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Have a go at this IQ test

Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

I got this:

heinrich57, your IQ score is 135

heinrich57, your IQ score is significantly above average. Congratulations! You have a wide range of exceptional skills which are much stronger than those of the average population. You are also skilled at answering the types of questions that are asked in a classic IQ test. The test analyses your strengths and weaknesses based on your mathematical, linguistic, visual-spatial and logical skills. Even though you have high scores in all of those areas, we are able to analyse your results to discover the areas in which you have the strongest abilities.


You have a strong ability to process visual-spatial and mathematical information. These skills combined with your strengths in logic are what make you a Visual Mathematician.

You're able to understand patterns visually and in numbers. That means your mind can create a mental picture for any problem. In addition to that skill, you possess an intelligence that allows you to apply maths to that picture, too. That helps you manipulate multiple parts of the picture (or problem) to come up with a solution. You have many skills that are critical to success and problem-solving. Your talents help you understand the "big picture," which is partly why people may turn to you for direction -- especially in the workplace. You flourish in environments where tasks are clearly defined, and you excel at improving processes and making things more efficient. Like Einstein, your ability to detect patterns and your skills in maths and logic, make it natural for you to come up with ideas and theories that simplify processes for everyone.

Obviously my name isn't really Heinrich, but you have to register to get your results and I wasn't giving my details over to some randome website.

Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

133 :( used to be higher!

caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

136. i was a "visionary philosopher"

mine used to be higher, too. i blame college.

tehRZA gibbons (tehresa), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

Alex, your IQ score is 140

Alex, your IQ score is significantly above average. Congratulations! You have a wide range of exceptional skills which are much stronger than those of the average population. You are also skilled at answering the types of questions that are asked in a classic IQ test. The test analyses your strengths and weaknesses based on your mathematical, linguistic, visual-spatial and logical skills. Even though you have high scores in all of those areas, we are able to analyse your results to discover the areas in which you have the strongest abilities.

Your mind's strengths allow you to think ahead of the game -- to imagine or anticipate what should come next in just about any situation. Because you're equally skilled in the numerical and verbal universes of the brain, you can draw from multiple sources of information to come up with great ideas. The timelessness of your vision and the balance between your various skills are what make you a Visionary Philosopher.

In addition to your strengths in maths and linguistics, you have a knack for matching and anticipating patterns. These skills and your uncanny ability to detect the underlying blueprint of most of life's situations add to your visionary philosopher mind. Two philosophers who share the same combination of skills you possess are Plato and Benedict Spinoza.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

once the internet said i had 145!

caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

haha!

xp

Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

I don't know what my IQ is and I don't have time to take this test, but a child psychologist gave me an IQ test when I was 14 and it was VERY high. I'd tell you the score but it would shock you.

Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

i took a TOPSECRET skills test for the NSA, but I signed a waiver saying it was ok for the government to kill my family if i told anyone what i got on the test. let's just say im omniscient.

Fetchboy (Felcher), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

127.

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

"A normal IQ, or intelligence quotient, ranges from 85 to 115 according to the Stanford-Binet test. Only approximately 1% of all the people in the world have an IQ higher than 135."

internet tests are the best, and so accurate!

tehRZA gibbons (tehresa), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

140

fe7 (FE7), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

xpost - I love Internet IQ tests. No one's ever normal or below average - hard to sell $15 full reports that say "you're kind of dumb."

milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

John likes 400 but not 300; he likes 100 but not 99; he likes 3600 but not 3700. Which does he like?
900
1000
1100
1200

can someone explain this one?

i got 135, Monday, 22 August 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

john's a turd

Fetchboy (Felcher), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

haha "according to your test results, you show skill in the face of tasks at which others shrug their noses. we see a bright future as a waste management engineer or facilities manager."

xxpost

tehRZA gibbons (tehresa), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

John only likes perfect squares. 900 is the square of 30.

Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

i think the first set are all square numbers the 2nd set aren't. 20 squared = 40, 10 squared = 100, 60 squared = 3600.

In that list only 900 is a square, 30 squared. i think.

