I mean... don't worry those who do that also correct other native french. Why ? Because we don't use proper syntax or pronunciation of words when we speak casually so there's always a smart ass nearby 🫠
He's the prodigy you see in anime that went insane, after suffering from boredom & complacency. Until the protagonist shows up, reminds them why they began their interest in the first place, and best them at their own game & their own terms.
It's even crazier than that man, these weren't just native speakers... They were native speakers who were the best at playing scrabble in that language.
Nigel Richards is a genius. He won against native French speakers by a huge margin, even correcting them. He deserves to be put the Internet Hall of Fame for this.
@@admiral_HiHiTo be honest it’s kinda useful. Some word should’nt exist but it make everything clearer. Compared to english were som people may be confused since some word are the same.
He is a 5 x World Champion, has a photographic memory, is the GOAT of scrabble, has won 70% of all his professional games and people estimate his IQ is 180. And has many other title wins, this guy is incredible.
Fun fact: many top scrabbles players are mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists. The game at its core is more like Chess than spelling bees
Memorizing French as words and the possible conjugations as words. He has one narrow context that he learned them for. A native speaker has many more contexts that their learning is built into, many more associations flashing in their minds. We don’t learn to speak alphabetically either. Not saying I could do this but trying to guess how he was able to beat them.
Why is everyone keen to pin this on "narrow abilities" and "memory" when, obviously, the right conclusion is that Scrabble selects for general intelligence?
I liked Words with friends until everyone started cheating. I'd like to play Scrabble with people but nobody wants to play and I doubt I could do anything like this guy. I just want to play with someone.😔
@@TheOfficialTarynTotsjoin scrabble groups-search your local & regional area for nonprofit organizations or volunteer at hospitals and nursing homes; also: ISC -- International Scrabble Club Public Group This group doesn't tolerate inappropriate behavior, spamming, or other behaviors that aren't welcome during friendly Scrabble games. It also has a guideline to treat others with respect, and members can share victories and minor word game activities. Scrabble GO - Official Community This private group has 23,000 members and is a place for Scrabble fans to interact, make friends, and share ideas and feedback. NASPA Games This group is for discussing competitive Scrabble play and promoting NASPA-sanctioned tournaments. It's a non-anonymous forum that doesn't allow advertising and has a code of conduct that requires members to be respectful.
Strongest “I don’t speak this language because I can’t” fan vs weakest “I chose to memorise the dictionary because I refuse to learn this language” enjoyer.
Imagine the French competitors seeing a word that hasn’t been spoken in the past thousand years and questions Nigel “what word is that? What does it mean?” And Nigel just shrugs “idk but that’s how you spell it” 😂😂
@@iogamer9844Yesnt, the vast majority of french people under 30 are able to speak and understand basic english. Although usually very crooked and painful to the ear, its still decent enough to hold quick and simple conversations.
Actual native speakers of a language rarely know every word in their language, or even every word in their dictionary. They weren't playing against someone who knew their language, they were playing against their own dictionary.
Even more since french people don’t respect Lebon James and use his name as a synonym to masturbation (« Je me suis lebron james » ; « Il se lebron james ou quoi »)
As a Will Anderson enjoyer, I can tell you that Nigel is unfathomable better than anybody else. I remember the stat that in endgame moves, the average top 10 player makes an error every 2.5 moves, but Nigel makes an error once every 85 moves. This guy has crazy aura
Who in the world would know this crazy specific detail about one person and stats in scrabble???!!! This would not even be an answer in a trivia game! I am impressed!!🎉🎉
You forgot to add that the best scrabble solvers bots that we have available to us make a mistake around once every 10-15 moves if my memory serves correctly. Adding to that, after analyzing all of Nigel's errors over the course of 500 games, of the very few incorrect moves he played, the majority of those mistakes were that he simply did not place the tiles down in the correct order. I dont think this information adds that much, but the context helps to understand exactly how much better he is than everyone else around him. We will likely never see anyone in any sport that is as dominant as Nigel is in Scrabble.
