"Some might say so. It didn't feel like genius when it took a good six months working at it every single day to crack the formula." Senku admitted. "I learned a lot when I was young, all the scientific knowledge I could, and it's come in handy, but everything is still hard work and trial and error."

He didn't consider himself a genius. He probably had an extraordinarily high IQ, but everything took so much more than that.