MEMORIAD – THE COMPETITION RULES*

I- General Rules

II- Special Rules for Each Category

  1. Speed Cards

  2. Names and Faces

  3. Numbers Marathon

  4. Binary Digits

  5. Mental Additions

  6. Mental Multiplications

  7. Mental Square Roots

  8. Mental Calendar Dates

  9. Photographic Speed Reading
 
I-GENERAL RULES
The sheet of questions of relative category will be put on on the table in front of every participant as closed. All tasks are the same for all participants. The questions will be opened when the chief referee signals and the competition time will start up. After the starting signal, each participant has to turn around the sheet of paper or papers and tries to do expected task or tasks in the given time. Opening the questions before starting signal will cause the participant to be disqualified.

The completion of the competition time will again be declared by the chief referee of the competition by signaling and with this signal all competitors will put their question or answer sheets down as closed and will wait quietly until their sheets being collected. Unreadable solutions or answers will be rated wrong in case of doubts!

All tasks (mental calculation and recall tasks) must be done mentally, aids and written calculations (or written intermediate results in mental calculations) are not permitted! Using mobile phones, recording devices, calculators, namely any devices will not be permitted. If a solution has to be corrected, this should happen in an unmistakable way on the sheet. The possibility of correction may not be misused to write down intermediate results. In mental calculation categories, the competitor will use the pen or pencil for only writing the results.

The correctness of the answers will be more important than the speed or time used. The priority will be the correctness of the answer (e.g. if ten tasks are to be solved, then eight correct solutions in ten minutes will in any case be better ranked than seven correct solutions in two minutes). However, in case of equal number of the answers the speed or the time used will be considered.

Provided that it will be informed beforehand, for physically handicapped participants, who are unable to read the tasks or write down the solutions, the jury may set special rules and make necessary arrangements.

All competitors are expected to be silent during the competition. Competitors who disturb others will be disqualified. For example; a competitor whose mobile phone is ringing at the moment of competition will be disqualified immediately.

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II-SPECIAL RULES FOR SINGLE COMPETITIONS
1) SPEED CARDS (Committing to memory of a deck of 52 playing cards)

(There will be two attempts at this category with a new ‘shuffled’ deck each time)

Memorization Time : 6 Minutes (for each attempt)

Recall Time : 5 Minutes (for each attempt)

A shuffled deck of 52-playing cards will be distributed to each competitors at each attempt. The competitors will try to commit the order of the cards to memory in 6 minutes time. The competitors who are expected to do this task in less than 6 minutes must inform the committee of the organization beforehand. For them, the committee of organization will appoint special adjudicator with a 1/100 second sensitive chronometer. The competitor must inform the adjudicator about his/her appropriate signal that indicates that the memorization task has finished. During memorization the cards can be looked at repeatedly and more than one card can be looked at simultaneously.

After memorization, the deck of playing cards committed to memory will be put in its box without changing the order (as the top card being the first one memorized) and the name of the competitor will be written on the box. Then the competitor will wait silently until other competitors complete this task.

After the chief referee of the competition announced that the time for this category is completed, a standard answer sheet prepared for this category will be distributed to each competitors so that they can write their answers. The competitor has to write his answers on that paper in 5 minutes (as 1st: 3 of spades; 2nd : Jack of Clubs; 3rd : 2 of diamonds). When the finish of 5 minute recall time given is announced, the competitor will put his pencil or pen down immediately. After the completion announcement, the competitor who writes anything in the answer sheet will be disqualified.

Later, the chief referee will take each competitor’s deck of playing cards and answer sheet by attaching each other and the evaluation will be made.

In this category, a new deck namely a second trial right will be given to the competitors. From the results obtained from both attempts, the better score will count.

The competitor, who correctly memorizes all 52 cards in the quickest time, wins the event.