I’m still processing and impress by him memorized 400000 foreign language words in 2 month, and you show me this. Freaking mind blown. What a monster he is.
What's more impressive is that he won it a second time, in 2018. Since winning the 2019 World Scrabble Championships, he's not been seen again until ASCI 2023 Masters, which he won. He's known for being very reclusive.
*Fun fact:* There's a rumor that French became so difficult to conjugate as a way to separate the "educated" from the general population. Regardless of whether or not this is true, the language is *notoriously* difficult to properly spell in writing for its own native speakers.
@@dsandoval9396many conjugations are pronounced the same way but are written differently. For example, mange, manges, and mangent are all pronounced the same, and in some speakers’s prononciation, aller, allé, allait, allais, and allaient are ALL pronounced exactly the same
@@dsandoval9396 @Ptnndrd gave perfect examples On top of that though, what makes french particularly difficult for learners is the frequent silent letters that *actually are pronounced* in niche situations. This means that to speak French at a bilingual level you need to constantly have the written conjugation in mind. For example "vous n'êtes" (plural you aren't) is pronounced "voo net". Neither of the S's are pronounced here because of how French phonology works. However "vous êtes" (plural you are) is pronounced "voo zet". Here the first S is pronounced only because French phonology doesn't often allow a word to end on a vowel with the following word beginning on a vowel. You can think of it as the word "an" in English, except much more varied and always included in the written language regardless of pronunciation.
@capbarker All of this exists because french people wanted to have a light and easy mouth movement so I think most of these silent words are because of what I said and not related to some grammar
Nigel is the actual final boss of scrabble, like how did you won a championship against a native speaker without even spending 1 year into learning the languange, that is pure madness
Imagine being so bored of winning that you nerf yourself by playing in a language you don't even speak. Yet somehow he still decimated everyone. A god amongst men.
@@handesonrenatoguimaraes2615 There's a 16 yo who beat that Carlson guy. Idk man learning the entire dictionary and battling professional natives and still winning without knowing the language is more impressive, no offense to the goat Carlson who is really impressive too, just not like this guy.
Bro I don’t care how much you care about Scrabble or not, everyone should go look up videos of this dude. I’ve watched a lot of videos on him, I 100% recommend it.
ao3 authors when they say english isn’t their first language and then suprising me with so many beautiful words and beautiful imagery that me, a native english speaker, have never heard of in my life
Well, most native speakers I imagine tend to focus a lot more on the common aspects of their language as that will often be what they will use regularly for communication. Very rarely would you have a need for some of the more uncommon/obscure or even less used/known definition of a certain word. So, we likely only have a handful of rare words in our "arsenal". But it's also how us English know certain less common foreign words, as it stands out to us. Take all the German words we comr across that likely never enters into the average, casual German conversation. So I guess wherever you are from in the world, it's a guarantee that foreigners will introduce you to new words.
Maybe it's imagery/analogies that were present only in their language/culture. For example, the analogy of a glove being a shoe for your hand might be novel to you unless you speak German where the word for glove is Handschuh, literally, hand-shoe. (disclaimer: I do not speak German) Also, due to the influence of the British empire and later the USA, the English language has become a standard for international communication, resulting in almost 3x more non-native than native speakers, which may have something to do with this phenomenon you speak of
@@wmpowell8I think part of it is to do with not being confident in the language or not knowing certain terms, so you have to kind of... talk around it, if that makes sense. It's what I do when I'm speaking French and I don't know the right word. I just say what it means, as much as I'm able. It ends up a lot more flowery as a result, tho not always accurate lol (imho my French sucks, despite all the years of living there and other French-speaking countries)
Sounds like a anime plot where the MC gets reincarnated. Worlds greatest scrabble player reincarnated into another world where words are magic. And that whole long sentence would be the title
Are you the strongest scrabbler in history because you memorized 400,000 foreign words or did you memorize 400,000 foreign words because you're the strongest scrabbler?
