. type of site privately held company registration yes available in mandarin chinese english french german spanish and many more . launched september 2010 alexa rank 9 330 memrise is an online learning tool with courses created by its community . its courses are mainly used to teach languages but are also used for other academic and nonacademic subjects such as trivia video game trivia and pop cultural . memrise uses flashcards augmented with mnemonics known within the service as mems partly gathered through crowdsourcing and the spacing effect to boost the speed and ease of learning . memrise was founded by ed cooke a grand master of memory and greg detre a princeton neuroscientist specializing in the science of memory and forgetting . memrise launched in private beta after winning the princeton entrepreneurship club 2009 tigerlaunch competition . 1 in july 2010 memrise was named as one of the winners of the london mini seedcamp competition . 2 in november 2010 memrise was named as one of the finalists for the 2010 techcrunch europas start up of the year . 3 in march 2011 memrise was selected as one of the techstars boston startups . 4 in late september 2012 the leaderboard on the website was suspended due to extensive cheating on the website . the cheating users were found to have been using bots and other loopholes such as using celebrity photo memory courses to score many more points than is possible when using the learning system honestly . the website has since put up a new leaderboard . 5 on october 1 2012 100 users were allowed to sign up to test a non beta version of the website called memrise 1.0 . as of may 2013 a memrise app has been available for download on both the app store ios and google play . 6 in november 2014 memrise created the memrise prize in partnership with the university college london . the memrise prize challenges people to create the most powerful method for memorizing new information . the award is a prize of 10 000 and a feature in an article shared and co authored with the scientific and business community . 7 contents 1 press 2 see also 3 references 4 external links press edit in 2011 memrise was reviewed by aol s daily finance 8 the mit technology review 9 msnbc 10 and gizmodo . 11 see also edit list of flashcard software references edit tigerlaunch 2009 . princetoneclub.com . archived from the original on december 23 2011 . mini seedcamps 2010 . seedcamp.com . archived from the original on june 9 2011 . the europas the finalists . techcrunch . aol . retrieved 20 january 2015 . techstars boston 2011 who got in . boston.com . retrieved 20 january 2015 . the irrationality of cheating at gamified learning . wired uk . forums what s new may 20th news memrise . memrise . retrieved 20 january 2015 . memrise 13 november 2014 . memrise university college london launch the first annual memrise prize competition with 10 000 ... london november 13 2014 prnewswire . prnewswire.com . alex salkever . look out rosetta stone memrise has a new vision for learning languages . dailyfinance.com . retrieved 20 january 2015 . plant a new language in your mind . technology review . 23 jun 2011 . retrieved 5 november 2013 . grow a new language in your head . nbc news . 20 january 2015 . retrieved 20 january 2015 . memrise is a viva pinata for language students . gizmodo . gawker media . retrieved 20 january 2015 . external links edit memrise v t e spaced repetition concepts spaced repetition spacing effect testing effect forgetting curve flashcard memory leitner system study software list of flashcard software anki cerego cobocards course hero cram cram.com duolingo espindle learning memrise mnemosyne opencards quizlet skritter supermemo synap practitioners paul pimsleur sebastian leitner piotr wo niak researchers hermann ebbinghaus thomas landauer and robert a. bjork cecil alec mace retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title memrise & oldid 739270755 categories educational websitesspaced repetition softwaremnemonicscrowdsourcinginternet properties established in 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages espa ol fran aisnederlandspolskisimple english edit links this page was last modified on 13 september 2016 at 18 56 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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