Simon Reinhard
Germany
Achieved by German memory master Simon Reinhard at the 2016 World Memory Championships. He memorized 300 randomly presented words in their exact order within 15 minutes. Reinhard was one of the defining memory athletes of the 2010s, also holding multiple world records in speed cards. Word memorization is considered particularly challenging compared to numbers or cards, as it requires a higher level of associative ability to encode abstract concepts.