Bro, it only took him 8 weeks to memorize that many French words and it took me 2 years just to say “Bonjour” duolingo can take some notes from this guy
After getting my degree in psychology and learning about long term memory, i have been saying for quite some time that much knowledge is based on people's ability to retain the information. In other words the more you remember the better chance to have at being good in academics. This especially applies to math,history and english. Science is more based on understanding of how components connect so you will need more than the ability to retain information and more of the ability to connect information. I believe you can memorize anything if 1 you understand the patterns and 2 you connect it to a previous memory so it becomes relative. That theory has worked for me throughout my life. It may be hogwash but it definitely works.
I disagree with the part about math and science. It's vice versa. In math, you remember the syntax, and rules or formula, but that's about it. You don't memorize every possible solution to a given problem, which is a lot. Once you know the rules, your ability to think will do the rest. Meanwhile science relies heavily on memorization. You can't solve a problem without remembering the details of the solution, and solutions are often limited and rigid. It's why science questions aren't prominent on IQ tests but math questions are--IQ tests don't measure a person's academic knowledge or ability to memorize; but their ability to think.
He learned the french scrabble dictionary because it shares a lot of words with the english dictionary. And there's pattern memorization strategies to cover a lot of letter combinations you can play. Still a major feat tho
imagine being a french scrabble player, and you play against a foreigner who doesnt know french, thinking its a piece of cake, and all of a sudden he says "you made a mistake there."
I've played a LOT of Scrabble in my lifetime and the ONLY person to ever best me was my grandpa. I may be a sucker for punishment but a small part of me would LOVE to play this guy is only to see how absolutely thoroughly he would destroy me.
This reminds me of "The Drift King" Keiichi Tsuchiya who helped popularize car drifting, he was so fast round the racetrack compared to his peers in his early career that A) he deliberately drove a slow car, B) he began wearing boots and gloves to handicap his vehicle control, and C) he drifted through corners, which killed his speed but also got the crowd's attention, and it contributed a lot to drifting forming as a motorsport.
"I was bored so i embarrassed my opponent in their native language without even knowing it" is gonna be one hell of a parent/grandparent story
I don't think the scrabble goat is reproducing anytime soon lol
Insane dad lore
Yeeeeeah... I don't think he's gonna have kids unless he donated to a sp*rm bank...
@@how2alive79Spot on
@@how2alive79bro that's fowl😭😭
Knowing how French people love correcting non-native speakers on their French, this would feel like a slap in the face for them
😂
So true😂😂
Satisfying.
I mean... don't worry those who do that also correct other native french.
Why ? Because we don't use proper syntax or pronunciation of words when we speak casually so there's always a smart ass nearby 🫠
It would feel like a double slap from a white glove
This dude's like the nerd version of one punch man. He got so good that he got bored of everything.
“One Scrabble Man” a board gamer for fun
I was thinking the same thing, he just looks so bored, like any joy he had for the game is completely dead now from winning so much.
@@ShinKyuubithats why they say its lonely at the top
Not again Izuru…
I was gonna say Goku, but yeah!
MF IS TOO POWERFUL,like HE literally CORRECTING HIS NATIVE SPEAKER OPPONENTS
Wait till you hear about me. I’m so powerful, with my choice to make you feel 2nd hand 1st degree cringe, I can do it anytime.
On a word he himself doesnt know the meaning of hahaha
Really? Did that actually happen
You say that, but English mfs got some terrible ass grammar too 💀💀
@@locamiGIOH COME ON d00d! Op even says it in the video!
Bro won french scrabble competition whilst not giving a fuck about learning the actual french language. What a mad lad
The dude doesn’t even give a fuck about scrabble. He just does this out of boredom.
It's lonely at the top
correction he did learn the French language, but he didn't learn to speak it
He learned the language... just didnt learn how to actually speak or communicate using the language
yeah he didn’t want to get infected by french
He's the prodigy you see in anime that went insane, after suffering from boredom & complacency. Until the protagonist shows up, reminds them why they began their interest in the first place, and best them at their own game & their own terms.
