Mateo leaned back, folding his arms. "It’s not a hack, Mr. H. It’s the "

"Speed is points," Mateo added as the next question started. "And in Kahoot, if you aren't clicking in under a second, you're already in second place."

He turned his laptop around. While everyone else was using their phones and looking back and forth from the big screen to their hands—losing precious milliseconds—Mateo had his Kahoot window and a Google Meet stream of the teacher’s screen open side-by-side.

At the back of the room, Mateo sat with his laptop, a smirk playing on his lips. His username, "Kahoot King," sat at the top of the lobby. Everyone else was scrambling to join, but Mateo was calm. He knew the secret. He knew .

"Alright, everyone in?" Mr. Hernandez shouted over the techno-pop lobby music. "Three, two, one... let’s go!" The first question flashed: What is the capital of Peru?