From kids who graduated college at age 12 to kids who wear reading by age 1 and helping dad balance his checkbook by age 3, these kids will definitely put your life achievements to shame.
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Ayan Qureshi He's currently the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional. He was certified in 2014 when he was only 5 years and 11 months old.
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Jacob Barnett He was born in 1998 and he's currently working on his PHD in quantum mechanics/physics. He's not even old enough to drink!
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Sho Yano This real-life Doogie Howser, M.D. graduated from college summa cum laude when he was only 12. By the time he was 21 he had already been awarded a PhD in molecular genetics and an MD from Pritzker School of Medicine. He has an estimated IQ of 200.
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Terence Tao When he was 10 years old, he became the youngest medalist in International Mathematical Olympiad history.
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Gabriel Carroll He's got the record for highest SAT scores in California, which he got when he was only 12 years old. That score includes an 800 in math, by the way.
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Tristan Pang He was born in 2001 and by 2003 he could already read and solve high-school math.
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Promethea Olympia Kyrene Pythaitha Promethea was already reading when she turned 1, which puts every other toddlers' milestones to shame. Of course, by the time she was 7 she was already studying college-level calculus.
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Priyanshi Somani She's the youngest winner of the Mental Calculation World Cup ever. She won in 2010, when she was only 11 years old.
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Praveen Kumar Gorakavi He was born in 1989 and by the time he was 13 he had already developed a formula for perpetual calendar calculations.
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Arfa Karim This child prodigy became one of the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional at age 9. Unfortunately she passed away when she was only 16 years old due to cardiac arrest following an epileptic seizure.
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Sunny Sanwar He was only 8 years old when he was able to read, write or speak 6 different languages. He also managed to finish 4 years of high school in only 8 months. He became a college professor at age 21.
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Ettore Majorana His greatest ability was mental calculations. He was able to multiply two three-digit numbers in his head by the time he was 4 years old.
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Ruth Lawrence She was only 10 years old when she obtained the highest grade on the Oxford University admission exam, out of 530 candidates. She was homeschooled from the age of 5, by the way.
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Charles Fefferman Born in 1949, Fefferman was the youngest professor in the history of the United States after starting college at age 11.
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William James Sidis He enrolled in Harvard College in 1909, at the tender age of 11.
