Florida Man Wins USA Memory Championship In NYC
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- A Florida man who climbs mountains to call attention to Alzheimer's disease has won a national memory competition held in New York City.
It's the second year in a row that 27-year-old Nelson Dellis, of Miami, has won the USA Memory Championship. He also broke a record for memorizing 330 random numbers in five minutes.
About 50 people competed in Saturday's challenge of mental skill.
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Among the challenges, competitors had to recall 99 names and faces, a 50-line unpublished poem and 200 random words.
A group from Hershey High School in Hershey, Pa., won in a competition against groups from another high school and the University of Pennsylvania.
The competition now in its 15th year was founded by a former IBM executive to promote the capabilities of the human brain.
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