杭州少年杨英豪称雄《最强大脑》
2018-07-05陈栋王藇
陈栋?王藇
对战日本“脑王”,4比0轻松完胜
《最强大脑》第五季最后一期中日之战,浙江杭州14岁少年杨英豪对战日本选手伊泽拓司。日本选手现在就读于东京大学,曾是高中生智力竞赛两届霸主,从高中起就称霸日本各大智力竞赛。
赛前,伊泽拓司曾有“舍我其谁”的扬言,没想到在比赛中,却被杨英豪以一个干净利落的4比0完胜,让中国队早早奠定胜局。
自从在今年1月播出的首期百人争夺赛中惊艳亮相后,这位还在杭州文澜中学读初二的少年就走入了媒体的聚光灯下。之后,除在中美之战中输掉一场外,杨英豪每战都赢,是本季少年选手中最亮眼的一位。
“我拿下第一题后,人就不慌了。”杨英豪跟笔者在家里聊起了这场已经录完的中日之战时这样说道。
抱着打酱油心态参加,完胜日本“脑王”
《最强大脑》是江苏卫视引进德国节目《Super Brain》推出的大型科学竞技真人秀节目,目前已经播到第五季。
能在这一季的《最强大脑》走到最后,杨英豪和他爸爸都没想到。
小英豪一直在看《最强大脑》,也是该节目的人气选手“水哥”王昱珩的粉丝。但报名参加《最强大脑》,站上偶像曾经挑战过的舞台,还是一时兴起。报了名以后,就在软件中刷初试:在限定的时间里完成一些智力题目。
做了一轮题,他就被通知去了复试,地点在杭州卖鱼桥小学。
通过复试,就去南京面试了,300多位天南海北的“准大脑”,选前100位站上最强大脑的舞台。
杨爸爸说,“最一开始,我以为他连复赛都进不了”,英豪自己想得更远一点,但也仅仅是30强,没想到成绩还挺好,被“水哥”王昱珩选进了“水之队”,一路挺进国际赛。
在近日中日对决的第三场,天才少年杨英豪对上的是同样天才少年出身的伊泽拓司,赛题是从一团乱麻似的交叉线中,理出每条线不相交。两人一共对决5题,每题的分数都会上升,难度也随之上升。
第一题时,杨英豪的冲劲就凸显出来了,以三倍速领先对手,最后50比15,干净利落地取胜。网友们惊呼:“英雄出少年。”
接下来的第二道、第三道赛题,日本选手一度领先,在一片“心脏都受不了”的弹幕下,杨英豪的表现却是“稳得不能再稳了”,头都没抬一下,两题全部拿下。
第四题是赛点,如果日本选手发力,完全有可能反超。不过,中国队友好像早已料到结局,“照英豪的性格应该会4:0结束比赛。”
这一句真不是吹的,英豪果然毫无悬念地拿下了第四题,4比0零封了日本“脑王”。
校园里的杨英豪,低调内敛受欢迎
和舞台上的意气风发不同,现实生活中的14岁少年,乍看一眼很平常。带着黑框眼镜的小男生,在同龄人中根本不出挑。
但反差的是,从上幼儿园以来,杨英豪一直很受同学的欢迎。
进了杭州胜利桥小学,杨英豪懂事和聪明更凸显了出来。平时同学们喜欢聚在他身边问一些学习上的问题。尽管有时候他思路跳脱的让同学很难理解,但英豪依然会耐心的改变方法在说一遍。
关系要好的小学同学现在还能记得当“小老师”的杨英豪认真的样子,“他一定会教到你懂为止。”
