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Charles Curtis

The 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee ended with the most intense lightning round spell-off

Congratulations to 14-year-old Harini Logan, from San Antonio Texas!

She’s the winner of the 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee, and the way she won was the most intense.

It was the first time the Bee used a spell-off format to declare a winner — Logan and 12-year-old Vikram Raju had 90 seconds to see how many words they could spell correctly. Raju went 15-of-19, and Logan got 21-of-26 for the title.

You’ve got to watch it all play out below, it was amazing to see them both spell words so quickly before hitting a button. Here’s the spell-off and the winning moment in which Logan got the trophy:

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