Every year, people with extraordinary memory skills compete in a unique event called the world Memory Championships The tasks they are required to do require tremendous powers of memory retention: looking at and reciting a two-page poem, recollecting a page of 40-digit numbers, remembering the order of 52 cards in a deck, memorizing the names of 110 people after looking at their pictures, and several other demanding tasks Completing any of these tasks may not seem feasible for the average person, but scientific evidence seems to show that even someone with average skills can, through training, enhance his or her memory skills and be transformed into a memory champion One memory champion explained his method of recalling the order of the cards in a deck. Previously he linked a person, an action, and a thing to each card in the deck. For example, the king of hearts is Elvis Presley, eating, a peanut butter sandwich. The three of spades is Rocky Balboa, boxing, Madison Square Garden, The ten of hearts is William Shakespeare, writing Hamlet, a broken pen, Take a person from the first card, an action from the second card, and thing from the third card. Then any group of three cards creates a vivid image that