15 Smartest People That Have Ever Lived

What child prodigy was invited to work for NASA when he was eight years old? Who offered his wife a share of his Nobel Prize as part of a divorce settlement, three years before he actually won his Nobel Prize? From physicists to chessmasters, here are 15 of the smartest people who ever lived
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[@grantwalker9059]

- Einstein, Smartest Man Alive ? - Einstein was once asked how it felt to be the smartest man alive. Einstein's reply was: " I don't know, you'll have to ask Tesla."

[@jeffjones9908]

Einstein is not the smartest

[@hourglassoftime3911]

Tesla anyone? I mean, Einstein himself said Tesla was a genius. invented AC power, remote control, predicted the internet, predicted wifi, predicted wireless electricity, predicted drone warfare, invented the telsa coil. He even invented the fluorescent light bulb in the time between being announced as the person to light the worlds fair, and the actual worlds fair. And I'm not even talking about the crazy death ray stuff yet.

[@EatThaCookies]

Hourglass Of Time also predicted the cellphone

[@stacywebb2717]

Hourglass Of Time Actually he technically made the first Wireless vehicles as a tiny boat

[@joetravieso3542]

predictions mean shit...inventing is what matters...proving is what matters....and FYI most the predictions you listed are only possible because of Einstein's work....

[@philswiftreligioussect9619]

Tesla's IQ is equivalent to Steven Hawking at worst, roughly 160 However, Tesla's best even beats William James Sidis' best by 10 points So I definitely think he is either one of the best inventors of all time, or the person with the highest IQ to have ever lived

[@elaskarytech7831]

she made the whole video to show some women lol. she ignored many smart men for some women ........

[@djordje6937]

Where the fuck is Nikola Tesla

[@zurain]

Djole yeah

[@zurain]

No actually where am i

[@ColdNorth0628]

Not here because his stuff may have been smart but he was not alp that, he did propose the ether but it was never proven, his free energy ideas are limited by many factors and he also barely slept so his mind would have been reduced to hell without proper rest

[@darkmyro]

Generally his ideas were limited by money, he also tended to spout crazy ideas too like he was a conduit for aliens.He also had a "best friend" that was a pigeon near the end of his life. He really was ahead of his time, he did speak a ton of languages and he is the reason we use alternating current instead of direct current like Edison wanted.He was smart, but maybe not the smartest person that ever lived.

[@Shigeru0508]

he got duped by Edison, he can´t be that smart

[@michaelkozma5929]

NIKOLA TESLA pretty much invented everything you use today in society, yet history books always neglect him. He blows away everybody on this list simply because he is one person who changed the world so drastically.

[@TheOrangeSunsetGaming]

Uh, I don't see Ronald McDonald on this list.

[@cimlyanimations6828]

XxJigsaw_GamesxX XD

[@2004RADMAN]

That because he is to smart be pay to be on the list.

[@seniarole6960]

XxJigsaw_GamesxX Ronald mcdonald is the smartest person ever

[@michelledekenipp2542]

Bruh his iq level is .0000000000001

[@teamgalacticgrunt7482]

SCOTTY BEHM wrong too.

[@ShoulderPresser]

0:49 Teaching math....*PROCEEDS TO SHOW A BLACKBOARD WITH PSYSICS LAWS*

[@Cent_Reviews]

These guys must be rick and morty fans

[@cimlyanimations6828]

Burney_Games heh

[@homeopathicfossil-fuels4789]

Nah these guys are too i n t e l l i g e n t and c u l t i v a t e d to watch Rick and Morty! They all binge watch Xavier Renegade Angel 24/7

[@KevinHealey95]

Only geniuses throw temper tantrums over szechuan sauce at McDonalds.

[@zach3955]

Burney_Games dead meme

[@TheMattew777]

BMAN488877 research is required to make sure.

