Byjus Young Genius Champions: Jayadithya Shetty, Avantika Kambli, Chirag Rathi

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Mumbai: Jayadithya Shetty, who hails from Mumbai, who is just 11, won the famous Memoriad Turkey Open Championship, 2019. The championship is one of the most sort after competition in the field of Maths, Memory, mental maths and speed reading. He now holds the world records in Kids category in Mental Division 10 Digits by 5 Digits and Binary Digits in 5 Minutes.

“I’m extremely happy to be awarded as a Young Genius as a recognition of my achievements and am thankful to the esteemed jury and Byjus for creating such a beautiful show,” he says. “I enjoyed interacting the very Gracious host Anand and Guest Soha Ali Khan.”

He is proud of the beautiful Trophy and is excited to use the 1 years Byjus Subscription he has been awarded with. Jayadithya surprised Soha Ali Khan by correctly guessing which day of the week it was from a random date – simply from a calculation.

Avantika has participated in mental calculation championships in Germany, Dubai, Turkey, and Singapore making India proud. In the recent Dubai Mental Mathematics International Championship, she won the Youngest Achievers Award; with Silver medals in two categories.

On the show, Avantika stunned the guest Soha Ali Khan by solving a Rubik’s cube while hula-hooping.Chirag Rathi is currently 15 years old, and has the ability to add, subtract and multiply numbers upto 20 crore so far. He can calculate Tables upto 40 Crore and square and square root, cube and cube root upto 100 crore. And he can do this within a couple of seconds.

Chirag is the child of a farmer from a small village. Given his prodigious ability with number he is already drawing comparisons to legendary mathematicians such as Shakuntala Devi.

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