The 2017 Raytheon MATHCOUNTS National Competition was held May 13-16, 2017 in Orlando, FL. Find out more about the MATHCOUNTS Competition Series at www.mathcounts.....
SonicRising That's not true... he saw the top part of the reaction and tried to find an x value that satisfies it and 5 does. The reason he was wrong was because the denominator does not work with x = 5
Timestamps. *Winners of each matchup are in bold.* *ROUND 1:* 1:08 *Jeremy Zhou* v. Holden Watson 6:11 Andrew Huang v. *Reagan Choi* 11:27 Kevin Li v. *Alex Xu* 16:23 *Jack Albright* v. Brian Liu *ROUND 2:* 23:47 Jeremy Zhou v. *Luke Robitaille* 27:22 *William Wang* v. Reagan Choi 31:43 Alex Xu v. *Andrew Cai* 38:24 Geoffrey Wu v. *Jack Albright* *ROUND 3 (SEMIFINAL):* 42:28 William Wang v. *Luke Robitaille* 44:39 Jack Albright v. *Andrew Cai* *ROUND 4 (FINAL)* 50:31 *Luke Robitaille* v. Andrew Cai Winning question is at 55:38. You're welcome.
Doesn’t make me feel bad. I used to be a Mathlete, most of these are just memory questions. There are a few ways to approach this if you’re a Mathlete: 1. There is only so much you can possibly ask to 8th graders in a short amount of time, so they just memorize a similar question. For example, 5:50 the rate of liquid decrease in a cone or box is one of the most common questions in the competition, yet near impossible to answer that quickly, unless you’ve seen the format. Jeremey has seen it before and could just regurgitate the same answer with no thoughts. 2. The educated guess. So it’s a bit naughty, but we don’t really do math unreasonably quickly usually, we get an approximate answer using a few tricks. We can plug in easy numbers and go up or down from there, we can cross off things that cancel instantly, or we just solve partially and get an approximate answer. Andrew did exactly that, he solved the top and instantly answered, but got it wrong since the bottom did not cancel perfectly like usual. It was a fair assumption that most mathletes would do for the sake of speed. 3. So there are rules that are followed when making these questions. So it’s a safe guess that all answers will be ‘pretty’ AKA integer or a simple fraction/decimal. It’s also safe to assume there will be about 3 steps, symmetry, or a trick. Anything that goes out of these molds will take longer or make you panic, even if it’s one step. The game is: how well did you memorize similar questions, how quickly and accurately did you guess, and did you spot a trick? I was a master at guessing, but memorization is usually far faster, so I never got anywhere past states. Basically: memory>guesstimates>solve. We’re not robots, we’re magicians; there’s a trick to it.
The International Goy he’s not wrong, they hire coaches to practice similar styled questions before the competition, and there are always quick methods with these questions, so who is the idiot now?
@@Enter_Zoneless Both of you, obviously. The two of you are idiots who will never be 1/10th as intelligent as any of the people in this video. Of course they do a lot of practice. But the sheer ability to calculate that quickly is not something that ANYONE (such you either of you) could actually do. All of the people in this video are genetically superior to you and are highly gifted at mathematics obviously. Get over it. It SHOULD make Op jealous. They're smarter than him and there's nothing he can do about it except lie to himself that he could do the same thing with the same amount of practice that they've had. Both of you are stupid, jealous idiots. They're geniuses and you never will be.
@@DontPronounceThis lmao HAHAH what's your problem...i think you're genuinely stupid if you think that guy is lying. nobody said that anyone can calculate as fast as them, we're just saying that there's shortcuts to being THAT fast.
@@cdrl3170 I'm smarter than you and you are physically incapable of comprehending how stupid you are and how inferior your prefrontal cortex is compared to theirs. OP is full of shit and making things up, there are no shortcuts to being able to solve random problems that rapidly. You have to be a genius to do what they are able to do. There are no shortcuts to being a genius and being able to compute in your head that quickly and accurately. The only "shortcut" there is is called learning how to solve those types of problems before they actually pop up on the screen, that way you don't have to reason things out from scratch. AND THAT'S NOT EVEN A SHORTCUT REALLY. You're a dumbfuck and if you are asian, you are a disgrace to your people. Go ask the asians in this math competition if there are shortcuts to this. They will tell you there aren't.
