How Good is Your Memory?

[Billhook]

 

He memorised Pi to 22,000 digits and recited them in a five hour session and learned the Icelandic language (impossible for most) in a week

[Stubby]

14 minutes ago, Billhook said:

 

He memorised Pi to 22,000 digits and recited them in a five hour session and learned the Icelandic language (impossible for most) in a week

Yea but can he tie a bowline ? 

[Gary Prentice]

39 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Yea but can he identify a Hornbeam?

Fixed that for ya 

[tree-fancier123]

so good it seems like a fake, he'd have made a good barman in the old days before digital cash registers

[Billhook]

I bet he would remember a bowline and a hornbeam if you showed it to him once

 

what is most remarkable is that he is very normal and confident with other people as most people with these abilities have autism and are social outcasts.

 

I went to a wedding once where the groom was running a school for people with autism and they were unidentifiable amongst the other guests.

One guy came up to me, smartly dressed,   jacket and tie, and looking over my left should asked  "What's your car number?"

 

I looked back over my shoulder and there was nobody there, so I told him the number, JJL I think and he said that was too easy  mid Lincolnshire.

Gave him another off my tractor  GGG    Glasgow and he named the area. So I went through every vehicle I could remember and he could tell me where they all came from, but he was not much good at anything else away from that topic.

 

What about the guy on the film Tim Peek who had the film Rain Man made about him.  His father says he can read a page of a book which would take an average reader three minutes to read, in 8 to ten seconds and can read both pages of an open book, one with each eye at the same time.