At the age of 6, he began to contact Sudoku from zero, and at the age of ten, he won the championship of Sudoku in primary and secondary schools in Beijing. The primary school jumped two levels in a row, and the junior high school only lasted two years, and at the age of 12, he became a top student at the Beijing No. 8 Middle School. And that's not what he's best at.
At the age of 13, he participated in a world-class Sudoku competition and won the eighth place, and at the age of 14, he obtained the guarantee qualification of Tsinghua Peking University and became a talented teenager who was amazed by everyone.
How did he grow into such a great student? How can you have so much success at such a young age? In this issue, Ziya Tong Quqia students will learn about the story of Hu Yuxuan, the "Sudoku Prodigy".
(1) Little teenager
In October 2004, Hu Yuxuan was born in an ordinary family in Beijing, his parents are college students, the work is average, the income is average, so there is no sufficient funds and energy to give children any special education.
However, they greatly respect Hu Yuxuan's wishes, uphold the concept of open and autonomous education, and try their best to develop freely according to the children's interests and hobbies.
Although his mother also wanted to cultivate her child's artistic cells like most parents, such as learning piano, after four or five years of study, Hu Yuxuan could not persist, and only passed the piano level five, and his mother did not force him to insist.
(2) Sudoku
The fate between his children and Sudoku dates back to a birthday party that Hu Yuxuan attended when he was 6 years old. After seeing a Sudoku book at a classmate's home, this "curious baby" began to think about and study this novelty on his own.
The parents of his classmates saw that he was more interested and gave it to him. But back home to study alone for nearly 4 hours, he did not have any breakthrough.
Hu Yuxuan, who did not want to admit defeat at all, begged his father to buy a special sudoku teaching book, and after spending a lot of effort to solve the problem, the child formed an indissoluble relationship with Sudoku.
Just like being opened to a new continent, through the arrangement and combination of nine numbers, so many famous halls can be made, and Hu Yuxuan gradually became addicted to it.
With the support of his parents, he often researched the relevant professional books on Sudoku bought at home in his free time, did various topics, and slowly he would summarize and train repeatedly for his own problems.
At the age of 8, those junior Sudoku fill-in-the-blanks could not satisfy Hu Yuxuan, and it was also in this year that the little child began to participate in various competitions, and his talent attracted the attention of many professionals and was guided by the national coach.
In the third grade, he participated in the Beijing Sudoku Competition for Primary and Secondary School Students, won the first place in one fell swoop, and he recognized Chen Cen, the former national captain of The Chinese Sudoku and the executive director of the Beijing Sudoku Sports Association. With her help, Hu Yuxuan has made a bigger leap forward in Sudoku.
Chen Cen (Former National Captain of China Sudoku, Executive Director of Beijing Sudoku Sports Association)
(3) Participate in the World Championships
In 2016, 12-year-old Hu Yuxuan was selected for the national Sudoku team and participated in the 11th World Sudoku Championship, finishing fourth in the under-18 age group.
In addition to being quite accomplished in Sudoku, Hu Yuxuan is also among the best in learning. When he was in elementary school, he was admitted to the experimental class of the Beijing Yucai Chinese Academy of Sciences, which was "hot and hot", and only jumped the grade for four years, stayed in junior high school for two years, and then was admitted to the junior class of Beijing No. 8 Middle School, becoming a high school student at the age of 12.
The junior class of the eighth middle school can be said to be a school that everyone is scrambling to enter, and the oldest of the 34 students in the class is only 14 years old. Where a group of "gifted children" gathered, Hu Yuxuan was still able to stand out and stabilize his results within the top three.
Because of his exposure to Sudoku since childhood, this "little genius" is extremely sensitive to numbers, and his math scores are basically full. For his relatively weak liberal arts, he also worked very hard, although not as good as mathematics, but not bad.
(3) Learning methods
Hu Yuxuan has his own methods and tenacity in learning, likes to "do it right" with learning, and when he encounters a topic or knowledge that he does not understand, even if he wants to pull off his hair, he will chew this difficult bone and swallow it.