@@DontPronounceThis omg you must really be miserable in life to be able to think in such a horrifying way LMAO. just so you know, i'm from the top high school in singapore (an asian country that continuously tops academic rankings together with china). my grades are about average there but it's because of how everyone is so smart at this school since it's ranked first. but i have a bunch of very intelligent friends and trust me, even they wouldn't be able to do all this (even though we're older than these kids). i think you just don't understand how to solve these problems, because if you did (like the rest of the people here), you would realise it's almost impossible to solve them without any shortcuts like the OP mentioned. but honestly there is no point in explaining anything to someone as thick-headed as you, so it's fine.
I don't understand people who post this on random videos but it makes sense for this video. It is just meant to be a joke so chill dude and stop getting triggered.
I went last year one of the best experiences of my life and he barely lost somehow and everyone was super shocked, don't even forget he was in sixth grade too
@@3kToT yea its bcuz its a multiple of 9, so the sum of the digits of 3^2017 is a multiple of 9(divisiblitly by 9), and the sum of the digits of that is divisible by 9. Keep going, and u get thhat the digital root is divislbe by 9. since its one igit, it must be 9.
I was a science quiz bowl participant for three years. I won twice and got the second place the third time. In the hard round it was problem solving, calculations and I was able to answer them because I read books and mostly familiarised the questionnaires given. Given the short time to answer, memorising the questions was really helpful
3:58 Jeremy vs Holden 8:51 Andrew H. vs Reagan 14:22 Kevin vs Alex 20:01 Jack vs Brian 25:18 Jeremy vs Luke 29:16 Raegan vs William 34:26 Alex vs Andrew C. 40:11 Jack vs Geoffrey 43:00 William vs Luke 45:11 Jack vs Andrew C. 51:26 Luke vs Andrew C.
Luke went to international math olympiad multiple times, he's probably fine at being creative when not under pressure to get the answer out in 3 seconds
given that they actually have like 0.5 s time advantage over viewers who get the question sliding in slowly, it's not that surprising. I mean how long does it take to divide 48 by 3
As somebody who has hosted hundreds of scholastic competitions, both on TV and off, in the last 45 years, I can tell you that this man is a superb moderator. --Charles Beall, Director, National Academic Association
@@no-pl4cx it shows up on a screen, the students don't even listen to the guy, he is only there for the crowd. they skip the words and read the numbers
Eric Penguin it was down to my swimming skills, I actually meant a good school in my first message also. I guess I was complaining about how much I don’t enjoy my school.
I understand that they skip the number and go straight to the numbers but still how do they read those numbers and get the answer that fast, that’s just unreal
46:39 easiest question for semifinal comparing to other questions how can you miss it ? Kite has 4 sides and 2 sides are 6 cm and 2 sides are 10 cm. The greatest possible area is just to trick you the area is 6*10=60cm^2 should’ve answered quick compared to how these kids answered other question. Overall, everyone that participated in this competition were really genius.
Lol exactly, what are you even talking about. Basically how you do it is that you let a be the angle between the sides 6 and 10, so the area become 2 * 1/2 * 6 * 10 * sin(a) = 60sin(a). Then the optimal is a = 90.
Luke has those reactions bc he wasn't really expecting to be right. He's doing an educated guess which is commonly used in competitions, including memorization and if you can't guess or didn't memorize it, you solve.
@Vala Naresh If you were actually curious (not trying to test them) you realize that it's an 18-gon and has 9 angles of measure 56 and 9 angles of measure 360 - ?, where ? is the answer. From that, you can use the angle sums in a polygon formula to get the answer.
I like Jake because he looks like he is really solving the problems while others are just remembering similar questions , and I'm surprised how Luke used the paper only once or twice that's incredible !
My first time watching this kind of stuff and seem is all about how well prepare they enter the arena, they allready seen similar problems, otherwize would take 2 long to have any answer.
EagleLogic it’s no different than the SAT. It’s not truly indicative of intelligence but more of preparation and study. If these students didn’t prepare than they wouldn’t be able to do it as fast. Similarly, a perfect SAT score isn’t earned by simply showing up. I have a friend who got in the 99th percentile on the SAT and he is fairly smart. Yet it took him months of preparation to do so.
