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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.

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  1. Erroneous Titles by Captain_Amigo · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think the blurb is wrong...the Wired article is actually titled "The Idiot-Savants" and the competition is called "Useless Party Tricks".