10 kids who will make you feel inadequate

There's nothing like watching clips of amazing child prodigies to make you wonder how you've spent your time on this earth.

Child prodigies.

On the one hand, they're great and we love them. We love their incredible abilities in their chosen fields of music, science, sport etc. We love their awe-inspiring dedication. We love their cute, scrunched-up little faces as they struggle to nail a particularly tough Vivaldi passage.

On the other hand, we hate them. We hate them because they serve as an infinite reminder of how our youth was spent engrossed by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles rather than the intricacies of particle physics.

Anyway, here are some carefully chosen clips of super-talented kids that will inspire/depress you (delete where appropriate).

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1. THIS BLUEGRASS BANJO PLAYER

Jonny Mizzone of the Sleepy Man Banjo Boys. Aged 8.

*Runs out to buy banjo*

Sleepymanbanjoboys via YouTube

2. THIS TEENAGER WHO CAN SOLVE A RUBIK'S CUBE IN 7 SECONDS

Australia's Feliks Zemdegs at the 2013 World Rubiks' Cube Championships.

Mind. Blown.

Channel4News via YouTube

3. THIS 11-YEAR-OLD WHO'S A KICK-ASS ROCK CLIMBER

Do you get slightly nervous standing on a chair to change a lightbulb?

Brooke Raboutou is laughing at you. From halfway up a cliff face.

THNKR via YouTube

4. THIS 14-YEAR-OLD WHO KNOWS HER WAY AROUND A FRETBOARD

Tina S can play guitar. And then some.

Tina S via YouTube

5. THESE TINY DANCERS

These guys also win extra style points for the outfits. How many style points?

All the style points.

FanFlir via YouTube

6. THIS JAPANESE KID WHO'S A BOSS ON THE DRUMS

Ryuga Uchida, aka 'kid drummer' is already a sensation in drumming circles.

He's 12.

superkidsdrummer2000 via YouTube

7. THIS NINE-YEAR-OLD WHO BREAKS DOWN THE GOD PARTICLE FOR YOU

Tanishq Abraham explains the significance of last year's discovery of the Higgs Boson particle by scientists at the CERN facility in Switzerland.

No, us neither.

THNKR via YouTube

8. THIS TOT WHO BLEW ELLEN'S SOCKS OFF

Six-year-old Tsung Tsung rocks a white tux on The Ellen Show.

Can also play piano a bit.

TheEllenShow via YouTube

9. THIS PINT-SIZED VIOLINIST

Akim Camara is a child prodigy violinist from Berlin. This clip of him performing with Andre Rieu was filmed when he was five.

We couldn't even tie our laces when we were five!

boellewillu via YouTube

10. THIS TWO-YEAR-OLD WHO'S IN MENSA

Adam Kirby, aged 2. Mensa's youngest-ever male British member, with an IQ of 141.

Seriously, enough already.

via YouTube