Art of Memory

Memory League Memory League

The 2018 Japan Memory League Championship, organized by Takeru Aoki and sponsored by Red Bull, has started!

The draw and details are here:
https://app.memoryleague.com/ #!/championships/japan2018/overview

The live stream (in Japanese) is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAdpmK2Vlnk

It’s a one-day competition with 8 invited and qualifying competitors:

Naoya Hirata - 2018 Japan champion
Yuzuki Takaoka - 2018 Japan kids champion
Hirokazu Kamicho - 2018 Japan 3rd place
Anastasia Woolmer - 2017 Australian champion
Ho Chun Lin - 2017 Taiwan champion
Min Kyeong Chan - 2018 South Korea kids 3rd place
Masayuki Wada - qualifier 1st place
Hiromitsu Hishida - qualifer 2nd place

More info on Takeru's site here:
https://jmlc2018.jmsc.info/

Memory League Memory League

The new season for the Online Memory League is starting! See here for more information and how to register:

https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/online-memory-league-championship-season-4/25736

Online Memory League Championship, season 4! It’s time to sign up for the new season of the Online Memory League! Please let us know if you want to play in this season - even if you played last season, you still need to register for this one! The Online Memory League Championship is a competition open to everybody. Competitors are divided in...

Get free access to Memory League with Memory League May!

Memory League May Next month is Memory League May! Anyone who plays 3 or more games (either matches or training trials) on at least 28 days during the month will receive a free 3-month subscription to Memory League! You can play up to 3 games per day for free, so you don't need a paid subscription to participate. If....

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/50619/title/Lessons-in-Memory-from-a-Champ/

Lessons in Memory from a Champ A four-time winner of the USA Memory Championship is helping scientists understand how the brain works.

We just released the Memory Systems module to all of our subscribers and moved the first set of interactive tutorials into private beta.

https://artofmemory.com/forums/art-of-memory-software-update-memory-systems-module-released-and-first-tutorials-now-in-beta

Art of Memory Software Update - Memory Systems module released and first tutorials now in beta Here’s an update on the Art of Memory software. We’ve taken the Systems module, a memory systems builder and management tool, out of beta and released it to all preorder customers and Kickstarter backers whose reward includes a software subscription. What does the Systems module do?

Can recall be improved with breathing?

Breathing and Memory Rhythm of Breathing Affects Memory and Fear Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered for the first time that the rhythm of breathing creates electrical activity in the human brain that enhances emotional judgments and memory recall. These effects on behavior depend critically on whether you…

If you like to memorize binary numbers, you might find this article interesting. It's another way of counting binary digits.

Gray code - Wikipedia

A memory training question: "How do I train to get dramatic improvement in my present memory levels?"

How do I train to get dramatic improvement in my present memory levels? Hi!

Chinese short division The rules These chinese short division rules are directly taken from a chinese book on abacus (suan pan) division:

From the archives.

Alexander Scriabin and Artificial Synesthesia I've been listening to a lot of Scriabin lately, and starting reading about his life. Check this out: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Alexander_Scriabin

Memory and book reading Maybe this question has been answered a million time but I could not find it, so if it has been please refer me to a post . I want to start to read more non-fiction books. My problem is that I don't remermber what I read for a long time . Sometimes I'm not even done a chapter that I don't remember w...

What's the best and fastest way to place or connect an image with your pegs? What's the best and fastest way to place or connect an image with your pegs? If I'd just memorised a 4 digit number and I'd created an image, what would be the best practice to use with the pegs in the room? Let us say the peg was the TV, and the image I made was James Bond Singing To A Cigar, so sh...

Remembering pi digits Hey! I'm new in learning with mnemotechniques. I decided to train on PI number. It's 3rd day and I created a story for 300 digits. However I wanted to ask you, how would you seperate the numbers?

Calculating logarithms by hand Just for fun, let's calculate all logarithms from scratch. And let's start with the logarithm of 2. I start with doubling 2 a couple of times: 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 Now, 1024 is a number we can easily guess the logarithm from => a little over 3. In other words, \(2^{10} = 1024\) => \(log(2...

This woman only needed a week to memorise all 328 pages of Ikea's catalogue We can't even remember what we had for breakfast.

It's never too late to memorise a 60,000 word poem The learning is that it is never too late to learn. I think it's wonderful that this man has equipped himself with such a fabulous intellectual storehouse.

How many words can you memorize in a day?

standard number of memorized words per day Dear all I'm completely new here and having a quick question. I have searched, questioned and tried the number of words I should memorize per day to have them more sustainable in my memory. some say memorize 6-20 words per day and some say that it is up to you and there are ppl out there that can ta...

Clever/Latest & Best mnemonics for learning Japanese vocabulary? Hello! I would like to know which are in your opinion the BEST mnemonics for acquiring Japanese Vocabulary. Hopefully they are clever and the latest for such a purpose too. I have a vocabulary book with around 8000 entries arranged by topic...(of all sorts) They include the Japanese term and a trans...

Are some mnemonic actions more sticky than others?

Are some actions more "sticky" than others? Many memory trainers suggest that "Action" is an important part of visualization. Sometimes they suggest "zany", "violent", "sexual", "cartoon", "funny", "exaggerated", etc. I've also seen "morphing", "fusing" suggested. My question is, are there particular classes of action that are better for our…

'A matter of work and practice': Montrealer hopes to hang on to memory champion title “It takes some effort but there’s really nothing superhuman,” Francis Blondin said. “My natural memory is completely average.”

Does anyone out there have a system for poker?

Learning Poker Hi everyone, I'm trying to find a system to help me memorize poker hands and ranges I got a lot of these table to memorize, Each one represent a different position on the table and different actions against different opponents . Green means open and re-raise Blue means open call Red means open and b...

The UK Memory League Championship 2017 Hi, everybody! I'd like to invite you all to the UK Memory League Championship, November 4-5 2017! It's open to everyone from around the world, and will take place in Ascot, near-ish to London, England. The venue will be LVS school, kindly arranged by James Paterson, and the important job of hosting...

For the mental calculators:

Three digit division Three digit division. For most people this is a challenge. Sometimes there are shortcuts, like the ones we discussed here: https://artofmemory.com/forums/mental-calculation-division-resources -33736 In other cases you need a general way of working that is suitable for mental calculation. I pr...