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2) NAMES AND FACES (To commit to memory and recall as many names and surnames as possible of 99 people’s pictures)

Memorization Time : 15 Minutes

Recall Time: 30 Minutes

The same 99 pictures of people will be distributed to the competitors in 11 sheets of A4 paper. On each page, are there 9 pictures with their first names and surnames written underneath each picture. The memorization papers will be opened by the signal of the chief referee and 15-minute-competition time will start up. The competitors will try to commit to as many first names and surnames of the pictures to memory and link them to the right face during the memorization time. With the signal of completion of the time, the competitors will put the question sheets down as closed.

After collecting question papers, the answer sheets will be distributed to the competitors. The pictures in the question papers will be given in mixed order in the answer papers and the section of "first name and surname" under the pictures will be blank. The competitors are expected to write as many correct first names and surnames as possible under each pictures during 30 minutes recall time.

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3) NUMBERS MARATHON (To commit to memory as many digits - randomly consist of 10 different digits from 0 to 9 - as possible from 125 lines of 40-digit numbers and recall them perfectly)

Memorization Time : 60 Minutes

Recall Time : 90 Minutes

In this category, competitors will try to comit as many lines of numbers as possible to memory from a list of 125 lines of 40-digit numbers created at random by the computer. Each lines of numbers will be different and will consist of different combinations of ten digits (0, 1, 2, 3, ….., 8, 9).

Question sheets will be given to competitors as five A4 size papers as closed. There is 25 lines of numbers on each page. And on each line, is there a 40-digit number. Each line number is written in front of each 40-digit number (as in; Line 21: 436587900...). As the chief referee signals, question papers will be opened and 60 minute memorization time will start. Within this time competitors will try to commit to memory as many as possible from 125 lines of 40-digit numbers. With the signal of completion time, the competitors will put the question papers down as closed.

After collecting the question sheets, the answer sheets will be distributed to the competitors. The competitors will try to write the ones they remember from 125 lines of 40-digit numbers on the answer sheets within 90 minutes. Competitors must write their recalled 40-digit numbers next to their corresponding line numbers. Those lines whose corresponding 40-digit numbers are not recalled should be left blank. When that the 90-minute recall time is completed is announced the competitors will put their pens or pencils down. 

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4) BINARY DIGITS (To commit to memory as many binary digits - randomly consist of 0 and 1 like 011001010 - as possible from 175 lines of 30-digit binary numbers and recall them perfectly)

Memorization Time : 30 Minutes

Recall Time : 60 Minutes

In this category, competitors will try to commit as many lines of numbers as possible to memory from a list of 175 lines of 30-digit binary numbers created at random by the computer. Each lines of numbers will be different and will consist of different combinations of 0 an 1 (e.g. 11101001100110101111...).

Question sheets will be given to competitors as seven A4 size papers as closed. There is 25 lines of numbers on each page. And on each line, is there a 30-digit number. Each line number is written in front of each 30-digit number (as in; Line 21: 010001101110...). As the chief referee signals, question papers will be opened and 30 minute memorization time will start. Within this time competitors will try to commit to memory as many as possible from 175 lines of 30-digit numbers. With the signal of completion time, the competitors will put the question papers down as closed.

After collecting the question sheets, the answer sheets will be distributed to the competitors. The competitors will try to write the ones they remember from 175 lines of 30-digit binary numbers on the answer sheets within 60 minutes. Competitors must write their recalled 30-digit numbers next to their corresponding line numbers. Those lines whose corresponding 30-digit numbers are not recalled should be left blank. When that the 60 minute recall time is completed is announced the competitors will put their pens or pencils down. 

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5) MENTAL ADDITIONS (Ten Mental addition of ten ten-digit numbers)

Time : 10 Minutes

As in the following example, ten questions of ten 10-digit addition will be given;

   2050683165
   9349894647
   3606870234
   8710959451
   4965420759
   5735943643
   6745765496
   4290187250
   3967093178
   5167125456
+____________

All numbers will be chosen randomly and each number will be ten-digit (therefore there will be not any numbers of which first digit is zero). The answer will be the addition of the numbers given. The competitor can write the answer as adding the columns. However, he cannot write sub results such as the addition of each column and on hand anywhere. When the time is over announced the competitors will put their pens or pencils down.

