World Record in Speed Cards - Simon Reinhard with 21.90 seconds

Update: Since Youtube is not showing this in Germany, you can watch it on vimeo instead: http://www.vimeo.com/12516465

German memory champion of 2009 Simon Reinhard broke the Speed Cards world record: On the 5th of June 2010 he memorized a shuffled deck of 52 cards in 21.90 seconds. The former record was held by Ben Pridmore with 24.97 seconds. You can watch his old record here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_KlsQxf_UE

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Sports

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• memory
• memory sports
• Simon Reinhard
• Speed Cards

[juggliac]

Apparently the ancient techniques can't help the maker of this video spell "everyone" though.

[Flauwy01]

@juggliac Apparantly you can be happy that I speak English at all. Ich könnte dich auch in Deutsch volltexten, aber das kannst du vermutlich noch viel weniger, du kleine Göre. ;)

[juggliac]

@Flauwy01 I'm sorry, I didn't mean insult by it, I was just joking. Sorry if I offended.

[Flauwy01]

@juggliac You are forgiven, young Padawan. Keep up the good work, we share a lot of hobbies.

[stojkotic]

2:00 guy in the back :)

[Flauwy01]

@Pumasbali No he wasn't. He was surprised, probably stunned. But he is very kind when he gets competition.

[Flauwy01]

@CLK50000 Well we are all more like a family in memory sports. But it is true, some techniques are still little known, but not in Speed Cards. There are no secrets to learn there. Get yourself a system with 2.652 images for every combination of two cards (52x51), train it like crazy, train it a lot more, go to several competitions, realize that you are still too slow and train even harder. That's the way to breach the 30s. Not that I would be capable to do it, but that's pretty much the theory.

[CLK50000]

@Flauwy01 I'm not saying he did. I am saying some people do, and you never know if they are being honest. Just as in playing professional poker, the players don't always tell the truth about how they play. The goal is to win and throw people off.

[Flauwy01]

@1stPlaceDirector Totally not true. Ben has given away his technique long time ago and many athletes adopted it very successfully. It is a 52x52 double image system.

[1stPlaceDirector]

@smutyhouse I doubt that the guys that set the record are wanting to tell people their best secrets. It's like the poker pros...they want to teach others to play, but not enough to beat them. They all have websites and so-called 'systems', but they don't teach everything. In the case of 52 card deck memorizing, anyone who spends 5 minutes on Google searching this stuff, can find out the basics, but knowing exactly how its done in 21.9 seconds is a well kept secret.

[octium]

@Flauwy01

Thank you for the info.

Any idea where I can get more detailed description?

Thank you

[Flauwy01]

@octium Two Cards for one image. That makes 51x52 images. Ben Pridmore is using the same system.