Jonas von Essen

Jonas von Essen (born 24 April 1991) is a Swedish, two-time world memory champion. He was a memory sports player from 2012 to 2015.[1] In April 2019 he co-founded memoryOS, an ed-tech startup developing memory improvement software.[2]

Jonas von Essen
Jonas von Essen (2016)
Born (1991-04-24) 24 April 1991
Skövde, Västergötland, Sweden

Biography

He was the third place (behind winner Johannes Mallow and runner-up Simon Reinhard) in the 21st World Memory Championships in December 2012. He won the 22nd World Memory Championships in December 2013 and 24th World Memory Championships in December 2014.

On 12 March 2016 he recalled correctly 13,208 digits of memorized pi for 4 hours and 40 minutes according to the Pi World Ranking List. This was a Swedish record until 2019, when it was beaten by Henrik Lilliestrale.[3]

On 7 March 2020, he recalled 24,063 digits of pi, setting a new personal, Swedish, and European record.

See also

Sources
  1. Jonas von Essen iam-stats.com
  2. "Mnemonic device to improve memory with Jonas von Essen | memory OS". memoryOS.com. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  3. Pi World Ranking List


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