Meet the world's fastest human calculator

Do you think no regular person would buy 50 watermelons like maths problems say? Well, the world's fastest human calculator agrees with you.

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00:003, 7, 2, 8, 9, 1.

00:02How do you do it?

00:095, 9, 6, 8, divide by 4.

00:12That's gonna be 1, 4, 9, 2.

00:16I am the world's fastest human calculator.

00:18I'm Neelakant Bhaga Prakash.

00:24A man buying 20 watermelons.

00:26A person trying to measure the height of a building from 50 meters away.

00:30I don't think people are that way.

00:36There is no day which goes by without you using the Pythagoras theorem.

00:39Maybe you not yourself are.

00:41But without trigonometry there is no Wi-Fi, there is no 5G,

00:44there is no internet connectivity, there is no calling.

00:47What's a swimmer's favorite kind of math?

00:52Freestyle.

00:53Dive Asian.

00:55My shirt has been disbarred.

01:13It's almost like the superhero Flash from DC.

01:17Everything around you slows down and you're quick and you're in zone.

01:20How do you solve any equation?

01:24Multiply both sides by 0.

01:35I was one of those children who were asked to do speed maths calculations

01:40in front of people to sort of show off your ability.

01:44If there's anything which I'm bad at, I think it's art.

01:54I really struggle drawing a circle which looks nice.

02:02In the next 6 years I went on to break a bunch of world records.

02:10Will you become Shakuntala Devi?

02:14No.

02:28That's when I also got celebrated as the person who broke Shakuntala Devi's record

02:32because that happened a while ago.

02:34This is 3276, 1147, 6853, 858.

02:44The single worst thing, I think it's assuming that you're always up for calculation.

02:54I think I've seen a lot of people fling millions and millions of questions at me

02:58once every time saying, you'll wake me up in the night.

03:02It's not like I'm going to answer you what 672 multiplied by 873 is in a minute

03:06because I'm not in that zone and it's fine.

03:15Where we teach children of the ages 6 to 16 how to become quicker and better at maths.

03:21At least I'm on my journey to change how millions of children learn mathematics.