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词条 Alex Mullen (memory athlete)
释义

  1. Personal life

  2. Notable competitions

     2015  2016  2017 

  3. Records

  4. Media Appearances

  5. See also

  6. References

  7. External links

{{distinguish|text=footballer Alex Mullen. (Coincidentally, Alex Mullen of footballer and Alex Mullen of Mnemonist were both born in the same year)}}{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Alex Mullen
| image = Alex Mullen, 2016 WMC, Dec 18.jpg
| caption = Mullen at the 2016 World Memory Championship in Singapore
| fullname = Alexander Joseph Mullen
| nationality = American
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1992|03|03}}
| birth_place = Princeton, New Jersey, United States
| residence = Jackson, Mississippi
| alma_mater = Johns Hopkins University (B.S. in Biomedical Engineering)
| years_active = 2014-present
| spouse = Cathy Chen (m. 2015)
| website = {{URL|www.mullenmemory.com}}
| sport = Memory
| rank = No. 1 (December 2018)
| worlds = 1st place (2015, 2016, 2017)
| nationals = 1st place (2016)
| highestranking = No. 1 (June 2016)
| pb = {{ubl|Speed Cards (analog): 15.61 sec (2017, WR) |Speed Cards (digital): 16.86 sec (2016, WR) | |80 Digits: 17.65 sec (2016, WR) | |5 min Numbers: 568 digits (2017, WR) | |15 min Numbers: 1100 digits (2016, WR) | |30 min Numbers: 1933 digits (2016, WR) ||Historic Dates: 133 dates (2017, WR) ||60 min Numbers: 3238 digits (2017, WR) }}
}}Alex Mullen (born March 3, 1992) is an American memory grandmaster, medical student, and three-time world memory champion.[1][2] The first American to win the world title, he won for three consecutive years the 2015, 2016, and 2017 World Memory Championships and is currently the world No. 1 ranked memory competitor.[2][4][3][4][5][6] He is also the 2016 USA memory champion.[7] Along with his wife, Princeton alumna Cathy Chen, he runs Mullen Memory[8] - a nonprofit which "provides free resources exploring memory palaces as learning tools."[9]

Personal life

Mullen was born in Princeton, New Jersey.[10] He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi and attended Oxford High School, where he competed on the varsity swimming and tennis teams.[11] In his senior year, Mullen was a National Merit Finalist and fourth award winner at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for a team project with his future wife, Cathy Chen.[12][13] He attended Johns Hopkins University to study biomedical engineering and applied mathematics & statistics.[14]

Mullen lives in Jackson, Mississippi and attends the University of Mississippi School of Medicine, where he and his wife are students.[11] Both received the Jim and Donna Barksdale Scholarship to cover the full cost of attendance over four years of medical school.[10]

Notable competitions

2015

  • World Memory Championships (Dec. 16-18, Chengdu, China): 1st place overall.[15] Mullen became the tenth individual, and the first American, to win the world championship since its inception in 1991.[16] He also received the title of international grandmaster of memory, the highest title bestowed by the World Memory Sports Council, at this event.[17][1]

2016

  • USA Memory Championship (May 9, Hershey, PA): 1st place overall.[18] Mullen became the ninth individual to win the American national championship since its inception in 1998.[19]
  • US Open (July 2–3, Los Angeles, CA): 1st place overall. With 8,794 total points, Mullen achieved the highest total score in memory sports history (taking into account adjustments in scoring standards), giving him the world No. 1 ranking.[20][5]
  • Memoriad (Nov. 8-10, Las Vegas, NV): gold: speed cards, hour numbers, silver: names and faces, spoken numbers.[21]
  • European Open (Dec. 3-4, London, UK): 1st place overall.[22] With 9,143 total points, Mullen broke his earlier mark for highest total score.[5]
  • World Memory Championships (Dec. 15-17, Singapore): 1st place overall.[23]

2017

  • World Memory Championships (IAM) (Dec. 1-3, Jakarta, Indonesia): 1st place overall.[24] Most world records broken at the event, 4. His mark of 9,055 total points remains the highest adjusted score achieved at a traditional memory sports competition.[25]

Records

Mullen has held world records in 12 different disciplines, most involving the memorization of numbers or playing cards.[26][27][28][29] As of Dec. 19, 2018, he held 5.[26] He is the first person to memorize the order of a deck of playing cards in under 20 seconds at an official competition.[30] He is also the first to memorize more than 3,000 decimal digits in one hour.[31]

Media Appearances

Mullen was a two-time contestant on the final season of the Chinese television program The Brain in 2017, defeating his opponent Wang Feng, the 2010 and 2011 World Memory Champion, by accurately recalling the airline routes, departure and arrival locations, and times of 50 flights.[32] He was also a contestant on Superhuman, the American version of The Brain, winning his episode by memorizing a deck of cards flashed onscreen at two cards per second.[33] Mullen has been featured in The New Yorker[34], BBC[35], CNN[36], The Washington Post[37], Lifehacker[38], Vital Signs with Dr. Sanjay Gupta[39], Today[40], Mic,[2] Guinness World Records[41], Men's Health[42], The Guardian[43], and The New York Times[44], among others.

