Naw. He's either the anime protagonist, or he's the one overpowered old timer who's either a mentor, a completely non-existent background character, or the final boss they'll never actually get to fight
Not really. He seems to have a really healthy relationship with the game based on the fact he only practices when he wants to, not like the other competitors
Nigel is a crazy scrabble player. To add, during the Spanish tournament, there is a game called duplicates. Everyone gets the same tiles and tried to find the best scoring words. Nigel scored the only 100% mastery in that, twice.
And the funniest reason that he lost the first game is because someone is blocking his sight but he didn't bother to ask him to move out of the way cuz it's "just a game" according to him!
its different to be skilled and to be cultured. the statement is likely made cause nigel is not a spanish speaker. i think, if you were a culinary expert or a 5 star chef, youd feel a little humiliated if a chemist won against you in a cooking competition because they studied exactly how to produce specific flavourful compounds. impressed? sure. humiliated? probably.
@@SporkleBM well a chef who was fully confident, mature, and from a culture where that wasn't seen as innately humiliating, might see it as an opportunity to learn new ideas from the chemist. However, that would probably be about one chef in 50. And I might be optimistic since you specified a competition and many competitors also put their egos on the line.
@@SporkleBM well then doesn’t that make room for improvement? To learn from what you’ve experienced? If you felt humiliated from that type of loss then you needed the humbling honestly.
@ZaeOSWS but it's still wrong to compare it. A chemist who at least tried to make delicious food but basing on chemistry it's totally something a chef could learn from. This dude doesn't even know the words he make. He can't make a sentence in Spanish even if his life depend on it. Or in french. Yet he can win over a lot of people who not only speak the lenguage native or foreign but also try and learn as many words as possible. This people probably also know the meaning of the words they write. And this dude just... does the barely minimum but hardcore and wins
What people not engrossed in the world of Scrabble often gloss over is that he's not just a memory monster, but literally every aspect of his game is far ahead of everyone else. He consistently plays moves that take the most advanced Scrabble engines more time to solve than regular tournament games even last. He consistently plays perfect endgames -- making about 40 times fewer mistakes than the literal second best players in the world (the average top 10 ranked player made a mistake every 2.14 moves, but Nigel made a mistake every 83.55 moves). Like the Spanish press stated: this man is extraterrestrial.
What do you mean by advanced moves that computer engines don't see...I understand he memorizes words but what else do you mean by the moves he makes etc..
@MegaGamer-w1u My thoughts are he is both. He did what he needed to do. He memorized how the words are spelled, not used. He demonstrates his intelligence by using the advanced moves, showing he can adapt to different situations.
@@NTom1019the placement of words, maximizing points on letters, planning ahead to set the board up, anticipating what your opponent could do... things like that.
@@Conofivedude I think they’re just another bot. They’ve commented in each thread I’ve seen so far, all the same thing. Each time someone replies with something along the lines of “wtf, are you stupid”… but they still reply. They’re learning.
@@inkyisdreamingnah bro, he's not a bot. he's just a random troller who spams bot on every comment he sees. well, he is not a bot, he just likes to act like one to seek attention. real bots still haven't learned to reply to people. like him, so dw.
No. No it really wouldn't be. Becoming a doctor is about more than memorizing words. Just because he has a party trick where he can memorize the spelling of a word doesn't mean he can do jack with it... outside of winning at Scrabble.
@@thedorkone1516 Because he can memorize words perfectly without even knowing how to speak the language. Now imagine the amount of historical facts he can memorize. What are you trying to prove? You sound so bitter lmao
he memorized spanish dictionary not French, English is more than half French words so it's quite easy to learn French and vise versa if you know english
thats not how the file system works? knowing the word exists isnt the same as understanding what the word means or how it sounds or the context in how it is to be used. maybe if he memorized a translation dictionary then he could "accidently" trick the file system into learning how to at least write the language and use it in context better than native speakers.
Memorizing a sequence of letters is far easier than knowing what every sequence actually means Memorize this sequence of letters: MASOLIF. Commit it to memory, now close your eyes and see if you can remember how it is spelled. That’s a pretty easy task, wouldn’t you say? That’s what he did, just a bunch of times
As a polyglot, vocabulary is maybe 20% of learning a language and basically never the hardest part. He'd probably be really good at learning languages bc of the other skills being as elite at scrabble as he is requires
he only remembers the words not their definitions. that is how he memorizes the dictionary so fast, about 50% of it is definitions which he doesn't need to waste time memorizing.
I honestly feel like not actually speaking the language *helps* Nigel win. When you speak a language, the first words that pop into your head will be ones you use or see often. As a scrabble player, you obviously will have a larger list of high-letter or high-value words, but it still is influenced by familiarity. Nigel, however, doesn’t have that problem. He does not speak the language, so there’s no barrier of familiarity to overcome. He only knows which words are high value, not which words are common. It makes perfect sense that he’d go in and use words and/or think of moves that the native speakers never would. They cannot predict him, because he is coming in with a perspective they can never understand. Of course, this is also true in reverse, but it’s easy to see that Nigel has an advantage here, and one that very few people could ever use. Memorising the dictionary of a language you don’t speak is no easy feat, obviously. Edit to add because some people are missing my point in the comments: Yes he won in English first, yes he’s a genius with an eidetic memory. I’m not denying that he’s incredibly talented. However, in my comment I wasn’t really focusing on his English competition victories. Obviously he speaks English, but it wasn’t my point. I’m just pointing out that when it comes to him winning in French and Spanish, he may have had an advantage that I hadn’t heard anyone talk about before. He also had an advantage in English, that being his intelligence and memory, and he probably memorised that dictionary too, and likely was able to somewhat avoid the problem of familiarity due to his intelligence, but I can’t prove that now, can I? His memory and intelligence obviously did not change when he competed in French and Spanish. It even helped him to memorise the dictionaries in the first place, which I (admittedly vaguely) pointed out at the end of my original comment by saying very few people could do what he did. Basically, him winning in English first, his intelligence, and his eidetic memory don’t change my point. The latter two are just bonus advantages, and the first one doesn’t prevent my theory from being true for Spanish or French. This being impossible to apply to his English victories doesn’t equal it being impossible for the others. Also it’s entirely possible that I’m wrong! I believe this to be true, but I don’t know the man and I’m just some guy in a TH-cam comment section saying things with zero research behind it. Educated guesses are not scientifically proven. Also sorry this got so long; I’m somewhat incapable of being concise (which is why this is an edit and not a reply lol). I just hope I worded everything clearly and didn’t come across as rude!
