Cooper Komatsu, speller 13, wasn't at all sure of his word, "myoclonus." He spelled it correctly at the last second, to audience cheers. He remains in the competition.
"I sometimes doubt myself on stage," he said before the finals. "I wanted to make sure there was no room for that."
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