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The Memory Masters

Posted by timothy on from the hat-hen-ham dept.

Vaystrem writes "Wired's Article 'The Masters of Memory' details the outcome of the recent U.S. Memory Championship ,where 'three dozen people who had, in just five minutes, memorized the positions of 52 cards in a shuffled deck and were now happily organizing cards in a new deck into the same order as the pack they had memorized.'" The article includes details of "the mind numbing upcoming world championship. Could you in a half hour 'memorize a random string of thousands of 1s and 0s'?" I'm still working on the mnemonic alphabet.

18 of 282 comments (clear)

  1. FP!?!?!? by James+A.+H.+Joyce · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    for gnaa, rolloffle on 56k dialup by hand, beating the SCO bot?!?!

    1. Re:FP!?!?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      jesus christ you fucking faggot, pack it up and go home to gutter outside new york city's finest gay bath house.

  2. Interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No matter how challenging your job is, it isn't demanding enough. Brains thrive on constant challenge, so presenting them with the same activities that they already excel at doesn't keep the gray matter in top shape. You can, however, substitute the waltz for tango lessons -- just ensure that you have a good balance of fresh thinking and activities built into your life.

  3. YOU - FAIL - IT by Tirel · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But oh well.

  4. what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  5. Do not read previous message by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, I'm a troll.

    1. Re:Do not read previous message by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Who is?

    2. Re:Do not read previous message by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The AC is.

  6. Someone hurt Joyce's widdle feewings. Waaaa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So you are a slashdot FOE now. Cry all the way home. Better leave slashdot, someone might mod you down someday and really ruin your self-esteem.

    1. Re:Someone hurt Joyce's widdle feewings. Waaaa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No, he attacked the fact that the basis of your argument of him being a troll is that you marked him as a foe.

    2. Re:Someone hurt Joyce's widdle feewings. Waaaa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Correction: The basis of my argument of him being a foe is that he marked me as a troll before I marked him as a foe, but after he trolled. After that I called him a foe. It was only later that I called him a troll.

  7. Re:The AC is not a troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I know you are, but what am I?

  8. Re:The AC is not a troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yet you admitted being an AC and thus are a troll

  9. Re:The AC is a troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Which one, the AC or me? Or are you referring to yourself?

  10. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    uhh what channel am I watching? I thought this was a show about tara ried.

  11. I suffer from CRS by DeadBugs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I suffer from CRS you insensitive clod!

    Can't Remember Shit

    --
    http://www.kubuntu.org/
  12. Re:The AC is not a troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    are you having fun talking to yourself?

  13. Re:The AC is not a troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who, the AC?