I got 140.

jeffrey (johnson), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe I blew that perfect square question...

giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www.georgewalkerbush.net/presidentialiqs.htm

HAHA

tehRZA gibbons (tehresa), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

Milo, your IQ score is significantly above average. Congratulations! You have a wide range of exceptional skills which are much stronger than those of the average population. You are also skilled at answering the types of questions that are asked in a classic IQ test. The test analyses your strengths and weaknesses based on your mathematical, linguistic, visual-spatial and logical skills. Even though you have high scores in all of those areas, we are able to analyse your results to discover the areas in which you have the strongest abilities.

Like a meticulous collector, you've fed your brain a unique set of facts and figures over the years. Words, numbers, you've got it all. That's what makes you a Facts Curator.

Whether or not you intend to absorb every piece of information that comes your way, your mind has certain steel-trap qualities to it. You are a knowledge sponge. You have almost enough words in your head to fill a dictionary, and you're equally adept when it comes to manipulating numbers. You can also detect important patterns in number sequences, and probably remember the mnemonic devices you were taught in your early school years.

milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

Jeffreyzor, your IQ score is 140

Jeffreyzor, your IQ score is significantly above average. Congratulations! You have a wide range of exceptional skills which are much stronger than those of the average population. You are also skilled at answering the types of questions that are asked in a classic IQ test. The test analyses your strengths and weaknesses based on your mathematical, linguistic, visual-spatial and logical skills. Even though you have high scores in all of those areas, we are able to analyse your results to discover the areas in which you have the strongest abilities.

Like a meticulous collector, you've fed your brain a unique set of facts and figures over the years. Words, numbers, you've got it all. That's what makes you a Facts Curator.

Whether or not you intend to absorb every piece of information that comes your way, your mind has certain steel-trap qualities to it. You are a knowledge sponge. You have almost enough words in your head to fill a dictionary, and you're equally adept when it comes to manipulating numbers. You can also detect important patterns in number sequences, and probably remember the mnemonic devices you were taught in your early school years.

jeffrey (johnson), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

Snap!

jeffrey (johnson), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

86. oh dear.

beatles fan, Monday, 22 August 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

http://i.uk.tickle.com/uk/test/iq/inquisitor.jpg

beatles fan, Monday, 22 August 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

if you read the directions wrong and think jeff likes 3700 rather than 3600, and don't write very clearly, the answer is 1100, because jeff likes a series of numbers, beginning with 100, where the next number in the series is the sum of a) the current number in the series and b) the current number in a second series, beginning with 0, in which the next number in the series is the sum of the current number and 100, i.e.
100+0=100
100+(0+100)=200
200+(100+100)=400
400+(200+100)=700
700+(300+100)=1100
1100+(400+100)=1600
1600+(500+100)=2200
2200+(600+100)=2900
2900+(700+100)=3700

gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

138

gear (gear), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

What a surprise, my IQ is significantly above average too. I've just tried failing on purpose and got 73.

Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 00:03 (twenty years ago)

131, but it's 2 o'clock in the morning here and I'm only doing this because I can't sleep. Otherwise it would have been, oh at least 134.

Matt #2 (Matt #2), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

congratulations genious

Fetchboy (Felcher), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

thanks moran

Matt #2 (Matt #2), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

138

I was cruising right along until page 5 and the "what's next in sequence" stuff, but I had to just guess at three of them.

Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

Even though you have high scores in all of those areas, we are able to analyse your results to discover the areas in which you have the strongest abilities.

You are gifted with the natural fluency of a writer and the visual and spatial strengths of an artist. Those skills contribute to your creative and expressive mind.

