2006 USA Memory Competition on HDNet

"The USA Memory Championship is an Olympiad for 'thinking' games. Set up as a sporting event for Mental Athletes, the tournament consists of memory challenging tournament-style competitive events including memorization of: 99 names and faces, a shuffled deck of cards, an unpublished poem, speed numbers, and a list of 500 words. Mental Athletes compete for gold, silver and bronze awards in individual competitions as well as for the entire event."

http://www.usamemorychampionship.com/FAQs/FAQs.htm

This is the 2006 event that was aired on HDNet in April of 2006. Joshua Foer won the competition, who has signed a contract for a book titled "Moonwalking with Einstein" which is due in 2009 which details several aspects of memory sports.

I've cut the video up into 6 parts, all of which are available below, or in my profile.

[link]

Enjoy!

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Memory
• competition
• USA
• mental
• athlete
• memorise
• mnemonic
• brain
• joshua
• foer
• memorize
• HDNet
• championship
• improve
• mind
• andi

[memoryuploader]

there are 6 parts, but I am having problems with the sound. I will update all 6 parts in the next week.

[dlacc187]

i wonder how many people checked this out after reading "moonwalking with einstein" lol

[jamalpinnhead]

I guess he "forgot" to upload the rest of the parts.

[biggiesmartypants]

@memoryuploader do it!

[Cprather1]

Book was farily good. I preferred Blink

[xellennxo7]

Haha so funny. I was curious after reading Moonwalking with Einstein and decided to youtube it. It's nice to see it in video form :) One of the best books I've read though.

[CaptainGreen2008]

@prezlla - So did I. Great book.

[decadecadeca123]

It's like watching the Chapter 11 come to life! XD

[prezlla]

I checked this out right after reading "Moonwalking With Einstein".

[singsai]

@dlacc187 had never ever heard of this contest till reading the book this weekend. now very intrigued

[churchofaiden]

@dlacc187 everyone