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.
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.
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.
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 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
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 !
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.
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.
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 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
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 can clearly figure that Alex was better but Andrew won! It shows the value of patience in life. This Andrew that reached the final is going to be a very successful person.
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?"
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
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.
I was in the national Mathcounts competition back around 1990. I remember doing questions like these off the top of my head but have totally lost that ability since haha.
@@Christopherdrums he might have, they did throw in questions like this where the answer was 0, but I actually think most of the time they know the answer before they buzz.
49:00 -- 49:50 Both semi-finalists missed this question. (I) The purple line is perpendicular to the line 2x + 3y = -1, the slope of which is -2/3. (II) Hence, the slope of the purple line is 3/2. (III) The purple line intersects the x-axis at (x, 0). Now this point and the point (-3, 5) are on the purple line, so (0-5) / (x-(-3)) = 3/2. We can solve for x and the answer is -19/3.
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.
@@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
I'm unbelievably disappointed by how many people here think this is memorization. This is pure mathematical skill. That's not to say there aren't patterns they know, but every good mathematician doesn't have to work out, for example, the sum of a geometric sequence. They know it by heart. The difficulty isn't knowing the formulas, it's knowing which ones you need. Finding the path to the answer. From there, it's easy. Bet Luke could beat all of you in this competition with completely randomized questions any day of the week.
One thing that hasn't been mentioned yet is that the mathletes often *don't* know the answer when they buzz in, but they know or believe that they're very close to the answer. Those four seconds are extremely valuable.
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.
Look at the question at 30:56, how many solutions to (a-x)^2+(b-y)^2+(c-z)^2=1 no freaking way these kids figure that out on the spot, are there practise questions of the exact same format? I refuse to believe these kids are this gifted at mathematical reasoning to figure out these questions on the fly so quickly. My solution to it, took me about a minute just to figure out the reasoning behind this problem, then another minute to solve it. 1. either a-x or b-y or c-1 is either 1 or -1 and the others 0 to sum to 1 2. there are 5 ways to make a-b=0 => 0-0, 1-1, 2-2,3-3,4-4 3. there are 4 ways to make a-b=1 and 4 ways to make a-b=-1=> 1-0, 2-1, 3-2, 4-3 and their negatives 4. there are 3 ways to arrange the resulting squares=> 1+0+0, 0+1+0, 0+0+1 hence the number of combinations is 5x5x4x2x3 = 600 I absolutely refuse to believe some kid aged 10 can come up with all that in 10 seconds, maybe I should consider myself mentally handicapped
hmm must be practice but then again the last question with the chickens pecking took the kid only 1 second to solve and even that took me a while to figure out, probably I'm just too slow.
while you have your points with the practicing, its much like when you try to get faster at solving the rubix cube. if you use an algorithm with many moves, you can get faster to a certain point, but you will have to change to a more efficient algorithm and remember shortcuts to get faster after that. same here. these kids can't only calculate fast, but they know a lot about the relations of numbers. there is this one question for example in the final: how many 6 digit numbers are dividable by 1000 but not by 400. its a simple example but they know every second 4 digit number with 3 zeros (because it has to be dividable by 1000) is dividable by 400, they don't have to get that first. and that there are of course 100 6 digit numbers for the set of 6 digit numbers starting with a 1(dividable by 1000), same for all the other 9 options, so 9 times 100/2 = 450. they only have to think about the last part.. and they don't read the full text. they know the questions can't be that difficult for them to be able to solve them in 50 seconds, so they jump to the actual question right away and try to figure out missing details after that if even needed. i would like to show it to you with your example, but i am to lazy/slow for that right now, but i am sure thats how. they already know the amount of pairs the numbers in the brackets can take for the value to be a certain type. they don't have to calculate the way someone does when he doesn't have that knowledge. the knowledge can come from memorizing the numbers or just from a better understanding of conditions that need to be true in order for the term to work. when you are that much slower doing something, most of the time the fast guys not only do it fast but different ;)
The reason why I'm so skeptical that it's just practice is that there aren't 2 questions in MathCounts videos I've seen that are alike, most of them require original on the spot thinking, much more than the type of rote learning questions that come up in the SATs, these kids are true geniuses at their age.
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
Literally that guy must be so tired of constantly being interrupted
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
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
😂
Announcer: Can you please test your buzzer?
Luke: 36
Announcer: That's correct!
lmfaoooo
hahahaha
😁😁
this made my day
That would be kevin
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
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.