Insightful linguists can take complex concepts and articulate them to just about anyone. You have a gift with words and insight into processes and the way people think. These talents enable you to explain things clearly to people. Helen Keller is a great example of an Insightful Linguist. Blind, deaf and mute, she was still able to put things together in her mind and to understand complex ideas. She could do that because she was able to conceptualise ideas internally. Though she could not literally see, she had the visual and spatial skills necessary to understand patterns on an abstract level. She learned to read, write and ultimately became a writer on issues of social justice.

hold tight the private caller (mwah), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

there's hope for me yet

hold tight the private caller (mwah), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

(btw that was 129 bah)

hold tight the private caller (mwah), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

bread is to butter as fuck is to

o off
o you
o outta here
o nuts
o all of th- BANG BANG

hold tight the private caller (mwah), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

i know that doesnt really work but i'm peckish.

hold tight the private caller (mwah), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

mmm bang bang chicken

hold tight the private caller (mwah), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

142 - Visionary Philosopher

is this the site that has all those annoying ads?

älänbänänä (alanbanana), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

-976

latebloomer's rectal mocha latte (latebloomer), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

"Dumber than an atom - You are barely even a quark. How did you even know how to use this test?"

latebloomer's rectal mocha latte (latebloomer), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

haha i logged back in and it was 130 facts curator. I am such a liar. I dunno if it was bcuz i was drunk or because i have some self deceit mechanism to bump up my i.q. either way someone shld shoot me. please.

jeffrey (johnson), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

How nice to know that I have a "timeless vision".

Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

i took this a long time ago, don't remember my number, but yes i was a visionary philosopher. and i still am.

geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

138, Visual Mathematician

gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 02:55 (twenty years ago)

i like to look

gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 02:56 (twenty years ago)

142 - Visionary Philosopher

is this the site that has all those annoying ads?

-- älänbänänä (aaaaaathatsfivea...), August 23rd, 2005.

That's exactly what I got. 142 - Visionary Philosopher. (I am equally skilled in things mathematical and numerical, and whatnot.)

Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)

135.

"Like a meticulous collector, you've fed your brain a unique set of facts and figures over the years. Words, numbers, you've got it all. That's what makes you a Facts Curator."

Now I'm going to take it and miss every question purposefully.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)

Ha! Here's what you get if you miss EVERY QUESTION:

Forksclovetofu, your IQ score is 73
Inventive Inquisitor

forksclovetofu, your IQ score is lower than the average IQ score. However, this does not mean that you are less intelligent than the average population. There are a lot of factors that might result in a lower score. Maybe you took this test while you where distracted or maybe a bit tired. Also an IQ test cannot measure all the skills that play an important role in measuring the total intelligence. Such a test essentially measures how well you are equipped to handle a particular, very structured type of question. The classic IQ test examines your strengths and weaknesses based on your mathematical, linguistic, visual-spatial and logical skills. By analysing your answers, we can discover the areas in which you have the strongest abilities.

You have the unusual talent of being equally good at both mathematical and verbal skills. That, paired with your thirst to learn through experience, makes you an Inventive Inquisitor.

Your strength lies in the methodology you have naturally adopted to understand the world. Basically, you have perfected "learning through living." You have a unique ability to teach others by taking them through actual experiences. Your talents come in handy especially when confronted with unfamiliar or unproven situations. Most people search their brains for previously stored information that might help in a given situation. You, however, take things as they come and see things as they are. You are a great improviser and are probably open to an unusual amount of change.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

y'all forgot to deduct 10 pts from your scores for wasting time to take an IQ test

lester thaut, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

140 - Visionary Philosopher.

I'd always suspected as much...

The Yellow Kid, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 04:43 (twenty years ago)

132 - Visionary Philosopher. I like the sound of that. Everyone listen to me! I am visionary!

Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 06:43 (twenty years ago)

I want to know more about how I was scored. I can show my work on the math questions, but those spatial relations guessing games drive me up a wall. Did I get any of those correct? Have I ever? Is there such a thing as correct on those?

Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 06:46 (twenty years ago)

Why is everybody's IQ always well above average? Where are the norms? There's way too many "it is so high, you wouldn't believe me if I told you" people out there

CMB, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 06:50 (twenty years ago)

Also, I want to know what happened to the 164 IQ that I supposedly had when I was seven. Did I already drink away thirty-two points? Is anyone ever as smart as they were when they were seven?

Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 07:04 (twenty years ago)

I think the norm is 100, and the maximum on that test is 144, an nobody is ever as smart as they were when they were 7.

Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)

There's an IQ test on the bbc site.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/testthenation/iq/

Greig (treefell), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 08:52 (twenty years ago)

Actually when I was in uni studying (hah!) Psychology they said the norm was actually higher. You should have about 110 to be considered *average*.

I took the test but had difficulty with understanding some questions. Maybe because of my English? I guess that sounds ridiculous, but it does hinder on taking tests. I always lose interest halfway through so it's no surprise I'm the idiot here: 114.

nathalie starts to cry each time we meet (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 08:56 (twenty years ago)

142, but I think I'm more of a good guesser instead of a visionary philosophier.

NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)

138 - Visionary philosopher. Yeah right.

Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

135 - So many visionary philosophers round here.

I got 132 on the BBC test.

robster (robster), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 09:30 (twenty years ago)

140

Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

Did anyone set a time limit? I did.

nathalie starts to cry each time we meet (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

135, I have my doubts about the veracity of these results.

Billy, your IQ score is significantly above average. Congratulations! You have a wide range of exceptional skills which are much stronger than those of the average population. You are also skilled at answering the types of questions that are asked in a classic IQ test. The test analyses your strengths and weaknesses based on your mathematical, linguistic, visual-spatial and logical skills. Even though you have high scores in all of those areas, we are able to analyse your results to discover the areas in which you have the strongest abilities.


You are equipped with a verbal arsenal that enables you to understand complex issues and communicate on a particularly high level. These talents make you a Word Warrior.

Whether or not you recognise it, your vocabulary is your strongest suit -- use it whenever you can. Since your command of words is so great, you are also a terrific communicator -- able to articulate big ideas to just about anyone. Your wordsmithing prowess will also help in artistic and creative pursuits. The power of words translates to fresh ideas off paper too. Since you have so many words at your disposal, you are in a unique position to describe things in an original way, as well as see the future in your mind's eye. In short, your strengths allow you to be a visionary -- able to extrapolate and come up with a multitude of fresh ideas.

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

Mehitabel, your IQ score is 136

Mehitabel, your IQ score is significantly above average. Congratulations! You have a wide range of exceptional skills which are much stronger than those of the average population. You are also skilled at answering the types of questions that are asked in a classic IQ test. The test analyses your strengths and weaknesses based on your mathematical, linguistic, visual-spatial and logical skills. Even though you have high scores in all of those areas, we are able to analyse your results to discover the areas in which you have the strongest abilities.


You are gifted with the natural fluency of a writer and the visual and spatial strengths of an artist. Those skills contribute to your creative and expressive mind.

Insightful linguists can take complex concepts and articulate them to just about anyone. You have a gift with words and insight into processes and the way people think. These talents enable you to explain things clearly to people. Helen Keller is a great example of an Insightful Linguist. Blind, deaf and mute, she was still able to put things together in her mind and to understand complex ideas. She could do that because she was able to conceptualise ideas internally. Though she could not literally see, she had the visual and spatial skills necessary to understand patterns on an abstract level. She learned to read, write and ultimately became a writer on issues of social justice.

wtf?

Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

Take some enneagrams instead:

http://similarminds.com/test.html

I keep coming up as a Type 5 when really I think I should be a Type 4.

I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

Archie, you have an IQ of 136, you can presumably read (unless you're rather more like Helen Keller than I'd realised...)

Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)

"gregkitten, your IQ score is 127 blah blah blah You've got a very experiential way of learning and a strong mathematical mind. You're able to whittle even the most complex situation down to comprehensible component parts. In short, you have mastered the art and science of precision. That's what makes you a Precision Processor."

wow. up by one point since 1998. that's progress, motherfuckers.

g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)

'wtf' refers to the slight oddness of offering a biog of Helen Keller in an IQ test result. I don't disagree with the description though, ha.

Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

136

Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

bah , i got 115

leigh, your IQ score is slightly above the average IQ score. Congratulations! Among your skills, there are certain areas that stand out above the rest. The classic IQ test analyses your strengths and weaknesses based on your mathematical, linguistic, visual-spatial and logical skills. By analysing your answers we can discover the areas in which you have the strongest abilities.


