Ben Pridmore
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| Ben Pridmore | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Accountant, World Memory Champion |
Ben Pridmore is the current World Memory Champion, a title he also won in 2004[1]. He achieved this by winning a ten-discipline competition, the World Memory Championship, which has taken place every year since 1991. He also holds the official world record for memorizing the order of a randomly shuffled 52-card deck, and has memorised a pack in a time of 24.68 seconds on television[2]. At the moment he is ranked as number one of the world ranking list for Memory Sports[3].
Besides memory sports he is famous for his mental calculation skills and took part in the Mental Calculation World Cup in 2004 and 2006[4].
[edit] World Records
Ben Pridmore holds these records according to recordholders.org:
- 930 binary digits in 5 minutes[5]
- 4140 binary digits in 30 minutes[6]
- 364 playing cards in 10 minutes[7]
- 1404 playing cards in an hour[8]
Ben also won The Welsh Open Memory Championships 2009 http://www.worldmemorychampionship.com/latest_news.asp
[edit] External links
- Profile at World Memory Championships website
- Video interview
- Chimpanzee defeats Ben in memory competition
[edit] References
- ^ Profile at Memory Sports Statistics, web.aanet.com.au/memorysports/, accessed February 5, 2009.
- ^ Telegraph article, telegraph.co.uk, accessed February 5, 2009.
- ^ World Rankings, worldmemorychampionships.com, accessed February 5, 2009
- ^ MCWC results, recordholders.org, accessed February 5 2009
- ^ Record for 5 minute binary digits, recordholders.org, accessed February 5 2009
- ^ Record for 30 minute binary digits, recordholders.org, accessed February 5 2009
- ^ Record for 10 minute cards, recordholders.org, accessed February 5 2009
- ^ Record for 1 hour cards, recordholders.org, accessed February 5 2009
Ben was also the winner of The Welsh Open Memory Championships 2009. http://www.worldmemorychampionship.com/latest_news.asp
