Baron Sven Christer Jonas von Essen (born 24 April 1991) is a Swedish two-time world memory champion. He was a

memory sport Memory sport, sometimes referred to as competitive memory or the mind sport of memory, refers to competitions in which participants attempt to memorize then recall different forms of information, under certain guidelines. The sport has been formal ...

s player from 2012 to 2015. In April 2019 he co-founded memoryOS, an ed-tech startup developing memory improvement software.

Biography

He was the third place (behind winner Johannes Mallow and eternal runner-up Simon Reinhard) in the 21st World Memory Championships in December 2012. He won the 22nd World Memory Championships in December 2013, and 24th World Memory Championships in December 2014. On 12 March 2016, he recalled correctly 13,208 digits of memorized pi for 4 hours and 40 minutes according to the Pi World Ranking List. This was a Swedish record until 2019, when it was beaten by Henrik Lilliestråle.Pi World Ranking List
/ref> In the spring of 2018, he participated in TV4's Talang. In his audition, he memorized the first names of all 500 people in the audience, which led to David Batra giving him his golden buzzer and thus sending him on directly to the final. On 7 March 2020, he recalled 24,063 digits of pi, setting a new personal, Swedish, and European record. His aim was to recall the first 100,000 digits but he made a mistake on the 24,064th. Three days later he became the first person to pass the "Olympus Mons of Memory Tests", being tested on samples from the first 100,000 digits. A random sequence of nine digits were read out and Jonas recalled the nine digits preceding and following these. This was repeated 50 times in a row without error to complete the challenge. In the winter of 2023, he participated in TV4's Postkodmiljonären. He answered the final question correctly and won 1,000,000 kronor in the show. He is a member of the Swedish noble

Essen family The Essen family or von Essen is the name of a Baltic nobility, Baltic German noble family which later became part of the Swedish nobility, Swedish and Russian nobility. History The first known ancestor was Thomas von Essen (d. 1615–1627) who w ...

Sources

External links

Jonas von Essen , Världsmästare i minne!
1991 births Living people Mnemonists People from Skövde {{Sweden-bio-stub Swedish barons

Biography

See also

Sources

External links