> but unlike us, he's routinely under 11s. Crazy.
No wonder! 50-80%% of users from the 1st page in ranklist are super-extra-brilliant (young students) programmers. They are winners of numerous competitions, national and international olympiads on informatics, etc. Some of them are/were even true wunderkinders. E.g. Tomek Czajka from Poland (now he lives and works, in some university, in America) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list