Examples of enhanced memory

Enhanced memory is the ability to memorize everything that one learns. A full list of examples of the power in action follows.

Season One

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Charlie Andrews immediately knows the answer to a crossword puzzle on which Sheriff Davidson was working...
...and later begins to speak some basic Japanese, having only started reading her phrase book one week ago.
(Seven Minutes to Midnight)
Charlie learns both spoken and written Japanese in a matter of days from a Japanese phrase book.
(Six Months Ago)
Sylar skims the operations manual for an eighteen-wheeler and successfully drives it cross-country.
(Road Kill)

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Matt Neuenberg recites pi from memory.
(The Man with Too Much Brains)
Matt stares at a computer screen, learning codes.
(Hana and Drucker's Plot Discovered)
Matt begins memorizing the Company's entire mainframe.
(Hana and Drucker's Plot Discovered)
Matt's brain overloads during an "upload" of the information he memorized from the Company's mainframe, causing him to die.
(The End of Hana and Drucker)

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When Sylar asks her difficult questions... Charlie answers them all correctly. (Once Upon a Time in Texas) Affected by her aneurysm, Charlie begins crazily reciting things that she has memorized. (Once Upon a Time in Texas)

Charlie recites the addresses of four available apartments from memory. She said she read them in the classified ads that morning. (Saving Charlie, Chapter 9)
Charlie reads through a Japanese phrase book during her breaks at work. By the afternoon, she is "speaking in excellent Japanese". (Saving Charlie, Chapter 11)
Charlie fluently reads the end of a Robogirl manga. (Saving Charlie, Chapter 13)
When Hiro recites the seven principles of the Bushido code in Japanese, Charlie is instantly able to translate six of them. (Saving Charlie, Chapter 13)
Charlie perfectly retains the Texas League schedule in her mind, reciting when the RockHounds are playing away and home baseball games. (Saving Charlie, Chapter 15)
Charlie remembers a long list of facts about the electric chair. She shares a few, but stops herself. (Saving Charlie, Chapter 16)
Charlie rattles off facts about the Goliath bird-eating tarantula. (Saving Charlie, Chapter 16)
When Hiro asks Charlie about origami, she recalls from her reading details about folding 1000 cranes to be granted a wish. (Saving Charlie, Chapter 20)

Examples of Evolved Human Abilities

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