They aren't new. They're modifications of previous questions. Ugh, go to more prestigious Asian contests, or those that take 1 hr- 6 hrs for like 6-20 questions. Example? IMO CEMC contests IMC - BG, SG, INDIA
There's such a mixup of harder and easier problems that it's hard to tell when they're tricking you. That student council one literally took 2 seconds to solve mentally, but they were both like, "where's the loophole?"
For those of you wondering how some are able to answer the question before its finished being read...the student has seen and practiced that problem (or a similar problem) before. It's not magic. Still impressive, though.
How does your experience competing in mathcounts recently weaken my claim that question recognition aids contestants in rapidly submitting a solution before the question is read? Considering you don't represent "almost all" cases (because you are but one person), how could you possibly argue against this so confidently? Not trying to burst your bubble, just wondering.
There's is no possible way these kids actually can SOLVE the math problem in literally less than a second. My guess is they have seen and practiced so many of these math problems, that they are now repeating math problems previously used... and they are just simply memorizing the correct answer.
Announcer: *breathes*
Competitor: 4
Announcer: Correct!
Me: Dafuq.
They have it on their screens too.
ITS STILL IMPOSSIBLE TO SOLVE THAT FASTTTTTTTTT
MR YAMBOT it’s not, not only do they practice prior to this event, Luke has a savant type syndrome, so he is actually mathematically gifted.
@@ideyangpinoy7385 legit its not, theres a pattern for all these questions. and if you know the pattern you can instantly find the answer
15:51
Darth Vader: *Luke, I am your fa-*
Luke: 25
Announcer: Correct!
Darth Vader: what
Lmao😃😂😭
which min?
Lmfao
Darth Vader: Luke, I a-
Luke: My father
Darth Vader: Correct!
IM DIEING
Announcer: Can you please test your buzzer?
Luke: 36
Announcer: That's correct!
lmfaoooo
hahahaha
😁😁
this made my day
That would be kevin
Welcome to another episode of "What quarantine has made me watch"
Ah, I was just thinking of that😂
this is really me HAHAHAH
Lol
Yup
😂
Teacher : "Good morning everyb..."
Luke : "25 !"
Teacher : "correct !"
Also Luke : "😱"
hahahaha
Lolll🤣🤣
grabe naman HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
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wait a minute beetlejuice.
When you feel like you’re good at Math and see’s this...
when u realize that you are in the video
Shainil Amin same
you realize that it’s just calculating and no real smart problem,if you want real problemes look at the ones from the olimpiad
When you feel like you can spell but see my comment...
Boss Meep fam I’m not english
Luke looks like he is about to throw up every time he answers a question incorrectly
probably is
Its anxiety
Sometimes you get nervous in front of a lot of people
he has nightmares over planking
@@にちはHYPERSPACE my dude u r a true hero
Literally that guy must be so tired of constantly being interrupted
Announcer: "What is 1+1"
Luke: "†∑¨∂∂¥£˙£¨æ"
Announcer: Correct!
Also luke : 😱
Is it just me or the host actually is a very good host, I feel like he make the crowd comfortable
very professional
Lol I noticed to
He's weird and awkward
He's actually quite good even in person.
@@jiopt9331 How?
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
There's always a Asian
Better than You
+Think it's Impossible? Damn, there's an Asian that is faster runner than Usain Bolt and an Asian that is a faster swimmer than Michael Phelps?
Yep.
*an
Think It's Impossible? Is that why a white kid won?
*whoosh*
Andrew: "I don't know the answer so I'll hit the buzzer before the question is finished and just guess 5."
when was this?
He should have got that right, the problem is easy.
SonicRising That's not true... he saw the top part of the reaction and tried to find an x value that satisfies it and 5 does. The reason he was wrong was because the denominator does not work with x = 5
He made two dumb mistakes that just happened to give him the same answer. Chill.
It wasn't a straight out guess! He did a half arsed job on it though, but I guess that is what happens when you want to be the first to buzz in.
Luke's reactions were a pure meme.
Abnormal
Those are signs of being genius.
Luke is a meme
which minute
@@happyzin8627 last minute
"in a barn 100 chicks sit in a circle"
TWenTyFivE
Luke has mugged most of the questions in the final. He couldn't solve any of the calculations. Andrew should have been the winner. What a shame!!!!
yogiyogiinfy fk u
@@yogiyogiinfy how? Do they know the questions previously?
I don't think he knew exact questions, but he definitely knew formulas for questions like this. Solving from fundamentals is not possible in 2-3 secs.
