For three years in a row in elementary school I got a second place award for the whole school (or elementary grades? Idk), and I never even studied or did my homework. I loathed the labor. In high school in trigonometry class I slept through most of my classes, didn't study, never did homework outside of school hours (in that class or in any other class), and got a A in a class and a 105 on the final exam. The first day the teacher asked the class a question the answer to which was "the Pythagorean theorem," and I got it, and later she thanked me in private for saying the answer because she couldn't remember it. 🤣 I programmed in BASIC, self-taught, when I was a little kid, probably younger than 12. I once took a German IQ test once where you predict the positions of dots in grids and got either 150 or 160, I don't remember which, I think 160. (I don't claim that as my actual IQ though. It's an outlier, so I'm just particularly good at inferring which objects are moving in which directions when it's potentially ambiguous.) I once thought about the question of how to best do memory management, without having read anything about how it's actually done, and later I found out the algorithm I came up with was discovered by some other individual too and eventually was actually adopted into the Linux kernel. I once made a program to convert numbers from one base to another and later found out there's actually a name for the algorithm I came up with and it's the best way to do it. I also came up with an algorithm for finding prime numbers that I later found out has a name. I don't remember the name, but it involves storing all the primes up until N and only dividing by those primes until you get to sqrt(N).