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Memoriad is a non-profit World Mental Sports Organization in which competitors compete in three main categories of mental sports - memory, mental calculation and speed reading. The approved World Mental Records of the Memoriad Mental Sports Organization were published in the "Mind and Memory" category of ''Guinness Book of World Records'' in 2014 including the photographs and the achievements of the competitors with one of the Memoriad founders, Melik Duyar.〔(World Records 2014 (US ed.) pp. 60-61, Guinness World Records Ltd., 2013 (US ISBN 978-1-908843-35-7) )〕 Since Memoriad World Mental Sports Competitions are held once every four years as the Olympic Games, it is known as "Memoriad World Mental Olympics".〔(Wizards of Vapi rule maths Olympiad )〕〔(Meet India's memory champions as they leave for World Mental Olympics in Turkey )〕 Competitions are governed by the Management Board of "Memoriad World Mental Sports Federation (MWMSF)".〔(Memoriad - World Mental Olympics Committee )〕 The Management Board of MWMSF consists of a chairman and two members. Current Chairman of Memoriad World Mental Sports Federation is Scott Flansburg who is called the mental calculator and dubbed as "The Human Calculator" by Regis Philbin in the USA and in the World. The two members of the Board are Melik Duyar from Turkey and Ralf Laue from Germany. Under the Board of MWMSF are Memoriad National Board Members. The current National Board Members are Gwendolen Noronha from India, Khatanbaatar Khandsuren from Mongolia, Selim Ecemiş from Turkey, West Wong from Malaysia, Laura Sakanova from Kazakhstan and Deyyan Altınsoy from Azerbaijan. ==Events== The Memoriad World Mental Olympics consist of three main competitions as "Memoriad World Memory Competitions", "Memoriad World Mental Calculation Competitions" and "Memoriad World Speed Reading Competitions". Except Memoriad World Speed Reading Competition, which has only one category with two stages, each of the first two main competitions consists of five different categories.〔(Categories of Competition )〕 The "Memoriad World Memory Competitions" consist of five different disciplines, in which the competitors have to memorize as much as they can in a given period of time: * 5 Minute Speed Cards (Committing to the memory of a deck of 52 playing cards in the fastest time possible) * One Hour Numbers Marathon (23712585230167892....) * 30 Minutes Binary Digits (010110011100011001....) * 15 Minutes Names and Faces * Flash Numbers, 500 different one digit number flashes out one per second on the screen The "Memoriad World Mental Calculation Competitions" consist of five different disciplines; in each of these disciplines the competitors make mental calculations without using any instruments in a given period of time: * 10 Minutes Mental Addition (Ten Mental addition of ten ten-digit numbers) * 15 Minutes Mental Multiplication (Ten Mental multiplication of two 8-digit numbers) * 15 Minutes Mental Square Roots (Extracting ten square roots from ten different six-digit numbers. Solutions with an accuracy of eight digits or up to five digits from comma) * One Minute Mental Calendar (Calculating mentally the week day of 125 calendar dates randomly selected from the year of 1600 to 2099) * Flash Anzan (Mental addition of 1 to 5 digit numbers flashing on the computer screen at a frequency interval of 1 to 0.3 seconds.) The "Memoriad World Speed Reading Competitions" consist of two stages. The first stage is the speed reading of a passage prepared especially for the given competition. The second stage is "Understanding & Recall Test" of the read passage. * Stage 1 : Speed Reading * Stage 2 : Understanding & Recall Test 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Memoriad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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