He is on the spectrum, hence he basically never gives interviews, and he has an idetic memory so he can just memorize the words and not know their meaning at all.
If he manages to learn Chinese, then we cooked edit: you’re right scrabble does not contain any sort of languages that are based on hieroglyphics instead of letter based, i’m just saying, if Scrabble did contain this sort of version then if that man manages to learn, we’re all cooked
On the flip side, the more complex the game, the better humans are compared to computers. There is no way for a human to beat a computer at a simple game. But a complex game, computers can't brute calculate everything so humans have a chance.
Nigel is known for making a lot of moves that are technically lower scoring on the immediate turn but open up massive scoring combos for his next turn. The computers for scrabble generally struggle to make those moves because they could be blocked by an opponent, so the computer defaults to the highest scoring move on that one turn very often
i feel like if they used some sort of machine leraning and trained it by playing it against real players the computer would be much better at making calculated risks like that, and maybe they could finally build an opponent for this guy lmao
@@CHLOCHLOLP Basically, the best scrabble computers *can* make these moves, but simply won't unless it's pretty sure the tiles the other player has can't block his combo spot he opens with the lower scoring move, which only tends to happen in the very late game when the bag is getting small
People would be far less impressed by what computers can do if they realized how programming works and had a few code junky friends. At the end of the day computers can only make decisions based on the parameters some fat dude in a Hawaiian shirt set for it.
In scrabble we can say that he is the true definition of a “Goat”. He has mastered the game that even a computer has seem to fail. And he doesn’t even do interviews.
It makes sense. Native Spanish speakers learned their language with the purpose of communicating. Once you know a few words, you then have the burden of learning how to use them. This man is not concerned with any of that, just memorising letter patterns. Probably couldn't string the words into a sentence, or pronounce them, or even know what they mean. Plus, when he reads the dictionary, he's also choosing to retain the words containing high value letters Q, Z, etc.
He might not be memorizing words longer than 9 or 10 letters. But he probably did memorize all the words shorter than that. At Nigel's level, you need to know as many words as possible, not just the ones with high-value letters. For example, if your opponent plays an invalid word, it's up to you to challenge it (the referee will say nothing); if you don't, the word stays on the board even though it's invalid. Nigel successfully challenged several invalid words and never incorrectly challenged a valid word.
You have it backwards. Native speakers have it much, much easier, because they've already had decades to learn the language, by actually using it. They only need to memorize a subset of high scoring words, to add to their existing vocabulary. Try memorizing even just 100 words in a language you don't know to see how difficult it is to remember them without using them...
Can you imagine learning a entire dictionary of a language that you don’t understand so if challenged to use it in a sentence you 🤷♂️. I bet he didn’t give a interview when he won the spelling bee in elementary either! He’s thinking “You peasants! I will not sink to your level and use my voice in this vile language! Come communicate with me after you see Musk and get your brain chip implanted!”
I don’t know the guy, but I understand him. He’s not showing up to win for any reason other than to push himself. He really does not care what you or I think about him and his achievements. Probably doesn’t even like people, just likes showing up once in a while to be a badass in his area of expertise before melting away once again. Respect.
Dude is the definition of a madlad. Memories an entire language, doesn't learn a single word from it then proceed to win championships all because bro got bored. You can't convince me that this is not peak madlad performance.
I can only imagine the spanish/French player seeing some crazy obscure word only spoken outloud twice, once by the creator and a second time by the dictionary editor Player: What does that mean? Nigel: 🤷🏽♂️
He is like those characters from anime and manga that are absolute monsters at what they do naturally, that they cannot be imitated through training or hard work(E.G. Gojo, Kenpachi, Arima, Kumogi)
No. He clearly trained and worked hard to get to the point where he is able to do this. To call it natural is to completely discount the work he put in and is quite disrespectful
Even just memorizing the dictionary doesn't explain all of his skill, there are other eccentric people who've done that but they still have other advanced peers they struggle to beat in Scrabble. He's just that good at the gameplay itself, the dictionary memorization just adds to it.
The native spanish speakers not understanding that their own language is a romance language derived from Latin just like french makes this even funnier.
@@Axolotl446 Also French is a language derived from Latin, but nobody consideres Quebec people as latinos, or the Quebec region as part of Latino-America. In regards to Brazil have not seen Brazilians calling themselves 'Latinos'. So my take is that Latino, is mainly a replacement word for Hispanic or Hispano a way of distance yourselves from your Spanish past after the independences.
I watched a video a bit back which explained for people who don't know competitive scrabble, just how crazy Nigel's win in the French Tournament was. It took 20 or 30 minutes to get across just how insane this actually is, and how completely out of this league he is compared to every other top scrabble player. I was fascinated, definitely worth looking into
But Spanish is like French. They're literally part of the same linguistic family. If you learn Latin you can pretty much figure out all the romance languages.
My thoughts exactly. As someone who took Latin for seven years, I basically automatically know a little bit of all the Romance languages. Only in written form though.
Mates.. Spanish is even easier than French (we don’t have silent letters except for the h, we’re phonetically consistent which is makes it easier to memorize, ect). How the f*ck did they not expect him to win???
But that is probably the reason spanish Scrabble is harder than french Scrabble. A silent letter still count as a letter, which gives points. So with how many silent letters there are in french words, I guess an average french word just gives you more points
they did expect him to win lol, they would be stupid not to. i think he just made that part up for dramatic effects or something also, nigel does NOT care about phonetics. he doesn’t know how to pronounce the words. he literally called out scores like 32 as “tres dos” because he couldn’t bother memorizing numbers
Scrabble doesn’t require knowing grammar, conjugation or sentence structure, just individual words. Not to minimize this guy’s amazing feats; he’s remarkable.
I do think it slightly rewards conjugation, as knowing what prefixes or suffixes hook onto which words is vital. Nouns take S hooks so knowing parts of speech is important, which also means you must memorize irregular nouns, etc. You’re right that it’s still a lot more in the abstract than conversational grammar though!