You are equipped with a verbal arsenal that enables you to understand complex issues and communicate on a particularly high level. These talents make you a Word Warrior.

Whether or not you recognise it, your vocabulary is your strongest suit -- use it whenever you can. Since your command of words is so great, you are also a terrific communicator -- able to articulate big ideas to just about anyone. Your wordsmithing prowess will also help in artistic and creative pursuits. The power of words translates to fresh ideas off paper too. Since you have so many words at your disposal, you are in a unique position to describe things in an original way, as well as see the future in your mind's eye. In short, your strengths allow you to be a visionary -- able to extrapolate and come up with a multitude of fresh ideas.

leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

I am 133 and an insightful linguist. I get frustrated by this sort of thing though, and tend to guess rather than work stuff out.

Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

masonicboom, your IQ score is 140

masonicboom, your IQ score is significantly above average. Congratulations! You have a wide range of exceptional skills which are much stronger than those of the average population. You are also skilled at answering the types of questions that are asked in a classic IQ test. The test analyses your strengths and weaknesses based on your mathematical, linguistic, visual-spatial and logical skills. Even though you have high scores in all of those areas, we are able to analyse your results to discover the areas in which you have the strongest abilities.

Your mind's strengths allow you to think ahead of the game -- to imagine or anticipate what should come next in just about any situation. Because you're equally skilled in the numerical and verbal universes of the brain, you can draw from multiple sources of information to come up with great ideas. The timelessness of your vision and the balance between your various skills are what make you a Visionary Philosopher.

In addition to your strengths in maths and linguistics, you have a knack for matching and anticipating patterns. These skills and your uncanny ability to detect the underlying blueprint of most of life's situations add to your visionary philosopher mind. Two philosophers who share the same combination of skills you possess are Plato and Benedict Spinoza.

Bah, only 140? Philosopher? Fuck that shit, I wanted to be a mathematician. And I put back my meeting with the head of the department 5 minutes for that?

I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to see Toby's score but he's probably too smart and busy doing equations to take such a flimsy test.

Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

142 - i have pretty scant faith in these things tho.

stelf)xxx, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

How long did anyone take to finish this test? I did it in about three minutes. Hah. I get bored very quickly and I know the end result: my linguistic skills are ace, the rest is crap.

nathalie starts to cry each time we meet (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

I tended to spend a long time furrowing my brow over the mathematical ones and then guessing anyway, whereas the wordy ones and the visual ones I could get instantly. I don't really trust the test though, and I don't accept IQ as a remotely useful measure in isolation.

Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

I took a really long time to finish it because I kept getting interrupted by people! Argh, fuX0rs! I always think I'll be better at the maths. But then I tend to get one question wrong on the maths bits through careless errors, and perfect scores on the verbal so it thinks I'm a language person when I'm so not.

(That said, I did use a scratch pad and in one case a calculator because my arithmatic is shot due to poor memory.)

I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

I did it in about five minutes - for some reason I thought you had to do it as quick as you could. I used a pen and paper to work out the one about the things travelling for eight miles then turning left and stuff (I don't know my sixteen times table).

Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

The eight miles and turn left thing was easy! It's just the pythagorean hypoteneuse thing, then doubled. I didn't even have to use a calculator for that one.

I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

Was there a way to look at the correct answers? I went completely blank on the cars turning left one.

Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that car thing was a 3-4-5 right triangle. The blue blobby things foxed me no end though. Second to last question or something. What was that all about?

NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

Yeah! That last one with the arrows and the blue blobs? Could not spot that one, either. I picked the one where the little blob was on the wrong side, becuase all the others formed symmetrical pairs.

I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

The eight miles and turn left thing was easy! It's just the pythagorean hypoteneuse thing, then doubled. I didn't even have to use a calculator for that one.

I worked out in my head that it must be the square root of twelve squared and sixteen squared, but needed paper to work out what sixteen squared was.

Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

No, it's the (square root of 6 squared plus 8 squared) times two!

Any fule know what the square root of 100 is! Honestly!

