Dang Ngoc Phuong Trinh won the 2023 World Super Memory Competition

Dang Ngoc Phuong Trinh, Tam Tri Luc Education Group, Ho Chi Minh City, is 23 years old this year. Phuong Trinh's achievement is to accurately memorize 618 random images after only 5 minutes. The old record was held by the French with the achievement of memorizing 547 images after 5 minutes.

Dang Ngoc Phuong Trinh's result surprised the judges and the audience, because for the first time a new world record was broken by 71 points, bringing the gold medal to the Vietnamese team. The prize money for this year's winner is 200,000 USD.

TournamentWorld Memory Championshipwas founded by British Professor Tony Buzan in 1991.

This year, the competition took place over three days, November 24, 25 and 26, 2023, at the Cidco Exhibition Center (Mumbai, India), attracting 779 contestants from 13 countries, including many experienced experts from teams from Germany, Denmark, Mongolia, India, Japan, etc.

Notable among them are Dr. Johannes Mallow - German national team player with 2 world championships, 9 German championships and 7 world memory records, and player Simon Reinhard (also on the German team) who has won the world championships twice.

Contestants are divided into 4 groups according to age, including under 12 years old, 13-18 years old, 19-60 years old and over 60 years old.

Contestants must go through 10 challenges such as remembering random words, names and faces, numbers, images, etc. Vietnam's representatives in this year's competition are sisters Dang Thu Hien and Dang Ngoc Phuong Trinh. Both have been on the Vietnam Memory team for 4 years and have participated in the competition.Asian Memory Championship 2019(held in Malaysia),World Memory Champion 2019 (held in China).

Dang Ngoc Phuong Trinh helped the Vietnamese team win 4th place at theAsia Pacific Memory Championshipand into the Top 10World Super Memory 2019.

Dang Ngoc Phuong Trinh and her sister Dang Thu Hien (25 years old) are a pair of sisters known as "Vietnam's memory superstars" because they overcame nearly 100 opponents to win the championship and runner-up prizes in 2 competitions.Super Memory Vietnam1st time (2009).

In this competition, Dang Ngoc Phuong Trinh is the contestant who consecutively set 5 records/10 subjects: The person who listens and remembers the most numbers, the person who remembers the most random numbers correctly, the person who remembers the most binary numbers correctly, the person who remembers the most names and faces correctly, the person who remembers the most historical events. Previously, Phuong Trinh won all monthly rounds (from June to September 2019).