老师对此也是赞不绝口,但让老师印像深刻的,是这个学生“分分必争”。有一回数学考试,满分120分,杨英豪在一道题下面解了好几种方法,找老师去软磨硬泡。拗不过这个执着的学生,老师象征性地给他加了6分。这是他小学时期的最高分,126分。
考上文澜中学,和大多数孩子一样,杨英豪觉得还是挺骄傲的。
在老师眼中,在这所传奇中学的大环境下,杨英豪和其他的孩子并没有什么不同,大家都上一样的课,考同一张试卷,偶尔也会在某一门考试栽个跟头。
“要不是他要请假一个星期,我们都不知道他被选上了《最强大脑》。”文澜中学的孔老师对这事赞不绝口。作为班主任,能在电视上看到自己的学生还是挺骄傲的一件事。
杨英豪当初参加数学竞赛,他才12岁。所有得一等奖的学生里,他年纪最小,但是最冷静。他曾获得過华罗庚金杯全国数学邀请赛一等奖、希望杯全国数学邀请赛一等奖、中环杯一等奖、“走进美妙数学花园”一等奖等奖项。
“他其实非常全面,如果一定要从鸡蛋里面挑骨头,那英语和语文相对差一些。但也就是差那么一两分。”在孔老师眼中,杨英豪的优点在于自主学习性太强了,“第一次去家访,他妈就告诉我,英语一开始都是自学的,他们嫌补习班路远,就让他自己学着玩玩。”
杨英豪说:“我从来不刷题,就做一遍,把问题都搞清楚了,再做类似的题就错不了。”
卧室成亲友参观“景点”,少年有点小烦恼
早在《最强大脑》中日之战播出前,杨英豪的微博就已经收获了6万粉丝,随手发一条微博都有上千点赞。
笔者问他是不是现在有点“偶像包袱”,他说是,有一点,压力有点大,自己好像一下子成了红人,微信和QQ里不断涌进来添加好友的信息,每周五回到家打开手机,他有些无所适从。
还有一些父母认识的朋友,会带着自家的孩子来参观这位“最强大脑”的卧室,这让他哭笑不得,“我就是一个初中生啊。”
其实,在家人眼中,14岁的杨英豪也并没有什么天才之处,也就是比别人家的小孩稍微聪明了一点,听话了一点。
不过,杨英豪的自我管理能力,倒是从小就让人刮目相看。
读幼儿园中班时,有一次看电视的时间超出了他跟妈妈的约定,被杨妈妈说了一句——
“都都(杨英豪小名),你今天看电视的时间有点长了。”
“妈妈,那我接下来3天都不看电视了。”
結果接下来的3天里,小英豪真的没有再碰过电视。
看起来好像有点怕妈妈,其实“尊重孩子”是杨爸爸杨妈妈一直贯彻的育儿方针,也没有一定要孩子考上名校的目标。但是,杨妈妈希望孩子有一个良好的学习习惯,为此辞掉了医药公司的工作,当时她是公司的全国销售冠军,但她觉得陪伴孩子比工作更重要一些。
在全国观众前吹了个牛,再难也要去实现
就在笔者和杨英豪的爸妈聊天时,主角正关在自己的房间里,为一道数学题抓耳挠腮。
更让他接受不了的,是考试考砸了。
“考完第一门时,觉得后面还有机会;结果第二门还是这样,心态就崩了。”让他心态崩了的那门课,正是他觉得十拿九稳的数学。落差有点大。
在同学眼中,数学是杨英豪天赋,让人惊叹也让人羡慕。“他真的太厉害了,请了一个礼拜假,回来照样拿第一。”
笔者问他,是不是因为要录制节目,落下太多了?
“不是的,就是没有仔细准备。那天也挺累的。”
“那考了第几名呢?”
