# Results: Asia Open Memory Championship 2019 **URL:** \ **Category:** Memory Sports\ **Created:** [October 9, 2019, 8:31am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/results-asia-open-memory-championship-2019/42732 "2019-10-09T08:31:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![bjoern.gumboldt](https://forum.artofmemory.com/user_avatar/forum.artofmemory.com/bjoern.gumboldt/32/16747_2.png) [@bjoern.gumboldt](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/bjoern.gumboldt)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 8:41am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/results-asia-open-memory-championship-2019/42732/3 "2019-10-09T08:41:13Z")
> [@Why the Mongolians are so good in memory competitions?](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/why-the-mongolians-are-so-good-in-memory-competitions/42016/4): > > 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/](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… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/results-asia-open-memory-championship-2019/42732)._