UK Open Memory Championships – Geeks or What?
The UK Open Memory Championships takes place in London this coming weekend (Simpsons in the Strand 16-17th August). 26 competitors will attempt to memorise lots of cards, numbers dates, images and other seemingly rather meaningless data over these two days with winner going on to compete in the World Championships in Bahrain later this year.…
My Powers Of Concentration Have Doubled Just By Doing Some Simple Memory Exercises
If you have been reading my other posts, you may recall that at the beginning of September I told you how my concentration was way out. I discovered this as I was getting back into memorising packs of cards. Having not had the need to wade through 52 playing cards in a standard deck and…
World Memory Championships 2006
And so today was the final day of the 2006 World Memory Championships held in London at Imperial College. After being runner up in the competition and then running it for a couple of years, I had moved away from competition memory to concentrate on teaching others how to improve their memory, remember much more and retain information…