Alex Mullen (memory athlete)
Mullen at the 2016 World Memory Championship in Singapore
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Alexander Joseph Mullen |
| Nationality | American |
| Born |
March 3, 1992 Princeton, New Jersey, United States |
| Residence | Jackson, Mississippi |
| Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University (B.S.) |
| Spouse(s) | Cathy Chen (m. 2015) |
| Website | www |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Memory |
| Rank | No. 1 (July 2016) |
| Achievements and titles | |
| World finals | 2015, 2016 |
| Highest world ranking | No. 1 (July 2016) |
Alex Mullen (born March 3, 1992) is an American memory grandmaster and medical student, and the current world memory champion. The first American to win the world title, he won the 2015 and 2016 world championships and is currently the world No. 1 ranked memory competitor. He is also the current USA memory champion. Along with his wife, he runs Mullen Memory, a nonprofit which "provides free resources exploring memory techniques as learning tools."
Mullen was born in Princeton, New Jersey. He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi and attended Oxford High School, where he competed on the varsity swimming and tennis teams. In his senior year, Mullen was a National Merit Finalist and fourth award winner at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for a team project with his future wife, Cathy Chen. He attended Johns Hopkins University to study biomedical engineering and applied mathematics & statistics.
Mullen lives in Jackson, Mississippi and attends the University of Mississippi School of Medicine, where he and his wife are students. Both received the Jim and Donna Barksdale Scholarship to cover the full cost of attendance over four years of medical school.
As of Dec. 6, 2016, Mullen held 9 memory world records and 12 American records. He is the first person to memorize the order of a deck of playing cards in under 20 seconds at an official competition. He is also the first to memorize more than 3,000 decimal digits in one hour.
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