Ayush Agrawal I agree, it’s impossible.
Luke looks like he is fighting for his life xD
kinda is, 20k sponsorship is a big deal for people starting college
E
this makes me feel dumb
Joel Kristensson calculating big sums is not smart
It's just 7th grade... Jesus, give them a break.
certainly talented, but I'd imagine by your age they would had multiple phds already
Victor P. Phds are made through multiple conections from diferent fields right now
what the fuck does that have to do with any thing I said?
What is -
William: 4
*Correct*
Taco and Rosez where is it?
Zoey Spencer 31:31 honestly wasn’t a hard question though
Taco and Rosez lmao that was the ONE question I could answer in less than 5 seconds
Whats is -
Luke : 9
Correct!
I'm like HOW!?!?
Lol I’m proud I got one question faster than them the “3 people picked 50% chance of getting picked” I dunno 6 seemed kinda obvious?
Ye same lol
yeah that and the kite one other than that I had to pause the video to even read the question
Nathan Lewis what the fuck are you on about
Rishabh Shetty it was very obvious if they have a 50% chance of being picked and only 3 people get picked 3x2 equals 6 not hard at all
5g wait whats the timestamp i cant remember the question
36:00
😂
Student 1 : 233738929...
Student 2 : 960668...
Host : answer is
14
🤣👍
They probably interpreted the question wrong, stfu mate you couldn't even solve these questions...
XCaliber and the profile picture tells it all...
@@ozanoruc3796 whom are you signifying
I got the same as student 2, because we both read the question wrong. We got 10^4 * 26^2 * 14, when the answer was just 14.
Announcer: You know what, just come back and do it next year, no pressure, right? This is just for fun.
Parent: Excuse me!?!?
Haha "Asian parents"
Timestamps.
*Winners of each matchup are in bold.*
*ROUND 1:*
1:08 *Jeremy Zhou* v. Holden Watson
6:11 Andrew Huang v. *Reagan Choi*
11:27 Kevin Li v. *Alex Xu*
16:23 *Jack Albright* v. Brian Liu
*ROUND 2:*
23:47 Jeremy Zhou v. *Luke Robitaille*
27:22 *William Wang* v. Reagan Choi
31:43 Alex Xu v. *Andrew Cai*
38:24 Geoffrey Wu v. *Jack Albright*
*ROUND 3 (SEMIFINAL):*
42:28 William Wang v. *Luke Robitaille*
44:39 Jack Albright v. *Andrew Cai*
*ROUND 4 (FINAL)*
50:31 *Luke Robitaille* v. Andrew Cai
Winning question is at 55:38.
You're welcome.
Richard Chen not all hero’s wear capes
but they always carry some unusual accessory to set apart their garments.
Richard Chen lol Luke Robitaille is a pretty good hockey player too
ayush kumar s
Ryan B he is going to harvard then, wait
Doesn’t make me feel bad. I used to be a Mathlete, most of these are just memory questions. There are a few ways to approach this if you’re a Mathlete:
1. There is only so much you can possibly ask to 8th graders in a short amount of time, so they just memorize a similar question. For example, 5:50 the rate of liquid decrease in a cone or box is one of the most common questions in the competition, yet near impossible to answer that quickly, unless you’ve seen the format. Jeremey has seen it before and could just regurgitate the same answer with no thoughts.
2. The educated guess. So it’s a bit naughty, but we don’t really do math unreasonably quickly usually, we get an approximate answer using a few tricks. We can plug in easy numbers and go up or down from there, we can cross off things that cancel instantly, or we just solve partially and get an approximate answer. Andrew did exactly that, he solved the top and instantly answered, but got it wrong since the bottom did not cancel perfectly like usual. It was a fair assumption that most mathletes would do for the sake of speed.
3. So there are rules that are followed when making these questions. So it’s a safe guess that all answers will be ‘pretty’ AKA integer or a simple fraction/decimal. It’s also safe to assume there will be about 3 steps, symmetry, or a trick. Anything that goes out of these molds will take longer or make you panic, even if it’s one step.
The game is: how well did you memorize similar questions, how quickly and accurately did you guess, and did you spot a trick? I was a master at guessing, but memorization is usually far faster, so I never got anywhere past states. Basically: memory>guesstimates>solve. We’re not robots, we’re magicians; there’s a trick to it.
