Junior Mental Calculation World Championship Results 2019

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This year’s JMCWC was held in Bielefeld on the 3rd-5th October – organized for the last 10 years by Caroline Merkel. 65 competitors from as far away as India, South Africa and Peru attended – and now the full results are available!

Under-12s age category:

The “Junior 1” event was very closely-fought this year, with the top 5 places separated by only 52 points! Stiaan and Aaryan maintained their position from last year but with a significantly higher score.

  1. Vandan Nyati (India) 1644
  2. Stiaan Scheepers (South Africa) 1638
  3. Aaryan Gupta (India) 1600

Under-15s age category:

The “Junior 2” event was won by Asmita Pal just before her 14th birthday – and by a considerable margin! Abhilakshya was the Juniors 1 champion in 2018, and Radhika won the bronze medal for the second consecutive year.

  1. Asmita Pal (UAE) 1972
  2. Abhilakshya Arora (India) 1785
  3. Radhika Maheshwari (India) 1758

Under-20s age category:

The “Senior” event was always going to be a showdown between Mohammad El-Mir and Wenzel Grüß, the two dominant junior mental calculators of the last couple of years – and both participants performed very impressively with huge scores on the most demanding JMCWC paper. In the end it was Wenzel who achieved the gold medal, with a perfect score on the first 11 pages. Mohammad’s silver was his first time competing in the Seniors category, at the age of 15.

  1. Wenzel Grüß (Germany) 2428
  2. Mohammad El-Mir (Lebanon) 2315
  3. Deepak Nagar (India) 1611

Congratulations to all participants who attended the event – including first-timers, veterans, medal-winners and everyone who made these days a positive and enjoyable experience.

 

Hectoc Competition:

This year Dinah Spring (last year’s Hectoc winner) organized the Hectoc competition – giving participants 30 strings of digits to solve (potentially in multiple ways) using the standard Hectoc rules. For example:

123456: 100 = 1 + (2 + 3 + 4) * (5 + 6)

975372: 100 = 9^(7 – 5) + 3 * 7 – 2

Under-20s age category:

  1. Julian Sacchi
  2. Joshua Spring
  3. Leon Beelenherm

Adults category:

  1. Elke Kuge
  2. Georgi Georgiev
  3. Martin Drees

 

Training and Sponsorship:

Participants in the JMCWC were offered more than 9 hours of training by mental calculation experts, including:

  • Willem Bouman
  • Daniel Timms (author of this website)
  • George Lane – creator of the Pegasus mental calculation trainer
  • Elke Kuge
  • Martin Drees
  • Max Weber

Sponsorship was generously provided by the Andreas Mohn Foundation.

The organizers intend to hold the same event next year – an announcement with the relevant details will be made to the subscription email list and Facebook page next year in plenty of time before the application deadline – and you can refer to the JMCWC official website for all information.

Event Data
​Junior Mental Calculation World Championship 2019
​ Jugendherberge Bielefeld, Hermann-Kleinewächter-Straße 1,Bielefeld,-D-33602
October 3, 2019
October 5, 2019
Elite Mental Math competition for young people up to 19 years.

9 thoughts on “Junior Mental Calculation World Championship Results 2019”

  1. sir / mam,
    My daughters want to be participate in jmcwc so any sample paper for learn them . one is under 12 and another is under 15 .so please reply us.thank you.

    • Hi Yuvraj – thank you for your interest in the JMCWC. The competition and training is organized by Caro Merkel and team, and they can be contacted via http://www.juniormentalcalculators.com/

      Application will be open next year, probably until May, but please wait for further announcements.

      More information about the next competition will be published next year on the linked website, and information about all competitions next year (including JMCWC) will be published here.

      Looking forward to seeing you there!

  3. I’m glad I had the opportunity to relive this emotion again, meeting with coaches, teachers, parents and most importantly the kids makes this event especially special … I can make a lot of decisions about the task, but Andy is the expert here 🙂

  4. Хубаво състезание,радвам,се че,моето дете имаше удоволствието да участва.Смятам обаче,че при Хектока би било честно да има разделение в групите примерно:до 14,до 19 и ветерани…И може би нещо като превод за малките,

  5. Nice synopsis. Well done to everyone involved in this event (JMCWC and hectoc). Keep it up for the next year.

    To be honest, I expected Wenzel would win by a larger margin. But Mo El-Mir is also a very fast overall competitor who gets better and better every year; so I guess he also handed in an almost perfect paper.

    I was 5th in Hectoc during Memoriad 2016 in Vegas (out of around 60+ competitors) and everyone has their own interpretation of how things work in this game.
    For me 975372 : – 9 – 7 + (5 ^ 3) – 7 – 2
    But of course there are other simpler ways, like Daniel and Bjoern mentioned.

    • If addition/subtraction hadn’t worked out, my next one would have been the 7 with the 2 on the right and then doubling: 9-7+(5-3)*7^2

      After that probably with 16 on the left: (9+7)*5+(3+7)*2

      Not sure how long I’d have taken to spot the 125 in the middle though. Nice one, Nodas.

      • Nice! Or let’s go absolutely wild with [(9 – 7)/(5 x (-3 + 7))]^-2

        This Hectoc event was different because it was allowed to give multiple answers for each string of 6 digits. So with the five combinations we have collectively written, we would have obtained five points!

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