This guy is truly on a villain arc we’ve never seen before! He just turns up destroys your best and keeps moving until next time 😂 I’m here for it may his reign continue for many years
Imagine so being GOATED that even the computers trained with all the knowledge gathered from humanity started struggling against him. He TRULY transcended from being human.
“Spanish isn’t like French” Spanish and French having around 75% of the same words Edit:mb yall i see a few of you guys saying that this isn’t true but i more meant that they are similar so yea. Sorry! :)
IMO the word structure is different, and of course numbers and sentence structure, but that shouldn’t matter in scrabble. Both are Latin languages and I find Spanish to be the easier of the two
@@Ghv5t Exactly. Spanish being close to French is actually about a dialect in Spain called Valenciano (Valencia community). Main Spanish is closer to Latin .
As a Spanish, nope, they are not similar. We have Catalan language in Spain (valencian dialect belongs to Catalan not to Spanish language) who has very similar words due to proximity with France, I speak Catalan and none of us Catalan speakers can understand French and either the other way around.
Computer engines take magnitudes more time just to confirm that Nigel's moves are in fact the best possible ones. Every. Single. Time. Oh, and you forgot to mention that the second place guy went 18-6. He went 23-1, with his one loss being in the final three games of the tournament to a player well down in the order. There will never be another Scrabble player like Nigel Richards.
That's only because they haven't trained the Alphago model on scrabble. Chest and go players thought their games were too complicated for computers too. Next thing you know it's inventing moves human players haven't seen in 3000 years of play.
>Enters Scrabble tournament in a foreign language >Beats all the native speakers >Refuses to elaborate (because he doesn't speak their language) What a legend 😂
"Spanish isn't like french" isn't even that true. Spanish is the 3rd most taught language here in France, and it's widely known as extremely easy to learn specifically because of how similar it is to french. And to a kinda insane extent, the whole language is basically just easy french
seriously, they're very similar, and it wouldn't matter anyway since his strategy is just to memorize the dictionary but knowing French would help a bit if words are the same
Will Anderson has made a few good videos on him. One thing I remember from this world championship, is that one of the moves Nigel made was so difficult that it took a computer/ai/machine 3 HOURS to realize that it was the best play. Also made less mistakes than everyone else in the tournament by a long shot iirc and would've won one of the other events in spanish but messed up a rule or placement of the word (iirc) for the play and received 0 points but the word was the best word and he would've won the other event if he played it
I feel bad for this guy. I think he legitimately WANTS to lose just to prove to himself he can still be challenged. He's fucking One Punch Man for Scrabble.
Prime form of society: Parents telling their children to not believe what they see on TV or internet Beta form of society: USA importing the smartest people from around the world, yet the native citizens being so uneducated that they pull down the countries avg IQ to 10 pts below even china. Worst form of society: People commenting on content like this as though it's legitimate.
>gets accused of cheating >gets tested if his moves are similar to bots >his moves were too complex for the bots >takes over the universe with his skills in scrabble
With a memory like that there is so much he could have done on this earth, and yet he plays scrabble😭 I really love humanity’s thrill of just living just to live
@ Your right but you will have FAR above average intellect. School is literally all about what you remembered the day before so he’d easily have a 5.0 or something crazy if he tried
A few things to note. Someone like him might have pretty narrow interests, and possibly narrow skill sets. I'm not saying this guy is autistic, but this kind of thing is somewhat common in autistic people and the "savant syndrome" is regularly seen as a gift or a superpower but the same people with it might struggle to keep a normal work routine or even do something you would consider simple like doing laundry. I have no clue if any of this is true for this guy. But valuing people based off a narrow skill set is flawed and comes with a lot of abalist beliefs. This is coming from someone who is autistic and people are amazed at certain things I can do and yet are in complete denial of the fact that I struggle to do what are considered simple tasks like make a meal. And it's frustrating when people assign weird values to me based off these imbalances. On the former I am highly valued and gifted, on the latter I am considering a burden to society.
@@Hi_Im_Akwardthank you for sharing your insightful perspective. It saddens me you feel like a burden to society and I hope you at least you have a circle of loved ones surrounding you that are very supportive. As far as society, well, we’ve made progress but we still have a lot of work to do.
That's exaggerated. French and Spanish are in the same family of languages, but they are completely different languages. Just like English and Dutch are in the same family, but English speakers won't understand anything in Dutch without studying it for years. Being in the same family of languages, it helps to some extent to learn it, but that's about it. Anyway, Nigel did not care much about that since he speaks neither French nor Spanish. He instead learned all the 2-to-15- letter words allowed in Scrabble in Spanish, French and English, without knowing their meaning or the grammar. That's how many words he learned: * English: 279,000 words * French: 393,670 words * Spanish: 660,000 words And he learned them exhaustively, so that when an opponent proposes an incorrect wrong, he can call it, which he regularly does in tournaments.
The scariest sentence for any Scrabble player: "Nigel Richards got bored again."
Who's next
I want to see him try Polish :)
Make him do mandarin
make him do finnish
Make him do
Uhh
What birds say
This guy feels like he's one step away from becoming an anime villain if he doesn't find a rival soon.
Naw. He's either the anime protagonist, or he's the one overpowered old timer who's either a mentor, a completely non-existent background character, or the final boss they'll never actually get to fight
Not really. He seems to have a really healthy relationship with the game based on the fact he only practices when he wants to, not like the other competitors
He needs to learn Gungi and face Meruem, beat him, then face Komugi.
Bro is like sukuna right now
Anime is cringe
>Memorizes entire Spanish dictionary
>Beats native speakers in Scrabble
>Refuses to elaborate further
>Starts memorizing another dictionary
>repeat with another language
@Celebrant
>Win another compitition
>PROFIT
>starts memorising another dictionary
"He got bored again"
That statement, when applied to this man, is a threat.
Hope he's not living in a cabin somewhere in Montana.
Nigel is a crazy scrabble player. To add, during the Spanish tournament, there is a game called duplicates. Everyone gets the same tiles and tried to find the best scoring words. Nigel scored the only 100% mastery in that, twice.
And the funniest reason that he lost the first game is because someone is blocking his sight but he didn't bother to ask him to move out of the way cuz it's "just a game" according to him!
@ and also didn’t he write D4 instead of D8 due to the coordinates being different in the Spanish board?
i'm just bored and i decide to play the hardest mode
@@llkurofoxll1013that’s not even funny?
