This site provides information on how to start and manage a memory training club. A memory club can be built around specific interests, regions, and schools.
About Memory Techniques
These memory techniques go back to ancient Greece and even hunter-gatherer cultures before that. You can use them to perform amazing feats, such as memorizing a shuffled deck of cards in under a minute, or thousands of random digits in just minutes.
Here's a video that explains how memory techniques work by the author of the book Moonwalking with Einstein:
Most of these memory techniques rely on memory palaces which was made famous by Sherlock's mind palace in the TV show.
Club Resources
Here are some resources:
- Art of Memory — the Internet's main online community and resource hub for memory techniques
- How to learn memory techniques — a free ebook that can help you get started with your memory club.
- How to start a memory club — some ideas on how to create your memory club
- Memory League — an online memory competition platform that you can use at your meetups
- Memory challenges — ideas for club activities
- The memory palace technique — this is the foundation for many different memory techniques and it makes a good exercise to practice at your memory club
- Virtual memory palaces — if you run out of physical locations that you know well, you can create memory palaces from drawings, art, online games, and more.
