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Aaryan Nitin Shukla
Indian mental calculator From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Aaryan Shukla (born 2009/2010) is an Indian mental calculator and board member of the Global Mental Calculators Association.[1]
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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]
In late 2024, Shukla set six new Guinness World records --- three related to Flash Anzan, two related to multiplication, and one related to division --- in a showcase event in Dubai. [17]
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