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Late to the party, perhaps, but I got there...
It seemed only yesterday that I'd checked in at the Memrise site, but apparently, it's been a couple of weeks, because today, I learned that the $10,000 prize offered by Tim Ferriss to the first person to memorize a deck of cards in just under a minute had been won by a 25-year-old woman from Ukraine, Irina Zayats.
I particularly liked the following quote from Irina, in response to the question "So how on earth did you do it?"
And now that the one-minute "barrier" has been broken, can we now expect to see it routinely broken in memory competitions (in much the same way the "four-minute mile"—which was held by many to be an "impossible" goal—was achieved by a second runner just two months after Roger Bannister first achieved that time in 1954)?
As far as the cards are concerned, this old man managed to get in on the action and learned to memorize a deck of cards, too, although nowhere near as fast as Ms. Zayats (though my best run was significantly less than three minutes).
Cheers...
I particularly liked the following quote from Irina, in response to the question "So how on earth did you do it?"
I didn't know that memorizing a deck of cards in under a minute was considered special. In a blog post announcing the competition, Ed said anyone could do it, and I believed him—that simple. I think this was key.I wonder, just how many other seemingly impossible goals might be as reachable?
And now that the one-minute "barrier" has been broken, can we now expect to see it routinely broken in memory competitions (in much the same way the "four-minute mile"—which was held by many to be an "impossible" goal—was achieved by a second runner just two months after Roger Bannister first achieved that time in 1954)?
As far as the cards are concerned, this old man managed to get in on the action and learned to memorize a deck of cards, too, although nowhere near as fast as Ms. Zayats (though my best run was significantly less than three minutes).
Cheers...