[@akaakaakaak5779]

This list is wrong, but all these people saying Tesla because of Einstein's quote is pathetic. Tesla doesn't crack top 15, neither do most of these. The top 10 will certainly include: Gauss, Euler, Newton, Terry Tao, Hilbert, Galois, Cauchy

[@bordeaux1337]

Finally, someone mentioning Euler and Gauss. It has been mentioned that Gauss would have put the world 50 years ahead in mathematics if he had released his work. Laplace and Lagrange would be honorable mentions as well. What triggers me most is seeing Judit Polgar on 6th. She is only like a top 50 chess player currently (Is this just to have a woman on the list?) Surely players like Morphy, Karpov, Fischer or Magnus would be above her.

[@akaakaakaak5779]

+Lasse Andersen yeah, I agree it was just to have a woman on the list. I think just about any world champion should place above Judit Polgar, the ones you mentioned also Capablanca, Tal, Lasker and a personal favourite of mine, Ivanchuk.

[@soap5547]

No Göthe, Kubrick, Tesla, Newton, Descartes, Jung... But then again you can't rank the smartest people ever to live.

[@levirichardson9295]

InkyyyTV I'm glad that Edison is not on here

[@levirichardson9295]

Alexander Wolford His best idea was stealing ideas

[@luka3292]

Alexander Wolford no, just no... he was stealing them... its weird how apple fanboys use the same excuse for apple stealing ideas. also, because of tesla you have electricity, if everyone used the kind of electricity edison wanted to use, the range would be too short and because of the prices that that would cost everyone would stop even trying to make it work.

[@luka3292]

Alexander Wolford 1. its good that you prefer microsoft 2. tesla made a huge amount of inventions and some probably arent even discovered. edison wanted to use a type of electricity that flows in one direction, but that gives a really short range, tesla discovered two way electricity by changing the magnetic field of a coil, and thats how generators work, tesla made all of that even before knowing edison, and edison literally improved nothing. some people still think that edison was the "genius" who managed to transport electricity... but thats not correct. in conclusion, he didnt make edisons idea better because of how different the two types of electricity are and because of how much earlier tesla was working on his theory

[@luka3292]

Alexander Wolford nope. he kind of invented the lightbulb, but it only lasted for like 14 hours or something like that. also, one way electricity was not used a lot if at all because of the inefficient transportation

[@napalonzo933]

What about Nikola Tesla he is much smarter than others

[@soap5547]

Ah yes you*re right I forgot that Leonardo Da Vinci took an IQ test once. They also forgot Göthe who is considered to be one of the all time smartest man to ever live.

[@dmares700]

a quote from Albert Einstein" reporter: how does it feel to be the smartest man in the world? Albert Einstein: I don't know ask Nikolas tesla. "

[@Deadone13ful]

Sidis's IQ was never tested either.Also i don't know where people get their information , but the highest IQ you can get is 200 on a 13 dimensional test which no one has ever gotten, the highest is 194 from a guy in Iran named Abdesellam Jeloul or something like that if i'm not mistaking.

[@zurain]

UXDmainuser 02 yeah

[@zurain]

Actually where am i

[@PrestonWillis]

So sad when you don't see yourself on this list 😭

[@mr.monkey2202]

Prestons Willis I don’t really deserve to be on this list

[@paulgoogol2652]

Prestons Willis people with half of Einsteins iq should figure out the list is bullshit. What i said is too because there is absolutely no way to compare normal humans to him as his "job" is uncomparable. You could see if you are a better violin player if you are practised.

[@NGMonocrom]

And here we see that intelligence means nothing without determination or the drive to use it. Seems that nearly every modern-day genius has wasted their gifts on a simple life.

[@NGMonocrom]

Yeah, I guess I'm old-fashioned. I belong to an age that says if you've been gifted, it's your responsibility to use your gifts to make a better world. Or at the very least, try. Outside of philosophy, how many truly gifted individuals from the late 20th century to the early 21st are there who didn't waste away their gifts and talents? A whole $#@%load clearly did, and good luck being able to name anyone who didn't. I come from a time when laziness and apathy was considered a bad thing. Especially if it was clear that someone was chosen for a higher calling than simply a quiet, lazy life in obscurity.

[@Lexzah]

I don't know about you, but if I was bullied for having a gift of intelegence, or forced into expectations I didn't want by so may other people at such a young age. With no time to think about myself and what I want to do. The pressure would make me want to be left alone as well and live quietly. We live in a time where intelegence and other talents are bullied and manipulated.