Haha... Dosent work like that in real life. World isnt big enough for 2 geniuses. Just look at magnus carlson
This mc is gonna be ash ketchum good luxk winning this league
8 weeks if prep time vs a lifetime of speaking a language and he still beats the french by a solid margin, this guy is a fucking legend 💀💀💀
It's even crazier than that man, these weren't just native speakers... They were native speakers who were the best at playing scrabble in that language.
Photographic memory and pure knowledge of the game itself does wonders
When the autocorrect changes “of” to “if” 😤😠😡🤬🤯😖
@@derrekOTRturn off autocorrect. If you are speaking slang its better to turn it off like me
8 weeks of prep time & he becomes the Batman of scrabble 😂
Fun fact: Nigel is currently in the process of learning Spanish words to compete in that language too
Ay dios mios!
cool
History shall repeat Itself!
He is the god of Scrabble
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Nigel Richards is a genius. He won against native French speakers by a huge margin, even correcting them. He deserves to be put the Internet Hall of Fame for this.
he wont he he not obama
If he were a genius, he would've also learned French.
To be fair, if someone memorized the English dictionary, they'd probably kick my butt at Scrabble, too. 😂
He has a photographic memory.
People on the internet thinking they can do any shit when they just shit @@efisgpr
He’s a man of sheer focus, dedication, and will
😂
* He's a man of sheer focus, dedication and Fucking Will
@@gagakurtanidze7328Can’t believe how dumb you are that both of you got it wrong 😑 *He’s a man of focus, commitment and sheer FOCKING will.
And some specific, exceptional, cognitive skills.
He the John wick of scrabble
Bruh, he did all that and I can't even memorize 2 pages. Massive props to dude
I know bro can memorize over 400,000 French words like how is that even possible?
what the sigma
@@Smashball2723most French words are really weird and there are thousands of different words to say different things
@@admiral_HiHiTo be honest it’s kinda useful. Some word should’nt exist but it make everything clearer. Compared to english were som people may be confused since some word are the same.
ikrrr
People like this who have an exceptional memory, which is always mind-blowing. I'm envious!
I don't think duolingo will kidnap this guy.
It would be the other way around
The only man Duolingo fears
@@MrMayhem010
Duolingo is getting kidnapped by him? 💀
@RetroSoup yea its a joke
this is the man who gives duolingo classes
He is a 5 x World Champion, has a photographic memory, is the GOAT of scrabble, has won 70% of all his professional games and people estimate his IQ is 180. And has many other title wins, this guy is incredible.
The people who estimated his IQ, have IQ 50% of his
If hes at 180 wtf would i be😭
?@@pryme0
Once his neuralink connects to the global network we will never misspell another word ever again!!!!
(insert evil laughter)😂
@@pryme0I estimate him with 400 iq
Giving a native speaker a word from his language that he had never heard before is wild.
Fun fact: many top scrabbles players are mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists. The game at its core is more like Chess than spelling bees
Memorizing French as words and the possible conjugations as words. He has one narrow context that he learned them for.
A native speaker has many more contexts that their learning is built into, many more associations flashing in their minds.
We don’t learn to speak alphabetically either.
Not saying I could do this but trying to guess how he was able to beat them.
It’s about memorizing stuff. You named a bunch of professions that involve being able to memorize things well.
Why is everyone keen to pin this on "narrow abilities" and "memory" when, obviously, the right conclusion is that Scrabble selects for general intelligence?
I liked Words with friends until everyone started cheating. I'd like to play Scrabble with people but nobody wants to play and I doubt I could do anything like this guy. I just want to play with someone.😔
@@TheOfficialTarynTotsjoin scrabble groups-search your local & regional area for nonprofit organizations or volunteer at hospitals and nursing homes; also:
ISC -- International Scrabble Club Public Group
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Scrabble GO - Official Community
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Strongest “I don’t speak this language because I can’t” fan vs weakest “I chose to memorise the dictionary because I refuse to learn this language” enjoyer.
