I really liked your pie machine video. Knowing 10000 digits of pie in 5 digit increments is really impressive! Though I'm not sure what Trump had to do with anything
Nelson, about Lebron I think it is a lot simpler the question...he simply has Hyperthymesia but he doesn’t know about it. In others interviews is written he remembers all facts of his life (bad too, he can’t remove it) and all words of song at first listening. So he simply record in a audio/video uninterrupted stream inside all his life and he can go rewind in each moment like vcr and see and listen again what happened in speed real time again. Maybe someone can do a test to him asking what happened a casual day of his past at a casual time of the day, I am sure he can replay it for full. Again, another one of the few people in the world affected (or blessed) by Hyperthymesia.
I came to the comments to reccommend this. Chess players at that level can not only play multiple games of chess while blindfolded at the same time (memorizing every move as they go) but they can recall positions and moves from their old games and other top games from years ago. It is nuts!
They memorize positions because of how much its simplified from tactics and endgame studies. They also review every game after its finished, and sometimes replay it in their head and go through other possible lines. (I'm 1900 and this is one of the reason i wouldn't be at master level. Its too much work and you really need the passion to get through there)
I saw a video where they laid out positions on the board and he had to recall which game they were from... from memory! Not all of the games were his own, and not all of them were from the same time period. He gets them all, too. Incredible.
This for sure happens to most strong players. Not to the same extent as him. But I am a 2100-2200 rated player and can play and memorize blindfold. It is no technique, just massive amounts of wasted time XD
The video of lebron seems like the same type of recall that a lot of chess grand masters have. When you do something so many times and watch a bunch of footage you start to get that recall of how things played out
Exactly. Honestly not that impressive of a feat from a memory perspective. While the average fan watching basketball sees ten people running around on a court, a top pro views every action taken by a player as imbued with strategic meaning. They create a narrative thread which makes it easy to remember. Same thing with chess/go players etc. being able to easily recall hundreds of moves. The moves aren't random pieces of information at all. They are the game--in this case basketball--and lebron is a great player.
@@redskytempest Yeah, things like that have a structure to them. So it's more of "oh he played e4 then we went down the standard Caro-Kann line, then at move x he made this weird decision then from there on there was only a single reasonable move for a few turns, then I noticed this 3 move tactic" etc etc. Many things get bundled together and they all have logical reasonings that lead into each other so while it's still impressive I don't think it's as hard as it seems given the background knowledge available.
@@redskytempest pre spot on, but I do have to say. The fact he's in the game running up on the court and guarding his man, I would assume makes it more difficult.
I imagine that that kind of memory is similar to how I recall my day if I lose something. When I lost my AirPods, I could remember the last time they were in my ears, but from there I knew that I always put my AirPods case in my right pocket. And I always take out my AirPods when I get in my car and immediately put them in my case and into the front cup holder. So I know that when I got home, my AirPods were in my front cup holder. So they were either sitting there still, or they were in my work pants pocket because If I took them out of my car, I would have put them on my dresser. And then, boom, they’re in my pants pocket. And I can trace my movements that way. So the way Hikaru has described memorizing chess games is like, he may not remember every single detail of every movement, but he knows remembers the position that the game ended in, he obviously knows how the game started, and knowing how he plays as well as how typical high leveled players play, he can recreate the entire game in his head based on what he would have done in that position. So I imagine that’s what it’s like for Lebron. He’s at such a high level that he can recreate his movement and remember exactly what he WOULD have done based on the information he DOES remember.
What makes it more impressive is that LeBron had been running up and down the court the entire time and was tired physically and that pushes him to the limit mentally too . And to analyze the situations and remember it is mind blowing. Magnus Carlsen too is hella impressive he remembers so many moves other players and him have done. That’s what makes sports so beautiful
dont get discouraged that your videos arent getting as many views as they were getting a year ago, stay on the grind. your content is really unique and as long as it isn't too exhausting to make, keep it up.
You can also memorize the bit combos for hexadecimal and make every 4 binary bits into a single hex digit. And then you can take that further by grouping the hex digits.
Is that possible that the black spots formed by the binary numbers prints temporarily onto his retina, making him able to see it on the white paper ? I may have used the wrong scientifical term there but you get the idea
I know it's been awhile, but the super Mario world Speedrun is usually done based heavily off of the music and they use points in the song to know when to jump. I think it's super cool and ingenious in a game with almost no sound ques. Would love to see you watch a blindfolded punch out speedrun
I wonder with the binary example, if he is aided by persistence of vision. If the screen is bright enough the high contrast will leave an imprint in his vision for a few seconds. If he doesn't move his eyes when it flashes and trains to use his peripheral vision he may be able to make out the numbers in the imprint and the numbers 1 and zero look very different. Even if thats not what hes doing it may be unconsciously reinforcing whatever he is doing.
Btw, regarding the Super Mario World clip: you mentioned no audio cues, but actually the main tactic that he uses repeatedly throughout that run is heavily reliant on the beat in the song. If you pay attention you'll notice that the few times he stopped to line himself up for the next section he waits for a specific part of the song before continuing on. P.S. If you do try something like that for a future video I highly recommend a 2D game like SMW over a 3D game like SM64. It's so much easier to get lost in 3D games, and recovering can be nearly impossible without not only a detailed map of the level in your head, but also an understanding of where you might wind up if you mess up an input, since the butterfly effect from incorrect inputs is way higher for 3D games.
TH-cam recommended the first of these two videos to me and I haven't watched that much related content. Might be good for your views to pump more reaction videos out for the algorithm considering the videos are well made and entertaining!
