Rajveer Meena: 70,000 Digits of Pi, Blindfolded

Biography

The record attempt

The date was chosen for its own reasons: 21 March 2015, in the week of Pi Day, at VIT University in Vellore in Tamil Nadu. Meena was blindfolded throughout, which removes the most obvious objection to a recitation record and makes the attempt purely a test of retrieval.

Guinness World Records lists the result under the category "most decimal places of Pi memorised", with 70,000 places to his name. Pi is irrational: its decimal expansion never terminates and never settles into a repeating pattern, so there is no structure to lean on. Each digit has to be stored and produced in order, and a single error ends the attempt.

The student who missed IIT

Meena is from Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan. The Times of India told his story in February 2016 under a headline that captures the arc better than any summary: he failed to crack the IIT entrance examination, and now helps to shape the country's best minds.

That framing matters in India, where the Joint Entrance Examination is a national filter with a rejection rate that produces hundreds of thousands of disappointed candidates a year. Meena's record was set at the university where he ended up, not at the one he had aimed for, and the achievement travelled further than an IIT admission letter would have.

A second kind of memory feat

Pi is not his only record. He also holds a Limca record for recalling 1,125 random items, a discipline that tests a different skill: not one long sequence rehearsed over years, but a large body of unrelated material committed quickly.

DNA India returned to him in March 2017 in a feature built around pi, and the same month Mic placed him among the small group of people who hold or claim records for memorising the constant. Competitive memorisation attracts sceptics for good reason, and blindfolded, invigilated attempts with an official adjudicator are how the discipline answers them.

Where Rajveer Meena is now

The sources used here run to 2017. They place him at VIT, aged 28 in March 2017, which is the basis for the birth year of about 1989 given on this page; no source used states his date of birth.

What he has done since is not documented in this record. Whether he has attempted a longer recitation, where he works, and whether anyone has formally challenged the 70,000-digit mark are all open questions rather than facts this page will supply.

Why pi records are contested

Memorising pi sits at an awkward junction between sport and spectacle. The official record requires an adjudicated attempt with independent verification, which is slow, expensive and rare. Claims made outside that process circulate widely and cannot be checked, which is why the published numbers and the largest claimed numbers have often differed.

That is precisely why the Vellore attempt carries weight. It was blindfolded, it was witnessed, and it was recognised by the body that keeps the list. In a field crowded with assertions, Meena's 70,000 digits are on the record.

Achievement Timeline

Rajveer Meena — every milestone on this page, placed by age.

1989

Born, according to the age of 28 givenBorn, according to the age of 28 given in a March 2017 report

2015

Recites 70,000 decimal places of pi blRecites 70,000 decimal places of pi blindfolded at VIT University, Vellore, on 21 March

2016

The Times of India profiles him as a sThe Times of India profiles him as a student who missed IIT and now helps shape the best minds

2017

DNA India and Mic revisit the record aDNA India and Mic revisit the record around Pi Day

Historical Comparison

Person	Country	Milestone	Age / Stat
Rajveer Meena	India	Reciting 70,000 decimal places of pi blindfolded	Age 0
Peter Imafidon	United Kingdom	Reported in 2008 as, with twin sister Paula, the youngest ever to pass an…	Age 7
Andrej Živanović	Serbia	Junior Mental Calculation World Championship titles	Age 11
Faith Odunsi	Nigeria	Winning the Global Open Mathematics Tournament at 15	Age 15
Freddis Reyes Hernández	Cuba	Winning multiplication and the Memoriad Trophy at the 2012 Mental…	Age 27

What is documented — and what is not

✓ Documented

He recited 70,000 decimal places of pi blindfolded at VIT University, Vellore, on 21 March 2015
Guinness World Records recognised the attempt as the most decimal places of pi memorised
He is from Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan
He also holds a Limca record for recalling 1,125 random items

? Unverified, disputed or wrong

His date of birth is not published in these sources
The duration of the 2015 attempt is not stated in the sources used
What he has done since 2017 is not documented here
Whether the record has since been challenged is not established in this record

Questions people ask about Rajveer Meena

How many digits of pi did Rajveer Meena recite?

Seventy thousand decimal places, blindfolded, at VIT University in Vellore on 21 March 2015.

How old is Rajveer Meena?

A March 2017 report gave his age as 28, which places his birth year at about 1989. No source used here gives a date of birth.

Does Rajveer Meena still hold the pi record?

Guinness World Records recognised his 70,000 places as the most decimal places of pi memorised. The sources used here do not record a later verified challenge.