😮
🎉🎉🎉
Only correctly choice for fr*nch
Yeah who would want to learn Fr*nch
@@schvletzskyqwq racist
He ain't Lebron in Scrabble, he's the Michael Jordan.
I was just coming here to say this!
No he got it right the first time
@@lordkoan1832ummm no,
Nope he said what he said. Lebron James 😂😂😂 the saltiness
@@satinlovegloveful no its perspective!
The guy's memory is pretty much a superpower at this point.
After he got the Chinese lang pack that is lol
Imagine the French competitors seeing a word that hasn’t been spoken in the past thousand years and questions Nigel “what word is that? What does it mean?” And Nigel just shrugs “idk but that’s how you spell it” 😂😂
lol but my thing is how does he talk to other people there when they speak French not English 😂
@@ReaAbbottalmost all French people can speak English
@@qwerty-ps3fzNigel had a translator help him understand what they said because he only understood little to no French
@@qwerty-ps3fz I'm afraid not. And if they can, they'll usually be on the younger side and/or speak it improperly.
@@iogamer9844Yesnt, the vast majority of french people under 30 are able to speak and understand basic english. Although usually very crooked and painful to the ear, its still decent enough to hold quick and simple conversations.
He was recognizing patterns, not associating them with anything. That's a talent.
Actual native speakers of a language rarely know every word in their language, or even every word in their dictionary. They weren't playing against someone who knew their language, they were playing against their own dictionary.
Yep, this guy still doesnt know any french
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But Nigel wasn't playing against random Frenchman but top Scrabble players and they do know the dictionary, that's the whole point of the game.
That’s true. So often I’ll hear or learn a new word.
Yeah pick a letter and read the words for that letter in the dictionnary, I bet youll find so many words youve never even seen before
That beard gives him +80 intellect and +45 perception
+10 charisma too
"Solomon's Beard of Supra-Intellect"! A unique artifact discovered in a secret room buried far beneath the ruins of Solomon's temple.
And Unlimited Street Cred
@@ozbullymorales1020 lol classic!
if "suffering from success" was a scrabble player
Didn't understand the language but mastered the words. He has completed all the side quests before the main quest xD
Best analogy lol
Hello Raylight
Because they spoke the language they had HUGE blind spots -- good on him to focus on the things they've ignored for Years 😂😂❤❤
I think you're confused. He would be the Michael Jordan of Scrabble.
Exactly, someone in here gets it!
I think you’re confused he would be the Brian Scalabrine of scrabble, the real GOAT
@@trikelikesfish Ronaldo?
Should be Michael Jordan of Scrabble. 😂
Exactly. I was a little ticked off by that last bit. The LBJ? You gotta be kidding me right?
Jorbum can't compete with legoat
Calling Nigel Richards the LeBron James of Scrabble is a terrible insult to Nigel Richards
More like the Magnus Carlsen of scrabble right? Unless richards is even more dominant in scrabble than Carlsen is in chess
@@Djirifoekrkfkf he has a significantly higher win rate than nagnus
@@Gringlegop is there no one more dominant in their field than nigel is in scrabble?
Even more since french people don’t respect Lebon James and use his name as a synonym to masturbation (« Je me suis lebron james » ; « Il se lebron james ou quoi »)
Usain Bolt and Magnus Carlsen are the closest, but... Nigel is just built different. @@Djirifoekrkfkf
"Chinese room hypothesis" is now "French scrabble conjecture"
Bro fr said: look I dont speak french, but i will outplay them for funsies
"He's considered the LeBron James of scrabble"
No offense LeBron but you do NOT get close to his level when it comes to dominating competition lmaoooo
Who LeBron james
@@tsuki_moon.1is that an actual question?
@@Battle_Bus1 American thing?