I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

i also don't see how being able to finish cliches makes you clever, either

stelf)xxxx, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

I think I got one of those cliches wrong. It was something like "The simple truth is rarely simple and never _____". I put 'true', then succombed to paranoia and changed it to 'complete' (or something).

Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Oh, yer blob solution - that would make sense Kate! I ended up choosing the ones the same size as each other, just cos they looked a bit dodgy.

x-post: well the phrases were sort of founded in logic weren't they?

NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

I didn't think they were, mostly. I couldn't do the blob one either, and my eyes started to hurt staring at the multi-coloured squares/semicircles one, though I got it in the end I think.

Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

The simple truth is never simple, and rarely pensive.

Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. Is the actual phrase. I suppose that one is quite logical, or at least rhetorically consistent.

Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

I went by mathematical consistency on that one, because I didn't understand it at all. Maybe it's just another memory test. Sigh.

The one with the coloured squares was simple! I don't know, I just have a brain that recognises patterns instinctively because I *knew* which one was right immediately, but then had to think about why that particular one was right. (the colours were inverted along the same rules as the other diagonals as well as the pattern flipped along both axes.)

I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

http://www.iqtest.com/

since i've taken the tickle one before and the questions haven't changed.
m.

msp (mspa), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

That one only gave me a 135. Maybe it's because I took it in the morning : )

Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

like Adam way upthread I had my IQ tested a couple of times when I was about 12 and it was v high (176), I even got invited to join Mensa (I think I was enthusiastic at first until the junior newsletter arrived and I was like "who are these freaks?"). Anyway I don't test it any more for fear that it has plummeted since, I certainly don't feel anywhere near as precocious as I did then.

The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Well, your IQ is your mental age divided by your physical age or some such nonsense - so of course bright children have such a higher IQ than bright adults. It's easier to be a 7 year old with the mind of a 25 year old than a 35 year old with the mind of a, erm, 13 year old? Yarrr, my intelligence really has slipped, has it not?

I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4126154.stm

Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

I certainly don't feel anywhere near as precocious as I did then.

-- The Lex (alex.macpherso...), August 23rd, 2005.

Thank god. Twenty- and thirty-somethings who are still precocious tend to be obnoxious twats.

Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

it's very common for them to go down significantly as you get older. if you're a smart child and you do one of the kids tests, you can often appear to be a lot smarter than you really are. i'm a reasonably clever aduly, but i'm not a genius, which is pretty much what my school-age standardised tests said. so, i really wouldn't worry about it, lex. i've always thought of you as pretty stupid anyway, for what it's worth.

stelf)xxxx, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

i hasten to add that was merely good-natured ribbing, before anyone has a go at me!

stelf)xxxx, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

Dave, could you please tell my mum that, so she stops having such unreal expectations of my supposed "genius"?

I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

hell, i can't even spell adult, now, so what does that say....

stelf)xxxx, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

dave, a good deal of how I am now is reaction to being a precocious child, my aim is to balance it out!

The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

It's OK, Lex, as previously discussed ILX is a bit of an assylum for recovering child prodigies!

I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

140. I've taken that test before too (the thread is out there!)

MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

having a high IQ is the worst way to be a child prodigy because it's non-specific and only useful if you have drive and application (which I don't). I still envy all the people I know who were musical prodigies.

The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

Bah, only 129

Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

http://i.uk.tickle.com/uk/test/iq/philosopher.jpg

140--not grown quite as mindless as i'd feared

mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

http://i.uk.tickle.com/uk/test/iq/philosopher.jpg

140, not as decrepit as feared

mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Huk, your IQ score is 133

Huk, your IQ score is significantly above average. Congratulations! You have a wide range of exceptional skills which are much stronger than those of the average population. You are also skilled at answering the types of questions that are asked in a classic IQ test. The test analyses your strengths and weaknesses based on your mathematical, linguistic, visual-spatial and logical skills. Even though you have high scores in all of those areas, we are able to analyse your results to discover the areas in which you have the strongest abilities.

You are gifted with the natural fluency of a writer and the visual and spatial strengths of an artist. Those skills contribute to your creative and expressive mind.