@@adri_isbetterhe’s so good, that we have to glaze him with our juices
You know you're cooked when your opponent doesn't even crack a single smile
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@@locamiGI i think you might be the bot buddy
Why would I be a bot
@@locamiGIcause your saying random BS
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If I was the one guy that won against him, I would be riding that high for the rest of my life.
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Like the guy that won against Senna in a cart race once haha
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That is the definition of a Savant. Exceptional cognitive ability and a intense interest in a particular subject.
I'm like that, but only in my special interests
This is an autism joke, I'm autistic
I'm far from an expert, but I also thought he seemed like a savant.
Not quite unless he has a profound intellectual disability as well. That's what distinguishes savantism from genius.
Savant translates to "knowing" in French. 😂
He has some symptoms of autism.
Don't EVER let this man get bored. EVER. 💀🙏
He looks bored.
On the contrary, keep him bored
He shines when he’s bored
Might dominate the world? 😂
Get this man a girlfriend or boyfriend pls
He is both a man of many words and a man of few words
Underrated
@@StanDemoine1973 indeed
Damnnnn mic drop 🎤
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love this❤
He just casually remembers the WHOLE dictionary of a language, that he doesn't even understand. Peak cinema lol
I assume he is either an idiot savant or has an impeccable eidetic memory.
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Bro is the rainbolt of scrabble
Rainbolt is fake
No such thing as a savant
PLEASE analyze this guy's brain when he dies, dude has clearly unlocked some sort of anime ability
Naw it needs analyzed now 😂
Its just called being a savant, all of our brains can do this.
@Knokos we have no idea just how much we could do if we unlocked just 50% of our brains. The possibilities would be endless
@@StanleyDuboise We do know.
He probably has a photographic memory
Bro's the definition of "A bored man is a dangerous man."
He is a scrabble man just for fun
So.... saitama?
A Board man
More like "an autistic savant"..
@@CTheiaW thats only if youre bad guy
one punch man powerful, but wont hurt you out of boredom
...well considering youre not a bad guy
bro walked away like he wasn't even satisfied, man is the saitama of scrabble
One scribble man
I'll worry when One Word Man starts losing his hair
One Tile Man
GOKUs of different languages are INSECT INFRONT OF SAITAMA
LOL I JUST WATCHED THIS VIDEO, and I told the story to my friend and he's like, "he's the one punch man of scrabble" as I read this comment xD
Once he conquers all human dialects he’s going to Saturn, The Glorpnuk scrabble scene ain’t ready 🗣️💯🔥
and once hes done with the glorpnuk hes going straight for mippleboos at neptune
i hope no controversy in the solar system happens because of this
Obviously he’s then gonna head for the smocklnipts, they don’t know what’s bouta hit them
@kittamitz really man? You're still using the term mipplebboos? God some people can't get past their hatred
Vorp?
When he dies bro is going to challenge god
This man is going to master every language on Earth and still be unable to speak any of them.
Learns a dying language ... becomes the only person to know every word without actually knowing.
That isn't mastery. That's just knowing.
It's not humiliating to lose to someone that's skilled, it's an honour to be considered skilled enough yourself to be matched to them.
Unfortunately, in cultures with machismo and those with "face" they don't think that way and it is a humiliation to lose at all.
its different to be skilled and to be cultured.
the statement is likely made cause nigel is not a spanish speaker.
i think, if you were a culinary expert or a 5 star chef, youd feel a little humiliated if a chemist won against you in a cooking competition because they studied exactly how to produce specific flavourful compounds.
impressed? sure. humiliated? probably.
@@SporkleBM well a chef who was fully confident, mature, and from a culture where that wasn't seen as innately humiliating, might see it as an opportunity to learn new ideas from the chemist.
However, that would probably be about one chef in 50. And I might be optimistic since you specified a competition and many competitors also put their egos on the line.
@@SporkleBM well then doesn’t that make room for improvement? To learn from what you’ve experienced? If you felt humiliated from that type of loss then you needed the humbling honestly.
@ZaeOSWS but it's still wrong to compare it. A chemist who at least tried to make delicious food but basing on chemistry it's totally something a chef could learn from.
This dude doesn't even know the words he make. He can't make a sentence in Spanish even if his life depend on it. Or in french. Yet he can win over a lot of people who not only speak the lenguage native or foreign but also try and learn as many words as possible. This people probably also know the meaning of the words they write. And this dude just... does the barely minimum but hardcore and wins
What people not engrossed in the world of Scrabble often gloss over is that he's not just a memory monster, but literally every aspect of his game is far ahead of everyone else. He consistently plays moves that take the most advanced Scrabble engines more time to solve than regular tournament games even last. He consistently plays perfect endgames -- making about 40 times fewer mistakes than the literal second best players in the world (the average top 10 ranked player made a mistake every 2.14 moves, but Nigel made a mistake every 83.55 moves).
Like the Spanish press stated: this man is extraterrestrial.
What do you mean by advanced moves that computer engines don't see...I understand he memorizes words but what else do you mean by the moves he makes etc..
@MegaGamer-w1u My thoughts are he is both. He did what he needed to do. He memorized how the words are spelled, not used. He demonstrates his intelligence by using the advanced moves, showing he can adapt to different situations.
So what you're telling me is, Nigel is a robot from the future.
@MegaGamer-w1u, by just memorizing all the words but not the actual definition.
@@NTom1019the placement of words, maximizing points on letters, planning ahead to set the board up, anticipating what your opponent could do... things like that.
God nerfed his ambitions to protect us from a world dictatorship
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@@locamiGIwhat
@@Conofivedude I think they’re just another bot. They’ve commented in each thread I’ve seen so far, all the same thing. Each time someone replies with something along the lines of “wtf, are you stupid”… but they still reply.
They’re learning.
@@inkyisdreamingnah bro, he's not a bot. he's just a random troller who spams bot on every comment he sees. well, he is not a bot, he just likes to act like one to seek attention.
real bots still haven't learned to reply to people. like him, so dw.
Honestly I’d trust him to rule the world
god just needs to give Nigel fuckin Elden Ring Boss music and a health bar at this point, dude is ascending beyond human existence any day now.
The one person that won against him must feel like god
Who won against him?
Maria Rosario de la Cruz. She won 529-412.
@@JohnDoe-ti2np Generic ass name, that one.