How old are you lmfao ? Genuine question cause youve either been living under a rock or you're like six@@tsuki_moon.1
@@tsuki_moon.1Famous American basketball player
A certified genius with a photographic memory won.................YOU KIDDIN' 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I would have done the same. Go Nygel Go!!!!❤
As a Will Anderson enjoyer, I can tell you that Nigel is unfathomable better than anybody else. I remember the stat that in endgame moves, the average top 10 player makes an error every 2.5 moves, but Nigel makes an error once every 85 moves. This guy has crazy aura
Who in the world would know this crazy specific detail about one person and stats in scrabble???!!! This would not even be an answer in a trivia game! I am impressed!!🎉🎉
You forgot to add that the best scrabble solvers bots that we have available to us make a mistake around once every 10-15 moves if my memory serves correctly. Adding to that, after analyzing all of Nigel's errors over the course of 500 games, of the very few incorrect moves he played, the majority of those mistakes were that he simply did not place the tiles down in the correct order. I dont think this information adds that much, but the context helps to understand exactly how much better he is than everyone else around him. We will likely never see anyone in any sport that is as dominant as Nigel is in Scrabble.
I’m still processing and impress by him memorized 400000 foreign language words in 2 month, and you show me this. Freaking mind blown. What a monster he is.
He learned more words in a week, then most Americans know in their lives. 💀
Xenophobe
And French, apparently.
I know American and english
let’s start with the words then vs than.
@locamiGI are you stupid
What's more impressive is that he won it a second time, in 2018. Since winning the 2019 World Scrabble Championships, he's not been seen again until ASCI 2023 Masters, which he won. He's known for being very reclusive.
*Fun fact:* There's a rumor that French became so difficult to conjugate as a way to separate the "educated" from the general population.
Regardless of whether or not this is true, the language is *notoriously* difficult to properly spell in writing for its own native speakers.
What's the conjugation that's so hard?
Can I have an example?
(Seriously asking, I don't understand that part)
@@dsandoval9396many conjugations are pronounced the same way but are written differently. For example, mange, manges, and mangent are all pronounced the same, and in some speakers’s prononciation, aller, allé, allait, allais, and allaient are ALL pronounced exactly the same
@@capbarker That sounds totally believable lol
@@dsandoval9396 @Ptnndrd gave perfect examples
On top of that though, what makes french particularly difficult for learners is the frequent silent letters that *actually are pronounced* in niche situations. This means that to speak French at a bilingual level you need to constantly have the written conjugation in mind.
For example "vous n'êtes" (plural you aren't) is pronounced "voo net".
Neither of the S's are pronounced here because of how French phonology works.
However "vous êtes" (plural you are) is pronounced "voo zet". Here the first S is pronounced only because French phonology doesn't often allow a word to end on a vowel with the following word beginning on a vowel.
You can think of it as the word "an" in English, except much more varied and always included in the written language regardless of pronunciation.
@capbarker
All of this exists because french people wanted to have a light and easy mouth movement so I think most of these silent words are because of what I said and not related to some grammar
Nigel is the actual final boss of scrabble, like how did you won a championship against a native speaker without even spending 1 year into learning the languange, that is pure madness
This man is exactly what you'd think of when you think of a scrabble world champion
He was like: I came here for a challenge, not a massacre.
Imagine being so bored of winning that you nerf yourself by playing in a language you don't even speak. Yet somehow he still decimated everyone. A god amongst men.
Theres no "Lebron James of scrabble", theres only "The goat of scrabble , Nigel Richards"
Bro is the Magnus Carlson of scramble😭🙏💀🗣️🔥
Nah this guy is more impressive
@@toonyandfriends1915 cap🧢
@@handesonrenatoguimaraes2615 There's a 16 yo who beat that Carlson guy. Idk man learning the entire dictionary and battling professional natives and still winning without knowing the language is more impressive, no offense to the goat Carlson who is really impressive too, just not like this guy.
Lebron of scrables❎️
Michael Jordan of scrables✅️
Damn right
Nah lebron better
Imagine an random dude walks in and corrects you in your own native language and uses words you never knew existed
Bro I don’t care how much you care about Scrabble or not, everyone should go look up videos of this dude. I’ve watched a lot of videos on him, I 100% recommend it.
