The winner of the 2011 World Memory Championships, held in Guangzhou, China, was
21-year-old Chinese national Wang Feng.
He retained his title from the preview year by breaking world records for three of the competition's 10 memory games.
These records were recalling 300 of 400 spoken numbers, and memorizing 500 numbers in five minutes and 2660 numbers in one hour.
But Wang Feng says he had a “normal memory as a child,” and no special talent except for hard work and attention to detail. “I've spent three months preparing for this championship,” he said. “Each day I spend five to six hours practicing. Actually, each year, I spend two to three months preparing for competitions.”