Aaryan giving thumbs up in front of calculators

Aaryan Shukla

Age: 14
Home country: India
Special skill: Human calculator

Hey, my name is Aaryan and numbers are my superpower. I can solve just about any calculation in seconds, without using a calculator – just my brain! That’s how I smashed not 1, not 2, but 6 world records! 🤓 Who knew maths could be this cool?

Aaryan with crossed arms

How it all started…

I started practising Mental Maths when I was 6 years old.

Mental maths is when you do calculations in your head without writing anything down or using a calculator… It’s like having a secret calculator inside your BRAIN! 🧠 

After about 6-8 months, people started noticing how fast and good I was at it – soon enough, I started participating in competitions!

I might be naturally good at this but, like most things in life, you need to work HARD to truly succeed…

So I practised every day for about 2-3 hours and, when I’m preparing for a competition, I increase it to about 4-5 hours.

Practice makes perfect! ✨

My world record titles

I broke all these world records:

  • Fastest time to mentally add 100 4-digit numbers - 30.9 sec
  • Fastest time to mentally add 200 4-digit numbers - 1 min 9.68 sec
  • Fastest time to mentally add 50 5-digit numbers - 18.71 sec
  • Fastest time to mentally divide a 20-digit number by a 10-digit number (set of 10) - 5 min 42 sec 
  • Fastest time to mentally multiply 10 sets of 2 5-digit numbers - 51.69 sec
  • Fastest time to mentally multiply 10 sets of 2 8-digit numbers - 2 min 35.41 sec

I cannot explain what happens inside my head, I just do it naturally. Basically, it’s so fast that you can’t think.

Aaryan Shukla

Aaryan comic

Becoming a comic-book hero

I appeared in Guinness World Records 2026 as the hero of my very own comic-book strip!

This illustration was designed by Brian Williamson.

Aaryan with Adjudicator

Inside the world of record breaking...

I won the Mental Calculation World Cup and it felt so amazing to represent India at a global stage! 

So, once that dream had come true, Guinness World Records was my next target. I was super focussed and hungry to achieve it. 😎 

Breaking the records, of course, is NOT easy. I need to focus during each and every attempt and especially when I’m doing it on stage in front of large audiences, the challenge is even bigger.

I get nervous, but I can’t let that stop me – and you shouldn’t either! 💪

In order to keep the balance, relaxing is important. Yoga helps me to keep calm and focused!

Aaryan Shukla

Aaryan with all the certificates

Global Mental Calculators Association

It may come as a surprise, but there are a few other ‘Human Calculators’ like me around the world – you just need to know where to find them! 🌎 

That’s why I became one of the founding board members of the Global Mental Calculators Association (GMCA), even though I’m one of the youngest ones in the group.

My job is to spread the word about GMCA in India, meet new mental calculators, and become friends with them.

It’s nice to have friends you share the same passions with. 🙂

I don’t know what the future holds for me, but…

I’m super proud to be Officially Amazing!