The International Goy he’s not wrong, they hire coaches to practice similar styled questions before the competition, and there are always quick methods with these questions, so who is the idiot now?
@@Enter_Zoneless Both of you, obviously. The two of you are idiots who will never be 1/10th as intelligent as any of the people in this video. Of course they do a lot of practice. But the sheer ability to calculate that quickly is not something that ANYONE (such you either of you) could actually do. All of the people in this video are genetically superior to you and are highly gifted at mathematics obviously. Get over it.
It SHOULD make Op jealous. They're smarter than him and there's nothing he can do about it except lie to himself that he could do the same thing with the same amount of practice that they've had. Both of you are stupid, jealous idiots. They're geniuses and you never will be.
@@DontPronounceThis lmao HAHAH what's your problem...i think you're genuinely stupid if you think that guy is lying. nobody said that anyone can calculate as fast as them, we're just saying that there's shortcuts to being THAT fast.
@@cdrl3170 I'm smarter than you and you are physically incapable of comprehending how stupid you are and how inferior your prefrontal cortex is compared to theirs. OP is full of shit and making things up, there are no shortcuts to being able to solve random problems that rapidly. You have to be a genius to do what they are able to do. There are no shortcuts to being a genius and being able to compute in your head that quickly and accurately.
The only "shortcut" there is is called learning how to solve those types of problems before they actually pop up on the screen, that way you don't have to reason things out from scratch. AND THAT'S NOT EVEN A SHORTCUT REALLY.
You're a dumbfuck and if you are asian, you are a disgrace to your people. Go ask the asians in this math competition if there are shortcuts to this. They will tell you there aren't.
@@DontPronounceThis omg you must really be miserable in life to be able to think in such a horrifying way LMAO. just so you know, i'm from the top high school in singapore (an asian country that continuously tops academic rankings together with china). my grades are about average there but it's because of how everyone is so smart at this school since it's ranked first. but i have a bunch of very intelligent friends and trust me, even they wouldn't be able to do all this (even though we're older than these kids).
i think you just don't understand how to solve these problems, because if you did (like the rest of the people here), you would realise it's almost impossible to solve them without any shortcuts like the OP mentioned.
but honestly there is no point in explaining anything to someone as thick-headed as you, so it's fine.
Okay i get they can do the problem fast, how the hell do they read it so fast damn it
Eric Chen it is put on a screen
They memorize the same kind of problems before so they can do the rest in seconds
Eric Chen
they don't read the whole thing
Siggy VanValkenburgh thats cheating
Siggy VanValkenburgh Its on the the computer monitor.
Science: humans only use 10% of the brain
Luke: aw that's cute
lollll
The limit doesn't exist. THE LIMIT DOESN'T EXIST!!!
iHop
Mean girls?
@@itotallyagreewithyou6586 yes lol
Ultra instinct Maths
Anyone think he sounds like Ben Shapiro?
YES YES YES! I thought the exact same thing
He sort of looks like him too
I thought the exact same thing!!!
That's because you can tell that the guy is Jewish. He's a Jew.
Michael Thomas holy shit i thought that
2+2=4-1 that's 3 quick maths
mans not hot
moatsem hamood no sauce
Adam Syed
lol
Guys. I cant relate with these guys commenting like this. And its pretty annoying.
I don't understand people who post this on random videos but it makes sense for this video. It is just meant to be a joke so chill dude and stop getting triggered.
wtf that luke kid
That's what I thought lmao!
I went last year one of the best experiences of my life and he barely lost somehow and everyone was super shocked, don't even forget he was in sixth grade too
He was homeschooled maybe that's why.
he was off the molly lmfao
Andre Encarnacion LMAOOO
I’m only a mathematician when I count my money 😂😂😂
U mean everytime u count up to 0
@@6anial XD
@@6anial yes from billion dollars to 0 , backward counting
🥺
Hakuna Matata
Whenever I feel smart, I watch these videos...
Lol
the questions themselves arent too bad, but they are just too fast
@@Num3whoknocks Basically who's got the most natural intelligence and of course training
The digital- Luke: 9
Correct
How do you solve this one?
@@3kToT All 3 to the power x, with x greater than 2 have digital root 9.
@@hunchback100 nice
@@3kToT yea its bcuz its a multiple of 9, so the sum of the digits of 3^2017 is a multiple of 9(divisiblitly by 9), and the sum of the digits of that is divisible by 9. Keep going, and u get thhat the digital root is divislbe by 9. since its one igit, it must be 9.
