Ben Pridmore
Ben Pridmore ( born October 14, 1976 in Boston, England ) is an English athlete memory. For his feats of memory he has designed the so-called Ben- system. Pridmore is also finished fifth at the World Championships in mental arithmetic and British Othelloteam.
In 2007 he won the first UK Open and achieved a record becoming the first person ever he memorized the order of a shuffled deck stack of 52 cards in under 30 seconds, which he quite far surpass the same with 26.28 seconds.
Achievements
- World Memory Champion 2004, 2008, 2009
- Currently ranked 4th in the world rankings
Official World Records
- 930 binary digits in five minutes (Speed Binary)
- 4140 binary digits in 30 minutes ( Binary)
- Memorizing 28 decks of cards ( playing cards in 1456 ) in an hour