@@thesavantart8480 I don't know about the exact number but the greatest chess players like Garry Kasparov or Magnus Carlsen really can recite many historic games move by move and recognize positions immediately. I think that just comes when you are soo good at something and I think it's something similar with the Lebron clip. He's just so great at basketball that his brain works different and picks things up in a different way when it comes to basketball.
@@HorstiWorsti145 No, it is just hours and hours of doing the same thing. Don't you find it weird that he can recall all his classical games but not the 3 minute or 5 minute games he plays in streams?
steven wiltshire is indeed on the spectrum and his skill is absolutely real, the level of detail he is able to recall is phenomenal. he takes multiple "pictures" per second and can see and recall them in his mind later on, basically its photographic memory on crack.
If its not expansive then its not photographic memory. And the concept of photographic memory is nearly proven impossible in neurology but pop psychology loves to mystify people with a bunch of bs. Steven is real, he takes in visuals but does not memorize or recalls from visuals, he recalls patterns in connection to their locations. This is similar to drawing from memory. A figure artist can draw a complete nude figure from seeing it in a flash within a certain pose because he only needs to know the pose's shape, his brain knows what type of muscle and light reflection there is, and where the muscles and bones pushes and pulls.
I love Panga so much on the super mario world speed run! He has lots of other cool videos as well! A blindfolded speedrun would be cool because you could collaborate with pangaeapanga and other people like grandpoo bear and dode! It would bring great exposure to the community.
Would love to see you do a blindfold speedrun. I'm absolutely certain that any of the speedrunners would enjoy coaching you and it would be great content for both channels.
1:50 i used that trick back in high school during shop class. our teacher would give "quizzes" that were just writing down the list of rules from our workbook sections. so we would take a stack of notebook paper and write down really hard and then use 1 of the copies underneath that you liked best depending on how visible the words were... And you had to write the same way as close as possible so it just looked like you pressed a bit too hard.
Harry Mack would be right up your alley: linguistic multitasker extreme whose ‘shtick’ is off the dome freestyle raps with full song structure and ‘flow state’ storyline progression. Just a suggestion
The lebron feat is done a lot by chess grandmasters like magnus carlson who remembers every move of every game he has played. I think there was a CBS video on this. Also Malcolm gladwell in one of his books talks about this.
@@Oblivic at about 3:50 of the documentary titled "A chess prodigy explains how his mind works" , they say magnus knows all the moves of about 10000 games and to test him they put a board scenario from a match he played when he was 13, and he remembers it in an instant. th-cam.com/video/PZFS0kewLRQ/w-d-xo.html
@@solandge36 yes, but the game they setup was one of the only 2 games played between Magnus and Kasparov the great, its obvious he will remember those 2 particular games.
These experts in their fields are consumed by what they do. I don't think LeBron and Magnus are trying to memorize their games, they're just so engaged in the moment that they just remember them. I'm sure they eventually forget the less eventful ones.
The way I believe he does the blindfolded run of Super Mario World is that he's timing his jumps and movement to the music of the stage. Since all of the elements in the level are in set positions, as long as you know when to jump and stuff you can clear everything. There's a few moments in there you can tell he waits until the music gets to a specific point for him to time it.
A very important aspect of speed runs is RNG manipulation, they know where everything is going to be because they're manipulating the games random number generator with specific inputs.
"Round 9 Gibraltar Chess post-game interview with Vassily Ivanchuk". Please review this video! Ivanchuk is one of my favorite chess players ever and this video has always mesmerized me! I'm a new subscriber and I absolutely love your channel!
In terms of remembering what happened in a recent game of sport, I can relate to what lebron did. I am a semi pro table tennis player, and after a set ends, I can remember each point of the set (for example, recalling how each point went from the score 4-7 to score 11-8, recalling each shot that was taken by each player for each point). I would say that remembering what happens during a game is part of what makes a great player and helps choose a player's tactics and strategy in the near future.
i think Lebron remembers it from his experience more than having a photographic memory, he has experienced it and is reliving his experience and that game was final too . i have seen this best shown by chess players where they can look at a position in a chess game and remember the position that thay had against certain player and how it reached there
You must check Magnus Carlse recognizing a chess match, the players and the tournament from a ches board set in one random move of that match, but also games in movies. That’s unhuman
I'm sure you already know this by now but SM64 blindfold speedruns are mostly about making your own unique setup that is consistent. Anyone with decent memory skills can finish a blindfolder run following a tutorial but they'll probably be very slow and bad at the tricks. When you create a faster setup you're doing better than everyone else. And don't forget in video games the controller is a huge part of it and what makes SM64 blindfolded speedruns much more special than others is the notched stick you can use for 8 set directions and the numerous amounts of movements tricks you can use and combine for known distances
Any kind of simul chess is amazing. I think Magnus Carlsen would be the best person to look at. There is a vid in which he playes 20 people at the same time, while being blindfolded.
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Pro golfers can remember every shot they've ever taken in every major tourney they've ever played. Seriously. If you ask Phil Mickelson about the 14th hole at the 2007 British open day 2, I'm sure he could tell you about it.
The Lebron thing is very impressive, but I think pretty expected for a top professional in any competition. Chess players come to mind, even those who aren't at the top will have memorized their entire game by the end of it, and not even intentionally. If your brain is so specifically trained towards performing a specific task, its just going to soak up the experience. Thats part of the reason why you'd be good in the first place.