The presenter is brilliant he killed the stress of the contesters by his way of talking more than that his engagement with audience wow just wow ! 👏
Did Luke used the force ? 'cause I bet he's medichlorians positive.
What's up with your grammar
Are you studying english?
Cause your grammar is shit :p
When the white kid wins the math competition.
Everyone: *visible confusion
and he won the year after aswell xD
Talent is basically equally distributed among ‘races’ but opportunity isn’t .
@@Beny123
in western countries everyone has the same opportunites to succeed.
Ero it’s probably because more blacks are interested in it
@@ero9216 The subjects not equally distributed.
55:02 Luke looks like his spirit is straight up leaving his body
Seven. Im answering for next year's competition from now
looks like if luke lost andrew wouldn't have lived another day
Yeah
Are you that andrew?😂😂😂
seems like most of these kids just memorized some sort of test bank.
In other words practice. Regardless these kids are impressive when you can see them working it out.
@@RW-of3pn its still hard
I was a science quiz bowl participant for three years. I won twice and got the second place the third time. In the hard round it was problem solving, calculations and I was able to answer them because I read books and mostly familiarised the questionnaires given. Given the short time to answer, memorising the questions was really helpful
Even if they memorized some tricks, the speed with which they solved it was astonishing.
yeah, even AMC seems to have harder problems than this. I think this is just a gimic
3:58 Jeremy vs Holden
8:51 Andrew H. vs Reagan
14:22 Kevin vs Alex
20:01 Jack vs Brian
25:18 Jeremy vs Luke
29:16 Raegan vs William
34:26 Alex vs Andrew C.
40:11 Jack vs Geoffrey
43:00 William vs Luke
45:11 Jack vs Andrew C.
51:26 Luke vs Andrew C.
Thanks man
Feels like Luke is guessing and using memory and Andrew is actually solving.
true i think he was cheating tho he knew all the questions already
@@rachitnahata2243 no he just cycled through the key words and did an educated guess
Luke went to international math olympiad multiple times, he's probably fine at being creative when not under pressure to get the answer out in 3 seconds
They both are please
@@toebel that needs some reading and it was about 30 words or yeah
Andrew: for what value of x-boop 16-
Announcer: yep! that is correct
Me: HOW IN THE FU
given that they actually have like 0.5 s time advantage over viewers who get the question sliding in slowly, it's not that surprising. I mean how long does it take to divide 48 by 3
i think that sometimes they just know the answer so fast because they have done the exercise already in the past
James The Chicken yep
The monitor displays the question beforehand whilst the judge reads it aloud for the audience.
that's not impressive. luke in finals was tho (specifically the 6 digit one) for the digit adding one any power of 3 is always 9
Pikachu joke was probably the worst in the history of public speaking
that was awful
i physically recoiled when i heard it
I got the last one on a guess and felt so proud of myself, but then I remembered that I'm in college.
I'm good at math, but then I come here and I'm like
"I learn math for fun"
THESE KIDS BREATHE MATH LOL
It's quite normal to learn maths for fun,
As somebody who has hosted hundreds of scholastic competitions, both on TV and off, in the last 45 years, I can tell you that this man is a superb moderator.
--Charles Beall, Director, National Academic Association
Luke is not human
Luke has mugged most of the questions in the final. He couldn't solve any of the calculations. Andrew should have been the winner. What a shame!!!!
@@yogiyogiinfy true
He is an IMO gold medalist. Better think before commenting shit.
I heard that Andrew keeps saying 5 on every question he is getting asked.
5
5
5
@@Mdmbchdr 5
31:31
“What is the value of-“
“Four”
Wtf
Honestly that's not a very hard question
Thats an easy ass question.
KingArthur but they didnt read the complete question so-
@@no-pl4cx it shows up on a screen, the students don't even listen to the guy, he is only there for the crowd. they skip the words and read the numbers
It’s on the screen. How did you get there without even noticing that there was a screen in front of them? :(
o que eu fiz da minha vida meu Deus
55:40 "100 chicks sit peacefully in a circle" yeah right, that'll be the day!
Who's Luke teacher lmao he/she is such a badass!
Btw I love how sweet their mannerism, especially Andrew's sincere smile on 55:45 even tho he's lose
He is home schooled
@@rorybrosnan24 Typically, all these children are autodidactic and have an effervescence for math, and coupled, they produce fine results.