See also

  • Mnemonist
  • Extreme Memory Tournament
  • List of Johns Hopkins University people
  • List of University of Mississippi alumni

References

1. ^1 {{Cite web|url=http://iam-stats.org/master.php|title=Special Titles {{!}} International Association of Memory Statistics|website=www.iam-stats.org|access-date=2016-11-07}}
2. ^1 2 Jordyn Taylor, "The Person With the World's Best Memory Is a Millennial From the US", in Mic (media company), March 2016.
3. ^{{cite news| url=http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2015/12/18/ummc-student-wins-world-memory-challenge/77570990/| title=UMMC student wins world memory challenge| last=Pettus| first=Gary | date=December 18, 2015| work=The Clarion Ledger| location=Jackson, Mississippi}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.world-memory-statistics.com/competition.php?id=wmc2016|title=World Memory Championships 2016 (Combined) {{!}} World Memory Championships|website=www.worldmemorychampionships.com|access-date=2017-01-02}}
5. ^1 2 {{Cite web|url=http://iam-stats.org/rankings.php|title=World Ranking {{!}} International Association of Memory Statistics|website=www.iam-stats.org|access-date=2016-07-05}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://iam-stats.org/competition.php?id=wmc2017|title=World Memory Championships 2017|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171205065537/http://iam-stats.org/competition.php?id=WMC2017|archive-date=2017-12-05|dead-url=yes|access-date=}}
7. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.usamemorychampionship.com/2016-final-top-9-ma-rankings/|title=2016 Final Top 9 MA Rankings {{!}} USA Memory Championship|website=www.usamemorychampionship.com|access-date=2016-05-10}}
8. ^{{Cite web|url=http://mullenmemory.com|title=Home|website=Mullen Memory|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-06}}
9. ^{{Cite web|url=http://mullenmemory.com/|title=Home {{!}} Mullen Memory|website=www.mullenmemory.com|access-date=2016-12-29}}
10. ^1 2 Callie Bryant, "World Memory Champion, Oxford Native Alex Mullen Teaches Memorization", in HottyToddy.com, February 02, 2016.
11. ^1 Gary Pettus, Memory Serves Alex Mullen, New World Mental Athlete Champion", in University of Mississippi News, January 28, 2016.
12. ^"Oxford High School National Merit Finalists", 2010.
13. ^[https://member.societyforscience.org/document.doc?id=205/ "Intel ISEF 2010 Grand Awards Ceremony"]{{Dead link|date=October 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, May 14, 2010.
14. ^"2014 JHU Engineering Convocation Awards Ceremony", May 5, 2014.
15. ^{{Cite web|url=http://iam-stats.org/competition.php?id=WMC2015|title=World Memory Championships 2015 {{!}} International Association of Memory Statistics|website=www.iam-stats.org|access-date=2016-11-07}}
16. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.world-memory-statistics.com/c_world.php|title=World Memory Championships {{!}} World Memory Statistics|website=www.world-memory-statistics.com|access-date=2016-12-21}}
17. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.world-memory-statistics.com/grandmasters.php|title=Grandmasters {{!}} World Memory Statistics|website=www.world-memory-statistics.com|access-date=2016-11-07}}
18. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.usamemorychampionship.com/2016-final-top-9-ma-rankings/|title=2016 Final Top 9 MA Rankings {{!}} USA Memory Championship|website=www.usamemorychampionship.com|access-date=2016-05-10}}
19. ^List of USA Memory Champions
20. ^{{Cite web|url=http://iam-stats.org/competition.php?id=USO2016|title=IAM US Open 2016 {{!}} International Association of Memory Statistics|website=www.iam-stats.org|access-date=2016-11-07}}
21. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.memoriad.com/index.asp?s=yarismalar&b=yarisma-detay&yarismaid=74d6c4d3363ef1872200d4cb976f7c26&lang=EN#results|title=International Memoriad Las Vegas-2016 Results {{!}} Memoriad|website=www.memoriad.com|access-date=2016-11-29}}
22. ^{{Cite web|url=http://iam-stats.org/competition.php?id=euomc2016|title=IAM European Open 2016 {{!}} International Association of Memory Statistics|website=www.iam-stats.org|access-date=2016-12-06}}
23. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.world-memory-statistics.com/competition.php?id=wmc2016|title=World Memory Championships 2016 (Combined) {{!}} World Memory Championships|website=www.worldmemorychampionships.com|access-date=2017-01-02}}