I terms of the speedrun thing, would absolutely love to see it. Definitely start with regular speedrunning though as that in itself is already an impressive memory challenge, the blindfolded stuff is like, world class level of skill not just memory in a lot of cases.
Hello Nelson, Love your videos. I have read and seen a lot of videos on memory techniques and i have been practicing it. However I would like you to talk about the discipline it takes to sit for hours or use of pomodoro and time management techniques you use for the drive to sit and use the techniques.
Definitely have to check out goalkeeper Iker Casillas. He is able to remember the score, opposite team, scorers, when they scored, and sometimes even the weather just from a date!
12:59 This video (when it was released in 2015) actually got me back into doing Super Mario World stuff-- am very grateful that became my creative outlet. I believe the runner used audio cues from the music to tell when to jump-- it's incredible how he memorized all of the cues.
Hey not sure if this has been said. Super Mario World absolutely uses audio queues. The music, dude. In the beginning of the level, you can watch him set up by jumping to the music. Surprised this slipped past you.
For the binary one, this seems like less memorization and more knowing base 2^n numbers+being good at memorization. The 4-digit groupings are easily converted since they're in those groups, and reading them as clumps you get E97, 67F, 9, 0 as the four lines. The 3-digit groupings are just as easily converted to octal/decimal/hex, 5 2 4 6 That or he's had the same watch as me (The One, thinkgeek) and effortlessly converts them to decimal. After wearing that watch for less than a week, you no longer add the digits and simply recognize the light pattern as a number. Impressive, but I feel like I know his trick for that one.
Seeing Lebron James memory reminds me to an extent of pro chess player. They see a position and say they something like I played this position against Grischuk in 2011 at Swiss Open. The game continued as Nxf3, Bxf3, [...] and it ended as a lost because of this passed pawn.
With regards to the LeBron clip I think something close to that level of memory is true for a lot of professionals. Certainly the facts I've seen some doctors pull out are equally impressive. I think my memory is fairly terrible yet I can clearly describe - almost to the specific IP address level - pretty much every network I've designed over the last 25 years (certainly the ones over the last decade). Functionally, you need to be able to hold that level of gestalt in your mind in order to envision how "a" gets to "b" without having to perform minutes or hours of diagnostics. I even remember passwords that I created for places I worked at in the 90s as was proven when I got a call from an ex-employer in 2000 asking about a - unique - enable password (management mode on a router) for a disaster recovery site and I was able to instantly provide it though I had only typed it a couple of times nearly 5 years prior. I don't know if I've developed subliminal techniques to do this but I've always been able to do it.
1st off, recent discoverer of your channel and I'm already a big fan. Subscriber count to video quality ratio is way in the quality's favor. I expect you to just keep gaining a following and i look forward to it! Secondly, I think the concept of an "athlete memory" is incredibly interesting. Surely its a combination of many skills, but it truely seems like all of the best in their sports have a tendency to have incredible recall, improvisation, and pattern recognition skills. Everything from lebron's recitation of plays to a tennis player recognizing an out of bounds shot by millimeters. Even the video game stuff falls in that same realm! Love to see more athlete Memory feats if you're interested!
Two videos, two mentions of blindfolded rubik’s cube solving, yet not a single multiblindfold example. You should check out Marcin „Maskow” Kowalczyk (true OG in this category) and Graham Siggins, I think you’ll like it ;)
The photographic memory is interesting, I tripped on magic mushrooms one time and I would accidentally take photographic memory pictures of only things with blue light (color, exact detail etc.) and I was never to actually manually do it and it would happen randomly when I would take long blinks (it would go away in 3-5 seconds in an instant)
You have to check out memory of chess GMs. For example, check out video with title "Round 9 Gibraltar Chess post-game interview with Vassily Ivanchuk" There, Vassily in an interview recites whole game, every move exactly like it happened and even analyzes different outcomes if he or his opponent made different moves. It's absolutely crazy. And on top of that is that inteview funny and enetrtaining
if you want to see incredible memory go and look at Magnus Carlsen and other elite GMs having a position given on a chess board and asked who played the game and when, and what happened next. As a chess player myself thats also skilled and trying to get better its always amazing to me.
I'm a big fan of speed runs but remembering a mario stage isn't a huge memory feat as by the time you speed run it you know the map and everything on it by heart. Most of it actually does have to do with sound cues
@3:00 youre a memory expert, so if you think about what ramon is doing, you could deduct that its fairly simple if what you said is true: if he designed the format himself (how many digits per patern and on wich part of the screen they pop up) he either: designates a number or word to certain paterns during training... (he has 2 six-sized paterns 2 eight-sized paterns and a 4x4 square) the 8 sized paterns have only 256 variables... so you can learn to assign 256 words to each pattern, and you can read these paterns as pictures in 1 second to get 2 words. a 6 sized patern would be way easier... The 4x4 is a bit big, so i think he just memorizes the location of either the 0 or 1 in that 4x4. seeing as he is the one that designed how many digits fit in a patern and where they show up, he KNOWS its 3x2 3x2 4x2 4x2 and 4x4 ... so as long as you only take note of the position of either 1s or 0s... you can input the others by deduction. just a guess... of how he is doing this.
Hi, I just dicover you on your channel today by searching for memory stuff. I'm training my memory on Memory League since now 4 months and I don't think I've seen you there, will you join the community on Memory League?
I think it could be an athlete thing. Golfers can recall every shot of a tournament in order probably. I know I could. Just each shot and where it went and what kind of look I had.