Luke was homeschooled like that asian boy in the movie internship.
This makes me feel dumb.
dam that andrew cai goes to my school, qvms. Jeremy too. They both have ranked 1st in numerous competitions, like jeremy zhou got 1st in ap physics
Sphee you are lucky to go to a school
Jack Ward You are lucky to be alive.
Eric Penguin it was down to my swimming skills, I actually meant a good school in my first message also. I guess I was complaining about how much I don’t enjoy my school.
do you live in missouri city? they go to quail valley im pretty sure.
yeah, at our school we have aps in 7th and apush in 8th
The competitors each have a monitor so they don’t have to listen to the host speaking. They can just read the question as it appears on the screen.
Actually, I can't answer even just one of it.
Announcer: OK, introduce your s...
Luke:17
Announcer: correct!
Me: wadapak?
Andrew's face, when his teammate beats him is priceless
55:45
69th liker
why tf did you spoil it
@@kangarooboy616 Who the fucks read the comments before watching the video???
@@MrBalthazar90 many ppl 😐 like wtf are you talking about
Then how can you be mad at someone for spoiling? Wtf
bruh im an engineering student that has done calc 2 and i cant do this shit
Difficulty level: Asian
Autistic white guy> all of Asia
First question starts at 8:57
51:33
WTF HE BARELY EVEN STARTED TO READ THE QUESTION
They have the question on the screen of their laptops.
Digital roots of 3^x where x>1 are always equal to 9, pretty cool right?
I understand that they skip the number and go straight to the numbers but still how do they read those numbers and get the answer that fast, that’s just unreal
46:39 easiest question for semifinal comparing to other questions how can you miss it ? Kite has 4 sides and 2 sides are 6 cm and 2 sides are 10 cm. The greatest possible area is just to trick you the area is 6*10=60cm^2 should’ve answered quick compared to how these kids answered other question. Overall, everyone that participated in this competition were really genius.
Do you even know the formula for are of a kite?
Are you falsely thinking that every such kite has an area of 60? Saying the greatest area is essential to the question.
Lol exactly, what are you even talking about. Basically how you do it is that you let a be the angle between the sides 6 and 10, so the area become 2 * 1/2 * 6 * 10 * sin(a) = 60sin(a). Then the optimal is a = 90.
Luke has those reactions bc he wasn't really expecting to be right. He's doing an educated guess which is commonly used in competitions, including memorization and if you can't guess or didn't memorize it, you solve.
46:30
Announcer: Whats 10 x 6
Jack: 48
I could solve only 13 questions without using paper within averagely 40s. I enjoyed this! (I'm 17) 😏
Uhm, ok? Thanks for sharing I guess.
@Vala Naresh If you were actually curious (not trying to test them) you realize that it's an 18-gon and has 9 angles of measure 56 and 9 angles of measure 360 - ?, where ? is the answer. From that, you can use the angle sums in a polygon formula to get the answer.
And I thought I was good at math.
Carlos Rodríguez i feel u hahaha
I made it 69.😂
I made it 70
You are, you need practice.😃
Cameraman: ... action!
Luke: 27!
Announcer: correct!
Everyone: take ur leave! ☺
24:17 The kid on the left rolled his eyes when the announcer complimented the other one LMAO
I like Jake because he looks like he is really solving the problems while others are just remembering similar questions , and I'm surprised how Luke used the paper only once or twice that's incredible !
Announcer: Let me finish the sentence, or you'll catch these hands.
hey put some more asians on there
Brian Chen they are almost asians 😂🤣
representation matters😆
Why did they take so much time to think about the third question?
The first round
i thought that too
Connor Gaughan good point
Connor Gaughan ya i probably shouldn't try rethinking and just look stupid tomorrow
your dumbass didn't even watch it. One of them tapped the buzzer before the host even finished asking the question.
They should introduce some powerful integrals so as to check their skills.🔥🔥
Still better than you
Luke just appeared on 2023 MIT Integration Bee. Check that out
You know the question is hard when the annoucer finished reading the question
Pretty cool to see Luke when he is younger, right after seeing him win the 2023 MIT integration Bee
Wait really?
Straight up took me a solid few minutes to do the first question lol. These guys are insane! Awesome stuff!
