Dominic O'Brien

Dominic O'Brien ( born August 10, 1957 in London) is eight times world memory champion and author of several books on the topic of mnemonics and memory sport. On November 4, 1989, he joined Wetten, dass. ? live from Basel, where he mixed the order of six decks of cards memorized and thus betting became king.

Unhappy school days

During his school years he hated everything that had to do with reading and writing, as he much preferred playing outdoors than to deal with letters. He was regarded as particularly slow, and was finally recognized as a daydreamer and also as his dyslexia at age ten, he was at that time no one really help. Therefore, he left school at the age of 16.

Inspiration

When he was thirty years old, he saw on TV the English Mnemoniker Creighten Cavello who easily memorizes the order of playing cards. Motivated by this mission he acquired the techniques and started his memory training.

Memory Records

On April 30, 1988, he finally made ​​his first world record with the memorization six among themselves mixed deck of 52 cards each. 1990, it was already 35 Card Games (1820 cards), of 1993, 40 and 2002, he broke all records with 54 playing cards, ie he could reproduce the order of 2808 playing cards almost flawless in this competition.

As in 1991, the World Memory Championships by Tony Buzan were launched, he was also one of the few participants and promptly won the championships. Except in 1994, in which Jonathan Hancock won, and in 1998, when he was unable to attend due to personal reasons, he won the world championships until 2001 always, a total of eight times. O'Brien has now withdrawn from memory sport.

Because of its great successes in the memory of his services to sport and its dissemination him the title GMM, Grand Master of Memory was established in 2005, awarded.

In 2012, he is ranked 15 in the world rankings.