Samuel Engel
Samuel Engel is a 33 year old American attorney. Sam’s first calculation contest was at 27 years old and he has top-6 performances at the last three Mental Calculation World Cups, taking second in multiplication in 2022 — where he was the top overall Western competitor — and finishing third in versatility in 2018. He has an unofficial personal best in Memoriad multiplication of 124 seconds! (8 digit by 8 digit, 10 questions)
Sam has translated his extraordinary brain processing speed to non-quantitative endeavors, earning degrees in political science, philosophy, and business law, and completing 95 university courses by the age of 24. Sam is a California attorney who works for the federal government and is the father to a 2-year old daughter and baby son, who he hopes can share his love of numbers.
Sam finished 7th in Season 1 of Calculation League.