You should look at wrestler's interviews they recall basically the entire match move by move it's common I still vividly remember lots of my old matches could be an adrenaline thing
I don’t know much about the memory community… but can’t people with photographic memory just dominate the entire memory industry? At least things that don’t include sound
Wrote this without having watched the video yet. Now that I’ve watched it. I also think photographic memory is pretty loosely used. What I mean by this is seeing something and remembering every fine detail within up to 30 seconds(Some old cameras supposedly took hours to take a photo but I don’t want to give too much slack for such an amazing title). Similiar to an old camera. Not the oldest camera but definitely cameras from an older generation.
Hello Nelson! I saw a vid on the build of a memory palace on Ron White's channel and he said that we had to pick out 5 pieces per room and then go to the next room. In this vid I see that you only use one element per location. I don't get it. Some people use several elements others use 5 and then go to the next room. Depends on the number of things we wanna memorize?
The US Presidents in 4 seconds - The world champion speaks at 637 words per minute and much of what he says is audible. So I don't believe this kid is saying any names, just a bunch of slurred syllables. Also, if you do the Maths then this kid just managed 1,320 words per minute, over double the world record. 44 names in 4 seconds - that's 88 words (first and second names) in 4 seconds. I don't think so somehow ;) Stephen Wiltshire - The artistic Savant has a documentary about him. He flew over a city in a chopper and was tasked to draw it. I believe he got about 80-90% of the skyline correct, with a few minor errors such as incorrect number of pillars on a famous building, rows of windows on skyscrapers, etc. But he is a savant and they are incredible but mysterious individuals - as many of them can't communicate what they see, think and feel regarding their gifts. He also has a Gallery. Lebron James - I don't think this is too dissimilar to what we do on a day to day basis remember how our day went yesterday. We remember significant events and replay them in the same order they happened, but in our heads. If his memory of a game's events extend to several days, weeks, or even months - then that is much more impressive.
In My point of view if he is 😀 really memories king whatever .... He is. At least he can allow to capture all his process of memorizing process. Please don't feel negative feelings about all nepalese and nepal.
3:52 This can be caused due to hypersensitivity to light. The whole screen is imprinted in his vision for a few seconds (especially high contrast stuff like black and white). I might be wrong, it really might be memory though.
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What's your favorite memory demonstration?
I really liked your pie machine video. Knowing 10000 digits of pie in 5 digit increments is really impressive! Though I'm not sure what Trump had to do with anything
Lebron's was really impressive!!
I am really impressed when others do spoken numbers. I find doing that so much more difficult compared to reading them.
Bijay Shahi is king of memory....!!! Keep it up brother. This is POSSIBLE Nelson Dellis.
Nelson, about Lebron I think it is a lot simpler the question...he simply has Hyperthymesia but he doesn’t know about it. In others interviews is written he remembers all facts of his life (bad too, he can’t remove it) and all words of song at first listening. So he simply record in a audio/video uninterrupted stream inside all his life and he can go rewind in each moment like vcr and see and listen again what happened in speed real time again. Maybe someone can do a test to him asking what happened a casual day of his past at a casual time of the day, I am sure he can replay it for full. Again, another one of the few people in the world affected (or blessed) by Hyperthymesia.
You should look at how Magnus Carlsen and other top chess players can recall hundreds of top games to the move. Really cool!
I came to the comments to reccommend this. Chess players at that level can not only play multiple games of chess while blindfolded at the same time (memorizing every move as they go) but they can recall positions and moves from their old games and other top games from years ago. It is nuts!
I opened the video just to comment this lol
They memorize positions because of how much its simplified from tactics and endgame studies. They also review every game after its finished, and sometimes replay it in their head and go through other possible lines. (I'm 1900 and this is one of the reason i wouldn't be at master level. Its too much work and you really need the passion to get through there)
I agree definitely do this^^^^
It is over 10 000 games
Magnus carlsen has been known to memorize the full games he played and write down the move list, even blindfolded against more than one people
He played 10 people once with his back turned. There’s video of it somewhere.
I saw a video where they laid out positions on the board and he had to recall which game they were from... from memory! Not all of the games were his own, and not all of them were from the same time period. He gets them all, too. Incredible.
This for sure happens to most strong players. Not to the same extent as him. But I am a 2100-2200 rated player and can play and memorize blindfold. It is no technique, just massive amounts of wasted time XD
@@maxharlan6982 but to see any position on the board and go oh yeah this one was 1967, kasparov vs blah blah
@@nukefalador8891 Yeah no doubt - that part is crazy!
The video of lebron seems like the same type of recall that a lot of chess grand masters have. When you do something so many times and watch a bunch of footage you start to get that recall of how things played out
Exactly. Honestly not that impressive of a feat from a memory perspective. While the average fan watching basketball sees ten people running around on a court, a top pro views every action taken by a player as imbued with strategic meaning. They create a narrative thread which makes it easy to remember. Same thing with chess/go players etc. being able to easily recall hundreds of moves. The moves aren't random pieces of information at all. They are the game--in this case basketball--and lebron is a great player.
@@redskytempest Yeah, things like that have a structure to them. So it's more of "oh he played e4 then we went down the standard Caro-Kann line, then at move x he made this weird decision then from there on there was only a single reasonable move for a few turns, then I noticed this 3 move tactic" etc etc. Many things get bundled together and they all have logical reasonings that lead into each other so while it's still impressive I don't think it's as hard as it seems given the background knowledge available.
@@redskytempest pre spot on, but I do have to say. The fact he's in the game running up on the court and guarding his man, I would assume makes it more difficult.