@@tsnvbuff3still a name
@@tsnvbuff3? What’s wrong with that name
"Spanish isn't like French," is the funniest thing I've heard in a while.
French and Spanish Scrabble have very different strategies. Whole English and French play very similarly
Is English isn’t like German just as funny to you? By your funny-logic it should be.
Study even basic linguistics before you talk shit, Gene
@@conaldeugenepeterson2147why do you have a grapist as your profile pic?
do you think its funny what he did?
do you support what he did to women?
Was about to say pretty much the same thing lol
"Nigel Richards got bored again" is a phrase that strikes fear into the hearts of every Scrabble player around the world
literally copy pasted comment lmao
@@ikicove of who if I may ask?
@ top comment
@@ikicove there's like 4 top comments lol
@ ok lmao whatever you say
"Wanna see me humilate my opponents at a game of scrabble?"
*Obliterates French Scrabble*
"Wanna see me do it again?"
Goated comment.
W comment
I pray his brain is not opened up by scientists like how Einstein's brain was.......
@@limcolin6659 I pray it is. This man needs to be analysed!
This man's memory is insane. Becoming a doctor would literally be a piece of cake for that kind of memory
Bro would be an insane historian as well
Brooooo what would happen if he did mandarin
No. No it really wouldn't be.
Becoming a doctor is about more than memorizing words. Just because he has a party trick where he can memorize the spelling of a word doesn't mean he can do jack with it... outside of winning at Scrabble.
@@uplus9162 How so?
How does knowing how to spell a word in a language you don't speak translate into understanding history?
@@thedorkone1516 Because he can memorize words perfectly without even knowing how to speak the language. Now imagine the amount of historical facts he can memorize.
What are you trying to prove? You sound so bitter lmao
>Wins 5 English championships
>Memorizes French dictionary
>Wins championship twice
>Memorizes Spanish dictionary
>Wins against native Spanish speakers
>Refuses to elaborate
Well, how could he elaborate? He doesn't speak the languages!
he memorized spanish dictionary not French, English is more than half French words so it's quite easy to learn French and vise versa if you know english
> Leaves
> Refuses to elaborate in interview
> Leaves
yeah we saw the video...
*The bigger question is:*
If he can memorise entire dictionaries, why doesn't he just learn the whole language? 😂😂😂
thats not how the file system works?
knowing the word exists isnt the same as understanding what the word means or how it sounds or the context in how it is to be used.
maybe if he memorized a translation dictionary then he could "accidently" trick the file system into learning how to at least write the language and use it in context better than native speakers.
Memorizing a sequence of letters is far easier than knowing what every sequence actually means
Memorize this sequence of letters: MASOLIF. Commit it to memory, now close your eyes and see if you can remember how it is spelled. That’s a pretty easy task, wouldn’t you say?
That’s what he did, just a bunch of times
As a polyglot, vocabulary is maybe 20% of learning a language and basically never the hardest part. He'd probably be really good at learning languages bc of the other skills being as elite at scrabble as he is requires
he only remembers the words not their definitions. that is how he memorizes the dictionary so fast, about 50% of it is definitions which he doesn't need to waste time memorizing.
I honestly feel like not actually speaking the language *helps* Nigel win.
When you speak a language, the first words that pop into your head will be ones you use or see often. As a scrabble player, you obviously will have a larger list of high-letter or high-value words, but it still is influenced by familiarity.
Nigel, however, doesn’t have that problem. He does not speak the language, so there’s no barrier of familiarity to overcome. He only knows which words are high value, not which words are common. It makes perfect sense that he’d go in and use words and/or think of moves that the native speakers never would. They cannot predict him, because he is coming in with a perspective they can never understand. Of course, this is also true in reverse, but it’s easy to see that Nigel has an advantage here, and one that very few people could ever use. Memorising the dictionary of a language you don’t speak is no easy feat, obviously.
Edit to add because some people are missing my point in the comments:
Yes he won in English first, yes he’s a genius with an eidetic memory. I’m not denying that he’s incredibly talented. However, in my comment I wasn’t really focusing on his English competition victories. Obviously he speaks English, but it wasn’t my point.
I’m just pointing out that when it comes to him winning in French and Spanish, he may have had an advantage that I hadn’t heard anyone talk about before.
He also had an advantage in English, that being his intelligence and memory, and he probably memorised that dictionary too, and likely was able to somewhat avoid the problem of familiarity due to his intelligence, but I can’t prove that now, can I?
His memory and intelligence obviously did not change when he competed in French and Spanish. It even helped him to memorise the dictionaries in the first place, which I (admittedly vaguely) pointed out at the end of my original comment by saying very few people could do what he did.
Basically, him winning in English first, his intelligence, and his eidetic memory don’t change my point. The latter two are just bonus advantages, and the first one doesn’t prevent my theory from being true for Spanish or French. This being impossible to apply to his English victories doesn’t equal it being impossible for the others.
Also it’s entirely possible that I’m wrong! I believe this to be true, but I don’t know the man and I’m just some guy in a TH-cam comment section saying things with zero research behind it. Educated guesses are not scientifically proven.
Also sorry this got so long; I’m somewhat incapable of being concise (which is why this is an edit and not a reply lol). I just hope I worded everything clearly and didn’t come across as rude!
Maybe but he won in English first
@@dogedoge5682 😂😂 well played
That's an interesting point
He is on the spectrum, hence he basically never gives interviews, and he has an idetic memory so he can just memorize the words and not know their meaning at all.
Your analogy is confusing but the bottom line is Nigel is such a genius man ever walk on earth.
The most humble guy on earth. Does his job well, wins the competition and leaves in peace.
It’s called autism.
Humble or definition of autistic?
"How did you beat me? You don't even know Spanish"
"I just memorized the Spanish dictionary"
"You WHAT?"
Bro just doing all the side quests at this point
Mans really said: “I’m bored, time to master a random language”😂
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He actually just memorized spelling without learning what any of the words actually meant so he could win Scrabble
@@locamiGIbro, stop calling random people bots for no reason.