Why?
Dude makes some crazy plays
ao3 authors when they say english isn’t their first language and then suprising me with so many beautiful words and beautiful imagery that me, a native english speaker, have never heard of in my life
I have seen fanfics longer and better than original book there
Well, most native speakers I imagine tend to focus a lot more on the common aspects of their language as that will often be what they will use regularly for communication. Very rarely would you have a need for some of the more uncommon/obscure or even less used/known definition of a certain word. So, we likely only have a handful of rare words in our "arsenal".
But it's also how us English know certain less common foreign words, as it stands out to us. Take all the German words we comr across that likely never enters into the average, casual German conversation. So I guess wherever you are from in the world, it's a guarantee that foreigners will introduce you to new words.
Maybe it's imagery/analogies that were present only in their language/culture.
For example, the analogy of a glove being a shoe for your hand might be novel to you unless you speak German where the word for glove is Handschuh, literally, hand-shoe. (disclaimer: I do not speak German)
Also, due to the influence of the British empire and later the USA, the English language has become a standard for international communication, resulting in almost 3x more non-native than native speakers, which may have something to do with this phenomenon you speak of
@@wmpowell8I think part of it is to do with not being confident in the language or not knowing certain terms, so you have to kind of... talk around it, if that makes sense. It's what I do when I'm speaking French and I don't know the right word. I just say what it means, as much as I'm able. It ends up a lot more flowery as a result, tho not always accurate lol (imho my French sucks, despite all the years of living there and other French-speaking countries)
Sounds like a anime plot where the MC gets reincarnated. Worlds greatest scrabble player reincarnated into another world where words are magic. And that whole long sentence would be the title
Nigel Richards was the Scrabble Champion of New Zealand before he started his conquest of World Scrabble.
"In all of the scrabble game, i alone am the most scrabble one"
The strongest french scrabbler today vs the strongest scrabbler in history
Are you the strongest scrabbler in history because you memorized 400,000 foreign words or did you memorize 400,000 foreign words because you're the strongest scrabbler?
@@aw11asBoth.
French has one of the hardest conjugating, i wouldn't surprised if even native speakers made mistakes that can be corrected by this memory mastermind
Just like Spanish. But Spanish has the dreaded SUBJUNCTIVE mood! I'm not sure if French has it, too! 😱
Bro, it only took him 8 weeks to memorize that many French words and it took me 2 years just to say “Bonjour” duolingo can take some notes from this guy
If Duolingo had a scrabble like game to play id learn languages better my own issue with it is not enough visual components to engage with
Were you 2? You never mentioned your age when you started.😅
After getting my degree in psychology and learning about long term memory, i have been saying for quite some time that much knowledge is based on people's ability to retain the information. In other words the more you remember the better chance to have at being good in academics. This especially applies to math,history and english. Science is more based on understanding of how components connect so you will need more than the ability to retain information and more of the ability to connect information. I believe you can memorize anything if 1 you understand the patterns and 2 you connect it to a previous memory so it becomes relative. That theory has worked for me throughout my life. It may be hogwash but it definitely works.
Try to learn mnemotechniques, you'll understand that you just have scratched the top of the iceberg
I disagree with the part about math and science. It's vice versa. In math, you remember the syntax, and rules or formula, but that's about it. You don't memorize every possible solution to a given problem, which is a lot. Once you know the rules, your ability to think will do the rest. Meanwhile science relies heavily on memorization. You can't solve a problem without remembering the details of the solution, and solutions are often limited and rigid. It's why science questions aren't prominent on IQ tests but math questions are--IQ tests don't measure a person's academic knowledge or ability to memorize; but their ability to think.
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So how to connect the memory with previous one?
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He’s more like the Magnus Carlson of Scrabble! Magnus is just on a whole other level and would challenge himself like this too. Scrabble Savant !
This is the hypothetical scenario known as "That one Asian Kid"
Buddy is the MJ of the game.
GOAT
If MJ won a World Series when he played baseball too
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Yeah that can make an even better case.
