Chimp beats British memory champ!
Washington,
Jan
27:
A
seven-year
old
chimp
from
Japan
has
shocked
everyone
by
beating
the
British
memory
champion
in
a
computer
game.
The
chimp,
named
Ayumu,
trounced
Ben
Pridmore
at
a
computer
game
based
on
remembering
the
position
of
numbers
as
they
appeared
on
a
screen.
In the game, numbers flash up for just one fifth of a second and then hidden by white squares, the participants were required to touch the squares in numerical order. Ayumu was spot on 90 per cent of the time, while Ben scored a miserable 33 per cent. The contest was held for Channel Five programme Extraordinary animals, due to be shown on January 29. "I'd rather not been seen on TV doing worse than a Chimpanzee in a memory test. I'll never live it down," The Sun quoted Ben, as saying.
ANI