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    Default Nelson Dellis: USA Memory Champion

    http://www.usamemorychampionship.com/

    So, this year's champion is Nelson Dellis, who worked at the same office I did last summer. (Stefan met him, too!) So I sort of want to give him some credit. He memorized 248 digits in 5 minutes, which is almost a digit a second (or the equivalent of over 12 cubes, if you want to think of it that way).
    Not only is he enough of a nerd, the guy is going to climb Everest this year.

    I've always said I need to get one of those memory experts to try serious M2R2. But mostly, I'm here to report that Nelson actually knows how to solve a cube blindfolded. He mostly figured it out himself.

    Okay, enough bragging there. We should pay more attention to memory people, though; you never know where you'll find them.
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    Wow that is impressive. Could you provide more informationn on how one becomes a memory champion? Is there a copmetition of sorts?
    3x3- 1/5/12/100 (9.34, 13.63, 14.68, 15.60)
    4x4- 1/5/12/50/100 (54.75, 1:03.10, 1:05.96, 1:08.92, 1:09.71 )

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    Hi Lucas!
    (11:03:38 AM) Dene: killermanp0: btw do you know what "EG" stands for?
    (11:04:28 AM) killermanp0: yeah
    (11:04:34 AM) killermanp0: Erik and Guimmoind

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    He must have GREAT potential in multi/big cubes BLD. I've always wanted people like these to be involved in BLD cubing
    1 corner and 1 edge solved, 6 corner targets, 10 edge targets = pwn

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    Quote Originally Posted by amostay2004 View Post
    I've always wanted people like these to be involved in BLD cubing
    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22Mats+Bergsten%22
    [23:23] <+Kirjava> it's hard to do what I do if you're not ****ing insane
    I accidentily a 3rd line

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    Memory never ceases to amaze me.

    3x3x3 PBs - Single: 15.90, AO5: 22.52, AO12: 25.38, Usual Average: 26 - 28

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