25 Super Smart Prodigies Struggling with Everyday Tasks

Possibly one of the most technically talented musicians to ever play a piano, he can barely button his own shirt.

A professor at Colorado State University, her superhuman eye for detail allows her to get inside animal’s heads to help do things like create better livestock handling equipment.

After having a brain aneurysm this Irish ex-con acquired an insane desire to paint. It’s all he does these days and has covered every inch of his house with it.

Born in the Philippines and nicknamed Tum-Tum, Thristan was better than most professional marimba players by the age of 3.

The couple whose lives were the basis for the 2005 film “Mozart and the Whale” they are both highly functional savants living with Asperger’s Syndrome. Jerry has been labeled the world’s “most versatile calculator” and Mary has a talent for art and piano.

His insane math skills didn’t develop until his twenties so he is also slightly more functional than most of the people on this list and as a bonus he can speak backwards fluently.

After being hit in the head with a baseball at the age of 10 Orlando realized he could perform extremely complicated calendar calculations and can remember the weather of every day since the incident.

Although his eye’s had to be removed at birth and it took him about 15 years to learn to walk, he learned Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto no. 1 in less than 15 minutes after hearing it on TV one night.

Only about 6 percent of savants are female so this Hungarian poet and artist already stands out. Her life was featured in the documentary “Freedom of Speech”.

Although he never managed to speak or write more than one syllable, his talent for creating things out of wood was unbelievable.

Another musical wunderkind, Matt never received any classical training but he is the only child to ever sign a contract with Bösendorfer pianos.

This Swiss savant could draw. More specifically, he could draw cats. And draw them he did. He even came to be fondly known as the “Raphael of Cats” due to his peculiar ability.

Born in Idaho, James spent most of his days making incredible art out of random trash. For pencils he used sharpened sticks, soot, and saliva.

Without looking at a clock she can tell you the time down to the second, she’s memorized almost every song ever written, and because she’s blind she get around using echolocation by making chirping noises.

He grew up in a homeless shelter due to a lack of understanding of autism. Eventually, however, he found a release for his incredible mathematical mind through art.

Another savant that acquired his abilities after being struck in the head, Jason has supposedly come up with an accurate visual explanation for e=mc2.

While most of us eventually put down our crayons, Richard never did. He’s drawn some amazing masterpieces using nothing more than Crayola.

Called the “human camera”, he can draw entire cityscapes perfectly after just taking a glance at a bird’s eye photo.

Although he has an IQ of only 45, like Stephen he can recreate things perfectly through sculpting after only catching a glimpse of them.

He began performing on the piano at the age of 2. Since then he has mastered over 20 instruments and memorized thousands of songs.

As a savant, he learned to draw almost before he could walk. He then began creating society he called “Urville”. Today he has written and drawn numerous books on his fictional society.

Another set of twins with unbelievable calendar counting abilities, they can name the day on which any date falls.

Although he had no formal schooling he was a mathematical monster. He could deal with such large numbers in his head that he had to invent names for them.

In spite of being able to learn Icelandic in less than 1 week, if you ever meet Daniel more than once he won’t be able to remember your face.

Known as a “megasavant”, he can recall the complete contents of over 12,000 books from memory.