A Canadian high-school student was awarded the title of “International Master of Memory” after competing in the World Memory Championships.
Evan Xie, 15, a Chinese 10th-grader from Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada returned to China becoming 1 of 151 people in the world to hold the title after completing 10 memory tests over a three-day period.
Evan passed the tests by memorizing 1,180 numbers in an hour and memorizing the order of a standard deck of 52 cards in 32 seconds, which was nearly double his personal best time of 18 seconds.