Yusuf Shah, a British Muslim boy just at the age of 11, took the Mensa IQ test on a whim and outperformed geniuses Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking by receiving the highest score imaginable on the Mensa test.
The UK boy scored 162 marks on the IQ test while Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking are estimated to have had IQs of around 160, a report said.
Achieving the maximum IQ for under-18s, he is in the top one percentile of the population.
Yusuf said that he decided to take the Mensa test after constantly being told how smart he was by his friends.
“Everyone at school thinks I am very smart, and I have always wanted to know if I was in the top 2% of the people who take the test,” the sixth-grader Yusuf Shah said.
Year Six student Yusuf hopes to study mathematics at Cambridge or Oxford and said he loves doing anything that stimulates his brain.
Yusuf told the Metro that he loves doing anything that stimulates his brain and enjoys sudoku puzzles and solving Rubik’s cubes.
The math whiz began playing with the iconic cubes in January and cracked them in just one month.
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To celebrate the achievement, Yusuf went to Nando’s for a meal with his parents and two younger brothers Zaki and Khalid.
“I was so proud. He is the first person to take the Mensa test in the family,” his mother said.
She added: “I was actually a little concerned too. He has always gone into a hall full of kids to take tests.
“We thought he might be intimidated by the adults at the center. But he did brilliantly.
“I still tell him, ‘your dad is still smarter than you.’ We take it all light-heartedly,” Sana said, adding that she insisted ‘Even if you are talented, you have to be the hardest worker.”
Younger brother Khalid, aged eight, is also hoping to take the Mensa test when he’s older.
Ma Sha Allah