I imagine that that kind of memory is similar to how I recall my day if I lose something. When I lost my AirPods, I could remember the last time they were in my ears, but from there I knew that I always put my AirPods case in my right pocket. And I always take out my AirPods when I get in my car and immediately put them in my case and into the front cup holder. So I know that when I got home, my AirPods were in my front cup holder. So they were either sitting there still, or they were in my work pants pocket because If I took them out of my car, I would have put them on my dresser. And then, boom, they’re in my pants pocket. And I can trace my movements that way. So the way Hikaru has described memorizing chess games is like, he may not remember every single detail of every movement, but he knows remembers the position that the game ended in, he obviously knows how the game started, and knowing how he plays as well as how typical high leveled players play, he can recreate the entire game in his head based on what he would have done in that position. So I imagine that’s what it’s like for Lebron. He’s at such a high level that he can recreate his movement and remember exactly what he WOULD have done based on the information he DOES remember.
What makes it more impressive is that LeBron had been running up and down the court the entire time and was tired physically and that pushes him to the limit mentally too . And to analyze the situations and remember it is mind blowing. Magnus Carlsen too is hella impressive he remembers so many moves other players and him have done. That’s what makes sports so beautiful
dont get discouraged that your videos arent getting as many views as they were getting a year ago, stay on the grind. your content is really unique and as long as it isn't too exhausting to make, keep it up.
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He turned the binary numbers into shapes if you only memorise the 1s it makes a shape and the 0s fill in the rest
You can also memorize the bit combos for hexadecimal and make every 4 binary bits into a single hex digit. And then you can take that further by grouping the hex digits.
Is that possible that the black spots formed by the binary numbers prints temporarily onto his retina, making him able to see it on the white paper ?
I may have used the wrong scientifical term there but you get the idea
that is not how he does it
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I know it's been awhile, but the super Mario world Speedrun is usually done based heavily off of the music and they use points in the song to know when to jump. I think it's super cool and ingenious in a game with almost no sound ques. Would love to see you watch a blindfolded punch out speedrun
I wonder with the binary example, if he is aided by persistence of vision. If the screen is bright enough the high contrast will leave an imprint in his vision for a few seconds. If he doesn't move his eyes when it flashes and trains to use his peripheral vision he may be able to make out the numbers in the imprint and the numbers 1 and zero look very different. Even if thats not what hes doing it may be unconsciously reinforcing whatever he is doing.
The guy who draws entire cities from memory is definitely legit. There’s a whole documentary about him it’s insane.
Btw, regarding the Super Mario World clip: you mentioned no audio cues, but actually the main tactic that he uses repeatedly throughout that run is heavily reliant on the beat in the song. If you pay attention you'll notice that the few times he stopped to line himself up for the next section he waits for a specific part of the song before continuing on.
P.S. If you do try something like that for a future video I highly recommend a 2D game like SMW over a 3D game like SM64. It's so much easier to get lost in 3D games, and recovering can be nearly impossible without not only a detailed map of the level in your head, but also an understanding of where you might wind up if you mess up an input, since the butterfly effect from incorrect inputs is way higher for 3D games.
TH-cam recommended the first of these two videos to me and I haven't watched that much related content. Might be good for your views to pump more reaction videos out for the algorithm considering the videos are well made and entertaining!
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A chess world champion has memory access to upwards of 10,000 played games/positions.
Nah, sorry mate, that's bullsh*t.
@@thesavantart8480 I don't know about the exact number but the greatest chess players like Garry Kasparov or Magnus Carlsen really can recite many historic games move by move and recognize positions immediately. I think that just comes when you are soo good at something and I think it's something similar with the Lebron clip. He's just so great at basketball that his brain works different and picks things up in a different way when it comes to basketball.
@@thesavantart8480 nah, sorry mate, you’re just not intelligible enough to fathom something you cannot do
@@funkgremlin2765 I am a savant. I can do 5 digit multiplications in my head. Don't tell me what I can't do.
@@HorstiWorsti145 No, it is just hours and hours of doing the same thing. Don't you find it weird that he can recall all his classical games but not the 3 minute or 5 minute games he plays in streams?
these videos are criminally underrated. super high quality and very entertaining. keep it up!
steven wiltshire is indeed on the spectrum and his skill is absolutely real, the level of detail he is able to recall is phenomenal. he takes multiple "pictures" per second and can see and recall them in his mind later on, basically its photographic memory on crack.
If its not expansive then its not photographic memory. And the concept of photographic memory is nearly proven impossible in neurology but pop psychology loves to mystify people with a bunch of bs. Steven is real, he takes in visuals but does not memorize or recalls from visuals, he recalls patterns in connection to their locations. This is similar to drawing from memory. A figure artist can draw a complete nude figure from seeing it in a flash within a certain pose because he only needs to know the pose's shape, his brain knows what type of muscle and light reflection there is, and where the muscles and bones pushes and pulls.
Love Art Benjamin. I recently read his Mental Math book. Impressive stuff.
I love Panga so much on the super mario world speed run! He has lots of other cool videos as well! A blindfolded speedrun would be cool because you could collaborate with pangaeapanga and other people like grandpoo bear and dode! It would bring great exposure to the community.
Would love to see you do a blindfold speedrun. I'm absolutely certain that any of the speedrunners would enjoy coaching you and it would be great content for both channels.
1:50 i used that trick back in high school during shop class. our teacher would give "quizzes" that were just writing down the list of rules from our workbook sections. so we would take a stack of notebook paper and write down really hard and then use 1 of the copies underneath that you liked best depending on how visible the words were... And you had to write the same way as close as possible so it just looked like you pressed a bit too hard.
