Minimum proficiency for competition? (and some related questions)

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As the title says, I’m curious what the minimum memorization proficiency is for competitions. What times would correspond to a decent placement at a competition? I did some searches, but I couldn’t find anything on the topic.

Also, as I understand it, there are ten categories. Do all entrants have to partake in all categories? Would it be possible to only compete in select categories, like speed cards and numbers?

Lastly, does anybody have a recommendation for a good book that encompasses all categories in a competition? I currently only practice decimals, binary, and cards, but I have an idea of how the general concepts might apply to other categories.

Thank you! :blush:

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I believe you must compete in all categories of a competition, otherwise, why practice for categories you aren’t as versed in at all? I wouldn’t know for sure though as I’ve never competed.

I recommend checking the website of your country’s memory championship as it may have scores of everyone who competed in the country’s most recent championship, and from those you can get an idea of what to aim for in each discipline.

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There’s a good overview of IAM events here: Competitions - #16 by Zoomy

There are scores from various IAM competitions over here: http://iam-stats.org/competitions.php

Memory League events and scores are listed on memoryleague.com (click on “championships”).

If you search the forum and wiki, there is information about practicing for each event.

There’s also a page with a calendar of memory championships.

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Thank you both. :slight_smile: I guess I’ll just look through the different scores to get a reference point. Thank you for the links, Josh.