Is there a way to find out what the records (ie. fastest times) are for each category on Memory League? I’m giving a presentation on Saturday about the USAMC and will be talking about the Memory League during it as well. People may be interested in what people are capable of.
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There is not currently a way to see this on the Memory League website, but I have been collecting scores of over 5000 matches since the beginning of December, and some of the fastest scores I’ve seen are:
11.84s for 52 cards by 叶博.
9.04s for 30 images by Jan Zoń.
41.49s for 30 names by Alex G.
13.01s for 80 numbers by Alex Mullen (Zion Kim, a newcomer, supposedly did 80 numbers in 7.41s, but it’s hard to say how legit it is with such a huge and sudden jump in performance, even though it would be cool if it is for real. Personally, I will remain skeptical until proven otherwise. :)).
43.90s for 50 words by Katie Kermode.
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Awesome, thank you so much!
Thanks for that, Florian!
Unfortunately I can’t easily query the database for the top scores.
The best scores achieved in championships are:
Cards: 52 in 16.86 sec (Alex Mullen)
Images: 30 in 12.73 sec (Emma Andersson)
Names: 30 in 55.15 sec (Katie Kermode)
Numbers: 80 in 17.65 sec (Alex Mullen)
Words: 50 in 51.31 sec (Katie Kermode)
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I really love Florian’s spreadsheet! I use it to check how my opponents are doing in the league all the time 
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Does Emma’s score count as a record? We were told last year that it wouldn’t count since the set of images wasn’t one made specially for the competition.
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I don’t know anything about 叶博, but Jan is still around, and Alex just has a (hopefully temporary) problem with accessing the site at the moment - people sometimes just don’t get the chance to play on Memory League enough when there’s something else happening in their life
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By the way, are the current records (and rules) still available on the ML site? It used to be possible to access them via “memoryleague.com” (without “app.”) but not anymore now that the training site has migrated away from “app”.
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Ye Bo is attending college. He is very busy and will not continue to play mnemonics for the time being.
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Ye Bo’s speed card is real data, but only once in 11 seconds. This is just a small probability event
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The Memory League world records are also listed on the IAM statistics page:
https://iam-stats.org/records_ml.php
Will need to check again regarding Emma’s record but my recollection is similar to @Sylle.
My understanding is that if the images that were used during that attempt/tournament were the normal ML training images and not new ones created for the event, then it cannot count as a world record (the same applies to new/old faces at Names). I think that has been clarified quite clearly for a longer time. So, if the images were not new ones, the reason that it is listed there would be database-related and would be corrected.
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Ok, I have taken a look at past correspondence and the Images in 2017 were indeed training images.
When will the ML Online records be listed on the IAM Stats page as a separate list? And will these, like other IAM Records, be tracked like the other records already on the site? For example, will we be able to filter and see National Records for each ML Online event category as well?
The stats team is currently working on putting the ML Online WRs on the stats page. That would be a first step. Online records will, for now, be entered manually, without database additions. We might be adding all previous results which are eligible for records in some ordered form later on.
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Hey guys, is this legit? I can see that impressive poster in the background with fancy words like “official”, “World”, “Records” but are you guys aware of this at all?
The official guinness world record may also be the highest number of matches lost in the memory league, it can be anything.
Looks like it is an official Guinness record and memorising 30 digits in 4s is very possible.
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But instead of typing why he is saying every digit.
And seriously is it a world record 
Then I am unaware of this fact that I got this world record as well.
I once did 36 digits in 4 sec time against vishva. And that recall was quick too. (total green line with no mistakes.)
Later I stopped doing it, and only focussed on memorizing 80 digits.
Edit : and when I was competiting against vishva, I actually used arrow. I guess if I don’t use arrow I can do it little bit more faster.
I have zero doubts this is possible. I can do 20 in under 4 and that’s grabbing 8. Someone faster than me who can also grab more should be able to easily do 30, i even think 40 in 4 is very possible
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Does that mean my 20 digits in 1.5 sec memorizing speed is a world record as well 
when we are memorizing short numbers, yeah don it all comes to grabbing 
If possible attach every images closely.
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