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South African teen Stiaan Scheepers is ‘one of the best human calculators in the world’

Whizz-kid Stiaan Scheepers was awarded the bronze medal when he was placed third in the 2022 Junior Mental Calculation World Championships held in Bielefeld in Germany recently.

Described as ‘one of the best human calculators in the world’ – and not for the first time either – Scheepers is a product of the education franchise A+Students with which he enrolled when he was just three-years-old.

Now at 13-years-old, Scheepers has chalked up multiple achievements including runner-up at the 2018 and 2019 World Cups, as well as taking seventh and 10th places in previous World Cups including the Champion of Champion awards in international abacus’ mental arithmetic competitions.

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