Harry Mack would be right up your alley: linguistic multitasker extreme whose ‘shtick’ is off the dome freestyle raps with full song structure and ‘flow state’ storyline progression.
Just a suggestion
Harry Mack is the shit!! The guy is so talented
The lebron feat is done a lot by chess grandmasters like magnus carlson who remembers every move of every game he has played. I think there was a CBS video on this.
Also Malcolm gladwell in one of his books talks about this.
He does not remember every move of every game he has played.. not even all his classical games, but a lot of them yes
@@Oblivic at about 3:50 of the documentary titled "A chess prodigy explains how his mind works" , they say magnus knows all the moves of about 10000 games and to test him they put a board scenario from a match he played when he was 13, and he remembers it in an instant.
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@@solandge36 yes, but the game they setup was one of the only 2 games played between Magnus and Kasparov the great, its obvious he will remember those 2 particular games.
These experts in their fields are consumed by what they do. I don't think LeBron and Magnus are trying to memorize their games, they're just so engaged in the moment that they just remember them. I'm sure they eventually forget the less eventful ones.
I'm from Nepal and the ending to Bijay Shahi's "legacy" was so satisfying 😆
The blindfolded Punch-Out runs from the GDQs are amazing.
correctly predicted 2:22 , in fact bijay sahi created a good wave of pandemic worthy memes here in Nepal! lol
The way I believe he does the blindfolded run of Super Mario World is that he's timing his jumps and movement to the music of the stage. Since all of the elements in the level are in set positions, as long as you know when to jump and stuff you can clear everything. There's a few moments in there you can tell he waits until the music gets to a specific point for him to time it.
I hope you don’t judge Nepal just on the basis of this fraud, Bijaya Shahi. He is a scammer!
A very important aspect of speed runs is RNG manipulation, they know where everything is going to be because they're manipulating the games random number generator with specific inputs.
"Round 9 Gibraltar Chess post-game interview with Vassily Ivanchuk". Please review this video! Ivanchuk is one of my favorite chess players ever and this video has always mesmerized me! I'm a new subscriber and I absolutely love your channel!
In terms of remembering what happened in a recent game of sport, I can relate to what lebron did.
I am a semi pro table tennis player, and after a set ends, I can remember each point of the set (for example, recalling how each point went from the score 4-7 to score 11-8, recalling each shot that was taken by each player for each point).
I would say that remembering what happens during a game is part of what makes a great player and helps choose a player's tactics and strategy in the near future.
i think Lebron remembers it from his experience more than having a photographic memory, he has experienced it and is reliving his experience and that game was final too . i have seen this best shown by chess players where they can look at a position in a chess game and remember the position that thay had against certain player and how it reached there
man. lebron was reading that screen thats under the table by his feet... they all do it
You must check Magnus Carlse recognizing a chess match, the players and the tournament from a ches board set in one random move of that match, but also games in movies. That’s unhuman
I'm sure you already know this by now but SM64 blindfold speedruns are mostly about making your own unique setup that is consistent. Anyone with decent memory skills can finish a blindfolder run following a tutorial but they'll probably be very slow and bad at the tricks. When you create a faster setup you're doing better than everyone else.
And don't forget in video games the controller is a huge part of it and what makes SM64 blindfolded speedruns much more special than others is the notched stick you can use for 8 set directions and the numerous amounts of movements tricks you can use and combine for known distances
When Prof. Benjamin is thinking out loud (at first), he almost sounds like he could be an auctioneer!
Any kind of simul chess is amazing.
I think Magnus Carlsen would be the best person to look at.
There is a vid in which he playes 20 people at the same time, while being blindfolded.
LA Rams head coach sean mcvay has also been known to have a very good memory of plays that have happened throughout the course of his career
Nelson sir plz check all these things on your video with Bijaya Shahi
1).Did you notice the blank page you gave from copy and the written page Bijaya returned to you..
it’s totally different..
2). Did you notice why he sits near the door open? Coz the helping girl kept the mobile on the sink left outside the door on record mode so that what bijay reads and record the sound too
3). Bijay reads the page of book very loud and as clear as he could Coz the mobile outside can record it and after finishing reading he locked the door from inside sending that girl outside ... the girl outside starts writing listening the record
4). Why he request you to pan camera far from him and even for you too to turn back .. that was the moment that girl pass the nxt written page from outside to bijaya...
5). Do you know why he engaged you for 30-40 minutes.. coz that was the enough time so that the girl behind outdoor can listen the record and write it on new page 📄
Pro golfers can remember every shot they've ever taken in every major tourney they've ever played. Seriously.
If you ask Phil Mickelson about the 14th hole at the 2007 British open day 2, I'm sure he could tell you about it.
Suuurely do a multiblind! Grahams Siggins did a 200 cube attempt in January, think they got 189/200 or so
Whoa it's RG!
@@cookierobber oh snap it's a twitchie! Who dis?
@@duncanhobbs2213 It's James (sixthside)
Steven Stamkos is an exceptional hockey player and he can do the same thing! He can recall every goal he has scored and all the details
MEMEWORTHY😂😂 sometimes i feel pity for sahi on how much he has been memed
Blindfold speedrun of Mike tysons punch out at agdq, he knows what time each ko is on the clock
The Lebron thing is very impressive, but I think pretty expected for a top professional in any competition. Chess players come to mind, even those who aren't at the top will have memorized their entire game by the end of it, and not even intentionally. If your brain is so specifically trained towards performing a specific task, its just going to soak up the experience. Thats part of the reason why you'd be good in the first place.
