I recently came across a reference to some sort of memory competition. I never knew that there are people whose memorys (as opposed to memories, I think) are so strong, that they take them in to competitions. I gather from what I read that the contestants are required to memorize lists of three digit numbers. What else do they do? What can we learn about these people, the competitions, and the world of memory competitions? I used to know this stuff, I think, but I forgot.
Here is a link to the World Memory Championships. They have a few different categories from memorizing large groups of numbers to memorizing long poems.
Haj