World Memory Championships: Indian-origin Singapore student wins two gold medals

Dhruv has mastered the Roman memory technique of creating 'memory palaces', which works by associating the ideas or objects to be memorised with scenes imagined at familiar locations, such as one's house. Training for Hong Kong competition was tougher for Dhruv, who was also a head prefect, a sprinter in the track and field team and a member of the computer club. Dhruv said he would squeeze in two to three hours of practice a week before the vital Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) after six years of first level of schooling. He only began intensive training in October, memorising binary numbers and cards for about four to six hours a day. 'The toughest part was concentrating on what I have to do, because for most of my friends, PSLE just ended... For me, sitting down there and practising... it was hard, but I managed to pull through,' Singapore tabloid 'Today' quoted Dhruv as saying on Sunday. Dhruv's father Manoj Prabhakar, who is a management consultant in the oil and gas industry, said: 'I found that Dhruv enjoyed doing it and he's doing pretty well, so I thought I should support him.' (This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text. Only the headline has been changed.) Dailyhunthttps://wanelo.co/zwikkerjee