Insightful linguists can take complex concepts and articulate them to just about anyone. You have a gift with words and insight into processes and the way people think. These talents enable you to explain things clearly to people. Helen Keller is a great example of an Insightful Linguist. Blind, deaf and mute, she was still able to put things together in her mind and to understand complex ideas. She could do that because she was able to conceptualise ideas internally. Though she could not literally see, she had the visual and spatial skills necessary to understand patterns on an abstract level. She learned to read, write and ultimately became a writer on issues of social justice.

Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

haha maybe i am!

mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Mine was,

(drumroll keith)


135


Your mind's strengths allow you to think ahead of the game -- to imagine or anticipate what should come next in just about any situation. Because you're equally skilled in the numerical and verbal universes of the brain, you can draw from multiple sources of information to come up with great ideas. The timelessness of your vision and the balance between your various skills are what make you a Visionary Philosopher.

In addition to your strengths in maths and linguistics, you have a knack for matching and anticipating patterns. These skills and your uncanny ability to detect the underlying blueprint of most of life's situations add to your visionary philosopher mind. Two philosophers who share the same combination of skills you possess are Plato and Benedict Spinoza.

mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

having a high IQ is the worst way to be a child prodigy because it's non-specific and only useful if you have drive and application (which I don't). I still envy all the people I know who were musical prodigies

it was the best thing i ever found out about myself. meant i could arse about a lot and still feel fairly safe in the knowledge that i'd have to do a lot less work than most to get by. i was never viewed as a prodigy at all, rather a lazy and frustrating burden my teachers had to bear.

stelf)xxx, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Pea, your IQ score is 124

Pea, your IQ score is slightly above the average IQ score. Congratulations! Among your skills, there are certain areas that stand out above the rest. The classic IQ test analyses your strengths and weaknesses based on your mathematical, linguistic, visual-spatial and logical skills. By analysing your answers we can discover the areas in which you have the strongest abilities.


You are equipped with a verbal arsenal that enables you to understand complex issues and communicate on a particularly high level. These talents make you a Word Warrior.

Whether or not you recognise it, your vocabulary is your strongest suit -- use it whenever you can. Since your command of words is so great, you are also a terrific communicator -- able to articulate big ideas to just about anyone. Your wordsmithing prowess will also help in artistic and creative pursuits. The power of words translates to fresh ideas off paper too. Since you have so many words at your disposal, you are in a unique position to describe things in an original way, as well as see the future in your mind's eye. In short, your strengths allow you to be a visionary -- able to extrapolate and come up with a multitude of fresh ideas.

Rumpea, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

Two philosophers who share the same combination of skills you possess are Plato and Benedict Spinoza.

please, no more cold rationalist gnostics.

stelf)xxx, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

My highest IQ scores were all as an adult, over 20. Why should it go down?

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

for the reasons i explained above. the tests you do as kids are standardised tests FOR KIDS. if you have are an early developer or have lots of parental educational input as a child, you tend to ace these tests.

stelf)xxx, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

it was the best thing i ever found out about myself. meant i could arse about a lot and still feel fairly safe in the knowledge that i'd have to do a lot less work than most to get by. i was never viewed as a prodigy at all, rather a lazy and frustrating burden my teachers had to bear.

oh at the time it was brilliant. then as you get older you discover that you have an inbuilt need to live up to former standards, but never learnt enough about having a work ethic or motivation to keep up with yourself.

The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Michael, your IQ score is 136


Michael, your IQ score is significantly above average. Congratulations! You have a wide range of exceptional skills which are much stronger than those of the average population. You are also skilled at answering the types of questions that are asked in a classic IQ test. The test analyses your strengths and weaknesses based on your mathematical, linguistic, visual-spatial and logical skills. Even though you have high scores in all of those areas, we are able to analyse your results to discover the areas in which you have the strongest abilities.


You are gifted with the natural fluency of a writer and the visual and spatial strengths of an artist. Those skills contribute to your creative and expressive mind.