EagleLogic The first question took me a few millennia and I still haven't gotten it yet.
Maybe because I was too lazy to read it 😂
My first time watching this kind of stuff and seem is all about how well prepare they enter the arena, they allready seen similar problems, otherwize would take 2 long to have any answer.
EagleLogic it’s no different than the SAT. It’s not truly indicative of intelligence but more of preparation and study. If these students didn’t prepare than they wouldn’t be able to do it as fast. Similarly, a perfect SAT score isn’t earned by simply showing up. I have a friend who got in the 99th percentile on the SAT and he is fairly smart. Yet it took him months of preparation to do so.
I'm smart but this questions are insane even for a college student ^_^
why they keep focusing the camera towards the host?
triple hunter because hes white who know nothing about math
Kadokkendall Kylie He says he participaded in this kind of math program....so i dont think he doesn't know maths.
@@kadokkendallkylie4232 racist
and I'm over here gettin proud and all of my A+ in maths....
Smh
Y'all I'm going this year, qualified with a 32.
I'm terrified
haha nope corona
"No pressure"
- Lou (host) in both 2016 and 2017
Luke, Edward, and Andrew: Sweating gallons
that is worst possible type of math contest, answering easy tasks for speed don't prove you are smart it proves that you did this many times.
...unless the questions are new. And I promise you they are.
They aren't new. They're modifications of previous questions. Ugh, go to more prestigious Asian contests, or those that take 1 hr- 6 hrs for like 6-20 questions.
Example?
IMO
CEMC contests
IMC - BG, SG, INDIA
Pokemonster1210 the winner went to the IMO
@@KP-md3oe Yeah, because Mathcounts is easier than other contests, i think. But it all depends on the person, to be honest.
Luke was a beast! So proud of him!
These questions could be in my school's final year exam and they literally solve these in seconds wtf
Most questions are not hard at all..
They just need quick thinking. P.S., I cannot stress enough how good sleeping is to develop a brain like this.
48:07 he was so embarrassed cz nobody laughed lol
*announcer says anything*
Andrew: “5”
Most of the time he doesn't even use a scratch paper he just makes awkward faces like he's in pain but actually he is mentally solving everything
Announcer: What are y...
Competitor: An Idiot Sandwich
Announcer: Correct!
Gordon Ramsay : (Smiles proudly)
Who are their teachers?
Keşke Türkçe de olsaydı çoğu yeri anlamadım.
( I wish it was Turkish because i don't understand many parts )
thats a good host...usually theres a lot of cringe moments in those kind of events, but he's making it so relaxad and easy
There's such a mixup of harder and easier problems that it's hard to tell when they're tricking you. That student council one literally took 2 seconds to solve mentally, but they were both like, "where's the loophole?"
my boy luke didn’t even use a pencil
Announcer : How many ordered triples of positive integers (a,b,c) sarisfy (a) equals 4
Me : wanna eat grass together?
I'm in highschool rn yet still try to count with my fingers
LUKE!!!!!!!!
Wtf. Did I really go to school? I don't understand anything.
花桃 hahahh 😁
That’s what I’m thinking. I must be so low on the Asian scale lmao
right??
For those of you wondering how some are able to answer the question before its finished being read...the student has seen and practiced that problem (or a similar problem) before. It's not magic. Still impressive, though.
this is untrue
Perhaps in some cases. When I competed, I was able to do this because I recognized the questions as they were being asked.
this is untrue in almost all cases
source: have (probably) competed in mathcounts more recently than you have
Are you the guy that won the "Who Wants to Be a Mathematician" competition at the NMF last year?
How does your experience competing in mathcounts recently weaken my claim that question recognition aids contestants in rapidly submitting a solution before the question is read? Considering you don't represent "almost all" cases (because you are but one person), how could you possibly argue against this so confidently? Not trying to burst your bubble, just wondering.
53:20 Luke is having an anurism
Dont be rood
There's is no possible way these kids actually can SOLVE the math problem in literally less than a second. My guess is they have seen and practiced so many of these math problems, that they are now repeating math problems previously used... and they are just simply memorizing the correct answer.
I can solve these questions in seconds
51:32 Me be like WTF! The announcer even not read the question 😂😂
it is actually a quite simple question but ur right he is the fastest
@@dekadens9077 Stupid they arent readin whole thing.They r just reading the last line and answering plus the questions are easy bro