By the time Teddy Hobbs was 2-years-old, he could count to 100. By the age of 4, he could do this in seven different languages.
He has also apparently taught himself to read.
The Somerset, England youngster’s incredible intelligence landed him a spot as the UK’s youngest member of Mensa.
Mensa is a high-IQ society that only accepts people who score in the top 2 percent of the general population when taking a supervised IQ test.
The youngest overall member is a 2-and-a-half-year-old from the U.S. named Isla McNabb who lives in Kentucky.
Teddy took the test and was accepted into the group when he was 3-years-and-7-months-old.
Mom said he loved sitting for the hour-long test.
Teddy’s parents learned of their son’s high IQ when he received an assessment before starting school.
The tot taught himself to read by watching TV and playing on his tablet at the age of 2.
His parents didn’t even realize it at the time. They just thought he was making sounds while playing with the tablet.
They later realized that those sounds were Teddy counting in Mandarin.
Teddy’s mom, Beth, said that her son will fixate on a topic for a few months before moving on.
He went from numbers to times tables, countries and maps, then learning to count in different languages.
Teddy’s IQ score places him in the 99.5 percentile for his age.
However, Teddy is largely unaware of his level of intelligence. His parents say they hope to keep it that way for as long as possible.
“He’s starting to figure out now that his friends can’t read and he’s a bit like ‘why?’ But it’s really important for us to keep him grounded. If he can do these things, fine. But he sees it as just ‘OK, well I can read but my friend can run faster than me. We’ve all got our individual talents,'” Beth said.
But it’s hard to ignore the fact that Teddy isn’t like other kids.
When his mom asks him what he’s making out of Play-Doh, he tells her he’s “cutting a shape of Kenya.”
“Teddy has done all of this himself. When we go out and give him an option of a treat, he wants a book rather than chocolate,” Beth said.
Teddy loves reading Harry Potter books.
Though he might not be the typical 4-year-old boy, he is still very much a 4-year-old boy.
“He’s absolutely a normal four-year-old boy,” Beth said. “He finds poo really funny.”
Beth says that she and her husband aren’t quite sure where Teddy, who was conceived via in-vitro fertilization, got his intelligence fun.
They sometimes joke that the embryologists may have “slipped a needle” or something to make him so incredibly smart.
There are some challenges to having a child so intelligent.
Spelling things out they don’t want the kids to hear is out of the question. Nothing gets past Teddy and he remembers everything.
Learn more about this brilliant little boy’s story in the video below.
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