[@NGMonocrom]

+Hazel Fuller You want life to be easy? Yeah, I was bulled too. Didn't cause it to shrink away from life or responsibility. Geniuses are different but they're not made out of delicate glass.

[@Lexzah]

NGMonocrom not saying things should be easy, I know that full well. But there is always a limit.

[@NGMonocrom]

+Hazel Fuller Honestly, the old saying "Living well is the best revenge" is absolutely true. When you give up and just hide away from the world living an obscure quiet life, that's when the stupid, ignorant bullies win. That's when they beat you. And again, geniuses from older generations as a whole didn't let the bullies win. Clearly, made of sterner stuff. Those were the ones who are now respected and admired long after their deaths. Their bullies died in obscurity. Forgotten by the world. The modern day geniuses have chosen to follow their bullies into forgotten obscurity.

[@whenyoufindoutthatsheisahe9902]

My cornhub account make six figures

[@missconstruct6968]

When you find out that she is a HE That profile pic is so true though

[@yisunshin4165]

When you find out that she is a HE WTF

[@whenyoufindoutthatsheisahe9902]

Lol

[@russellhammond4425]

When you find out that she is a

[@penelopeviews7335]

Corn?

[@zimmygirl777]

Here's a little factoid. Albert Einstein had dyslexia. Bill Gates has autism.

[@GENERALWACKASS]

zimmygirl777 So what does that make me with A.D.D

[@TBustah]

Gates has Asperger's, not full-blown autism.

[@datonepersonyoulikegagger7866]

I have autisum Bill Gates has autism Dan Harmon has autisum. 50/50 chance we all have autisum.

[@datonepersonyoulikegagger7866]

TBustah but Aspeger's is the same as autism get you facts straight.

[@easylife6348]

TBustah do you know people who have autism does have an developmental disability not an intellectual one.

[@tscott21970]

Y'all dropped the ball on this one, Tesla had an IQ estimated between 160- 310. Also, Plato, Socrates, and Newtown, Jung, ect. I mean come on y'all. Hell even Benjamin Franklin should be on this list too! He was a genius!

[@levirichardson9295]

WHERE'S NIKOLA TESLA!!!

[@oldschool1993]

IQ tests- Ashkenazi Jews 116 Asians 106 Whites 103 Hispanics-Indians 87 American Blacks 77 African Blacks 70 Australian aborigines 65 African Pygmies 60 Does this video correlate to those tests?

[@voidmax5707]

Hey, Danger Dolan. Send my thanks to Melissa. She's a great and cute narrator. :3 :3 :3

[@ShayTheValiant]

2 plus 2 is 4, minus 1 that's 3, quick maths.

[@ShayTheValiant]

-Timmy Turner.

[@Que_Drum]

Jake Berango QUIK MAFFS

[@brysonlopez291]

Jake Berango let me guess you were raised on rick and morty too

[@ShayTheValiant]

Barely seen the show, to be honest. Just know the memes like Szechuan sauce, Pickle Rick, and "IQ over 200".

[@TheHalfLeft]

Jake Berango I didn't think there was anyone on earth that found that funny

[@timjb19621]

Ahum Where. Is. Nikola. Tesla?

[@abeladamski8104]

One you may not know of Look up Zidane Hamid - born 3 Jan 2010 At 3-1/2 doing lectures at schools and universities and recording video lectures. Earned Microsoft Office Specialist 2010 certification in 2015 at age 5

[@CptnWolfe]

#16 The guy that invented that orange Lego stick that removes the two Lego bricks that are practically impossible to remove by hand

[@terencedyer9078]

alot of cory in the house fans

[@BoilingHotTea]

THE BEST ANIME IN THE HISTORY IF THE UNIVERSE BB!

[@terencedyer9078]

AdvictoriamProductions 145 you right

[@danielclaw]

#3 good for him, just because you have very high IQ and are doing great at a job does not mean you have to stay at the job just because of your high IQ or if you don't like working there. you can always go for a simple life if that's what makes you happy.

[@scix8794]

Srinivasa Ramanujan?

