<p>In times of utter stress when the upwardly mobile people find it hard to even recall their ten-digit cell phone numbers at will, a ‘whiz-kid’ from a backward Rajasthan district has achieved this feat with aplomb and entered the ‘Limca Book of National Records’.<br /><br />The 22-year-old Rajveer Meena, a final year B.Tech student of VIT University in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore district, who dazzled with this number sequence feat, which may well throw an unsuspecting algorithm for a new computer programme, hails from a humble lower middle class family in a remote village of Mohacha in Sawaimadavpur district of Rajasthan. <br /><br />At an event organised in Vijayawada recently by the ‘Limca Book of Records’, Meena broke the holding record of Nishant of Andhra Pradesh, who had recalled 840 random digits, the VIT University said on Thursday. <br /><br />While earlier demonstrating his skills at the VIT University campus, Rajveer Meena was able to recall “a sequence of ten mobile numbers (100 digits) in just two minutes. He was even able to recall the numbers in the “reverse order” as well.<br /><br />“I had made some 40 images of those 100 digits,” Meena was quoted as having said at that occasion in explaining how he managed to do it. His mnemonic (memory-aid) devices included associating the number ‘93’ with Sachin Tendulkar’s recent cricket score, the digits ‘444’ to the number of pages of a book he had read, and so on.<br /><br />Memory booster<br />A below-average boy in his primary school, Meena confessed that he was “quite depressed” by his studies then and wanted to improve. Later, the idea of improving his memory through the numbers route dawned on him.<br /><br /><br />Meena then began “associating” numbers with images of a colour, person, or an event or even something familiar to him in “order to remember the same while recalling them,” VIT’s spokesperson R Nandakumar said.<br /><br />It began to do wonders for the school boy and “numbers helped him improve his memory skills greatly that reflected on his performance in school final exams.” <br /><br />His capacity also showed up when Meena got a merit seat in Bio-technology at VIT, having secured the 228th rank in the All India Engineering Exam conducted by the University.<br /><br />Rajveer Meena has bigger ambitions now. He wants to break the Guinness World Record in this segment, held by a Chinese, Lu Chou, for recalling 67,000 digits of ‘pi’ (the famous fraction 22/7) value. “It is a happy occasion for VIT which is grooming a young wizard,” said VIT Chancellor, Dr G Viswanathan.<br /></p>
<p>In times of utter stress when the upwardly mobile people find it hard to even recall their ten-digit cell phone numbers at will, a ‘whiz-kid’ from a backward Rajasthan district has achieved this feat with aplomb and entered the ‘Limca Book of National Records’.<br /><br />The 22-year-old Rajveer Meena, a final year B.Tech student of VIT University in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore district, who dazzled with this number sequence feat, which may well throw an unsuspecting algorithm for a new computer programme, hails from a humble lower middle class family in a remote village of Mohacha in Sawaimadavpur district of Rajasthan. <br /><br />At an event organised in Vijayawada recently by the ‘Limca Book of Records’, Meena broke the holding record of Nishant of Andhra Pradesh, who had recalled 840 random digits, the VIT University said on Thursday. <br /><br />While earlier demonstrating his skills at the VIT University campus, Rajveer Meena was able to recall “a sequence of ten mobile numbers (100 digits) in just two minutes. He was even able to recall the numbers in the “reverse order” as well.<br /><br />“I had made some 40 images of those 100 digits,” Meena was quoted as having said at that occasion in explaining how he managed to do it. His mnemonic (memory-aid) devices included associating the number ‘93’ with Sachin Tendulkar’s recent cricket score, the digits ‘444’ to the number of pages of a book he had read, and so on.<br /><br />Memory booster<br />A below-average boy in his primary school, Meena confessed that he was “quite depressed” by his studies then and wanted to improve. Later, the idea of improving his memory through the numbers route dawned on him.<br /><br /><br />Meena then began “associating” numbers with images of a colour, person, or an event or even something familiar to him in “order to remember the same while recalling them,” VIT’s spokesperson R Nandakumar said.<br /><br />It began to do wonders for the school boy and “numbers helped him improve his memory skills greatly that reflected on his performance in school final exams.” <br /><br />His capacity also showed up when Meena got a merit seat in Bio-technology at VIT, having secured the 228th rank in the All India Engineering Exam conducted by the University.<br /><br />Rajveer Meena has bigger ambitions now. He wants to break the Guinness World Record in this segment, held by a Chinese, Lu Chou, for recalling 67,000 digits of ‘pi’ (the famous fraction 22/7) value. “It is a happy occasion for VIT which is grooming a young wizard,” said VIT Chancellor, Dr G Viswanathan.<br /></p>
