2006 Clemens Mayer (reigning 2005/06 World Champion) from Germany remembered the first and surnames names of 90 people, and Boris Konrad (also from Germany) correctly recalled 214 random words. Both feats were achieved in a mere 15 minutes.
Former World Champion, Ben Pridmore (representing England ) memorised the dates of 96 historical events - in 5 minutes.
For years, memorising a pack of cards in under 30 seconds has been seen as the memory equivalent beating the four minute mile in athletics. However, i n the 2007 UK Memory Championships Ben Pridmore memorised a single shuffled deck of playing cards in 26.28 seconds beating the previous World Record of 31.16 seconds set by Andi Bell.
2005 Dr Gunther Karsten ( Germany ) memorised a 1949 digit number in an hour - and recalled it in under 2 hours.
2002 8 times World Champion, Dominic O'Brien (also from England) successfully set a new Guinness World Record by recalling 54 inter-shuffled decks of playing cards, having seen each card only once. He made 8 errors out of the 2808 cards, four of which he corrected himself after being told he had made the mistakes.
