Johannes Mallow
Johannes Mallow (* 7. June 1981 in Brandenburg ) is a German memory trainer and memory athletes , the 2012 and 2018 World Memory Champion was.
Life
Mallow studied communication technology at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg , where he was a research assistant at the medical faculty . In 2016 he successfully completed his doctorate as Dr.-Ing. at the University of Duisburg-Essen . Furthermore, he works as a freelance coach for mnemonics and works as a scientific author.
Like many memory athletes, he uses the loci method . Within the memory sport he uses 1000 pictures for numbers as a single system, whereby each combination of three numbers stands for one picture.
successes
National
- 2016 Memory Master of the Regional German Open Memory Championship
- 2015 German memory master
- 2013 German memory master
- 2012 German memory master
- 2011 German memory runner-up
- 2010 German memory master
- 2009 German memory runner-up
- 2008 German memory master
- 2008 North German memory master
- 2007 North German memory master
- 2006 North German memory master
International
- 2018 World Memory Champion of the International Association of Memory
- 2017 winner of the IAM-AMSC Korea Open 2017 memory championship
- 2015 Extreme Memory Tournament (XMT) memory master
- 2013 Vice World Champion in memory
- 2012 world memory champion
- 2010 memory vice world champion
- 2010 first in the world rankings with 8919 points (as of November 2010)
- 2009 Vice World Champion in memory
- 2007 World Memory Champion in the discipline of historical data
World records
- Memorize 400 playing cards in 10 minutes (set up April 9, 2016 in Lübeck / Germany )
- Memorize 501 numbers in 5 minutes (installed December 1, 2013 in London / England )
- Memorize 1080 binary numbers in 5 minutes (installed on September 22, 2013 in Gothenburg / Sweden )
- Memorize 937 numbers in 15 minutes (installed on September 22, 2013 in Gothenburg / Sweden )
- Memorization of 364 spoken numbers (established September 22, 2013 in Gothenburg / Sweden )
- Memorize 492 abstract images in 15 minutes (installed July 27, 2013 in Isny / Germany )
- Memorization of 132 historical data from a total of 142 in 5 minutes (prepared September 25, 2011 in Gothenburg / Sweden )
Web links
- Personal website
- Statistics page with records ( Memento from April 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Mallow, Johannes Bernarding, Michael Luchtmann, Anja Bethmann, André Brechmann: Superior memorizers employ different neural networks for encoding and recall . In: Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience . tape 9 , 2015, ISSN 1662-5137 , 128, doi : 10.3389 / fnsys.2015.00128 ( frontiersin.org [accessed August 10, 2020]).
- ^ Rainer Schweingel: Magdeburg world champion in memory sports. In: Volksstimme . December 18, 2018, accessed August 10, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mallow, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German memory athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7th 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brandenburg on the Havel |