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Top US ‘mental athlete’

Top US ‘mental athlete’

NEW YORK – A 31-year-old software engineer recalled the correct order of an entire deck of playing cards in 2 minutes and 27 seconds on Saturday to take the title of having the best memory in the United States.

Chester Santos of San Francisco beat two other finalists to win the USA Memory Championships in New York that saw dozens of “mental athletes” over age 12 battle through seven rounds of competition in a Manhattan auditorium. “I’m in a good mood,” Santos told Reuters after his win, in which he correctly recalled the 10 of diamonds to qualify for the World Memory Championships scheduled to take place later this year in Bahrain.He attributed his win to spending a few hours each night after work practising his memory.Championship challenges included memorising a long and previously unpublished poem, recalling the names of 99 people whose photos had been shown 15 minutes earlier and retaining a list of numbers 20 digits wide and 25 rows long.”These people are not freaks, they are not nerds, they are people that have trained their brain,” said event founder Tony Dottino.Nampa-Reuters”I’m in a good mood,” Santos told Reuters after his win, in which he correctly recalled the 10 of diamonds to qualify for the World Memory Championships scheduled to take place later this year in Bahrain.He attributed his win to spending a few hours each night after work practising his memory.Championship challenges included memorising a long and previously unpublished poem, recalling the names of 99 people whose photos had been shown 15 minutes earlier and retaining a list of numbers 20 digits wide and 25 rows long.”These people are not freaks, they are not nerds, they are people that have trained their brain,” said event founder Tony Dottino.Nampa-Reuters

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