Zoomy's thing

While I try to remember what song I was singing in a dream last night, let's have a belated recap of the Friendly (Cambridge) Memory Cha...

Sorry for the three months of silence - the fact is, I've been pretty seriously depressed for quite a long time now, so it's been ha...

Why am I only finding out about something that supposedly "went viral all over the internet" last week today, when I decide to lo...

It's great to come back to work to find a hand-made poster taped to the wall of the office, cheering me on. (No, I don't work in...

When we left our extreme memory heroes, the first day had just come to an end. Here's the ranking calculation (my own made-up calculat...

I'm on my way home from San Diego, after a day exploring the city - lots of good comic shops around here! After two days of extreme memo...

Here I am in sunny San Diego! Well, it's night-time, but tomorrow it will be sunny, I'm assured. The Extreme Memory Tournament happe...

It does exist! Big thanks to Gilby1385 for pointing me to an eBay auction for the one Krypton Force Force Five video missing from my c...

I'm sure you all remember the blog post I wrote eight years ago in which I compared memory competitions to figure skating. Or at least ...

An additional note to tonight's blog - Yanjaa has given me a good telling-off for referring to names and words as 'nurds' instea...

And hmmmmm, not the group of death I was most worried about, but it's going to be tough. Check out the group draw here ! Let's hav...

Okay, I need to rethink exactly what the worst XMT group draw for me could be, because they've rejigged the seedings so I'm in the f...

The most exciting part of the Extreme Memory Tournament that happens in advance (except for the qualifying competition) happens on Wednesday...

Saturday was the traditional clashing-with-the-US-Memory-Championship othello regional in Oadby, and since a trip to New York is too expensi...

Check out today's edition of China Super Brain! Featuring Robert Fountain versus Roy Lam; Katie Kermode versus Li Wei; James Paterson ve...

Nine years ago, almost to the day, I posted about 30-minute binary training, and said "I've recorded my score every time I've p...

Friday 20th, 9:10pm Chinese time!

Among the playful banter on the Superbrain TV show, the panel of Chinese celebrities compared me to Sheldon Cooper, which I think is a great...

Well, where to start? I've just come back from a week in China, filming an episode of the popular and awesome show 'Superbrain' ...

Some people, when they find themselves with a huge list of things that really need to be done over the course of a weekend, prioritise the m...