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DATE: December 7, 2015
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Brad Zupp, Memory Athlete
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American Competes in China for "World's Best Memory" Title
GREENWICH, NY (December 7, 2015) Have you ever forgotten the name of someone you just met, or walked into a room and realized you've forgotten why you're there?
That happens to everyone from time to time, but it won't happen to New York resident and "memory athlete" Brad Zupp, or any of the other 300 competitors, at the upcoming World Memory Championships.
Held once a year in a different location around the world, this year's competition will be in Chengdu, China, the capital of southwestern China's Sichuan province, famous for its spicy Sichuan peppercorns and the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding.
For three days, December 16-18, memory athletes from 30 countries will compete to see who has the best memory in the world.
Upstate New York resident Brad Zupp will compete for the fourth year in a row, both as an individual and as part of Team USA. "I'm honored to represent the United States," he said. "I'm doing this to show that anyone can remember better."
Zupp has been training his memory five to six hours a day and says, "I hope to break at least one record again this year."
At last year's competition in Haikou, China, Zupp set a new national (USA) record by memorizing 150 digits of a random number that was spoken aloud by a computerized voice at the rate of one digit per second but never seen or reviewed. He also memorized a deck of shuffled playing cards in 85 seconds, among other feats.
The competition has ten events, all designed to push the limits of human mind. Among others, participants attempt to memorize:
* the first and last names of 112 people in 15 minutes.
* thousands of digits of a random number in one hour. In 2013, the average competitor was able to memorize 864 digits.
* a deck of shuffled playing cards. The average competitor can accomplish this feat in less than two minutes. Zupp's best time in training is 58 seconds.
* imaginary historic/future dates (i.e. 1988: Comet appears; 2019: Flying cars available)
* thousands of digits of a random binary number (0110100110100...) in 30 minutes
Zupp is a memory athlete, sponsored by Bentley Systems, a technology company based with offices in over 50 countries whose software was used to create a 3D model of the new New York Bridge over the Hudson River (Tappen Zee). He also speaks about memory improvement for corporations and schools nationwide.
Full media kit available at:
http://www.realworldmemoryimprovement.com/media-resources/
Contact: Brad Zupp
877-707-9534
brad@bradzupp.com
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