Thats the irony though… he doesn’t learn the language though. He just memorizes the words. Not their definitions or uses or pronunciation…
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>shows up
>Doesn't speak language
>Beats linguistic experts
>Refuses to elaborate any further
>Leaves
*destroys
To be fair, he can't elaborate further... He doesn't speak Spanish 😅
>shows up
> copies comment
> why do that
> loss
> Doesn't even look happy about winning
>Cycles everywhere
If he manages to learn Chinese, then we cooked
edit: you’re right scrabble does not contain any sort of languages that are based on hieroglyphics instead of letter based, i’m just saying, if Scrabble did contain this sort of version then if that man manages to learn, we’re all cooked
Manderain chinese
Are u familiar with how scrabble works?)
Hieroglyphical language can't be a part of this game...
@@christophero8522that is NOT how you spell that…
@ shut up
There is pinyin
I'm still learning Spanish, and this dude won an entire Spanish related tournament. *Bows* I, nor anyone for that matter, are worthy.
Beating a computer specifically designed to win at a complex game is crazy
On the flip side, the more complex the game, the better humans are compared to computers. There is no way for a human to beat a computer at a simple game. But a complex game, computers can't brute calculate everything so humans have a chance.
tbf, there is a bit of chance involved and baiting the computer into a corner isnt as impossible as a game with fixed outcomes and parameters.
I saw the headline about "non-spanish speaker wins spanish scrabble" and i went _oh yeah like the guy who did it for french_ love this man sm
Yes if say he's quite like the guy who did this with French lol
His laid back personality is the only thing that is stopping him from world domination at this point
Just remember, if he wanted, he could!
He is a savant dork that would be disposed of if he ever fucked with the elites.
Dobt cobfuse yourself.
Alternate timeline where Meruem actually won and is now just doing the most random bs to entertain himself
Nigel is known for making a lot of moves that are technically lower scoring on the immediate turn but open up massive scoring combos for his next turn. The computers for scrabble generally struggle to make those moves because they could be blocked by an opponent, so the computer defaults to the highest scoring move on that one turn very often
Thanks for explaining what the computer defaulted to. That's interesting
i feel like if they used some sort of machine leraning and trained it by playing it against real players the computer would be much better at making calculated risks like that, and maybe they could finally build an opponent for this guy lmao
@@CHLOCHLOLP Basically, the best scrabble computers *can* make these moves, but simply won't unless it's pretty sure the tiles the other player has can't block his combo spot he opens with the lower scoring move, which only tends to happen in the very late game when the bag is getting small
An alien.
People would be far less impressed by what computers can do if they realized how programming works and had a few code junky friends. At the end of the day computers can only make decisions based on the parameters some fat dude in a Hawaiian shirt set for it.
The “One Punch Man” of scrabble he even shares the same emotions about being the strongest.😔
I had the same thought😂. Bro is literally Saitama
@@kokujin5446The difference is nigel has hair😂😂
@akmalhakim8259 🤣🤣
@@akmalhakim8259Meaning he hasn't reach his full potential! After all he "only" won 23 games out of 24.
@@shiniy5466 the baldness will come with great power 😂😂
Treating a whole language as a side quest is diabolical.
DLC
Twice!
He hasn't really mastered French or Spanish tho.
@@Paulxl Yeah, you can know every word in a language and absolutely nothing about a language's grammar or pronunciation.
@ That was pretty much my point.
Call me when he tries my language, Polish.
You know when Richards gets bored again he may create the cure to cancer 😂
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@locamiGl says the one with the anime profile picture
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2. why you replying to a bot
@@-No-comment-I’m starting to think all those comments saying “bot” are literally just bots themselves
Why would I be a bot
The scrabble grim reaper, making all the national champions fear for their titles.
In scrabble we can say that he is the true definition of a “Goat”.
He has mastered the game that even a computer has seem to fail.
And he doesn’t even do interviews.
It makes sense. Native Spanish speakers learned their language with the purpose of communicating. Once you know a few words, you then have the burden of learning how to use them. This man is not concerned with any of that, just memorising letter patterns. Probably couldn't string the words into a sentence, or pronounce them, or even know what they mean. Plus, when he reads the dictionary, he's also choosing to retain the words containing high value letters Q, Z, etc.
He might not be memorizing words longer than 9 or 10 letters. But he probably did memorize all the words shorter than that. At Nigel's level, you need to know as many words as possible, not just the ones with high-value letters. For example, if your opponent plays an invalid word, it's up to you to challenge it (the referee will say nothing); if you don't, the word stays on the board even though it's invalid. Nigel successfully challenged several invalid words and never incorrectly challenged a valid word.
He also needs to keep in mind the differing letter point values in every language. Like W is 4 in English but 10 points in French.
You have it backwards.
Native speakers have it much, much easier, because they've already had decades to learn the language, by actually using it.
They only need to memorize a subset of high scoring words, to add to their existing vocabulary.
Try memorizing even just 100 words in a language you don't know to see how difficult it is to remember them without using them...
WOW
Thank you so very much for making my world make sense in a very weird way.
@@GonzoTehGreat you did not understand what the comment said.
This guy is like the sport shooter in the Olympics last year. Never flinches, does his thing without even cracking a smile!
Him being 57y.o. makes this even better
It feels like just a random hobby an old person takes up out of boredom
And people wanna pretend autism is a new thing, like all the extremely specific hobbies old people have aren't special interests.
@@theBestElliephant
Right? This is one of the most autistic stories I've ever heard
Can you imagine learning a entire dictionary of a language that you don’t understand so if challenged to use it in a sentence you 🤷♂️. I bet he didn’t give a interview when he won the spelling bee in elementary either! He’s thinking “You peasants! I will not sink to your level and use my voice in this vile language! Come communicate with me after you see Musk and get your brain chip implanted!”
@@theBestElliephantmost people with autism are fools
He has photographic memory with retention
Two things.
That dude is dope.
And it’s not a humiliation to lose to him. Some people are just different bro.
I don’t know the guy, but I understand him.
He’s not showing up to win for any reason other than to push himself. He really does not care what you or I think about him and his achievements. Probably doesn’t even like people, just likes showing up once in a while to be a badass in his area of expertise before melting away once again. Respect.
Dude is the definition of a madlad.
Memories an entire language, doesn't learn a single word from it then proceed to win championships all because bro got bored.
You can't convince me that this is not peak madlad performance.
I can only imagine the spanish/French player seeing some crazy obscure word only spoken outloud twice, once by the creator and a second time by the dictionary editor
Player: What does that mean?
