Hugh: 11-Year Old British Boy Gets Highest Possible Score on IQ Test, Beating Einstein and Hawking

Certified genius at 11? A young British boy named Yusuf Shah just racked up the highest possible score on a Mensa IQ test and is being hailed as a genius at the age of just 11-years old. Yusuf’s score of 162 beats out some of the most famous minds in history, including Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein, who were both estimated to have intelligence quotients of 160. Mensa, the international society of high-IQ people, accept anyone with intelligence in top two percentile of the population have since invited the boy to join. In his spare time, Yusuf enjoys solving Rubik’s Cubes and sudoku puzzles. When prompted for a reaction about his historic IQ score, Yusuf said, “it feels special to have a certificate for me and about me,” then adorably added, “I also never thought I would be on the news.”