"World's smartest kid" solves rubik's cube

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lol, Someone just posted this on my wall on Facebook.
Anyway, he's obviously a genius - he just solved a Rubik's Cube in ONE MINUTE AND THIRTY FOUR SECONDS.
 
176 IQ for a 7 year old? I don't believe that for a second. Its not that hard to score 10/10 in an IQ test and get something like 185 IQ. That stuff is bull.
...let's see him prove me wrong.
 
My IQ score was 156 in second grade, maybe I got smarter over the years... who cares? The test was rather easy, for example one portion was showing me a bunch of shapes that made something, then having to recreate it. (like a house)
 
Notice it says smartest "kid", which means the smartest in his first grade class.
 
Notice it says smartest "kid", which means the smartest in his first grade class.

Notice that it says "this 7-year-old boy is smarter than 99.999% of everyone in the world".
No, he isnt. The test he took does, a test does not prove what your full potential is. If he had a couple lucky guesses that is at least 40% of the world, you see, if he took the iq test over and over (with different questions) im sure his average will be a lot lower than this lucky single.
 
Maybe he has a tested adult IQ of 176. Which is still pretty silly. But hey, if he's smarter than 99.999% of the world, doesn't that mean that 1 in 100,000 people are at least at his level? That's over 60,000 people, and I bet a lot of those are kids. Still, an IQ of 176 is about 5 standard deviations above the mean, which apparently corresponds to a probability of about one in 3.5 million - roughly the chance of a randomly scrambled 2x2x2 being solved - but that still gives some 3,000 people with at least that IQ.

Why is this supposed to be impressive, though? If you believe cubing requires intelligence, of course he should be able to solve it. If you don't, a 1:3x solve isn't impressive for anyone.
 
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