This document summarizes key concepts about neural networks based on competition. It discusses fixed weight competitive networks including Maxnet, Mexican Hat, and Hamming Net. Maxnet uses winner-take-all competition where only the neuron with the largest activation remains on. The Mexican Hat network enhances contrast through excitatory connections to nearby neurons and inhibitory connections to farther neurons. Iterating the activations over time steps increases the activation of neurons with initially larger signals and decreases others. Kohonen self-organizing maps and their training in Matlab are also mentioned.