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
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
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?
Teacher : "Good morning everyb..."
Luke : "25 !"
Teacher : "correct !"
Also Luke : "😱"
hahahaha
Lolll🤣🤣
grabe naman HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
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wait a minute beetlejuice.
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
Luke's reactions were a pure meme.
Abnormal
Those are signs of being genius.
Luke is a meme
which minute
@@happyzin8627 last minute
Announcer: "What is 1+1"
Luke: "†∑¨∂∂¥£˙£¨æ"
Announcer: Correct!
Also luke : 😱
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
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.
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 ! 👏
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.
The limit doesn't exist. THE LIMIT DOESN'T EXIST!!!
iHop
Mean girls?
@@itotallyagreewithyou6586 yes lol
Ultra instinct Maths
Limit
Seven. Im answering for next year's competition from now
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.
I got the last one on a guess and felt so proud of myself, but then I remembered that I'm in college.
Luke looks like he is fighting for his life xD
kinda is, 20k sponsorship is a big deal for people starting college
E
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
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
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!?!?
"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.
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
Hardly can imagine this show with another host so humbling energized like the one here. He make the show comfortable to contestants and public.
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.
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
55:02 Luke looks like his spirit is straight up leaving his body
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.
Did you figure that out all by yourself, Sherlock?
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 !
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
looks like if luke lost andrew wouldn't have lived another day
Yeah
Are you that andrew?😂😂😂
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*
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"
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.
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
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.
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
Pretty cool to see Luke when he is younger, right after seeing him win the 2023 MIT integration Bee
Wait really?
When you feel like you’re good at Math and see’s this.... I’m honored to be friends with Alex and Reagan. They are geniuses..
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 ^_^
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
You know the question is hard when the annoucer finished reading the question
Andrew's face, when his teammate beats him is priceless
55:45
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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
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
Honestly, Luke was smart to read all question quickly. All the questions given to him were a piece of cake.
Science: humans only use 10% of the brain
Luke: aw that's cute
lollll
I’m honored to be friends with Alex and Reagan. They are geniuses.
This host is a ball of energy. Really infectious personality.
These questions could be in my school's final year exam and they literally solve these in seconds wtf
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
and I'm over here gettin proud and all of my A+ in maths....
Smh
I can clearly figure that Alex was better but Andrew won! It shows the value of patience in life. This Andrew that reached the final is going to be a very successful person.
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?"
"No pressure"
- Lou (host) in both 2016 and 2017
Luke, Edward, and Andrew: Sweating gallons
Luke was a beast! So proud of him!
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
I founded my own math competition in 10th grade this year, but Luke along with all of the kids here are ahead of me.
After watching upto 10 minutes thankfully I can say I can compete them. Yes, it's easy.
Breakdown of question two (according to me)
1. Pick advanced English as a senior study
2. Don't worry about these types of math questions ever again
LETS GO LUKE!!!!@!
Idk what parts everyone else watchee but i tuned in at a random 5 mins somewhere and they got almost every damn question wrong 😂😂
JEREMY! He went to my middle school and goes to my high school! GOAT
Is he a Filipino or what? Just curious about him.
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.
I was in the national Mathcounts competition back around 1990. I remember doing questions like these off the top of my head but have totally lost that ability since haha.
I want to ask, do you think Luke was using an educated guess to answer the questions?
@@Christopherdrums he might have, they did throw in questions like this where the answer was 0, but I actually think most of the time they know the answer before they buzz.
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,
49:00 -- 49:50
Both semi-finalists missed this question.
(I) The purple line is perpendicular to the line 2x + 3y = -1, the slope of which is -2/3.
(II) Hence, the slope of the purple line is 3/2.
(III) The purple line intersects the x-axis at (x, 0). Now this point and the point (-3, 5) are on the purple line,
so (0-5) / (x-(-3)) = 3/2. We can solve for x and the answer is -19/3.
I heard that Andrew keeps saying 5 on every question he is getting asked.
5
5
5
@@Mdmbchdr 5
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
for those of you wondering, luke went on to win the international mathematics olympiad 4 times as well as the MIT Integration Bee once
after 6 years u see luke again solving integrals and becoming a great integrator of 2023
55:40 "100 chicks sit peacefully in a circle" yeah right, that'll be the day!
Pikachu joke was probably the worst in the history of public speaking
that was awful
i physically recoiled when i heard it
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.
