In a world where there's a competition for practically every single oddity, for some reason memory competitions (the one you might think to be the most relevant to the ordinary person) get no love.

When scientists found out that chimps had better memories than students, there were unkind comments about the calibre of the human competition they faced. But now an ape has gone one better, trouncing ...

AVON, Conn. (WTNH) — In an extraordinary cognitive feat, an Avon third grader won by a landslide in a Pi Day competition, reciting 540 digits by memory in 10 minutes. Maya Ali, a student at Talcott ...