was here is no longer available.]
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
If you have news or want to discuss the competition, visit the forum thread.
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!
