14-Year-Old Who Broke 6 World Records: Meet This Human Calculator From India

How many 4-digit numbers can you add mentally in under 31 seconds? This 14-year-old from Maharashtra can add not 10, not even 20, but 100 4-digit numbers in just 30.9 seconds, becoming the fastest person to do so. But, that’s not it, Aaryan Shukla, also known as the ‘human calculator’, broke 6 World Records in just one day with his phenomenal mental maths skills. Read to know. 

Aaryan’s List Of Records

Aaryan set his first World record last year, by mentally adding 50 5-digit numbers in just 25.19 seconds. He was invited by Guinness World Records to Dubai, where he added 6 more feats to his list -

1. Fastest time to mentally add 100 4-digit numbers in 30.9 seconds

2. Fastest time to mentally add 200 4-digit numbers in 1 minute and 9.68 seconds

3. Fastest time to mentally add 50 5-digit numbers in 18.71 seconds

4. Fastest time to mentally divide a 20-digit number by a 10-digit number in 5 minutes and 42 seconds

5. Fastest time to mentally multiply two 5-digit numbers in 51.69 seconds

6. Fastest time to mentally multiply two 8-digit numbers in 2 minutes and 35.41 seconds

Talking about his son’s skills, Aaryan’s father shared “We are a normal family. Aaryan is a one-in-a-billion kind of person, but I don’t think that we are a family of mental calculators,” 

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Aaryan’s Secret

Speaking to Guinness World Records, Aaryan revealed that he dedicated 5 to 6 hours to practice every day. "Daily practice is one of the important aspects to prepare for competitions, so I practice for about 5-6 hours daily," he shared with them.

He also added that Yoga helped him a lot. “Sahaja Yoga helps me to keep calm and remain focused. I also love traveling and, due to the mental maths, I travel to many countries,” he said.

When asked what happens inside his head when he is mentally calculating the sum, he said, "A lot of things in mental calculations happen in a flash of a second, so I cannot say what happens inside my head, I just do it naturally. Basically, it's so fast that you can't think, you just need to do the calculations,"

Aaryan, who is also a founding member of GMCA (Global Mental Calculators Association), has been practicing mental maths since he was 6-years-old. At the mere age of 12, he brought laurels to the country by bagging the Mental Calculation World Cup in 2022 in Germany. Apart from this, Aaryan has won several international titles and accolades.