[@Tonithealtwing]

16: Fi. When you realize you’re the only person who doesn’t hate Fi.

[@troglodude980]

Creepy Jar of Money Your Wii remote is about to die

[@markcopley7366]

Arron FERNANDEZ UK. he gained a GCSE in maths with an A* at five years old in an exam for 16 year olds.He went to Cambridge to study maths at 15 the youngest undergraduate since Pitt the younger in 1773.He graduated as the the senior wrangler aged 18 years 0 months the youngest ever, meaning he was top in the hardest undergraduate exam in the world at the youngest age. Some previous noble prize winners who didnt top this exam were Bragg, Hardy, Russell and Keynes

[@alphagt62]

It’s gets me how they can suppose the IQ of people who never took the test. Most geniuses are brilliant in one area and lacking in another, so their total IQ may not be as high as other more rounded individuals.

[@Neo_Sauron]

Tesla and Newton should be on the list. Honorable mentions would also include Carl Sagan, Christopher Hitchens, and Powder (the albino dude).

[@Yostuba]

really no Tesla I hope the person who wrote this was not paid

[@dalesteven8405]

im smart! look, In 1608, a congregation of disgruntled English Protestants from the village of Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, left England and moved to Leyden, a town in Holland. These “Separatists” did not want to pledge allegiance to the Church of England, which they believed was nearly as corrupt and idolatrous as the Catholic Church it had replaced, any longer. (They were not the same as the Puritans, who had many of the same objections to the English church but wanted to reform it from within.) The Separatists hoped that in Holland, they would be free to worship as they liked Did You Know? The Separatists who founded the Plymouth Colony referred to themselves as “Saints,” not “Pilgrims.” The use of the word “Pilgrim” to describe this group did not become common until the colony’s bicentennial. In fact, the Separatists (they called themselves “Saints”) did find religious freedom in Holland, but they also found a secular life that was more difficult to navigate than they’d anticipated. For one thing, Dutch craft guilds excluded the migrants, so they were relegated to menial, low-paying jobs. Even worse was Holland’s easygoing, cosmopolitan atmosphere, which proved alarmingly seductive to some of the Saints’ children. (These young people were “drawn away,” Separatist leader William Bradford wrote, “by evill [sic] example into extravagance and dangerous courses.”) For the strict, devout Separatists, this was the last straw. They decided to move again, this time to a place without government interference or worldly distraction: the “New World” across the Atlantic Ocean. THE MAYFLOWER First, the Separatists returned to London to get organized. A prominent merchant agreed to advance the money for their journey. The Virginia Company gave them permission to establish a settlement, or “plantation,” on the East Coast between 38 and 41 degrees north latitude (roughly between the Chesapeake Bay and the mouth of the Hudson River). And the King of England gave them permission to leave the Church of England, “provided they carried themselves peaceably.” In August 1620, a group of about 40 Saints joined a much larger group of (comparatively) secular colonists-“Strangers,” to the Saints-and set sail from England on two merchant ships: the Mayflower and the Speedwell. The Speedwell began to leak almost immediately, however, and the ships headed back to port. The travelers squeezed themselves and their belongings onto the Mayflower and set sail once again. Because of the delay caused by the leaky Speedwell, the Mayflower had to cross the Atlantic at the height of storm season. As a result, the journey was horribly unpleasant. Many of the passengers were so seasick they could scarcely get up, and the waves were so rough that one “Stranger” was swept overboard and drowned. (It was “the just hand of God upon him,” Bradford wrote later, for the young sailor had been “a proud and very profane yonge man.”) THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT After two miserable months at sea, the ship finally reached the New World. There, the Mayflower’s passengers found an abandoned Indian village and not much else. They also found that they were in the wrong place: Cape Cod was located at 42 degrees north latitude, well north of the Virginia Company’s territory. Technically, the Mayflower colonists had no right to be there at all. In order to establish themselves as a legitimate colony (“Plymouth,” named after the English port from which they had departed) under these dubious circumstances, 41 of the Saints and Strangers drafted and signed a document they called the Mayflower Compact. This Compact promised to create a “civil Body Politick” governed by elected officials and “just and equal laws.” It also swore allegiance to the English king. PLYMOUTH COLONY AND THE FIRST THANKSGIVING The colonists spent the first winter, which only 53 passengers and half the crew survived, living onboard the Mayflower. (The Mayflower sailed back to England in April 1621.) Once they moved ashore, the colonists faced even more challenges. During their first winter in America, more than half of the Plymouth colonists died from malnutrition, disease and exposure to the harsh New England weather. In fact, without the help of the area’s native people, it is likely that none of the colonists would have survived. An English-speaking Pawtuxet named Samoset helped the colonists form an alliance with the local Wampanoags, who taught them how to hunt local animals, gather shellfish and grow corn, beans and squash. At the end of the next summer, the Plymouth colonists celebrated their first successful harvest with a three-day festival of thanksgiving. We still commemorate this feast today. Eventually, the Plymouth colonists were absorbed into the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony. Still, the Mayflower Saints and their descendants remained convinced that they alone had been specially chosen by God to act as a beacon for Christians around the world. “As one small candle may light a thousand,” Bradford wrote, “so the light here kindled hath shone to many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.”

