Dominic O'Brien is the eight times winner of The World Memory Championships.

This annual Championship, hosted and organized by Tony Buzan, sees top memorisers from around the world compete in a series of events, ranging from recalling a 1,780 digit number to 20 decks of cards!

Since he began developing his memory 17 years ago, Dominic O'Brien has gained many prestigious titles and has won many entries in The Guinness Book of Records.

On May 1st, 2002, at Simpsons-in-the- Strand, London, Dominic O'Brien set about memorising a random sequence of fifty-four packs of playing cards. All the cards were shuffled together and he was allowed to look at each card once only.

After 12 hours of studying the cards he then spent 3 hours reciting every single card in the correct sequence. He made 8 errors which was well within the half percent margin (14 errors) allowed by Guinness. This set a new world record: The memorization of 2808 playing cards which had all been shuffled together with a single sighting of each card.

Dominic was named Brain of the Year 1994 and was awarded the title Grand Master of Memory by the Brain Trust of Great Britain, October 1995 – presented to him by Prince Philipp of Liechtenstein.

Dominic’s phenomenal talents have also made him a celebrity around the world - he's a regular on both radio and TV.

Here are some of the shows he has appeared on:

Friends Like These, How Do They Do That?, The Big Breakfast, Oprah,  You Bet,  Guinness World of Records,  Gloria Hunniford, Noel's House Party,  Richard & Judy,  Open University, Good Morning, GMTV, The Human Body,  Magic & Mystery , Tomorrows World, Unforgettable,  Talking Telephone Numbers,  Are you Superhuman?,  Terry & Gabby,  Game-Pad,  Loose Lips, Children In Need, Jonathan Ross, Ant & Dec, The Great British Memory Test, Richard Hammond’s 5 O’Clock Show, Patrick Kielty Show, Record Breakers, plus many others.

In 1995 Dominic O'Brienwas the subject of ITV’s Network First’s Fear and Counting in Las Vegas. This one hour documentary followed Dominic around America as he was both barred from casinos whilst turning $20,000 into $30,000 playing Blackjack.

He was also featured in a 3 part documentary on BBC1 teaching the presenter John Inverdale how to play Blackjack professionally.

Chronological Biog:

1957
Born 10 August

1988
Started memory training aged 30

1989    
First entry in Guinness Book of Records memorisation of 6 shuffled decks of cards

1991
Became the First World Memory Champion in October

1993    
Won WMC for second time

1994    
Silver medal in WMC. First book How to Develop a Perfect Memory
Voted ‘Brain of the Year’ by the Brain Trust of Great Britain

1995    
Won WMC for third time.
Second book released How to Pass Exams
Guinness Book of Records entry for memorising 40 shuffled decks of playing cards. after a single-sighting of each card.

1996    
Won WMC for fourth time.
Guinness entry 1 deck of cards in 38.29 seconds

1997    
Won WMC for fifth time

1998    
Did not enter WMC.
Developed Super Memory Power 12 audio cassettes 4 books.
Launched Super Memory Power as a 20 part monthly course

1999    
Won WMC for sixth time

2000    
Released best selling book Learn to Remember
Released Blackjack course Winning Hand 3 videos, 1 audio cassette, 2 manuals.
Won WMC for seventh time.

2001    
New Guinness record on German TV. Memorised the exact order of 2 decks of cards at the same time in 3 min 53 seconds. No errors.
Launched Quantum Memory Power, audio cassette course.
Won WMC for eighth time.
Launched The Amazing Memory Box

2002    
Won a head to head in Tokyo against the Japanese Memory Champion
Won Silver medal at the WMC.
New World Record. Memorised 54 decks of cards all shuffled into each other with a single-sighting of each card. All 2808 cards recalled with 8 errors

2003    
Revised edition of How To Pass Exams

2004    
Development of ebook, How To Develop a Perfect Memory

2005    
New book How To Develop a Brilliant Memory
Presented with Lifetime Achievement Award at WMC 2005.

In the past Dominic has committed to memory all of the following:

• Seven thousand five hundred Trivial Pursuit questions & answers.

• Every FA Cup Final result since the competition began, including goal scorers, referee, venue and the crowd attendance.

• Ever winner of the Grand National and the Derby this century including jockey, trainer and starting price.

• Give Dominic any date this century and he'll immediately tell you the day of the week it falls upon.

• He was the ‘Memory Man’ on the Radio 2 road show having memorized every Number One record since the charts began in 1952 including the artist, song title, date the record got to number one and the number of weeks it stayed at the top.

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