Help my friend please

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Hi all,
I know a friend who is autistic, he is 15 and has incredible mental abilities. I have personally watched him memorise a random list of numbers thousands of digits long and he did it as fast as he could read!
He has many, many really amazing abilities, he can focus on things really well and he solved a rubix cube blindfolded really really quick after a week of practice.

He asked me the other day if I knew of any places he could go or competitions he could participate in, but I didn't know any?

(I think he's looking for a memory competition or something similar)

He is from Australia, and I think by these competitions he means something that is big, like an international event, or some kind of "mind olympics".

If anybody knows any sort of competition or place that he can show people his talents, please be so kind as to post it here.

There's a competition on my site http://www.assupportgrouponline.co.uk if he wants to enter that he gets his work put on the site after.

And another thing:

If your friend does anything along these lines, make sure you tell me. I want to publicize his efforts on the site!

Ok sure I'll talk to him about it, he's usually shy about the stuff he can do and doesn't show all that many people nowadays.

And that blindfold thing, heres generally what happens:

1. Audience gets a turn each at muddling up cube

2. Cube is handed to my friend, and he spends a while memorising it

3. He puts on a blindfold and puts it behind his back (don't ask me why) and turns around so we can see whats happening with the cube, he then really quickly turns the cube for a while and it's done.

What really got me amazed was the one time he did it and he stopped, it looked almost like a mucked up mess, and he said "Almost done", I thought he made a mistake but he did three more turns and it made me laugh, he made it into a perfectly coloured checker board, and then finished it by matching up the colours like the traditional finish.

So it isn't doing it only blindfolded, you get a few minutes to memorise it, my friend tried to explain what he sees to me. He said he kind of "feels and knows" where the colours are, and it's like they are 3d except in his mind he doesn't see things from one angle, he sees them from all angles.

Anyone does this sound familiar?

I know a kid who does this. I can't begin to understand how he can memorize the cube like that though. He also held the world record for speedcubing for awhile.

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