Meet the World Champion for Excel Spreadsheets. Yes, This Is a Real Thing.

There is at least one person in this world who will be telling the Whole Truth when he brags about his Excel mastery to potential employers…and he is just 17 years old.

An international competition for Excel spreadsheets took place in Anaheim, California, recently. The competition is limited to participants from ages 12 to 22.

The top prize went to John Dumoulin, a 17-year-old from northern Virginia. He’s never worked in an office — he’s in high school, and he works at Chick-fil-A part-time.

John first learned about the competition through an IT class at school. He scored the highest score on the Microsoft Excel 16 certification exam in Virginia, leading him to a national competition and then the international competition, where he won $10,000 in prize money.

John says he was surprised to learn that people actually take these competitions very seriously.

Here is an interview with John:

“Some of the foreign countries, they’ve been training for hours and hours and hours on end,” he said.

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“When you first meet the international students, everyone’s friendly, but when they find out you’re competing against them in the same category, they get this fire in their eyes. They want to win.”

“Most of us in an office think that we know how to use Excel. These kids really know,” said Aaron Osmond, general manager of Certiport, the company that runs the competition.

UPDATE: In 2018, the competition had more than 760,000 candidates from around the world. In the final round there were over 152 students from 51 different countries. The format of the competition was varied in that competitors could choose between 2013 or 2016 versions of PowerPoint, Word, or Excel. There were six winners for each category and version.

Here is an interview with the world champion Kevin Dimaculangan. He shares his experience and what his plans are for his future:

Here is a short documentary style video that shows you what people in Malaysia do to qualify for the Excel World Championships. Competitors get 40 minutes. Three tasks. There are only five finalists. And only one winner goes on to represent their country in the Excel World Championships.

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13 People Who Weren’t Pleased That Their Widowed Parents Started Dating Again

Losing a parent is one of the hardest events a person can go through in life. But this opens up a new question for your surviving parent: how soon is it okay to love someone again?

The answer is different for everybody, but the decision to date again can really upset a child.

It takes some folks time to adjust… while others never cozy up to the idea.

These 13 people share their stories… and, well, you’ll see…

1. I mean, this is understandable. But… it’s not your life.

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2. Just tell him no. But if she sticks around…

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3. Sorry to see this…

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4. Sounds like something was up…

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5. Yeah, that’s PLENTY of time to grieve. You gotta get over this. Sorry.

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6. Totally fine to have these feelings, but he needs to live his life.

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7. Not a thing you’ll ever probably know, so why worry about it?

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8. She wasn’t his property. She needs to be able to move on. Period.

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9. Sounds like this isn’t the reason you’re sad…

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10. Ouch.

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11. I mean, two years is a decent chunk of time. Best to just roll with it.

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12. Finally! A healthy take!

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13. Wait… it has been FIFTEEN YEARS?!? GET OVER IT!!!!!

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The end for some doesn’t need to be the end for others.

Have you dealt with a situation like this? How did you respond?

Let us know in the comments!

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5 Facts You Should Know About the Great ‘Mad Magazine’ to Honor Its Legacy

I never thought this day would come, but MAD magazine is coming to an end (more or less). After 67 years of publishing, it will now only be releasing new material once per year. Otherwise, MAD magazine will be reprinting old material.

MAD magazine has a special place in the hearts of many. It’s irreverent and unapologetically political, calling out everything and everyone. Here are five facts you should really know about Mad magazine:

1. “Weird” Al was a guest editor

MAD named “Weird” Al Yankovic as their very first guest editor, which seems like a match made in heaven. He brought in several celebrity contributors, including Patton Oswalt and Seth Green. According to Entertainment Weekly, MAD is responsible for setting him on the “dark, twisted path to becoming who I am today.”

2. Fred Astaire danced as Alfred E. Neuman

Yep, this actually happened. Fred Astaire decided to do a dance number on a 1959 TV special made up as Alfred E. Neuman. There are really no words. I’ll just leave the video here:

3. The unknown origin of Alfred E. Neuman

No one really knows where Alfred came from. He was an advertising mascot for several brands in the early 1900s, and he may have his roots in comics as far back as the 1890s. Harvey Kurtzman, founder of MAD, claims he spotted Alfred on a postcard and named him after composer Alfred Neuman.

4. The creator of “Spy vs. Spy” was accused of being a spy

Antonio Prohias, the creator of “Spy vs. Spy,” was born in Cuba and started his cartooning career there. He was an award-winning journalist in Cuba, and once Fidel Castro came to power, his cartoons began criticizing Castro’s policies. This lead the government of Cuba to accuse him of working for the CIA. Prohias resigned from his newspaper job and eventually immigrated to the U.S. He spoke no English, but his daughter helped to translate, and he walked into the MAD magazine offices, showed his work, and was hired on the spot.

5. MAD didn’t run ads for four decades

One of MAD’s best features was its hilarious satire ads. They took on cigarette makers, shampoo ads and more. To be able to truly skewer advertisers, they decided not to run real ads, making the magazine an expensive proposition (most magazines make their money from ad revenue). MAD finally had to start running ads in 2001, but its satirical ads continued.

What’s your favorite MAD magazine memory?

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13 Keanu Reeves Memes You Should Probably Take a Look At

Does any person on the planet have more love being thrown their way than Keanu Reeves right now?

To be fair, he seems to have earned it. Story after story after story makes him appear to be the genuine article.

So here are 13 memes to celebrate the guy who we just can’t get enough of…

1. This. Right. Here.

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2. Two sides to everybody…

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3. It’s true.

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4. He’s all of us.

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5. WUT?!?! We have to save him!

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6. Pretty much immortal, yes…

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7. Oh snap

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8. Hahaha… oh internet…

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9. He did make INSANE amounts of money from The Matrix. True story.

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10. Haha, classic Keanu…

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11. When you see it…

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12. Fair enough!

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13. Damn Keanu!

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Are all your problems solved? No.

Do you feel better? Yes.

You’re welcome.

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Ian Fleming named his character…

Ian Fleming named his character “Goldfinger” after the stern architect Ernő Goldfinger, whom he despised. When Ernő filed a suit over the name, Fleming threatened to rename the character “Goldprick”. Ernő dropped the suit in exchange for legal fees and six copies of the book.

In 1959, police were called…

In 1959, police were called to a segregated library in S. Carolina when a 9yr-old black boy refused to leave. He later got a PhD in Physics from MIT, and died in 1986, one of the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger. The library that refused to lend him books is now named after him.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor…

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government was worried Japan would invade Hawaii and seize all the U.S. currency there. As a precaution, the U.S. burned $200 million in cash circulating on the islands, and replaced them with freshly printed bills with “Hawaii” stamped on them.