Brainbox: three-year-old ranks in top 1% of cleverest people in world

A three-year-old boy ranks among the top one per cent of cleverest people in the world.

Sherwyn Sarabi has joined Mensa – the oldest high IQ society in the world – after tests revealed he had an IQ of 136, and according to his mother, Amanda Sarabi, he is able to point out every country in the world on a globe and match it to its flag.

By the age of two, the toddler – who has a reading age of six and started speaking when he was 10 months old - was able to read and count to 200, as well as name parts of the body, internal organs and planets in the solar system.

Anna said: "His general knowledge is amazing. He knows about everything. It's not like talking to a three year old."