“反正没有前十名了。”
在这个少年心里,如果在班级里都取得不了前10的成绩,更别提去选择西湖大学还是麻省理工了。在《最强大脑》中美之战那一场,全国观众都看到了这个孩子收到了麻省理工教授罗伯特·戴西蒙和著名学者施一公伸出的橄榄枝。
杨英豪在《最强大脑》上说,自己想去麻省理工。14岁的少年当时没想太多,但网上的舆论发酵开来,有人觉得他崇洋媚外。
自己孩子上了一个喜欢的节目,结果却遭遇键盘侠的伤害,这让杨爸爸始料未及。
“上次他表哥看到网上又有人在无端黑英豪,气得直接在评论里跟对方吵了起来。后来举报后,对方把帖子删了。”
以监护人身份,这位父亲并不希望自己的孩子去面对流言蜚语。
杨英豪自己心态摆挺正的,“这就好比在全国观众面前吹了个牛,再怎么难都要去实现吧。”他笑着跟笔者讲。
为了实现自己吹的这个牛,他的第一个小目标是先在信息学奥赛的竞赛上取得一个佳绩。每周六的下午,他都会去上信奥培训班。
而在去培训班的路上,他会窝在后座玩一会手机游戏,这是他难得的休闲时光。
录完《最强大脑》的他,自制力又有长进,“现在应该少玩游戏多做题了,成功都是聪明+努力嘛。我应该更努力一点,我可以拿更好的成绩的。”
Yang Yinghao: A Super Brain
By Chen Dong, Wang Yu
In the last episode of the fifth season of , a popular CCTV television quiz show, 14-year-old Yang Yinghao, from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, won a landslide victory in his PK against Isawa Takushi, a Straight-A student in Tokyo University who had never been outsmarted in the quiz shows in Japan since his high school years. Yang thrashed Isawa Takushi four-nil, holding the cards in the Chinese contestants hands way before the first half of the game reached its finish line, a result that made Isawa spellbound and brought Yang into the limelight of the Chinese media.
Currently in his second year in Hangzhou Wenlan Middle School, ranking among the best schools in Hangzhou, Yang made his debut in the show in January of this year and stood out as the dark horse of the season with a sweeping victory. Throughout his participation, he lost the game only once, to an American team.
“The jittery feelings were gone after I beat him in the first question of the answer session,” the boy recalled in an interview.
The sweeping victory, however, was totally unexpected by Yang and his father. Yang Yinghao signed up for the preliminary test just to try his luck and because he was a huge fan of one of the contestants, without knowing he would eventually make it into the legion of finalists.
“I took it as a joke when he told me he wanted to give it a try, and Id thought he would be wiped out in the preliminary session,” the father confessed, adding that “he was probably thinking something about making it into the top 30”.
In the confrontation between Yang Yinghao and the Japanese contestant, the match point came in the fourth question, in which Isawa Takushi had the chance to turn the tables. “We were not worried at all,” Yangs teammates recalled with pride, “we knew everything was under control and that was the end of the show of the most powerful brain in Japan.”
In the eye of his classmates since his pre-school years, Yang Yinghao is a walking dictionary that has never let anyone down. “He is smart, determined to get to the root of the matter, and is very patient, which makes him popular at school,” many of his friends recall.
In the eyes of his teacher, Yang Yinghao is an extremely smart student whose proactive attitude towards learning is way beyond his peers. “I felt very proud when I saw him on TV, and it was quite a surprise because he didnt reveal anything to anyone at school,” the teacher in charge of his class said.
“The boy was born to be a champion. I find it hard to be picky when it comes to his academic performance. The yearning for knowledge seems to be his instinct. His mother told me he taught himself English at a very young age and she never had to bother taking his son to any cram school.”
Yang gained a fan base of more than 60,000 people on Sina Weibo before the battle with the Japanese prodigy. “Becoming so popular almost overnight was a lot of pressure for me. I felt a little helpless when I came home on Fridays and found so many likes and comments on my cell phone,” Yang said.
Yang calls himself a lucky child born into a liberal family. His mother quit her job as a successful sales representative in a pharmaceutical company to have more time for his son and to cultivate the boys self-management awareness, but never set goals for him. In the eye of his mother, Yang Yinghao learned to keep his words when he was a little boy.
During the TV show, Yang Yinghao revealed that his dream was to enter the Massachusetts Institute of Technology one of these days. “I have to practice what I preach and will work hard to achieve the goal that has been made public,” the boy said half-jokingly.