The calendar event
Calendar calculation is one of the four standard disciplines of the Mental Calculation World Cup, alongside addition, multiplication and square roots. The score is a count: how many dates a competitor converts correctly inside the allotted round.
Belouad's two results read 56 correct calculations in 2022 and 62 in 2024. The improvement of six is substantial in an event where the leaders are separated by a handful of dates, and it came against a completely new field two years later. The published tables carry nothing but the counts, which is the honest measure of the discipline: a date is either converted correctly or it is not.
Bronze in 2022
The ninth World Cup took place on 16 July 2022 at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum in Paderborn, organised by Ralf Laue. Ten rounds were contested: the four standard events, a pre-announced challenge task and five surprise tasks revealed only during the competition.
Belouad finished third in the calendar round with 56 correct calculations. The competition overall was won by Aaryan Shukla of India with 604.33 points, recorded as 12 years old, ahead of Ono Tetsuya of Japan and Mohammad El-Mir of Lebanon.
Silver in 2024, and an Algerian double
The tenth World Cup was held on the weekend of 14 September 2024 at the same museum, with 35 mental calculators from 16 countries and nine rounds. Belouad took second in the calendar event with 62 correct calculations.
The podium behind him carried a second Algerian name. Aaryan Shukla won the round with 100 correct, Belouad followed on 62 and Walid Henni, also of Algeria, was third on 61. Two of the three calendar medals in the world that year went to Algerian calculators, separated by a single date.
The scale of the competition
Mental calculation at this level is a small, serious international circuit rather than a mass sport. The 2024 World Cup drew 35 competitors from 16 countries, and the same handful of names recurs across its rounds and across the related Memoriad and junior championships.
That scale is what gives a medal its weight. A calendar podium at the World Cup is a placing against essentially everyone in the world who competes seriously in the discipline that year. It also explains why the same three or four names keep appearing on this site: the circuit is small, the events are public, and the results are published in full rather than summarised.
What is documented - and what is not
The evidence here is two results reports published by World Mental Calculation. They record the rounds, the scores and the placings, and that is the extent of what they record about him.
No birth year, age, home city, school or occupation for Hakim Belouad appears in the sources used here, and no Wikipedia article was found. Nothing beyond the 2024 competition is documented, and nothing beyond it is claimed on this page.
| Person | Country | Milestone | Age / Stat |
|---|
What is documented — and what is not
✓ Documented
- Third in calendar calculation with 56 correct at the 2022 Mental Calculation World Cup (World Mental Calculation)
- Second in calendar calculation with 62 correct at the 2024 World Cup, with Walid Henni of Algeria third on 61
- Both editions held at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum in Paderborn, Germany
? Unverified, disputed or wrong
- No published age, birth year, home city or occupation
- No Wikipedia article, interview or press profile found
- No documented results outside the 2022 and 2024 World Cups
Questions people ask about Hakim Belouad
What is Hakim Belouad known for?
Calendar calculation. He took bronze in the discipline at the 2022 Mental Calculation World Cup and silver in 2024.
What is calendar calculation?
One of the World Cup's four standard disciplines, scored by the number of dates a competitor converts correctly in the round.
How old is Hakim Belouad?
No source used here gives an age or birth year.
How did his scores change?
From 56 correct calculations in 2022 to 62 in 2024, moving from third place to second.
Who beat him in 2024?
Aaryan Shukla of India, who won the calendar round with 100 correct calculations and the World Cup overall with 819.84 points.
How big is the competition?
The 2024 World Cup drew 35 mental calculators from 16 countries to Paderborn, Germany.
Is Hakim Belouad on Wikipedia?
No Wikipedia article was found. The record rests on the competition's published results.
Where is Hakim Belouad now?
Nothing after the 2024 World Cup appears in the sources used here.
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Sources
- Mental Calculation World Cup 2022: Results — World Mental Calculation, 2022-07-19
- Mental Calculation World Cup 2024: Results — World Mental Calculation, 2024-09-20
Checked by the Geniuses.club editorial team. Ages are given as of September 2026.
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