An 11-year-old British boy may be smarter than Albert Einstein after scoring an impressive 162 on an intelligence test.
Kevin Sweeney got the highest-possible score on a Mensa test, scoring higher than the likes of Stephen Hawking who has an IQ of 160. Although Albert Einstein never officially took an IQ test, his is believed to have been the same.
The child genius travelled from the small village of Upchurch to the Quaker Meeting House in Edinburgh where he took the test and was then invited to join Mensa, Metro UK reported.
There were no other children at the test, just adults.
"We thought he might get overwhelmed being with all adults, but he was just chatting away to everyone saying 'Hi, I'm Kevin'," Kevin's father Eddie Sweeney told the outlet.
Kevin, who has autism, is an avid fan of quizzes and game shows such as The Chase.
Eddie said he was "always really clever" and learnt the periodic table at six years old and was reading before he started school.
"We always told people he’s a genius, and I don't use that word lightly," Eddie told Metro UK.
Mensa is the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world and is open to people who score at the 8th percentile or higher on a standardised, supervised and approved intelligence test.