“25”
- Luke
Those words will never be forgotten
36:25
C1 : 3,230,000
C2 : 94,640,000
Announcer : Answer is 14
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.
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? :(
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
I'm in highschool rn yet still try to count with my fingers
LUKE!!!!!!!!
What a great host. And so many talented kids
It makes me so happy to see him so happy :D
I'm unbelievably disappointed by how many people here think this is memorization. This is pure mathematical skill. That's not to say there aren't patterns they know, but every good mathematician doesn't have to work out, for example, the sum of a geometric sequence. They know it by heart. The difficulty isn't knowing the formulas, it's knowing which ones you need. Finding the path to the answer. From there, it's easy. Bet Luke could beat all of you in this competition with completely randomized questions any day of the week.
One thing that hasn't been mentioned yet is that the mathletes often *don't* know the answer when they buzz in, but they know or believe that they're very close to the answer. Those four seconds are extremely valuable.
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.
Why am I up at 3am on a weekday watching this?
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
This makes me feel dumb.
Actually, I can't answer even just one of it.
I love the silent nods that the competitors do when one wins the match :)) It’s so respectful
Than you once more, TH-cam, for making me stumble upon a video I didn't know I needed to watch, but apparently wanted to
24:17 The kid on the left rolled his eyes when the announcer complimented the other one LMAO
Luke took it literally when the host said come back next year and win....
First question starts at 8:57
That's the second round start @rh7732
5 years later I still don't understand why this mathcounts edition in particular have become so popular.
I have to pause the video to read the question and answer for at least a minute. This is just outside of my capability. Dang.
Look at the question at 30:56, how many solutions to (a-x)^2+(b-y)^2+(c-z)^2=1
no freaking way these kids figure that out on the spot, are there practise questions of the exact same format? I refuse to believe these kids are this gifted at mathematical reasoning to figure out these questions on the fly so quickly.
My solution to it, took me about a minute just to figure out the reasoning behind this problem, then another minute to solve it.
1. either a-x or b-y or c-1 is either 1 or -1 and the others 0 to sum to 1
2. there are 5 ways to make a-b=0 => 0-0, 1-1, 2-2,3-3,4-4
3. there are 4 ways to make a-b=1 and 4 ways to make a-b=-1=> 1-0, 2-1, 3-2, 4-3 and their negatives
4. there are 3 ways to arrange the resulting squares=> 1+0+0, 0+1+0, 0+0+1
hence the number of combinations is 5x5x4x2x3 = 600
I absolutely refuse to believe some kid aged 10 can come up with all that in 10 seconds, maybe I should consider myself mentally handicapped
id assume this is a practice problem, as it looks very formulaic
hmm must be practice but then again the last question with the chickens pecking took the kid only 1 second to solve and even that took me a while to figure out, probably I'm just too slow.
while you have your points with the practicing, its much like when you try to get faster at solving the rubix cube. if you use an algorithm with many moves, you can get faster to a certain point, but you will have to change to a more efficient algorithm and remember shortcuts to get faster after that. same here. these kids can't only calculate fast, but they know a lot about the relations of numbers. there is this one question for example in the final: how many 6 digit numbers are dividable by 1000 but not by 400. its a simple example but they know every second 4 digit number with 3 zeros (because it has to be dividable by 1000) is dividable by 400, they don't have to get that first. and that there are of course 100 6 digit numbers for the set of 6 digit numbers starting with a 1(dividable by 1000), same for all the other 9 options, so 9 times 100/2 = 450. they only have to think about the last part.. and they don't read the full text. they know the questions can't be that difficult for them to be able to solve them in 50 seconds, so they jump to the actual question right away and try to figure out missing details after that if even needed. i would like to show it to you with your example, but i am to lazy/slow for that right now, but i am sure thats how. they already know the amount of pairs the numbers in the brackets can take for the value to be a certain type. they don't have to calculate the way someone does when he doesn't have that knowledge. the knowledge can come from memorizing the numbers or just from a better understanding of conditions that need to be true in order for the term to work. when you are that much slower doing something, most of the time the fast guys not only do it fast but different ;)
Check out Fermat's last theorem
The reason why I'm so skeptical that it's just practice is that there aren't 2 questions in MathCounts videos I've seen that are alike, most of them require original on the spot thinking, much more than the type of rote learning questions that come up in the SATs, these kids are true geniuses at their age.