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Are competitions for these fair game for anyone? I would think there are people[0] who naturally have Rainman-like recall abilities which occurs subconsciously
by biot 16y ago
Are competitions for these fair game for anyone? I would think there are people[0] who naturally have Rainman-like recall abilities which occurs subconsciously. The rest of us would have to employ an ever-expanding bag of tricks just to try and keep up.
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Peek http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Peek
- sayemm 16y agoJoshua Foer, author of "Moonwalking with Einstein", actually met Kim Peek and makes a lot of interesting observations about him. Regarding these competitions, what's incredibly interesting is that all the memory champs have always been trained... people with naturally strong memories have never been able to compete with them. The same holds true for the world mental calculation championships too.