Aaryan Shukla
Aaryan Shukla is the defending champion of the premier international event — the Mental Calculation World Cup- and represents India in international competitions. He has been practicing mental math and calculation since the age of 6 years old and won the Mental Calculation World Cup in 2022 at an age of just 12 years old!
Aaryan is also the youngest ever winner of the Mind Sport Olympiad Mental Calculations event. At the 2022 MCWC he finished first in Square Roots and Multiplication and third in Addition. Aaryan holds the record MCWC performance in both square roots and multiplication.
Aaryan also performed an astonishing calculation feat at MCWC 2022 — multiplying two 20 digit numbers in 105 seconds — a time unofficially improved upon later. This involves calculating 400 multiplication products and nearly 400 addition sums all while working with numbers so big that the answer ends up far into the undecillions! In February 2024, Aaryan set the Guinness Book of World Records record for Flash Anzan, adding 50 five-digit numbers in 25.19 seconds at an event in Milan.
Aaryan is now beginning to focus on the field of mathematics and currently plans to pursue mathematics or aerospace engineering in the future.