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Portishead boy joins Mensa after teaching himself to read aged two (BBC News)

Teddy, from Portishead, now four, can also count to 100 in six non-native languages.

Teddy was made a member of Mensa when he was three years old, making him the youngest current member of the organisation in the UK. "We had a phone call back from the nursery, who'd sent a pre-school teacher to check, who said 'yes he can read!'" "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 said.

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British boy who taught himself to read aged two joins Mensa (The Guardian)

Teddy Hobbs, four, from Somerset, is UK's youngest member of high-IQ-score club.

“I was worried about him being able to sit in front of a laptop for an hour, but he absolutely loved it,” his mother said. “And we will keep it that way for as long as we can. It was times tables for a while – that was a very intense period – then countries and maps and learning to count in different languages,” she told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

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Boy, three, who can count in seven languages becomes Britain's ... (The Independent)

A three-year-old who can read and count in seven languages has become Britain's youngest Mensa member. Teddy Hobbs managed to gain entry to the exclusive ...

“He is beginning to notice though. “To be honest it’s a total fluke really that he got in. “We were a bit like ‘pardon?’. He’ll even do word searches to calm down. “It’s hard to explain that to him when he’s so young, especially when he knows things like that there is a war in Ukraine - so he asks if that is why we see Ukraine flags. We never aimed to get him in, and even when we had him assessed, that was so that we could help him when he starts school in September - we never planned on getting him in to MENSA.

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Are you smarter than a three-year-old? Take this Mensa quiz to see ... (Daily Mail)

Clever Teddy Hobbs, of Portishead, has managed to bag himself a spot in Mensa aged just three years and nine months. Now, we have put together a test to see ...

What are the words? Add another letter to give the word to fit the third clue and finally another letter to give a word to fit the fourth clue. a) 288 The square of the number is multiplied by 2. Replace the blanks in the following sentence with two five-letter words. On each row place a letter that can be substituted for the second letter of the words either side. Add one letter to this word to give a word to fit the second clue. Replace the vowels in each group of letters to form six connected words. Replace the blanks in this sentence with two words. The same nine letters must be used for both words. In a supermarket, the first 25 customers of the day purchased an average of two items each. After a further 15 customers, the average number of items purchased by each customer rose to eight. Take the quiz and see how you do...

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Three-year-old becomes Britain's youngest Mensa member (LADbible)

A toddler has become Britain's youngest Mensa member after smashing an IQ test and shocking his parents. Teddy Hobbs from Portishead, Somerset can read ...

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Four-year-old becomes UK's youngest Mensa member (New York Post)

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 ...

But more recently he’s gotten into play dough, which is great,” Hobbs said, The Times of London reported. That’s all any parent would wish for,” she added. “We’re not sure how he ended up this way, my husband and I are not linguists — so we always joke that the embryologist must have slipped a needle or something to make him this way,” Hobbs said. “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. 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,” 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.

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Child, 3, joins Mensa after teaching himself to read and count in ... (Yahoo Lifestyle UK)

Toddler Teddy Hobbs, who taught himself to read aged two, has become one of the youngest people in the world to join Mensa. (Beth Hobbs/SWNS).

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At four years old, Teddy has become the UK's youngest member of ... (SBS)

Teddy Hobbs taught himself how to read at the age of two. He's now a member of the exclusive global society known for its brain power.

And so we phoned the health visitor and said, 'look, I think he's teaching himself how to read'." And we just assumed that was his thing and that was fine and that that would be the end of it," she said. "He could count to 100 before he was two, in English.

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Four-year-old from Somerset becomes Mensa's youngest ever ... (ITV News)

ITV News Correspondent Rupert Evelyn meets 4-year-old child genius Teddy Hobbs. At just four years old Teddy Hobbs has become the youngest ever member of ...

It was one of the biggest news stories of our time - and it's still not over. With fresh revelations from our Number 10 sources, in their own words, listen to the inside story... To join Mensa, applicants must demonstrate an IQ in the top two per cent of the population in a recognised IQ test.

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