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Reigning world memory champion retained his title at the World Memory Championships in China. The 21-year-old student beat 120 competitors over the 3 day competition that tested memory speed and endurance.
Reigning World Memory champion Wang Feng stormed to victory at the 20th Annual World Memory Championships in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on Friday, slashing world records in his wake.
The 21-year-old student smashed the world record for spoken numbers, recalling over 300 out of 400 -- beating the previous record by over 100 digits.
Over three days, more than 120 competitors aged nine to 74, participated in ten separate memory disciplines testing speed and endurance.
Among the challenges, competitors memorized 30 packs of playing cards in an hour, 3500 binary numbers, 400 numbers spoken at one second intervals, put over 90 names to faces in fifteen minutes and memorized a single pack of cards in under 30 seconds.
Eight time world memory champion Dominic O'Brien said the competition is getting stiffer every year with boundaries being pushed beyond what was previously thought possible for the human mind.
He says that a good imagination is the key to success.
[Dominic O'Brien, World Memory Champion]:
"I think it's made me more creative, it's opened up my brain, it's given me more self-belief, something I never had when I was at school. I was diagnosed with dyslexia, I failed most of my exams, I couldn't concentrate. And that's one thing you really need to be able to do. You need to have a good memory to win this, you also need to be able to concentrate, so there are so many benefits once you start exploring your imagination, your creativity."
Co-founder and president of the World Memory Championships, Tony Buzan, said he wasn't surprised by the enormous advances in memory competitions in the last 20 years.
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