Aaryan Nitin Shukla


Aaryan Shukla is an Indian mental calculator with 7 Guinness World Records. Aaryan is board member of the Global Mental Calculators Association.

Career

Shukla won the 2022 Mental Calculation World Cup at the age of 12 years old, setting event records in multiplication and square roots in the process. Additionally, during the record attempts portion of the event, he broke the organizer's record for division and multiplied two 20-digit numbers together in 1 minute and 45 seconds.
Shukla returned to the Mental Calculation World Cup in 2024, winning the event for a second consecutive time, while winning all five categories and scoring more points per category than any prior competitor. Additionally, he set the following records during the event:
  1. Mental Calculation World Cup calendar date record
  2. Mental Calculation World Cup multiplication record
  3. Mental Calculation World Cup square roots record
  4. World record for addition
  5. World record for square roots
Shukla also became the youngest winner at the Mind Sport Olympiad Mental Calculation World Championship in 2021, before finishing as runner-up twice. He also finished as runner-up in Season 1 of Calculation League.
In 2023 and 2024, Shukla gave televised Flash Anzan performances in Russia and Italy, the latter earning him a Guinness World Record in addition.
In late 2024, Shukla set six new Guinness World records in a single day --- three related to Flash Anzan, two related to multiplication, and one related to division --- in a showcase event in Dubai.