In fact, when he first entered the junior class of the Eighth Middle School, his English score was not very ideal, but with a firm belief that diligence can make up for it, he began to desperately rush up the road.
Every day after school, after returning home from school to complete homework, I gave myself "extra meals", memorized words, practiced listening, and changed the method to improve my English reserves. In the end, in less than half a year, he had surpassed most of his classmates.
Some people say that Hu Yuxuan has not attended any cram school since he was a child, and his results are all due to his talent. Hu Yuxuan's mother does not agree with such a statement, because she sees the child's hard work and hard work in her eyes.
His son is a person who has a great sense of time since he was a child, knows how to allocate time and use it rationally. He also loves to play games as much as children his age, but he can do it.
Every time he plays, he will set a time for himself, and the games he is exposed to are also casual puzzles, and he can also move his brain and exercise his thinking after playing the game.
Although the usual study tasks are very tight, Hu Yuxuan did not have to give up his love for Sudoku. In his spare time in high school, a large part of his time was spent making Sudoku exercise books, immersing himself in the World of Sudoku, once as a recipe for adjusting boring learning.
And Hu Yuxuan really entered the public eye in the competition of "The Strongest Brain".
(4) Fame rises
In 2017, the little teenager was invited to the stage of Jiangsu Satellite TV's "The Strongest Brain". Probably also young and not very tall, he didn't get much attention before the game.
Because he was at the bottom of the world ranking at the beginning, he did not expect much from himself. In an interview with the host before the game, he also said that he was "here to play soy sauce."
Perhaps everyone did not expect that the "soy sauce boy" who said good defeated Chen Shiyu, who maintained the best overseas result of The Chinese Sudoku player at that time. Children whose reputations were shocked for a time attracted the attention of countless people.
Finding the right answer in 2688 combinations and spelling out eight broken numbers in five minutes, Hu Yuxuan undoubtedly became a dark horse in the Sudoku world, winning the appreciation of the guests present and stunned everyone in the audience.
Who would have thought that this skinny teenager would have such a powerful Sudoku computing power and surprise the audience with one shot?
In the following international competition, he was also jokingly called the authentic "Beijing paralysis" by the guests for his overly relaxed sitting posture in the second scene, which was in stark contrast to the "Japanese tightness" of the foreign players next to him because of their tense legs.
This also laid the groundwork for his next success, and it is this good and relaxed mentality that allows him to play his level well and become the key to victory.
At the beginning of the loss of two consecutive sets, when everyone felt that the game was almost over, Hu Yuxuan suddenly began to reverse.
After a huge disadvantage of losing two consecutive sets, he successfully flipped the game and finally defeated the world number one player Kenta Sensi 3:2, winning the praise of countless people.
He unexpectedly achieved a counterattack, and the five innings were terrifying, like a roller coaster ride.
But the young children are so calm, calm in the face of inferiority, maintain confidence, and then rely on their own strength to turn the tables in one fell swoop, which is really admirable.
Later, in the 12th World Sudoku Championship, Hu Yuxuan won the eighth place in the individual competition, and with his companions won the top three places in the U18 group.
At the same time as the Sudoku Road is smooth and smooth, 14-year-old Hu Yuxuan has also obtained the guarantee qualification of Tsinghua Peking University, and this talented teenager has gradually refreshed people's cognition.
Some people say that Hu Yuxuan is lucky, he has an enlightened family, there are parents who are willing to respect their children's interests and ideas, so that he has the opportunity to choose what he loves and make unremitting progress on the road of Sudoku.
But behind the "genius teenager", in addition to the influence of the family environment, the support and help of parents, what is even more indispensable is the persistence and efforts of the child himself for many years.
It is said that interest is the best teacher for children, this sentence has been well verified in Hu Yuxuan, who has continued to learn and persist under the guidance of interest and has achieved his current achievements.
The same is true in learning, he has some precious characteristics, such as concentration, and it is these things that escort him and make him stand out among his peers.
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