Nigel: 🤷🏽♂️
The Native Spanish speakers fighting for their lives out here in this scrabble tournament, meanwhile its just another day of the week for Nigel lmfao
He is like those characters from anime and manga that are absolute monsters at what they do naturally, that they cannot be imitated through training or hard work(E.G. Gojo, Kenpachi, Arima, Kumogi)
arima kousei?
Saitama
@@thetechnovoidTokyo ghoul, Arima Kishou.
@@thetechnovoid The guy from tokyo ghoul?
No. He clearly trained and worked hard to get to the point where he is able to do this. To call it natural is to completely discount the work he put in and is quite disrespectful
Even just memorizing the dictionary doesn't explain all of his skill, there are other eccentric people who've done that but they still have other advanced peers they struggle to beat in Scrabble. He's just that good at the gameplay itself, the dictionary memorization just adds to it.
Yeah. He sees all the possibilities. Dude is literally smarter the the computers
The native spanish speakers not understanding that their own language is a romance language derived from Latin just like french makes this even funnier.
Their point was that the Spanish Scrabble dictionary is much larger than the French Scrabble dictionary.
@@JohnDoe-ti2npStill not Latin Scrabble. I assume.
@@JohnDoe-ti2npmore words? seems like a target-rich environment
Yeah, as a Mexican, it's WHY central America is "Latin America", because, as you said, Spanish is a love language derived from Latin.
@@Axolotl446 Also French is a language derived from Latin, but nobody consideres Quebec people as latinos, or the Quebec region as part of Latino-America. In regards to Brazil have not seen Brazilians calling themselves 'Latinos'. So my take is that Latino, is mainly a replacement word for Hispanic or Hispano a way of distance yourselves from your Spanish past after the independences.
It's official, No disputes, this guy IS the main character
At this point, he'll probably figure out how to win Scrabble in an alien language
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Might as well go to the alien stage realm
He’d win scrabble in enchantment table language
@@locamiGI you’re writing this everywhere, are you even reading the comments?
Is there a Klingon Scrabble yet? 😂
"23 out of the 24 games" sounds like a soldier coming out alive from war with ptsd
People seem to forget and not understand that he's not doing it to win, but to have fun. The journey was more fun, than the conclusion.
His face definitely looks like the conclusion didn't do it for him. Sure hope he at least enjoyed the journey 😅
I watched a video a bit back which explained for people who don't know competitive scrabble, just how crazy Nigel's win in the French Tournament was. It took 20 or 30 minutes to get across just how insane this actually is, and how completely out of this league he is compared to every other top scrabble player. I was fascinated, definitely worth looking into
But Spanish is like French. They're literally part of the same linguistic family. If you learn Latin you can pretty much figure out all the romance languages.
My thoughts exactly. As someone who took Latin for seven years, I basically automatically know a little bit of all the Romance languages. Only in written form though.
My work mates who are from chile told me that if you can speak french or italian you are part way there for spanish already
they said in the sense that Spanish Scrabble have more words
He didnt learn it he just memorized the words
That doesn't matter in scrabble
Mates.. Spanish is even easier than French (we don’t have silent letters except for the h, we’re phonetically consistent which is makes it easier to memorize, ect). How the f*ck did they not expect him to win???
But that is probably the reason spanish Scrabble is harder than french Scrabble. A silent letter still count as a letter, which gives points. So with how many silent letters there are in french words, I guess an average french word just gives you more points
@ but it’s also harder to memorize and easier to make mistakes.
they did expect him to win lol, they would be stupid not to. i think he just made that part up for dramatic effects or something
also, nigel does NOT care about phonetics. he doesn’t know how to pronounce the words. he literally called out scores like 32 as “tres dos” because he couldn’t bother memorizing numbers
The phonetics are irrelevant. He just memorises the dictionary and doesn't care how the words sound.
Not for scrabble since spannish has a far larger scrabble dictionary then both french and english
Scrabble doesn’t require knowing grammar, conjugation or sentence structure, just individual words. Not to minimize this guy’s amazing feats; he’s remarkable.
I do think it slightly rewards conjugation, as knowing what prefixes or suffixes hook onto which words is vital. Nouns take S hooks so knowing parts of speech is important, which also means you must memorize irregular nouns, etc. You’re right that it’s still a lot more in the abstract than conversational grammar though!
Now lets see him use hieroglyphics
This guy is truly on a villain arc we’ve never seen before! He just turns up destroys your best and keeps moving until next time 😂 I’m here for it may his reign continue for many years
Imagine so being GOATED that even the computers trained with all the knowledge gathered from humanity started struggling against him.
He TRULY transcended from being human.
He definitely fails the "I am not a robot" test for sure
@@DigitalHandlenah I bet the test fails before he even touches anything 😂
@@DigitalHandle You mean the robot does?
@ no, i mean that he's so good at scrabble that he may as well fail CAPTCHA.
@@DigitalHandle bro did NOT understand what i meant 😭🙏
That one guy who beat him must be feeling on top of the world right now 😂
Maria Rosario de la Cruz. She won 529-412.
@@JohnDoe-ti2np Thank you for saying her name, friend!
"They thought he couldnt beat them bc spanish was different, little did they know that Nigel Richards was just better than them" is diabolical work 😂
“Spanish isn’t like French”
Spanish and French having around 75% of the same words
Edit:mb yall i see a few of you guys saying that this isn’t true but i more meant that they are similar so yea. Sorry! :)
IMO the word structure is different, and of course numbers and sentence structure, but that shouldn’t matter in scrabble. Both are Latin languages and I find Spanish to be the easier of the two
Nope.
@@Ghv5t Exactly. Spanish being close to French is actually about a dialect in Spain called Valenciano (Valencia community). Main Spanish is closer to Latin .
Maybe it's more accurate to say that the words are cognates rather than the same.
As a Spanish, nope, they are not similar. We have Catalan language in Spain (valencian dialect belongs to Catalan not to Spanish language) who has very similar words due to proximity with France, I speak Catalan and none of us Catalan speakers can understand French and either the other way around.
Computer engines take magnitudes more time just to confirm that Nigel's moves are in fact the best possible ones. Every. Single. Time. Oh, and you forgot to mention that the second place guy went 18-6. He went 23-1, with his one loss being in the final three games of the tournament to a player well down in the order. There will never be another Scrabble player like Nigel Richards.
That's only because they haven't trained the Alphago model on scrabble.
