3/22/2012 10:30PM
Two-time USA Memory Champion Ron White shows WSJ's Shirley Wang the secret behind memorizing a deck of cards. Photo credit Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images.
Ron White memory training expert is a two time USA Memory Champion and has held the record for the fastest to memorize a deck of cards in the USA (1 minute 27 seconds). He taught his first memory seminar in 1991 after attending a memory workshop as a college freshmen.
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... I ... this ... all ... why isn't a genius and doesn't have to click in memory she says ... you know ... yet he is a two-time USB memory chips ... he seems to effortlessly remember people's names and long streams of numbers ... that were ... I'm like many others ... drawn uses a method called Lowcock ... to increase the ... least trick is to turn what you want remember into a picture think about it you meet some I did a nice team six weeks later what you always say I'm so good that faces out there forget a face I just get to give your day ... the result of this method can be impressive your mind doesn't remember thirty seven eighteen forty six ninety seven one o four three nine two four ... but you know remember making mounts ... I've taken a back of a roller coaster this year Ron isn't reading again hoping to win at thirty with the memory championship ... one of the competition challenges involves memorizing decks of cards ... so this is a good turn ... of ... my course in the pictures for every plain card you're going to need ... a person ... a verb or noun every car to be those three states says Michael Jordan slam dunking a basketball Indiana Jones swinging into a window Martha Stewart coconut Ophir ... person action object for every card now ... with the cards get played in this order ... we of parts ... that six of hearts ace of hearts we take the person for the first card Michael Jordan ... the par for the next one swinging ... into a fire ... the next step in the process is I'd take a second deck of cards and a reassembled the second deck ... to match the first act ... I'm doing now is is a pullback to buy ahead and I'm trying for him walk to my house the pictures I feel departure I believe I see Steve Forbes which is the eight states ... giving a speech which is the eight of clubs ... next to call Kopin which is the ... two of diamonds Francaise these memory skills can be helpful in giving talks about notes hoping student study for tests and for remembering people's names of parties ... for The Wall Street Journal I'm surely won ...