Johannes Mallow

Johannes “Hans” Mallow is a German memory sportsman. Along with his post-split title in the IAM event in 2018, a disputed one where he would have ranked outside top 5 in the event both World events’ scores of that year were to be compiled into a single ranking, he has won the World Memory Championships once pre-split in 2012. He studied successfully Communication Technology at the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg and finalized his PhD thesis in 2016 at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He also works as a mind coach and scientific author.

Victories

2018 IAM World Memory Champion
2017 Memory Champion of the IAM-AMSC Korea Open
2016 Memory Champion of the Regional German Open Memory Championship
2015 Memory Champion of Germany
2015 Extreme Memory Tournament Champion
2013 Runner-up at World Memory Championships
2013 Memory Champion of Germany
2012 World Memory Champion
2012 Memoriad - Binary Digits World Memory Champion
2012 Memory Champion of Germany
2011 Runner-up at Memory Championship of Germany
2010 Runner-up at World Memory Championships
2010 Memory Champion of Germany
2009 Runner-up at World Memory Championships
2008 Memory Champion of Germany
2008 Memory Champion of North Germany
2007 World Memory Champion in the discipline of Historical Dates
2007 Memory Champion of North Germany
2006 Memory Champion of North Germany

Extinct world records

List of EXTINCT world records held :

Memorize 400 playing cards in 10 minutes
Memorize 501 numbers in 5 minutes
Memorize 1080 binary numbers in 5 minutes
Memorize 937 numbers in 15 minutes
Memorize 364 spoken numbers
Memorize 492 abstract images in 15 minutes
Memorize 132 Historical Dates out of 140 in 5 minutes

Memory system

He currently uses the Method of loci. Many memory sportsmen use this method. His particular instance of the method uses 1,000 images with corresponding numbers, so that each combination of 3 digits corresponds to a unique image.
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