Video Discription |
NEWER WORLD RECORD: 5200 digits of Pi were correctly memorized and orally recited while blindfolded by Hero Vietson, a nine-year-old boy living in California, USA, setting a new world record for his age group on August 31, 2024. To watch the video of the 5200 digits of Pi, please click here:
https://youtu.be/Eieo-7D5sug
This is how he memorizes 5200 digits of Pi: He uses the following 4 strategies to memorize the digits. First, he breaks down long sequences of digits into smaller group of digits with each group consists of 10 digits at a time. In this way, he makes 10-digit groups more manageable. Second, after memorizing 10-digit groups, he combines them into 20-digit groups, and keeps increasing the digits until he has a group of 100 digits. Third, he looks for symmetry of numbers in a small group of three to 5 digits such as 202, 9009, and 03530. Fourth, he associates these small groups with colors. After mastering the above four strategies, he sees these groups of digits in colors dancing inside his head, and they make him happy. He keeps breaking his own records because he believes world records are meant to be broken.
After learning to memorize 5200 digits of Pi step by step in small increments, he shows that anyone can either be a memory champion or improve his or her memory by training the brain to memorize and recite the digits of Pi.
As a result from training his brain to memorize as many digits of Pi as possible, he develops his brain to have an ability to remember the extensive Biology vocabulary as he was able to complete and excel in High School Biology and college-equivalent Advanced Placement Biology last year at the age of eight years old. The more he memorizes the digits of Pi, the more he remembers things he learns in his favorite subjects such as Sciences, Mathematics, History, and Geography.
While learning to memorize Pi, he realizes that memory isn’t conjured from thin air; rather, it involves intricate connections between the neurons in his brain - whether storing the digits of Pi or any other information. These neural connections are called synapses as known in Biology. The more he memorizes and recites the digits of Pi, the synapses get stronger, and as a consequence, he's able to recall memory, Pi and other information, with greater accuracy.
He also loves Gymnastics and Martial Arts as he spends at least 3 hours per day practicing the sports. He uses a different platform called TikTok to show his gifted and talented skills in Gymnastics and Martial Arts and can be viewed with this link:
https://www.tiktok.com/@herovietson
He has a sister named America Vietson, and she is just as good as he is. America Vietson’s YouTube channel can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@americavietson1494/videos
Life was never easy for him as he’s raised by single dad who is a disabled person due to an accident; as a consequence, he has faced many challenges in his early life and wished to share with everyone his following experiences: (1) "A long journey begins with a single step," (2) "Where there is a will, there is a way," (3) "There is no fate but what we make," (4) "Believe in yourself. If you believe it then you can achieve it," and (5) "There will be haters, doubters, and non-believers, but then there will be you, proving them wrong."
His name is Hero, and his ultimate goal is to make the world a better place for all.
NOTE: In an effort to make his video provable/verifiable, he implemented the following standard:
(1) A blindfold was used to ensure that he memorized the Pi digits from his memory.
(2) He orally recited all Pi digits that he memorized with his lips in perfect sync with his recorded voice.
(3) He turned his head left and right during the start and end of the video to show there was no earbuds or headphones.
(4) Many real-time clocks and stopwatches were visibly embedded in the video to timestamp in real time all frames of entire video recorded in 30 frames per second Ultra High Definition 4K resolution. This also ensured that his video was recorded in real time, without speeding up or slowing down his video; therefore, the recording of his video accurately reflected the true duration and pace of reciting Pi digits as shown by the clocks and stopwatches.
(5) Each time he memorized an additional one hundred digits of Pi, he promptly recorded and had his video timestamped by YouTube, Facebook, TikTok with the date his video was published.
(6) His video is authentic, accurate, and original. His video has not been altered, manipulated, or generated by AI.
(7) He will never ask anyone to trust that he wrote a zillion digits on a napkin, unlike others who claim to have spent many hours writing thousands of digits but can’t or won’t take few minutes to orally recite them all in a provable or verifiable video. Pi is a math value, and in math, all claims including claim that someone memorized x digits of Pi, must be proven – not blindly trusted. |