Insightful linguists can take complex concepts and articulate them to just about anyone. You have a gift with words and insight into processes and the way people think. These talents enable you to explain things clearly to people. Helen Keller is a great example of an Insightful Linguist. Blind, deaf and mute, she was still able to put things together in her mind and to understand complex ideas. She could do that because she was able to conceptualise ideas internally. Though she could not literally see, she had the visual and spatial skills necessary to understand patterns on an abstract level. She learned to read, write and ultimately became a writer on issues of social justice.

Blah, blah, blah. Thanks for the compliments but I prefer money or blowjobs. How did knowing several quotes qualify as intelligent?

M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

i got 135, surprisingly enough

it also says i am a 'facts curator' which is also not surprising as i tend to remember loads of random stupid facts

Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

133 - Visionary Philosopher

luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, the thing about this test is... it's not hard. Except, like I said, for those shape-matching questions, which I have always assumed you just have to go with your gut on.

Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

The only difficult shape-matching question is the one with blue triangles, rectangles and balls. There doesn't seem to be any real pattern there.

milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

yeah i was stumped on that one...

Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

I went for the only one where the shapes were the same size.

Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

(After thinking about it for about three minutes I should add)

Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Stevem is right, I think. They all consisted of a larger base shape with a smaller shape sprouting up except for that one.

M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Chris, your IQ score is 140

Chris, your IQ score is significantly above average. Congratulations! You have a wide range of exceptional skills which are much stronger than those of the average population. You are also skilled at answering the types of questions that are asked in a classic IQ test. The test analyses your strengths and weaknesses based on your mathematical, linguistic, visual-spatial and logical skills. Even though you have high scores in all of those areas, we are able to analyse your results to discover the areas in which you have the strongest abilities.

Your mind's strengths allow you to think ahead of the game -- to imagine or anticipate what should come next in just about any situation. Because you're equally skilled in the numerical and verbal universes of the brain, you can draw from multiple sources of information to come up with great ideas. The timelessness of your vision and the balance between your various skills are what make you a Visionary Philosopher.

In addition to your strengths in maths and linguistics, you have a knack for matching and anticipating patterns. These skills and your uncanny ability to detect the underlying blueprint of most of life's situations add to your visionary philosopher mind. Two philosophers who share the same combination of skills you possess are Plato and Benedict Spinoza.

Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

Armless, your score is 100! [Note: I chose to disguise my identity.]

Armless, your IQ score is precisely average. Congratulations! You have an average range of average skills which are identical to those of the average population. You are also able to answer the types of questions that are asked in a classic IQ test, but not very well. The test analyses your strengths and weaknesses based on your mathematical, linguistic, visual-spatial and logical skills. Even though you have average scores in all of those areas, we are able to analyse your results to discover the areas in which you have the strongest abilities.

Your mind's strengths allow you to survive average situations where there is very little danger of encountering wild animals. You become distracted by small itches or by thoughts of sex. Because you're equally unskilled in the numerical and verbal universes of the brain, you can draw from undernourished and malformed sources of information to come up with questionable, but unremarkable ideas. The limitations of your vision and the dimness of your various skills are what make you an Easy Mark.

In addition to your mediocre aptitude in maths and linguistics, you have a knack for watching television. These skills and your uncanny ability to notice when your shoes are reversed or your pants are on backwards add to your ability to clothe yourself unassisted. Two philosophers who share the same combination of skills you possess are Donald Rumsfeld's wife and the bag boy at the A&P.

Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

Low thing to say about Mrs. Donald Rumsfeld, considering everything else she has to go through, Aimless, but then what can one expect from someone of your outstanding mediocrity.

M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

slumpman, your IQ score is 140

no it isn't! silly test

Slumpman (Slump Man), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

One of Frau Rumsfeld's recent travails

M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

136, same as everyone else.

n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

140, same as a lot of other people.

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

124. I'm a "word warrior." Heed my call: fuck off.

shut up ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

eight years pass...

We subjected my oldest kid to an IQ test. Because she had an almost perfect score on her exams in the first grade, we wanted her to skip the second grade. She scored 135 or something. Could have been more as she's still young and secondly she's a perfectionist. lol I think it's rub to do the test but had to be done to see if she could skip the year.

Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 12 September 2013 08:16 (twelve years ago)


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