Go-getter: A. Sudhakar Raju attempting a new Guinness record at Anantapur Press Club on Saturday. — photo: R.V.S. Prasad
A. Sudhakar Raju, a Guinness Book record-holder, attempted successfully a new Guinness record in memory and mind games in Anantapur on Saturday.
The Anantapur Press Club was witness to the record-breaking feat of Sudhakar Raju, who also works as a senior assistant in the Irrigation Department. He recalled in sequence 22 objects, which he had observed for precisely a minute before recalling them.
Speaking to The Hindu , he said that a similar record was held by another Indian – Krishna Kumar from Shillong – in the category by memorising 20 objects for a minute and recalling them in three minutes and three seconds in a sequence.
Bettering the record, Sudhakar Raju memorised 22 objects for one minute before he recalled all of them in a sequence in just 49 seconds, winning over the previous record by a yawning margin of more than two minutes – setting the bar higher in process.
Speaking of the feat, he said that he had practiced for three hours daily for the last three months before he embarked on this feat and added that no medicines or artificial methods were used to better his memory.
He also informed that the feat was done in the presence of media persons besides, two adjudicators at the Anantapur Press Club. He added that a video-recording of the record breaking feat along with the media reports would be sent to the Guinness World Record Committee.
“The committee would verify the details before adjudicating the feat as a record in about eight weeks of time”, Sudhakar Raju informed.
It may be remembered that Sudhakar Raju had in February this year performed a Guinness record-breaking stunt occupying a place in the Guinness Records Book by typing English alphabets with a space between each of the letters in just 3.52 seconds.
A. Sudhakar Raju recalled 22 objects in a sequence in just 49 seconds
source: http://www.thehindu.com / National> Andhra Pradesh / Staff Reporter / Anantapur, December 11th, 2011