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6) MENTAL MULTIPLICATIONS (Ten Mental multiplication of two 8-digit numbers)

Time: 15 Minutes

As in the following example, ten questions of two 8-digit number multiplication will be given;

    43765643
    91467149
X___________

(If the competitor would like the multiplication question forms like 43765643 x 91467149, he or she should inform the committee of the organization beforehand so that they make the necessary arrengements)

All numbers will be chosen randomly and each number will be eight-digit (so there will be no numbers of which first digit is zero). The answer will be the multiplication of the numbers given. As the competitor makes the mental multiplication, he can write the last result of the multiplication from right to left or from left to right in order. However, while the multiplication is made in mind, intermediate-results and results on hand cannot be written at any corner of the paper or anywhere. All intermediate results will be committed to memory and the final result will be written. When the time is over announced the competitors will put their pens or pencils down.

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7) 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)

Time: 15 Minutes

As in the following example the square root value of ten numbers will be found in mind.

 √530179

All numbers will be chosen randomly and each number will be six-digit (so there will not be any numbers of which the first digit is zero in the task of square root).

The solution will be the square root from that number with an accuracy of eight digits at maximum with being up to the 5th digit after the comma. However the 5th digit after the comma will be rounded off according to the 6th digit after the comma.

For the example, for√587247 the correct solution is 766.32042906..., the solution with 8 significant digits will be 766.32043 (not 766.32042). When the time is over announcement is made the competitors will put their pens or pencils down.

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8) MENTAL CALENDAR DATES (Calculating mentally the week day of 50 Gregorian calendar dates randomly selected from the year of 1600 to 2100)

Time: 1 Minute

Fifty dates as seen below will be given.

04-11-1756 (For 4 November 1756; The first number will be the day, the second number will be the month and the third number will be the year)

All dates will be chosen randomly from the beginning of 1600 to the end of 2100. All dates will be given as Gregorian dates.

The answer will be the correct day of the week of the given date (the correct answer for this example is Thursday).

For the answer, the abbreviation of the days is allowed to be used so that they become clear and do not cause any chaos. For example; abbreviation style as Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri and Sat is suitable. However, the use of numbers for abbreviation of the days (for example; 1=Monday, 2=Tuesday…) will not be allowed to be used. The answer causing doubt because of being uncertain and unclear will be considered as false. When the time is over announcement is made the competitors will put their pens or pencils down.

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9) PHOTOGRAPHIC SPEED READING (Determining the photographic reading speed and the rate of understanding of an unpublished long new text, book or booklet supplied by the committee of Memoriad organization)

Time to Read : 15 to 60 Minutes (Depend on Reading Material)

Time to Answer : 15 to 30 Minutes (Depend on Question Types)

This competition is open to everybody whose speed of reading is 220 words or over per minute. An unpublished long new text, book or booklet not met before anywhere will be given to the competitors and a time will be kept. The competitor finishing his or her reading will signal the referee and put the reading material down as closed and will wait silently for others’ finishing their readings.

After reading stage is over, reading materials will be collected and a test including questions about the read text will be distributed to the competitors. "The rates of understanding" will be determined according to the number of correct answers. The committee of organization has the right of asking any type of questions other than test types.

The competitors whose rate of understanding is under 60% will be disqualified. In case of ties in the first three ranks, a second test including additional questions about the text will be given to the competitors in equal ranks.

Photographic speed reading points will be calculated as the multiplication of reading speed value and the rate of understanding. Let’s say a competitors raw reading speed is 1400 words per minute and his or her rate of understanding is % 70, then the total points count is (1400x0.70=) 980 words per minute or points.

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(*) In order to compare the results with other scores, some of the rules and points are adapted from yearly held mental championships.
 

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