No, you're confused, he said this guy is the best, not the second best
"I win! I always win."
"Is there anyone one on this planet to even challenge me?!"
--General Zod, Superman II(1980)
He should be considered the MICHAEL JORDAN of Scrabble players.
Indeed...if he's the "LeBron James of Scrabble" that means there's someone else that's better!
LeBron is not a goat. 😂😂😂
He said best which is lebron
"You're playing french scrabble since its the only language you know, I'm playing french scrabble since its the only language you know."
"He'd never spoken any French before" shows book in Spanish
bro is the definition of “Light work no reaction”
My gosh, he memorised HOW MANY WORDS????? Cripes.... 400-thousand is nuts!?!
He learned the french scrabble dictionary because it shares a lot of words with the english dictionary. And there's pattern memorization strategies to cover a lot of letter combinations you can play. Still a major feat tho
The most "HIM" character of all time. I urge everybody to do a lil deep dive on Nigel's insane talent
imagine being a french scrabble player, and you play against a foreigner who doesnt know french, thinking its a piece of cake, and all of a sudden he says "you made a mistake there."
And you have to get an French translator because he said if in English
“The lebron james of scrabble” Lebron can only dream of doing that in basketball
He's the Michael Jordan of Scrabble because he didn't lose
HxH would’ve ended very differently if Meruem called this guy to compete in Scrabble
Bro didn’t smile, he was like “damn I thought this’d be harder”
60% of English descends from french...
I am a believer that humans can become so skillful at one specific thing and be able to use for everything
Bro out there completing other peoples main quests as a side quest 💀
This is beyond amazing. The focus, determination and dedication to do something like this is just WOW!!!
Bro is the final boss of scrabble💀
Legend has it that when blud won the competition, he told his opponents " stand proud, you're sapient "
"Not even cracking a smile afterwards"
Bro has liquid nitrogen flowing through his viens 🥶
I love how disappointed he looks after beating people at their native language
This guy seriously did the "oh you like Scrabble? Tell me every word" but in french
dang what insane player being able to win the english scrabble world championship and the french one.
I've played a LOT of Scrabble in my lifetime and the ONLY person to ever best me was my grandpa. I may be a sucker for punishment but a small part of me would LOVE to play this guy is only to see how absolutely thoroughly he would destroy me.
The Michael Jordan of Scrabble
Who? He's lame. It's all about Bill Russell. Let me know when Jordan breaks double digits in championships.
How the final boss looks like:
As a French, i just laughed so hard the first time i heard what Nigel did 😂😂😂
Being known as the Lebron James of Scrabble is a massive flex!
How so?
@@Wangdoodle444because lebron is the “goat” of basketball
When Duolingo needs a refresher on French it goes to this guy
This reminds me of "The Drift King" Keiichi Tsuchiya who helped popularize car drifting, he was so fast round the racetrack compared to his peers in his early career that A) he deliberately drove a slow car, B) he began wearing boots and gloves to handicap his vehicle control, and C) he drifted through corners, which killed his speed but also got the crowd's attention, and it contributed a lot to drifting forming as a motorsport.
“The Lebron James of scrabble” is a phrase I never thought I’d hear
It’s a dumb phrase anyway
Calling this man the “LeBron James” of scrabble is a crime. This man is Michael fucking Jordan.
Lebron the GOAT
There’s something just so cool about people who have super niche interests. What a total badass!
Le scrabble James.
Scrabble+france=vid
bro's a badass for correcting a native speaker🗿
He's more than fluent in French when he corrects the true french.
Bro is truly *ONE WORD MAN!*
Dad lore ❎
Grandpa lore ✔️
He dominated on enemy turf. He’s too good.
the one punch man of the scrabble world
"The Michael Jordan of Scrabble"
Nigel Richards lore goes crazy
dawg he’s the one punching man of scrabble 💀
I imagine a conversation with a french dude that didn't know a word like, "that's a word? What does it mean?"
"idk"
"I beat you by your own game" ahh win