WITH an IQ of 168, he's brainier than renowned physicist Stephen Hawking and can lay claim to being Australia's smartest kid. But Sharvin Jeyendran, 13, from the Perth suburb of Butler, is no awkward genius. “It means the world to me to have a high IQ,” Sharvin said. “But I still make a lot of friends.
In fact, the Chinese-Australian Terence Tao is the person with the highest IQ in the world at present. With an outstanding IQ of 230, Terence Tao was born on July 17, 1975 in Adelaide, Australia.
His name was William James Sidis and his IQ was eventually estimated to be between 250 and 300 (with 100 being the norm).
William James Sidis has the World's Highest IQ. Anywhere from 250 to 300 is his IQ score, almost twice the score of Albert Einstein. At the age of eleven, William famously entered Harvard University, becoming the youngest person to enter.
Top Ten Countries with the Highest Math Ranking:
United States — 45.8% United Kingdom — 6.3% Germany — 6% France — 5.3%
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Elon Musk IQ is close to this starting point, with an estimated score of 155. The typical genius has an IQ of around 140.
Adragon De Mello: IQ 400
In 1988, when Adragon De Mello graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a degree in computational mathematics at the age of 11, he was the youngest college graduate in the United States (a record he no longer holds).
William James Sidis (IQ: 250-300)
Sidis had the highest IQ score in history. He attended Harvard at the age of 11, which at the time made him the youngest person to ever enroll in the university, and mastered over 40 languages. Later, he left a teaching job in Texas and started a political career.
According to the list, most people worldwide (about 68 percent) have an IQ of between 85 to 115. The few above an IQ of 140 are considered geniuses. Japan with an average IQ of 106.49 tops the list followed by Taiwan (106.57), Singapore (105.89), Hong Kong (105.37) and China (104.10).
From an OECD mathematics ranking of 11 in the world 20 years ago, Australian secondary students are now languishing in 29th place out of 38 countries, according to the most recent statistics.
We most easily memorize whatever we can say or read within that two-second span. And Chinese speakers get that list of numbers — 4, 8, 5, 3, 9, 7, 6 — right almost every time because, unlike English, their language allows them to fit all those seven numbers into two seconds. Chinese number words are remarkably brief.
The lowest IQ score is 0/200, but nobody in recorded history has officially scored 0. Any result below 75 points is an indicator of some form of mental or cognitive impairment.
Notably, the average IQ score falls between 85 and 115. A score above 140, meanwhile, is considered to be genius level.