18.653 seconds to memorize a 52 cards deck in random order

By @eggturtle5/14/2016learning

Any memory sport geek out there?

http://mullenmemory.com/blog/2016/5/10/2016-usa-memory-championship-recap
Alex Mullen, current memory champion and world record holder for learning a deck of cards, just did it again. He took 18.653 seconds to learn the order of a shuffled deck of cards, awesome!

If you're interested in how it's possible to do that, the answer is: Method of loci. It's an awesome technique, that enables almost everybody to learn countless things by heart, check it out! Or ask me.

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