Ben Pridmore, born October 14, 1976 in Boston, England, was the World Memory Champion in 2004. He achieved this by winning a ten-discipline competition, the World Memory Championship, which has taken place every year since 1991. He also holds an unofficial world record for memorizing the order of a randomly shuffled 52-card deck in 31.03 seconds. At the moment he is ranked as number one of the world ranking list for Memory Sports. October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the 1976 Gregorian calendar. ... Statistics Population: 35,124 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: TF329437 Administration District: Boston Borough Shire county: Lincolnshire Region: East Midlands Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Lincolnshire Historic county: Lincolnshire Services Police force: Lincolnshire Police Fire and rescue: {{{Fire}}} Ambulance: East Midlands Post office and telephone... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the  United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Unified  -  by Athelstan 927 AD  Area  -  Total 130... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... ... A literary genre is one of the divisions of literature into genres according to particular criteria such as literary technique, tone, or content. ... Intelligence is a property of mind that encompasses many related mental abilities, such as the capacities to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn. ... Though the term self-help can refer to any case whereby an individual or a group betters themselves economically, intellectually or emotionally, the connotations of the phrase have come to apply particularly to psychological or psychotherapeutic nostrums, often purveyed through the popular genre of the self-help book. ... October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the 1976 Gregorian calendar. ... Statistics Population: 35,124 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: TF329437 Administration District: Boston Borough Shire county: Lincolnshire Region: East Midlands Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Lincolnshire Historic county: Lincolnshire Services Police force: Lincolnshire Police Fire and rescue: {{{Fire}}} Ambulance: East Midlands Post office and telephone... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the  United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Unified  -  by Athelstan 927 AD  Area  -  Total 130... In psychology, memory is an organisms ability to store, retain, and subsequently recall information. ... shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Besides memory sports he is famous for his mental calculation skills and took part in the World Mental Calculation Championships 2004 and 2006. He is also an Othello player and was the World Intelligence Champion 2001 (it took place during the Mind Sports Olympiad in London). Recently he quit his job and started a career as author and is currently writing a novel and a book on memory training ("How To Be Clever"), that is earning early rounds of applause. The World Memory Championships is an organized competition of mental sports in which competitors memorize as much information as possible within a given period of time [1]. The Championship has taken place annually since 1990. ... Mental calculation is the practice of doing mathematical calculations using only the human brain, with no help from any computing devices. ... Reversi and Othello are names for an abstract strategy board game which involves play by two parties on an eight-by-eight square grid with pieces that have two distinct sides. ... Categories: Game stubs | Organization stubs | Organizations ...

Official World Records

• 780 binary digits in 5 minutes
• 333 decimal digits in 5 minutes
• 3710 binary digits in 30 minutes
• 96 historical dates in 5 minutes
• 312 playing cards in 10 minutes
• 1404 playing cards in an hour

External links

• http://web.aanet.com.au/memorysports/
• video-interview
• http://www.worldmemorychampionships.com