Aaryan Nitin Shukla
Aaryan Shukla is an Indian mental calculator and board member of the Global Mental Calculators Association.[1]
Career
Shukla won the 2022 Mental Calculation World Cup at the age of 12 years old,[2][3] setting event records in multiplication and square roots in the process. Additionally, during the record attempts portion of the event, he broke the organizer's record for division[4] and multiplied two 20-digit numbers together in 1 minute and 45 seconds.[5]
Shukla returned to the Mental Calculation World Cup in 2024, winning the event for a second consecutive time, while winning all five categories and scoring more points per category than any prior competitor.[6] Additionally, he set the following records during the event:
- Mental Calculation World Cup calendar date record (answered all 100 dates given correctly in 1 minute)
- Mental Calculation World Cup multiplication record (breaking his prior record)
- Mental Calculation World Cup square roots record (breaking his prior record) (answered all 90 problems given with 86 correct and 4 incorrect)
- World record for addition (addition of 10 10-digit numbers, with an average time of 7.808 seconds over 10 questions)
- World record for square roots (square root of 6-digit numbers to 8 significant digits, with an average time 3.378 seconds over 10 questions)[7]
Shukla also became the youngest winner at the Mind Sport Olympiad Mental Calculation World Championship in 2021,[8] before finishing as runner-up twice.[9][10] He also finished as runner-up in Season 1 of Calculation League.[11]
In 2023 and 2024, Shukla gave televised Flash Anzan performances in Russia and Italy, the latter earning him a Guinness World Record in addition.[12][13][14][15][16]
References
- ^ "Aaryan Shukla". GMCA.
- ^ "Zwölfjähriger Inder gewinnt WM im Kopfrechnen". blue News.
- ^ Tagesschau, T. G. R. (July 17, 2022). "Zwölfjähriger Inder gewinnt WM im Kopfrechnen". RaiNews.
- ^ "Mental Calculation World Ranking Lists". www.recordholders.org.
- ^ "Mental Calculation World Cup 2022: Results – World Mental Calculation". July 31, 2022.
- ^ "Aaryan Shukla of DPS Nashik crowned at Mental Calculation World Cup −2024 – Education21".
- ^ "Mental Calculation World Cup 2024: Results – World Mental Calculation". September 22, 2024.
- ^ "Aaryan Shukla Wins 2021 Mental Calculations World Championship". September 4, 2021.
- ^ "MSO Mental Calculations World Championship 2023 Results – World Mental Calculation". March 21, 2023.
- ^ "MSO Mental Calculations World Championship 2024 Results – World Mental Calculation". April 16, 2024.
- ^ "Calculation League Standings". GMCA.
- ^ "'Human Calculator Kid' can do 'impossible' sums in his head at lightning speed | Guinness World Records".
- ^ "12-year-old Aaryan Shukla sets Guiness World Record for fastest mental addition". India Today. April 3, 2024.
- ^ Moreira, Éric (April 11, 2024). "Indiano de 13 anos bate recorde e é considerado 'calculadora humana'". Aventuras na História.
- ^ "12-year-old Indian student breaks records with lightning-fast mental addition". ARAB TIMES – KUWAIT NEWS. April 3, 2024.
- ^ "Human Calculator Aaryan Shukla created Guinness World Records (GWR)". March 25, 2024 – via YouTube.
External links
- "Aaryan Shukla". GMCA. Retrieved 2024-08-22.