They may cry from scraping their knees, still need their parents to drive them to appointments and are most likely not eligible to go on a roller coaster ride yet as they do not fit the height requirements. However, they’ll easily put you, a calculator or Wikipedia to shame if asked a math or history question. Does your child exhibit such intelligence? If so, you could be bringing up the next youngest Mensa member!

Aelita Andre, 9 years old

She started smearing paint on a canvas when she was merely nine months old and the rest, they say, is history. An abstract expressionist painter, the Australian-born child sold one of her acrylic paintings titled ‘Birch Forest in Space’ to an independent collector for USD50, 000. Newspaper articles and reviews have already branded her along the likes of Jackson Pollock and Damien Hirst but that should come as no surprise as after all, history’s most recognised child art prodigy – Pablo Picasso – finished his first masterpiece of a man riding a horse in a bullfight at the age of nine.

Adam Kirby, 5 years old

This British toddler currently holds the record for Mensa’s youngest male member when he was admitted at the age of two years and five months in 2013. His list of achievements include being potty-trained at the age of one after reading a book about it, knows the periodic time table and scored 141 points on the Stanford-Binet IQ Test- just four points shy of the ‘Genius’ category.

Tsung Tsung, 9 years old

Lee Shing-Tsung or more commonly known as Tsung Tsung, is a piano prodigy. Having mastered the art of playing piano at the age of 3, the Hong Kong-born boy appeared on Ellen Degeneres’s show after YouTube videos of him playing famous and difficult compositions went viral. After just one year of learning how to play, he received an exceptional score of 120 out of 150 on his grade 5 Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music exam.

Elijah Catalig, 3 years old

An average child has an IQ of 100. This Singaporean boy however, who has a liking for Peppa Pig cartoons, has a total IQ score of 142. He is also Mensa’s Singapore chapter’s youngest member, having joined when he was 2 years and 6 months old. Quick to grasp information, Elijah mastered the alphabet – both small and capital letters before he turned one and about a year later, he could count up to 50, and add and subtract with single-digit numbers.

Reuben Paul, 10 years old

His voice hasn’t broken out yet but the boy is a computer hacker, app developer and a cybersecurity expert. The accomplishments do not stop there as the Indian boy is CEO for Prudent Games, a company that designs and develops educational apps and games to teach math, science and cybersecurity. He is a familiar face at security conferences around the world and has delivered plenty of keynote and closing speeches.

John Fitzgerald, 7 years old

When Ireland’s youngest Mensa member was assessed with an IQ test when at four years of age, the results came back saying he had the reading age of a 12-year-old! In 2015, John was on par with a 16-year-old. John may be a child genius to many but the boy prefers to focus on something most boys his age would – soccer.

Elise Tan-Roberts, 9 years old

In 2009, Elise Tan-Roberts was the youngest person in Britain to have been admitted to Mensa at just 2 years and 4 months old. She developed mentally and physically at an early age, utering her first words at 5 months old and learning to walk at 8 months old. Her parents were encouraged to have her assessed and they discovered that she has an IQ of 156.

Sherwyn Sarabi, 6 years old

Sherwyn said his first words at ten months, knew all the colours by the age of one, could name all 195 independent sovereign states on a map by two years old, was playing on an iPhone by 18 months and scored off the scale in his IQ test with Mensa when he was four. He has also passed his grade five in piano and grade three in violin.

Aidan Na, 5 years old

Before turning two, Aidan could already read and recognise the alphabet, count to 100 and converse in full sentences. He took the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales IQ test at age three and scored 142. The test is one of the three tests that is officially recognised by Mensa International.

Alexis Martin, 5 years old

This American toddler scored the maximum number of IQ points – 160, the same as Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Nicolaus Copernicus. No pressure. No pressure at all. Plus, she taught herself Spanish using an Apple iPad.