[@javiazar]

No Isaac Newton or Aristotle? WTF list is this?

[@soap5547]

@Alexander Wolford You have no idea what the fuck you're talking about do you? You just assume that this is the case and go with it as facts spreading misinformation to others.

[@eribloo6055]

Aristotle hahahaha you dumb! What he does?

[@javiazar]

The list says "ever lived", not "in IQ recorded history"

[@javiazar]

I dunno, the dude woke up one day and invented logic. No big deal.

[@ryanking9928]

What the hell does a 8 year old do at frikin NASA

[@gene4438]

A pickle has a higher IQ than me.

[@Rog5446]

You said that No.1 could speak Amaranian, do you mean Armenian?

[@bujmoose3992]

Maybe she meant Pomeranian? ;-)

[@RunninGun81]

How is Tesla not on this list?

[@CloverPickingHarp]

What metrics were used to correlate this list?

[@michaelraimondo1452]

Planet Dolan is Awesome

[@qweppy7040]

Before 40 views gang

[@Malexandracalvo]

molluskwithclothes here

[@obsidianjoly9281]

molluskwithclothes I was number 30

[@mrtrump632]

Being smart does not bring happiness but makes you more stressful because you think more about all of the possible situation instead of living your life.

[@lewislewis4240]

Hey you already made a video like this a couple weeks back?

[@nba.savage23x28]

I mean 30 yay

[@420sakura1]

Is the tv trope about child genius getting bullied by the older classmates true or just a setting to raise drama. I mean generally not specific like No1 case. I heard Stephen enjoyed his college life to the extreme before he got paralysed.

[@adeelakbar2722]

300 ok

[@mix7506]

He watched rick and Morty

[@jeffw1267]

As a kid, I read that Emanuel Swedenborg probably had the highest IQ of famous scientists. But he wasn't just a scientist. I don't know if he was the smartest, but he was interesting.

[@Hoogee4]

Gauss, Euler, newton. No, some chess player that never won anything is top 15. And some office workers.

[@jhhwild]

William James Sidis is perhaps the only man who would have truly understood Rick and Morty.

[@BurgardRecords]

@PlanetDolan you're forgetting christopher langan!

[@sansei397]

Why aren’t I️ on the list? Just kidding. :(

[@kirbybrown6926]

Einstein has dyslexia *I have dyslexia I'm dumb as a rock*

[@wtv5642]

Ha

[@SonanX]

Where's Dr. Eggman? 300iq

[@sully42682]

One of the people discussed--I'm too lazy to go back and find her first name--has the surname Savant; what a coincidence.

