What If You Had 500 IQ

What if you had 500 IQ? Most IQ tests stop at 160. You'd learn a language in a weekend, play twelve chess games at once blindfolded, and always pick the fastest checkout line. But then your best friend needs help, and you find out the one thing a genius brain is terrible at. In this animated what-if story, Sol has the highest IQ on Earth and runs into real science: why toast lands butter side down, Hick's law (why more choices make you slower), what a 1942 study found about the loneliest bright kids, and the curse of knowledge, the reason the smartest people are often the worst at explaining. 0:00 Butter side down 0:43 What 500 IQ means 1:21 Amazing 2:16 Awful 3:28 Bean's problem 3:49 The twist 5:05 The fix 5:50 Exam day 6:30 Your turn If it were possible, what superpower would you want? Tell us in the comments. Subscribe for more what-if stories: @whatifferent #WhatIf #500IQ #Animation