News and Resources for Competitive and Advanced Mental Calculation
Daniel Timms Get ready for the Mind Sports Olympiad 2019! All events are open to everybody and cost £10 per entry. The event will be held on the 18th – 26th August 2019 at the usual venue JW3 (Finchley Road) London UK. A huge number of competitions are contested as part of the Mind Sports Olympiad and it … Read more
Hello everyone – March is a quiet month for competitive mental calculation, but I do have a couple of updates! Website Comments Thank you for your inputs into the discussion here! Until recently your comments would take some time to appear because I had to manually approve everything. I’ve recently changed the settings so that … Read more
Competitors and potential competitors – today we announce the first of at least 3 calculation events this year! European Championship of Mental Calculation Junior Mental Calculation World Championship Mind Sports Olympiad (Mental Calculations World Championship) The 2019 European Championship in Mental Calculation will be held on the 29th May – 1st June 2019 in Reken (northwest Germany) and … Read more
Anyone serious about improving a skill can benefit from keeping a note of their performance in training. For example, a competitive footballer could record their running speed in fitness training, their accuracy when practising free kicks, and some notes about their strategy and position during each match. A professional dancer may video some of their … Read more
At all levels of Mental Calculation (especially elite levels) you can gain speed and accuracy by learning more shortcuts. For example: At school we learn our times tables from 2×2 until 12×12 For quickly calculating square roots it is helpful to know the square numbers from 31² = 961 until 99² = 9801 For calculating … Read more
Marc Jornet Sanz first competed in the Mental Calculation World Cup in 2010, winning the overall silver medal. In 2018 he is stronger than ever, winning gold for calendar calculations, silver for multiplications, and 3rd place for the standard tasks. We interviewed him at the 2018 World Cup soon after he set a massive new … Read more
Hello everyone, and welcome to the new subscribers! After a busy few weeks of competitions in August/September, I have an assortment of updates and information to share with you. The 2018 question paper from the MSO Mental Calculations World Championship was available here (PDF) from August, but due to popular request I have uploaded a version … Read more
Last weekend was the 8th Mental Calculation World Cup, organised by Ralf Laue and attended by possibly the strongest-ever field of participants. Congratulations to everyone involved! More details about the competition are available at its official website maintained by Ralf Laue – including the full 2018 results tables. Individual Events: The competition contained 10 rounds: Calendar: … Read more
This year’s JMCWC was held in Bielefeld on September 21-23 – organized for the last 10 years by Caroline Merkel. Over 70 competitors from as far away as India and Peru were competing in the main championship, and around 20 more for the German Hectoc Championship. Today I’m pleased to share the results of the … Read more
Nodas Boukovalas is Greece’s top mental calculator, and one of the most enthusiastic participants in the scene since 2010. Today we talk as he prepares for his 5th Mental Calculation World Cup. How did you first get involved in Mind Sports? It started in High school in the late 1990s in Greece. I participated in … Read more