[@panosa2502]

Nicola Tesla was 3-4 times as smart as the smartest guy included here. Einsten was not even any particularly smart, there is plenty of evidence to point to him as just moderately smart. He was not a good student, he was a cheater (cheating is often a sign of smart-enough-but-not-really-very-smart brain since the very smart simply require no cheating to achieve their end targets). Just to understand the volume of the brain of Nicola Tesla, he was able to develop in his brain ideas that had never been expressed in the past, out of the blue, then develop them (.. in his brain always!), then built and assemble them in all their complexity with all their parts and sub-assemblies (... in his brain always!!!!), and then put them for testing (.... in his brain, ... yes... in his brain...!!!!!!!!) and while doing all that then finding out how to improve them, i.e. doing in his brain what others would require whole teams of developers, designers, manufacturing engineers and test-teams to figure out. As such by the time he was ordering the manufacturing of his inventions, the inventions were surprisingly mature requiring little more improvements for a first-of-a-kind devices.

[@jollyandwaylo]

I think you need to read some books on Tesla that tell the whole story and not just fan-boy rants.

[@DejanJovanovic123]

Fully superior mind that we can not even to imagine

[@subrosian1234]

I'll have to just correct, Einstein was actually a fairly good student. His grades weren't bad at all (he excelled in mathematics, physics & chemistry) and had decent grades for the rest.

[@zackariahadam9426]

I didn’t see Nikola Tesla on this list... seems like an oversight to me, especially since they referenced the death ray, which was Tesla’s invention (not Einstein’s), and Tesla was the only person in the world who knew how to build one.... Ed Leedskalnin also didn’t make the list... what???

[@danielmancini1051]

ARE YOU SERIOUS!!! No Tesla!!! he was without a doubt the smarrest man ever. fot god sakes, how can you not mention him! how can he not be number one.

[@bladebison]

At least him or Da vinci. It's a disgrace she placed Da vinci so Low. He was the ultimate renaissance man, a man of truly great holistic intelligence.

[@philosophyman]

bladebison well the more you read into da Vinci the less smart he seems. The opposite can be said for Tesla or Newton.

[@emptyspotlight]

how about the dumbest people. id be number 1. i went to the gas station. put gas, bought some snacks, forgot my snacks at the counter, didn't realize it till half of the end of the day. $2.35 wasted

[@nba.savage23x28]

The 19th yay

[@samsloan4110]

Noam Chomsky also celebrated the Cambodian Genocide and predicted Venezuela to be a socialist Utopia the world should mimic

[@sup3rsn8ke]

number 1 lil pump

[@sup3rsn8ke]

and Molly was a amazing study on qunantom physics

[@hastalasopasequemo3645]

At only 2 months old, Lil Pump becomes the youngest to finish college

[@militaryjones9468]

If these guys where teachers at my school all the kids would say how stupid they are behind their backs just because they're failing

[@lanakrizetic5195]

No nikola tesla and no newton

[@azice6034]

Centurion X completely disagree with you. Euler was by FAR the greatest mathematician to ever step foot on this planet. You can’t even compare him with Newton... Tesla on the other hand was the greatest engineer to ever live. Newton though was just a physicist ahead of his time who was brilliant comparing him to the people of his time but comparing him to Tesla or Euler is flat out pathetic. I’m guessing you haven’t taken high level math classes if you think calculus was all Newtons idea too. Most of the notation Newton used was very impractical and Leibniz’s was just way better. Also, I could argue that if Newton was never born we would probably only be a couple dozen years behind technologically but if Euler wasn’t born we would be hundreds of years behind since a lot of the Math needed for computer science was actually discovered by Euler.

[@user-xy8kq3df1k]

Centurion X you are probably from America cuz you don't know what the fuck are you talking about.TESLA IS THE REASON WHY YOU CAN USE THAT PHOE YOU WROTE THAT CRAP ON.HE IS THE REASON WHY WE HAVE ELECTRICITY.THOMAS ALVA EDISON IS NOT,TESLA IS SO SHOW SOME RESPECT TO HIM

[@user-xy8kq3df1k]

Centurion X you are telling me(a guy from Croatia where we learn about him) to do some research.Bro Tesla invented AC power you idiot.Think what you wan't books don't lie

[@samgeorge1452]

I’m lucky enough to be considered ‘gifted’ but now I feel dumb

[@jonathanhansen3709]

No Carl Friedrich Gauss, or Nikola Tesla? Their demonstrated genius will be remembered long after most individuals on this list are forgotten.

[@gunnerapple6173]

you forgot obama. wait you said smartest. lol

[@AlexanderCaraveo]

Hi

[@penelopeviews7335]

lego PS4 hey!!

