News and Resources for Competitive and Advanced Mental Calculation
Daniel Timms Note: due to the coronavirus this event has been postponed until 2021, and during 2020 there will be an online event taking place instead. Original Announcement: Registration is open for the Junior Mental Calculation World Championship 2020! The event will be held on the 15th – 17th October 2020 in Bielefeld (Germany) although many participants will … Read more
Our guest today is Wenzel Grüß, a 17-year-old Math prodigy from Germany. In the last 2 years he has achieved gold medals in the Junior Mental Calculation World Championship (JMCWC), Mental Calculation World Cup (MCWC) and the MSO World Championship, making him one of the most brilliant and well-known mental calculators of 2020. He has also … Read more
Registration is now open for the Mental Calculation World Cup 2020! (Organized by Ralf Laue) The event will be held on the 21st – 23th August 2020. This year it will be held in Paderborn (Germany) at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum. Applications are accepted until 1st May 2020. This will be the 9th World Cup … Read more
Mohammad El-Mir (representing Lebanon) is one of the top Mental Math prodigies of the past few years, winning his age category in the Junior Mental Calculation World Championship 5 times since 2014, often by hundreds of points! In this interview we catch up with him soon after his first appearance in the 15+ age category … Read more
This year’s JMCWC was held in Bielefeld on the 3rd-5th October – organized for the last 10 years by Caroline Merkel. 65 competitors from as far away as India, South Africa and Peru attended – and now the full results are available! Under-12s age category: The “Junior 1” event was very closely-fought this year, with … Read more
After any training is over, actually performing in a calculation competition is an opportunity for participants to demonstrate their new skills. For all future mind sports competitors – here are my top 10 tips for preparing for an enjoyable and successful experience! #1: Three nights of good sleep The brain works best when it is … Read more
This year the only calculation event at the MSO was the Mental Calculations World Championship – a 3-and-a-half hour paper created based on George Lane’s Pegasus software. Turnout was much lower this year than in previous years, with only 6 participants compared to 12 last year and 17 in 2017. In particular all of the participants … Read more
Jeonghee Lee is perhaps the most accomplished soroban expert in the world, and the only master to have achieved the 11th-dan level at the apparatus. Originally from South Korea, she lives in New York and is currently running Abakidz, a tactile learning center. In addition to her many medals at Memoriad and the Mental Calculation … Read more
In 2009, when Usain Bolt smashed the world record in the 100 metres sprint in 9.58 seconds, the world wondered what was the fastest possible speed that anyone could run. Could anyone run 100 metres in 9.5 seconds? 9.0 seconds? 2.0 seconds? Just as an athlete pushes their body to its limits, a competitive mental … Read more
Registration is open for the Junior Mental Calculation World Championship 2019! The event will be held on the 3rd – 5th October 2019 in Bielefeld (Germany) although many participants will arrive the evening before (2nd October). Since 2008 this international championship in mental calculation has taken place. Caroline Merkel and the team welcome all young people … Read more