A TODDLER from Edmonton has become the youngest member of Mensa - at the age of just two years and four months.

Little Elise Tan-Roberts from Edmonton has an IQ of 156, which makes her officially more intelligent than Carol Vordeman, whose is 154.

She spoke her first word at five months when she called her father “Dada”.

Just three months later, she started walking and was running two months after that.

And she was not even one when she could recognise her written name.

Now she can count to ten in English and Spanish and recite the English alphabet.

Her parents contacted Professor Joan Freeman, a child psychologist who has worked with gifted children since the mid-1970s.

Professor Freeman assessed Elise and measured her IQ before she was admitted into Mensa, whose members include DJ and TV presenter Sir Jimmy Savile and inventor Sir Clive Sinclair.

She was too young even to do the standard Mensa test as it is designed for those aged at least ten-and-a-half.

Being a member now shows she is in the highest two per cent of the population.

The organisation’s chief executive John Stevenage said: “Mensa are always delighted to welcome a new member.

“Elise’s parents correctly identified that she is an exceptional child. They now realise they have an interesting challenge on their hands as she grows up.

“We wish them well and look forward to seeing Elise develop in the coming years.”

To be admitted to Mensa, a person has to score 148 or more, while the average IQ score is 100.

The youngest person to be previously accepted into the society in Britain was Georgia Brown from Hampshire in 2007, at 1,041 days old.

The youngest boy was Ben Woods who joined Mensa in the 1990s, aged 1,035 days.

Elise beat both fellow brainboxes by a wide margin - she was just 845 days old when she joined.

If you want to test your IQ, visit www.mensa.org.

Source: this is local london