A 12-year-old student from the British town of Great Torrington was invited to join Mensa after he scored higher in an IQ test than famous physicists such as Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking, The Guardian reports.

Rory Bidwell, the student in question, scored 162, the highest for his age group, on the Cattell III B test, one of the standardized tests used in Britain to measure IQ.

For comparison, Einstein and Hawking are believed to have IQs of 160.

So Rory was invited to join Mensa, a famous international organization made up of people with IQs in the top 2% of the population.

The pupil’s mother told the local North Devon Gazette that her son was “blessed with an incredible brain, able to decipher things and remember information”.

The British student prodigy is a Harry Potter fan.

The boy attends a local school in Great Torrington, a market town with a population of less than 6,000. The city is located in the Devon region in the south-west of Great Britain.

Rory’s mother also told local media that he completed his first 100-piece puzzle at just two years old, that he learned well in algebra taught by students 5 years his senior, and that during the lockdown imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic , read all of Harry Potter in just 8 weeks.

In total, they have more than a million words.

Mensa accepts various tests to demonstrate membership, provided they are standardized and approved by professional psychological associations and, of course, administered under supervision.