I’m a bit jet-lagged, but the trip was worth it.
I set a US Record at the 2017 IAM World Memory Championship (WMC) in Jakarta, Indonesia this past week.
The WMC is a 3 day marathon of 10 different memory events (memorizing cards, numbers, binary numbers, names/faces, images, words, dates).
In the Random Images event, you have 5 minutes to memorize as many rows of 5 images as you can…and remember their order 1-5.
5 min Random Images
I remembered 318 images in order, which set a US Record and gave me the bronze metal in the world event.
I had memorized 390 images, which is more than the world record, but forgot a handful of them during recall. Still, really happy about this.
I was also awarded the title of “International Grandmaster of Memory.”
Team USA finished in 2nd Place!
I finished in 23rd place overall.
Some highlights, I memorized:
-12 shuffled decks of cards in 1 hour
-1318 digit number in 1 hour
-1 deck of cards in 65 seconds
-192 digit number in 5 minutes
-85 international names and faces in 15 minutes———
3 years ago, I would have said these feats were impossible, especially for a guy like me.
I’m no genius. We all have the power to improve our minds beyond imagination.
I consistently train and improve by 1% every day. That’s all it takes to see astronomical improvements in a year or two.
Find a skill you love and improve by 1% every day.
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