Some people are gifted with abilities and intelligence much beyond what is expected of a typical human being. These individuals are regarded as geniuses in their disciplines – whether it is art, science, or math – because they attain goals that are beyond their years.
What Is Highest IQ Level?
The theoretical maximum IQ in the world is 200, yet some people have been known to have IQs higher than that. Let’s look at how this is achievable further down. Everyone with an IQ higher than 110 is fortunate to have above-average intelligence.
There are a few examples that have caught people’s attention and motivated them:
Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash
India’s Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash is dubbed the “World’s Fastest Human Calculator.” At the 2020 Mind Sports Olympiad, he earned gold in the Mental Calculation World Championship.
Kautilya Pandit
Meet the extraordinary kid Kautilya Pandit, often known as “Google Boy,” is a 12-year-old Haryana entrepreneur. He has pushed specialists and defied his age. His extraordinary ability to answer any question in a fraction of a second has earned him the nickname ‘Google Boy,’ thanks to his IQ of 130 points.
Tathagat Avatar Tulsi
Avatar of Tathagat Tulsi, the child prodigy of India. Tulsi defied academic barriers by becoming one of the youngest people to complete high school, graduation, master’s, and PhD programmes. He apparently graduated from high school at the age of nine. At the age of 12, he earned his BSc and Masters in Science from Patna Science College in less than a year.
Priyanshi Somani
The mental calculator,’ as Priyanshi Somani is known. She was the winner of the 2010 Mental Calculation World Cup and Pogo’s Amazing Kids Awards. Her name is also listed in the Guinness Book of World Records and the Limca Book of World Records.
Saad Nasser
Prodigy child Saad Nasser is India’s youngest engineer, having started reading his father’s Java programming books at the age of five. He had finished a C++ book at the age of seven. Saad co-founded Ati Motors, a Bengaluru-based autonomous car startup.
Kashmea Wahi
Kashmea Wahi, a Mumbai native, scored 162 out of 162 on the IQ exam, putting her in the top 1% of the country’s brightest. She joins scientists such as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, both of whom are estimated to have an IQ of 160.
Raghav Sood
By the age of 15, Raghav Sood has already released multiple Android and Blackberry apps. At the age of nine, he taught himself HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Sood, who is 15 years old, is the founder and CEO of Appaholics LLC.
Rifath Sharook
Rifath Sharook, a kid from Tamil Nadu, created the world’s tiniest, lightest satellite, KalamSat, for NASA. It will also be the first time that NASA will operate an Indian student’s project.
Irfan
For his multiplication abilities, a man named Irfan from Dudu in Rajasthan has been termed “Superhuman.” According to a social media popular video, Irfan never attended to school yet can multiply large amounts in seconds.
Nadub Gill
After solving 196 arithmetic questions in one minute, 10-year-old Nadub Gill has been dubbed a math genius. Nadub answered 196 multiplication and division questions correctly in one minute using Times Tables Rock Stars, which is more than three correct answers each second.
Kim Ung-Yong
Kim Ung-Yong is a professor and former child prodigy from South Korea. He claims to have held the Guinness World Record for having the highest IQ of 210. At the age of seven, NASA recruited him to work with them, and he completed his PhD in Physics at Colorado University before the age of fifteen.
Stephen Wiltshire
Meet the artist who creates incredible, detailed landscapes from memory after just viewing them once. Stephen Wiltshire is a British architect and autistic savant whose work has garnered him international acclaim.
Feliks Zemdegs
Feliks Zemdegs, an Australian Rubik’s Cube speed solver, is 24 years old. He is the first speedcuber to have twice won the World Cube Association World Championship. He had broken the Guinness World Record for solving a Rubik’s Cube in the quickest time – 4.22 seconds.
Ainan Celeste Cawley
20-year-old Ainan Celeste Cawley gave his first public talk at the age of six, and he passed the GCSE chemistry exam at the age of seven years and one month. He could recite pi to 518 decimal places and memorise the periodic table at the age of nine. The IQ of this Irish kid genius is estimated to be 263.
Magnus Carlsen
Meet Magnus Carlsen, who surpassed a rating of 2800 at the age of 18 and rose to the top of the FIDE world rankings at the age of 19, being the youngest player to do so. He’s won five chess Oscars thus far and is known as “the genius who’ll only get better.”
Arthur T. Benjamin
Arthur T. Benjamin is a combinatorial mathematician from the United States. He is noted for his mental math ability and lives ‘Mathemagics’ performances.
Terence Tao
Terence Tao is an Australian-American mathematician who is currently the International Mathematical Olympiad’s youngest participant. He began competing at the age of ten and is the IMO’s (International Mathematical Olympiad) youngest bronze, silver, and gold medalist.
Christopher Langan
Some journalists have referred to Christopher Michael Langan as “the smartest guy in America” or “the planet.” He has been said to have a high IQ and is an American horse rancher and autodidact. Langan’s IQ was judged to be between 195 and 210 on ABC’s 20/20.