Ben Pridmore
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| Born: | 14 October 1976 Boston, England |
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| Occupation: | writer, World Memory Champion |
| Genres: | intelligence, self-help |
| Website: | http://web.aanet.com.au/memorysports/benpridmore.html |
Ben Pridmore, born October 14, 1976 in Boston, England, was the World Memory Champion in 2004. He achieved this by winning a ten-discipline competition, the World Memory Championship, which has taken place every year since 1991. He also holds an unofficial world record for memorizing the order of a randomly shuffled 52-card deck in 31.03 seconds. At the moment he is ranked as number one of the world ranking list for Memory Sports.
Besides memory sports he is famous for his mental calculation skills and took part in the World Mental Calculation Championships 2004 and 2006. He is also an Othello player and was the World Intelligence Champion 2001 (it took place during the Mind Sports Olympiad in London). Recently he quit his job and started a career as author and is currently writing a novel and a book on memory training ("How To Be Clever"), that is earning early rounds of applause.
[edit] Official World Records
- 780 binary digits in 5 minutes
- 333 decimal digits in 5 minutes
- 3710 binary digits in 30 minutes
- 96 historical dates in 5 minutes
- 312 playing cards in 10 minutes
- 1404 playing cards in an hour
