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The ninth Friendly Memory Championship attracted a crowd of people in a very hot room on a very hot day at Attenborough Nature Reserve. I ha...

And finally! The climax of every memory competition (nearly) Speed cards is fun to watch and exciting to compete in and makes a great ...

Spoken numbers! The world record is getting close to a perfect 400, which was the level at which they changed it from one-every-two-se...

Historic Dates! Also known as Historic and Future Dates. Or just Dates. The most recently-invented discipline apart from Abstract Imag...

It's the discipline whose name really doesn't describe it... Abstract Images! Here's some useful trivia for you - the firs...

More numbers... In the world championship, this makes more sense. There's a 60-minute numbers event, and a five-minute numbers whe...

Cards! Everybody loves memorising playing cards! When the World Memory Championship was first invented, it was done with the knowledge...

Numbers! Numbers are really the bread and butter of memory competitions. Apart from the two written and one spoken numbers disciplines...

Everyone's favourite (everyone except me, anyway) - Names and Faces! This has to be the discipline whose rules have changed the mo...

Binary digits! Memorising binary digits has, again, been part of memory competitions almost since the start, although only as a 30-min...

There's two weeks to go until the ninth Friendly Memory Championship ! I'm going to write a daily series of posts about the ten disc...

The Mind Sports Olympiad will be happening from August 17-25, and I've decided I'll be going along, for the first time in a good fe...

While I'm on the subject, let me present another curiosity from my cartoon video collection... Never shown on British TV, and must...

I'm pleased to report that I now own a copy of Birds of Prey, volume 7 of The Formators! If you're wondering why that's a ...

"Remember the olympic games? Wasn't it cool? By the way, we're putting our prices up." That's the slightly strange m...

I don't think I've mentioned this on the blog yet - the Friendly Memory Championship takes place on July 26, at Attenborough Nature ...

I might have to reconsider moving to Belper six months ago. I did know from working here that the power occasionally goes out if the weather...

A great article including a very nice video about the Extreme Memory Tournament  can be found at the New York Times website . Check it out! ...

I've done a 30-minute cards and then 30-minute binary practice today, you know. It must be the first time in a long long while that I...

I've probably said enough about the Extreme Memory Tournament now, but if you're still eager to read more, check out Nelson's su...