You saw the 16 star record in SM64? Well there's a 70 star record too! And a Celeste record!
I terms of the speedrun thing, would absolutely love to see it. Definitely start with regular speedrunning though as that in itself is already an impressive memory challenge, the blindfolded stuff is like, world class level of skill not just memory in a lot of cases.
Hello Nelson, Love your videos. I have read and seen a lot of videos on memory techniques and i have been practicing it. However I would like you to talk about the discipline it takes to sit for hours or use of pomodoro and time management techniques you use for the drive to sit and use the techniques.
Two minutes silence for those 140 people who think Bijay shahi is memory king and he will give formula for them. 👍
i don't want you to do a blindfolded speedrun, I CHALLENGE YOU to do it
Challenge accepted!
I've seen only 2 videos from your channel and I'm already subscribed. You're brilliant!
Definitely have to check out goalkeeper Iker Casillas. He is able to remember the score, opposite team, scorers, when they scored, and sometimes even the weather just from a date!
I didn’t know that! Will do
Lebron was really impressive
12:59 This video (when it was released in 2015) actually got me back into doing Super Mario World stuff-- am very grateful that became my creative outlet. I believe the runner used audio cues from the music to tell when to jump-- it's incredible how he memorized all of the cues.
Hey not sure if this has been said.
Super Mario World absolutely uses audio queues. The music, dude. In the beginning of the level, you can watch him set up by jumping to the music. Surprised this slipped past you.
You should look at Shakuntala Devi, she did faster and bigger calculations than Art Benjamin
slowed it down to .25 for the president names kid, no words were coherently spoken
For the binary one, this seems like less memorization and more knowing base 2^n numbers+being good at memorization. The 4-digit groupings are easily converted since they're in those groups, and reading them as clumps you get E97, 67F, 9, 0 as the four lines. The 3-digit groupings are just as easily converted to octal/decimal/hex, 5 2 4 6
That or he's had the same watch as me (The One, thinkgeek) and effortlessly converts them to decimal. After wearing that watch for less than a week, you no longer add the digits and simply recognize the light pattern as a number.
Impressive, but I feel like I know his trick for that one.
You should react to Hikaru’s chimps test!
That kid was absolutely staring at a paper or poster with names on it and trying to remember something about presidents
Seeing Lebron James memory reminds me to an extent of pro chess player. They see a position and say they something like I played this position against Grischuk in 2011 at Swiss Open. The game continued as Nxf3, Bxf3, [...] and it ended as a lost because of this passed pawn.
man. lebron was reading that screen thats under the table by his feet... they all do it
With regards to the LeBron clip I think something close to that level of memory is true for a lot of professionals. Certainly the facts I've seen some doctors pull out are equally impressive. I think my memory is fairly terrible yet I can clearly describe - almost to the specific IP address level - pretty much every network I've designed over the last 25 years (certainly the ones over the last decade). Functionally, you need to be able to hold that level of gestalt in your mind in order to envision how "a" gets to "b" without having to perform minutes or hours of diagnostics. I even remember passwords that I created for places I worked at in the 90s as was proven when I got a call from an ex-employer in 2000 asking about a - unique - enable password (management mode on a router) for a disaster recovery site and I was able to instantly provide it though I had only typed it a couple of times nearly 5 years prior. I don't know if I've developed subliminal techniques to do this but I've always been able to do it.
1st off, recent discoverer of your channel and I'm already a big fan. Subscriber count to video quality ratio is way in the quality's favor. I expect you to just keep gaining a following and i look forward to it!
Secondly, I think the concept of an "athlete memory" is incredibly interesting. Surely its a combination of many skills, but it truely seems like all of the best in their sports have a tendency to have incredible recall, improvisation, and pattern recognition skills. Everything from lebron's recitation of plays to a tennis player recognizing an out of bounds shot by millimeters. Even the video game stuff falls in that same realm! Love to see more athlete Memory feats if you're interested!
Any update on your Master Class? Keep up the great work! (Hello from Alaska btw)
Two videos, two mentions of blindfolded rubik’s cube solving, yet not a single multiblindfold example. You should check out Marcin „Maskow” Kowalczyk (true OG in this category) and Graham Siggins, I think you’ll like it ;)
I’ve chat a bit with Graham. It’s definitely on my list!
@@NelsonDellis Cool to hear that, I'll definitely await the results!
The photographic memory is interesting, I tripped on magic mushrooms one time and I would accidentally take photographic memory pictures of only things with blue light (color, exact detail etc.) and I was never to actually manually do it and it would happen randomly when I would take long blinks (it would go away in 3-5 seconds in an instant)
The Lebron memory skill is like how Chess Super GM’s can recall games they played years ago from memory
man. lebron was reading that screen thats under the table by his feet... they all do it
Another great athlete is Iker Casillas recalling the scoreline of every match he's ever played in
The Sean Mcvay myth of memorizing every play he has ever done is a interesting concept which I would like to hear from someone else
I had a feeling that Bijay was a fake
To give him credit, it was a pretty impressive fake lol.
You should check out ProZD recalling scenes from Peter Pan
Just checked it out. Amazing!! I definitely will include it next time
Seeing Panga in this video was super unexpected, and I didn’t even know he did videos like that lol I’m gonna have to go check them out
You have to check out memory of chess GMs. For example, check out video with title "Round 9 Gibraltar Chess post-game interview with Vassily Ivanchuk" There, Vassily in an interview recites whole game, every move exactly like it happened and even analyzes different outcomes if he or his opponent made different moves. It's absolutely crazy. And on top of that is that inteview funny and enetrtaining
Your channel is awesome. I've subscribed for a while, but didn't see any of your recent uploads on my homepage. Damn you TH-cam!
