Four-year-old becomes UK’s youngest Mensa member

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Four-year-old becomes UK’s youngest Mensa member

By Yaron Steinbuch
January 23, 2023

This 4-year-old British boy puts us all to shame.

High-achieving Teddy Hobbs has become the UK’s youngest member of Mensa — after he taught himself to read as a toddler and can count to 100 in seven languages.

The brainy boy’s mom, Beth Hobbs, of Portishead, North Somerset, said he learned to read when he was just 26 months old “by watching children’s television and copying the sounds of letters,” the BBC reported.

“He started tracing the letters and so when we sent him back to nursery after COVID lockdown we told them we thought he’d taught himself how to read,” she told the outlet.

“We had a phone call back from the nursery, who’d sent a pre-school teacher to check, who said, ‘Yes, he can read!’” Hobbs, 31, said.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/01/23/four-year-old-becomes-uks-youngest-mensa-member/