Chest and go players thought their games were too complicated for computers too.
Next thing you know it's inventing moves human players haven't seen in 3000 years of play.
He's a scrabble savant. No one will ever beat him as long as he's alive.
>Enters Scrabble tournament in a foreign language
>Beats all the native speakers
>Refuses to elaborate (because he doesn't speak their language)
What a legend 😂
Bro is playing "English or Spanish" at the highest level.
Are we deadass 💔
Nigel finished the main quest a long time ago. Now he's just on side quests.
Bros fluent in scrabble 😭
Scientists are going to study this man's brain.
Bro is running out of side quests 😭
"Spanish isn't like french" isn't even that true. Spanish is the 3rd most taught language here in France, and it's widely known as extremely easy to learn specifically because of how similar it is to french. And to a kinda insane extent, the whole language is basically just easy french
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seriously, they're very similar, and it wouldn't matter anyway since his strategy is just to memorize the dictionary but knowing French would help a bit if words are the same
Maybe cause they are both romantic languages, which evolved from Latin 😮
Yeah because they both evolved from latin.
@@locamiGIhonestly probably not a bot they have one comment on this channel not hard to check
He is honestly unbeatable his tenacity is contagious
Thanks for the update❤
Your welcome BOT
@@locamiGI what?
I think your a bot@@locamiGI
@@locamiGI dude not everyone is a bot
'He just blew everyone's mind.'
This is will become the Dr. House of Scrabble by 80.
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Bot@@locamiGI
Why would I be a bot
@@locamiGI why would I be a bot
@@locamiGIwhy not, bot
his grand uncle lore must be crazy
Calmly clobbering Stockfish at scrabble. Gotta love him.
Will Anderson has made a few good videos on him. One thing I remember from this world championship, is that one of the moves Nigel made was so difficult that it took a computer/ai/machine 3 HOURS to realize that it was the best play. Also made less mistakes than everyone else in the tournament by a long shot iirc and would've won one of the other events in spanish but messed up a rule or placement of the word (iirc) for the play and received 0 points but the word was the best word and he would've won the other event if he played it
True definition of "I can understand your language but I can not speak it"
Difference of remembering and recalling.
He probably isn't even capable of understanding French nor Spanish.
Well i dont think it applies to him since he probably cant understand it
He doesn't understand any of the words. He only remembers the words as valid strings of letters to be played as a move in the game of scrabble.
Nigel’s brain is hardwired for scrabble lol
I feel bad for this guy. I think he legitimately WANTS to lose just to prove to himself he can still be challenged. He's fucking One Punch Man for Scrabble.
I guess he is the Bobby Fischer of Scrabble.. 🎉
This guy is the final boss and he ain't even in his prime form. What a legend to leave on.
Prime form of society: Parents telling their children to not believe what they see on TV or internet
Beta form of society: USA importing the smartest people from around the world, yet the native citizens being so uneducated that they pull down the countries avg IQ to 10 pts below even china.
Worst form of society: People commenting on content like this as though it's legitimate.
>gets accused of cheating
>gets tested if his moves are similar to bots
>his moves were too complex for the bots
>takes over the universe with his skills in scrabble
Nigel richards: “i’m bored”
Scrabble community: “😶🌫️”
You see that haircut anywhere you better believe they’re gonna win
Wait for Latvian - it's the craziest choice, unless he wants to compete officially
I wanna see him in an arabic tournament
I wouldn’t expect it since it’s a different alfabet
@appelmoes3433
Ouh, right, right right...
Then use Latvian knot-on-string script
@@appelmoes3433 Tas ir latviešu alfabēts
I want him to do it in german
If aliens challenged us in a game of scrabble, this guy will be our saviour
I don't know. I think when he casually beats the aliens in their own language they might get angry.
**This is why I love your channel so much.**
That one dude in class who speaks better English than his native language:
With a memory like that there is so much he could have done on this earth, and yet he plays scrabble😭 I really love humanity’s thrill of just living just to live
Having a good memory doesn't mean supreme intellect.
@ Your right but you will have FAR above average intellect. School is literally all about what you remembered the day before so he’d easily have a 5.0 or something crazy if he tried
A few things to note. Someone like him might have pretty narrow interests, and possibly narrow skill sets. I'm not saying this guy is autistic, but this kind of thing is somewhat common in autistic people and the "savant syndrome" is regularly seen as a gift or a superpower but the same people with it might struggle to keep a normal work routine or even do something you would consider simple like doing laundry.
I have no clue if any of this is true for this guy. But valuing people based off a narrow skill set is flawed and comes with a lot of abalist beliefs. This is coming from someone who is autistic and people are amazed at certain things I can do and yet are in complete denial of the fact that I struggle to do what are considered simple tasks like make a meal. And it's frustrating when people assign weird values to me based off these imbalances. On the former I am highly valued and gifted, on the latter I am considering a burden to society.
@@Hi_Im_Akwardthank you for sharing your insightful perspective. It saddens me you feel like a burden to society and I hope you at least you have a circle of loved ones surrounding you that are very supportive. As far as society, well, we’ve made progress but we still have a lot of work to do.
@ School is all about Memory, and I’m not just talking about grade 1-12 I’m talking about College as well
“nothing like french” bro they are both romance languages from the same source. they’re everything like each other, couldn’t be more similar
That's exaggerated. French and Spanish are in the same family of languages, but they are completely different languages. Just like English and Dutch are in the same family, but English speakers won't understand anything in Dutch without studying it for years. Being in the same family of languages, it helps to some extent to learn it, but that's about it.
Anyway, Nigel did not care much about that since he speaks neither French nor Spanish. He instead learned all the 2-to-15- letter words allowed in Scrabble in Spanish, French and English, without knowing their meaning or the grammar. That's how many words he learned:
* English: 279,000 words
* French: 393,670 words
* Spanish: 660,000 words
And he learned them exhaustively, so that when an opponent proposes an incorrect wrong, he can call it, which he regularly does in tournaments.
Couldn’t be more similar..seems you haven’t any clue about languages especially Latin.
what an incredibly stupid comment hahaha, dont quit your day job little girl
Romance like Italian and Portuguese are more similar to Spanish than French
Someone will say "Nah, I'd win."
As a competitive Scrabble tournament, it was an honor to meet the GOAT. 🐐 He’s a very quiet man with a very, very large brain.