News and Resources for Competitive and Advanced Mental Calculation
Daniel Timms Results are in for both calculation categories of this year’s Mind Sports Olympiad! Mental Calculations World Championship This year 12 entrants competed in this event – from Germany, Switzerland and the UK. Chris Bryant was defending his position as 2017-2018 champion, with the added difficulty of not having slept the previous night! 5-time gold medalist … Read more
Get ready for the Mind Sports Olympiad 2018! All events are open to everybody and cost £10 per entry. The event will be held on the 19th – 27th August 2018 at JW3 (Finchley Road) London UK. A huge number of competitions are contested as part of the Mind Sports Olympiad and it is a great opportunity to … Read more
Roughly 3 months in advance of the 2018 Mental Calculation World Cup, the competitors have now been informed of this year’s Challenge Task. Every year the competition includes 10 rounds: addition, multiplication, square roots and calendar dates a difficult “challenge task” announced some time before the competition 5 “surprise” rounds unknown to any competitor beforehand … Read more
In advance of the 2018 Mental Calculation World Cup, to be held in Wolfsburg (Germany), here is the provisional list of participants! This year the competition will feature an exceptionally strong field of competitors from 20+ countries and a wide range of ages! Sign up to the email list for more updates on all competitions, and … Read more
In 2010, 11-year-old Priyanshi Somani amazed everyone when she won the Mental Calculation World Cup, setting a new world record at mental square roots in the process. She was the first competitor to achieve such success as a child, but since her victory many other young competitors have followed in her footsteps. Priyanshi retired from mental calculation in … Read more
Competitors and potential competitors – registration is open for the Junior Mental Calculation World Championship 2018! All information can be found here. The event will be held on the 21st – 24th September 2018 (one week before the Mental Calculation World Cup) This year it will be held in Bielefeld (Germany). Applications are accepted until … Read more
This spring we have a new competition in mental calculation! The event will be held on the 12th May 2018 (2pm – 5pm) It will be held in Dubai (Children’s City, Gate 1, Creekside Park – Al Riyadh St) Applications are accepted until 20th April 2018 Entrance fee is 100 AED (about $27 USD) The competition is … Read more
Multiplication record holder (2012-2016), winner of the Memoriad Trophy for the world’s fastest calculator in the 2012 Mental Calculation World Cup, gold medallist at multiplication at Memoriad 2012 and MCWC 2012, and world record holder in 2010 for calendar calculations, Freddis Reyes from Cuba has joined us to discuss his experiences competing internationally. How did … Read more
For many mental tasks, the brain needs to store small amounts of information for a short period of time. For example when listening to someone speak, you remember the exact sound of the last few seconds. When giving directions around your city, your mind may generate crude images of the locations or a map. These … Read more
Today we’re talking with Andy Robertshaw, an International Master at Mental Calculations with a career spanning over 12 years, winning medals 7 times at the World Championships, and in 2012 recognised at the World Cup as the “3rd most versatile” calculator. He works as a credit risk manager, living with his wife Nadia. So how … Read more