24. ^{{Cite web|url=http://iam-stats.org/competition.php?id=WMC2017 |title=International Association of Memory Statistics|website=www.iam-stats.org|access-date=2017-12-07}}
25. ^{{Cite web|url=http://iam-stats.org/rankings.php|title=World Ranking {{!}} International Association of Memory Statistics|website=www.iam-stats.org|access-date=2017-12-07}}
26. ^1 {{Cite web|url=http://iam-stats.org/records.php|title=World Records {{!}} International Association of Memory Statistics|website=www.iam-stats.org|access-date=2016-11-07}}
27. ^{{Cite web|url=http://iam-stats.org/discipline.php?id=NUM5|title=5 Minute Numbers Record {{!}} International Association of Memory Statistics|website=www.iam-stats.org|access-date=2016-11-07}}
28. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.extremememorytournament.com/news/2016/6/27/simon-reinhard-is-the-2016-extreme-memory-champion|title=Simon Reinhard is the 2016 Extreme Memory Champion! {{!}} Extreme Memory Tournament|website=www.extremememorytournament.com|access-date=2016-11-07}}
29. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.world-memory-statistics.com/disciplines.php|title=World Memory Championships Disciplines {{!}} World Memory Championships|website=www.worldmemorychampionships.com|access-date=2017-12-07}}
30. ^{{Cite web|url=http://iam-stats.org/discipline.php?id=SPDCARDS|title=5 minute "Speed" Cards Record {{!}} International Association of Memory Statistics|website=www.iam-stats.org|access-date=2016-11-07}}
31. ^{{Cite web|url=http://iam-stats.org/discipline.php?id=NUM60|title=60 Minute/Hour Numbers Record {{!}} International Association of Memory Statistics|website=www.iam-stats.org|access-date=2016-11-26}}
32. ^{{Citation|last=最强大脑 第四季 2017|title=《最强大脑 第四季 》20170331 妍佳VS余奕沛：挑战项目基因密码 - 2017.03.31|date=2017-04-02|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxzlBPqu5cw|accessdate=2017-06-25}}
33. ^Andy Belt, "Magnificent memory means money for Oxford native Alex Mullen", in OxfordEagle.com, June 29, 2017.
34. ^Ian Frisch, [https://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/lessons-from-americas-first-memory-world-champion "Lessons from America's First Memory World Champion"], in NewYorker.com, May 18, 2016.
35. ^Helen Thomson, "The man who thinks like Sherlock Holmes", in BBC.com, April 12, 2016.
36. ^Michael Nedelman, "Hack your brain to remember almost anything", in CNN.com, March 09, 2017.
37. ^Devin Powell, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/this-man-memorized-a-shuffled-deck-of-cards-in-1865-seconds-heres-how/2016/05/16/c2ee85d4-15f1-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html "This man memorized a shuffled deck of cards in 18.65 seconds. Here’s how."], in WashingtonPost.com, May 16, 2016.
38. ^Melanie Pinola, [https://lifehacker.com/learn-how-to-memorize-information-with-this-video-by-th-1767747547 "Learn How to Memorize Information With This Video From a World Memory Champion"], in Lifehacker.com, March 29, 2016.
39. ^Sanjay Gupta, "How to memorize a deck of cards under 17 seconds", in CNN.com, June 22, 2017.
40. ^A. Pawlowski, [https://www.today.com/health/how-remember-faces-names-more-tips-world-memory-champion-t98721 "How to remember faces, names and more: Tips from the world memory champion"], in Today.com, June 16, 2016.
41. ^Asha Leo, [https://www.facebook.com/GuinnessWorldRecords/videos/10154172945489032/ "LIVE: Meet World Memory Champion 2015 - Alex Mullen"], in Facebook.com, October 17, 2016.
42. ^Tyler Daswick, [https://www.menshealth.com/content/how-to-build-a-better-memory "How to Build a Better Memory"], in MensHealth.com, August 7, 2017.
43. ^Daniel Lavelle, [https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/13/how-to-avoid-losing-your-memory-in-the-digital-age "How to avoid losing your memory in the digital age"], in TheGuardian.com, November 13, 2018.
44. ^Bryan Clark, [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/09/smarter-living/train-your-brain-like-a-memory-champion.html "Train Your Brain Like a Memory Champion"], in NYTimes.com, January 9, 2019.
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External links

  • Mullen Memory
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