On Slate Magazine, "Forget Me Not: How to win the U.S. memory championship." By Joshua Foer. Here is an expert:
To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world. Only one lives in the United States. His name is Scott Hagwood, and he's won every U.S. Memory Championship since he began competing in 2001.Continue reading on Slate.
Note: The picture to the right from the Slate article: "Austrian Grand Master Lukas Amsuess straining for a digit"
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