No and I'm pretty sure they have to slow them down in competition to make sure all of them were said
A photographic memory seems like something every human should just have.
phone is your photographic memory
got to react to some of derren browns stuff
You should look at someone beating invisible deadlocked. Basically a copy ofthe geometry dash level "deadlocked" but the obstacles are all invisible.
Since I watch videos in *2.5 speed, the 44-presidents part was even more comical!
he is suffering lots of insults at the age of 20-21. It is very bad. I believe in Bijay he has some unbelievable technique to learn the whole book.
if you want to see incredible memory go and look at Magnus Carlsen and other elite GMs having a position given on a chess board and asked who played the game and when, and what happened next. As a chess player myself thats also skilled and trying to get better its always amazing to me.
I'm a big fan of speed runs but remembering a mario stage isn't a huge memory feat as by the time you speed run it you know the map and everything on it by heart. Most of it actually does have to do with sound cues
if you like lebron, you should check out Sean McVay, LA Rams coach who basically remembers every play of every game he’s ever coached
@3:00 youre a memory expert, so if you think about what ramon is doing, you could deduct that its fairly simple if what you said is true:
if he designed the format himself (how many digits per patern and on wich part of the screen they pop up)
he either: designates a number or word to certain paterns during training... (he has 2 six-sized paterns 2 eight-sized paterns and a 4x4 square)
the 8 sized paterns have only 256 variables... so you can learn to assign 256 words to each pattern, and you can read these paterns as pictures in 1 second to get 2 words.
a 6 sized patern would be way easier...
The 4x4 is a bit big, so i think he just memorizes the location of either the 0 or 1 in that 4x4.
seeing as he is the one that designed how many digits fit in a patern and where they show up, he KNOWS its 3x2 3x2 4x2 4x2 and 4x4 ... so as long as you only take note of the position of either 1s or 0s... you can input the others by deduction.
just a guess... of how he is doing this.
Hi, I just dicover you on your channel today by searching for memory stuff.
I'm training my memory on Memory League since now 4 months and I don't think I've seen you there, will you join the community on Memory League?
man. lebron was reading that screen thats under the table by his feet... they all do it..
Gotta react to Magnus Carlsen identifying chess games based on the set up of the chess pieces
Benjamin's "pneumonics" sound just like Bijay Shahi's "jibberish" wouldn't you say?.
Next video again with bijay shahi with hidden cameras ,let's go !!! Enough confusion ,let's end this topic,scam or real
You should do a thing where test someone's memory then you teach them a few memory techniques and test them again to see how much they improved.
I actually think that Art Benjamin visited my school once
I have a photographic memory just with a long exposure time.
I think it could be an athlete thing. Golfers can recall every shot of a tournament in order probably. I know I could. Just each shot and where it went and what kind of look I had.
You should look at wrestler's interviews they recall basically the entire match move by move it's common I still vividly remember lots of my old matches could be an adrenaline thing
I don’t know much about the memory community… but can’t people with photographic memory just dominate the entire memory industry? At least things that don’t include sound
Wrote this without having watched the video yet. Now that I’ve watched it. I also think photographic memory is pretty loosely used. What I mean by this is seeing something and remembering every fine detail within up to 30 seconds(Some old cameras supposedly took hours to take a photo but I don’t want to give too much slack for such an amazing title). Similiar to an old camera. Not the oldest camera but definitely cameras from an older generation.
Aaron Rodgers has a memory similar to lebron, would be cool to see you react to it.
Hello Nelson! I saw a vid on the build of a memory palace on Ron White's channel and he said that we had to pick out 5 pieces per room and then go to the next room. In this vid I see that you only use one element per location. I don't get it. Some people use several elements others use 5 and then go to the next room. Depends on the number of things we wanna memorize?
1:40 that guy in the middle: It was all a lie?
Thank you for this video
This is so cool I wish it would get more attention!
The US Presidents in 4 seconds - The world champion speaks at 637 words per minute and much of what he says is audible. So I don't believe this kid is saying any names, just a bunch of slurred syllables. Also, if you do the Maths then this kid just managed 1,320 words per minute, over double the world record. 44 names in 4 seconds - that's 88 words (first and second names) in 4 seconds. I don't think so somehow ;)
Stephen Wiltshire - The artistic Savant has a documentary about him. He flew over a city in a chopper and was tasked to draw it. I believe he got about 80-90% of the skyline correct, with a few minor errors such as incorrect number of pillars on a famous building, rows of windows on skyscrapers, etc. But he is a savant and they are incredible but mysterious individuals - as many of them can't communicate what they see, think and feel regarding their gifts. He also has a Gallery.
Lebron James - I don't think this is too dissimilar to what we do on a day to day basis remember how our day went yesterday. We remember significant events and replay them in the same order they happened, but in our heads. If his memory of a game's events extend to several days, weeks, or even months - then that is much more impressive.
In My point of view if he is 😀 really memories king whatever .... He is. At least he can allow to capture all his process of memorizing process. Please don't feel negative feelings about all nepalese and nepal.
3:52 This can be caused due to hypersensitivity to light. The whole screen is imprinted in his vision for a few seconds (especially high contrast stuff like black and white). I might be wrong, it really might be memory though.
Half and half basically all he does is look for the ones and if he can remember those all the rest is zeros