Results: Asia Open Memory Championship 2019

[bjoern.gumboldt (Бьёрн Гумбольдт / ब्योर्न गम्बोल्ट / 龚博 / 龔博宇)]

Why the Mongolians are so good in memory competitions?

I assume you’ve heard of Melik Duyar before… https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/mongolia-using-mental-athletics-as-a-nation-building-exercise/article31297331/ In any other classroom, such a demand might seem impossible. But at the Mongolian Intellectual Academy, students routinely perform seemingly super-human feats, reading at 1,500 words per minute, mentally adding together long strings of numbers, rapidly multiplying eight-digit numbers without a calculator and flawlessly memorizin…