[@AlexanderCaraveo]

Hi

[@normundspeikmans6981]

6:19 that's Latvia Jelgava I go by it a lot

[@andrewcondie8611]

Early

[@ZombieZhell]

* hears Massachusetts Institute of Technology * *THERE IS A CANCER HERE IN THE COMMONWEALTH*

[@fredrock7264]

NICOLA TESLA !!

[@milessaxton]

First

[@christophercoleman3980]

this is freaking great i love planet dolan and melissa rulz cause she is beautiful i,m a huge fan of hers

[@janbaer3241]

da Vinci? Maimonides? Konstantin Tsiolkovsky? Any list is going to be lacking people.

[@worleyzack]

And I thought my IQ of 117 was great...

[@nathan8d164]

Lies

[@brodizzlee29]

R/Iamverysmart

[@quokkappy504]

The smarter didn't respond. Witch means I am not smart and I accept it.

[@michaelycong497]

Mine was 104. And i missed 24 questions

[@EatThaCookies]

IAwesomeNathan hey don't worry. iq tests are unreliable and don't actually measure human intelligence.

[@KonkyPlonky]

Why is Judith Polgar (chess player) on the list?? She is not the youngest ever who became grand master, and besides that there are many other chess players with a higher ELO rating.

[@Miny16Tamer]

first like

[@ragewolf360gaming7]

Lyqe nggh he he heeeee first dislike

[@the1boot0]

I thought Hawking said his theory of blackholes was incorrect.

[@dragonmartijn]

Smartest scientific man who ever lived was Aristotle. Everything he said has been proven wrong.

[@tanathos0414]

"Died of brain haemorrhage at the age of 46"... Ironic, I would say.

[@pew-2508]

Can't wait for the "But I should be on this list" Comments

[@Henrikko123]

She sounds like the woman "burgerking foot lettuce" guy

[@patrickbeishir8737]

Once again, the man that made all this possible, Nikola Tesla does not receive even an honorable mention. Shame

[@robertthompson2237]

smart is not only about IQ. it also has to do with how you choose to use your intelligence for the betterment of others.

[@LJLMETAL]

Judit Polgar is a great Chess Player. Garry Kasparov ist one of the greatest Chess Players of all time. He even lost to Mikhail Tal a month before Tal died.

[@wasweiich9991]

"...best known living scientist.." right in the feels...

[@bv9613]

Chomsky is a fool

[@arkangelsklucifer]

#1 (William james sidis) Bruce Wayne punches back at a bully clip.

[@Bookhermit]

As one of the geniuses mentioned, IQ tests simply don't mean much past the 150s or so - i.e. the people far smarter than the team designing the tests. And half the really bright ones realize that showing off your intellect all the time doesn't make for a happy life.

[@AndyZach]

Marilyn vos Savant was spot on by saying the IQ test was meaningless.

[@CruaverVoidDrake]

IQ points don't matter, they just say how good you are at the IQ test.

[@michaelnye9203]

John Dee was the most learned man on the entire planet at one time....

[@Hulkeq2]

Don't use the Stanford-Binet scale. It's the "feel good" IQ scale.. Use the Wechsler scale like they do internationally. Where 130 is very high not 165+ . See IQ_classification on wikipedia.

[@ihatesand8832]

Do a follow up the Dumbest People who ever lived

[@Erowens98]

When talking about people in the passed, and often even in modern times. It's important to mention that any iq figures are nothing more than educated guesses. Most people have never had a proper test taken.

[@undertaker666dead]

Forget 15 Smartest People That Have Ever Lived I am just hear to for Melissa

[@kaitlynbeaver1818]

The first one is my favorite, I love when super smart people use their powers to help others. x3

[@victoza9232]

3:01 No, the IQs of chess masters aren't necessarily higher than average. They're simply good at playing chess.

[@leafsalami7583]

Dang it, I was going for a 301 (Sml reference)

[@freeman960]

Is Val Valiant Thor on the list?

[@notalung]

Done thank them that the people that tought them

[@antdawgjr]

Dr. Eggman’s IQ is :300