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USA National Memory Championships

Posted by timothy on from the pretty-faces-are-easy-to-recall dept.

bigtallmofo writes "Could you memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour? How about remember the exact order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in under an hour as well as one shuffled deck in less than two minutes? If so, you could be counted among 36 grand masters of memory worldwide. Slate is reporting that other spectacular memory feats were performed at the 2005 USA National Memory Championship. Congratulations to Ram Kolli, a graduate student in computer science at Virginia Tech, and this year's champ."

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  1. How to win the U.S. memory championship? by netdur · · Score: 0, Redundant

    don't forget anything

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  2. I almost won this last year... by Crash+McBang · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...but I forgot to go.

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  3. I haven't the foggiest. by elgee · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I can't even remember what I had for lunch.

    Of course that was about 10 beers ago.

  4. Dammit by JustOK · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I was entered in that contest, but I forgot to go.

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  5. USA National Memory Championship... by $eth31 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Dang, forgot all about it.

  6. I was gonna compete... by MyDixieWrecked · · Score: 0, Redundant

    but I forgot where the damned competition was.

    drats!

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  7. Memrization: It Seems to be a Minimum Requirement by GrimReality · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In the real world, fast memorization is important, although, it does not have to be 1000 digits.

    For instance, imagine, someone verbally transmits a number to you (a 10 digit number, even 6 digit one). You should be able to remember it and transport it to its destination, maybe to check against a number somewhere else.

    Similarly, remembering names of people you meet can be very important when dealing with people.

    I have seen these requirements explicity stated in the minimum requirements by many companies.

    This might seem silly, and you might say 'That is minimum intelligence for anyone who breathes.' or something to that effect.

    But, there are many people, who are knowledgeable (both in breadth and in depth of their respective fields), pretty good at programming or related activities in other fields, but have great trouble, remembering even a small bit of information (they have to keep looking back for each digit) or an inability to remember names.