Alex Mullen (born 3 March 1992) is an American former memory competitor, three-time world memory champion, and physician.[1][2] The first American to win the world title, he won for three consecutive years the 2015, 2016, and 2017 World Memory Championships and held the IAM world No. 1 ranking from 2016-2019.[2][3][4][5][6][7] He was also the 2022 and 2023 Memory League World Champion.[8][9] Along with his wife, he runs Mullen Memory[10] - a nonprofit which "provides free resources exploring memory palaces as learning tools."[11]
World Memory Championships (16-18 Dec., Chengdu, China): 1st place overall.[17] Mullen became the tenth individual, and the first American, to win the world championship since its inception in 1991.[18] He also received the title of international grandmaster of memory, the highest title bestowed by the World Memory Sports Council, at this event.[19][1]
2016
USA Memory Championship (9 May, Hershey, PA): 1st place overall.[20] Mullen became the ninth individual to win the American national championship since its inception in 1998.[21]
US Open (2–3 July, Los Angeles, CA): 1st place overall. With 8,794 total points, Mullen achieved the then-highest total score in memory sports history (taking into account adjustments in scoring standards), giving him the world No. 1 ranking.[22][6]
Memoriad (8-10 Nov., Las Vegas, NV): gold: speed cards, hour numbers, silver: names and faces, spoken numbers.[23]
European Open (3-4 Dec., London, UK): 1st place overall.[24] With 9,143 total points, Mullen broke his earlier mark for the then-highest total score.[6]
World Memory Championships (IAM) (1-3 Dec., Jakarta, Indonesia): 1st place overall.[26] Most world records broken at the event, 4. With 9,061 total points (adjusted), Mullen broke his earlier record for the then-highest total score.[27]
2021
Pan American Open (Memory League) (15-16 May): 1st place overall.[28] Mullen competed alongside 15 other online qualifiers using the Memory League format, which consists of digital, head-to-head matches composed of shorter disciplines. In the final, Mullen defeated Ryo Kobayashi of Japan.
2022
Memory League World Championship (16-31 Jan.): 1st place overall.[29] Mullen competed alongside 15 other online qualifiers in the fourth rendition of the Memory League World Championship, first held in 2014 under the name Extreme Memory Tournament. In the final, Mullen defeated 2019 IAM World Memory Champion Andrea Muzii of Italy.
Mullen has held world records in 12 different memory sport disciplines, with the majority-minority of them involving the memorization of numbers or playing cards.[31][32][33][34] He is the first person to memorize the order of a deck of playing cards in under 20 seconds at an official competition.[35] He is also the first to memorize more than 3,000 decimal digits in one hour.[36]
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