So there’s a quick online verbal IQ test supposedly by a Harvard student who once commented on this blog.
I decided to take a look just to see what type of computer program was used to create it, and before I knew it the the test was timing me. Well I better take it now I thought, since I’ve already seen a couple questions but I was annoyed to have been caught off guard by the immediate timer.
Once I started reading the questions I thought “Oh easy peasy! Like Oprah doing long division in the fourth grade.”
I was surprised by how well I did because although my childhood verbal IQ was a superior 120, it was much, much lower than my non-verbal IQ (partly because my general knowledge was mediocre). On the other hand, as an adult I scored in the 99.9 percentile on a test of written expression and perhaps this test gets at that specific part of verbal ability since it’s all about choosing the right word to complete the sentence.
The test has only 30 questions to be completed in 15 minutes, and remember, it starts timing you as soon as you start. If you think you are ready, press this link and then share your score in the anonymous poll.
Pumpkin Person 
That’s too easy. It’s just the sentence completion from the sat.
I got 30/30 with like eight minutes left over.
You know, I saw some pre 1995 scores released for norming the mega test. My score was in the top thousand, but I thought I noticed something odd about scores in the upper brackets where there were only tens of people with the said scores. They seemed very staggered, with a seemingly non statistical distribution, for example, most glaringly, 6 people scored 1600, but none 1590! There may be a benign explanation for this effect, but I see cheating. Small groups of students working on the test together, or even with a teacher, and agreeing on the wrong answer for the difficult items. The difficult items tend to be ambiguous, often with several answers which could arguably be correct.
Would it be any wonder with all the cheating controversies we’ve seen surrounding the sat in recent years? I’ve heard many rumors of students stealing the test over the years. You know the close knit sort of ethnocentric groups in the northeast. I just wonder.
The norms are pretty generous. A perfect should probably put you in the high 130s – low 140s, not >150.
Agreed, and this was also the reaction of commenters in the mensa subreddit where he posted it. I scored a perfect 30/30 and am nowhere near 150.
I guess the poll doesn’t show up on mobile?
Either way I got 24/30 and finished with 7:01 minutes left so that translates to a VIQ of about 130.
I’ll take the non-verbal a little bit later and see what my composite is.
So on the Non-verbal I got 29/30 which is an IQ of 142. Which is weird because I always thought I had a higher verbal. However, both of these tests were pretty easy and i feel like with more time most people, at least on this blog, would get a perfect score.
A FSIQ of 144 is far too generous for me imo. How accurate do you think these actually are Pumpkin?
Long division was easy in 4th grade for me too, am I as smart as Oprah?
I scored 29/30 on both sections of this test when I first did it. The verbal section is probably pretty g-loaded, but the non-verbal section seems more like a speed test to me since all the problems are so similar. Interestingly, some of those verbal problems come from the May 2002 SAT I e-mailed you about earlier, pepe.
I missed one because I didn’t know what “strident” meant. RIP
Also, pepe, do you have a copy of Thinkfast lying around somewhere? I would absolutely relish the opportunity to get my phalanges on it.
Well … English is a second language for me. I did the test just out of curiosity. It is the first time when I see an IQ test designed to test only native speakers.
Taking my time, I suddenly realized I was being timed at about 5 minutes in (Yes, I can be remarkably dim). Raced to complete. Had 52 seconds remaining. Score: 28/30.
I’ll read the entire post next time.
25 verbal, 28 non-verbal. The norms seem too high (no correction for age either), but the description of the test boasts some pretty high numbers regarding validity.
Yeah I got a 27 awhile back when I took it. That equated to a verbal of 139 which I think is very accurate for my situation. I indeed had plenty of time left over as well. The ones you know, you know. The ones you dont, you come back to and make and an educated guess. The ones you completely dont know, you just guess on.
Regardless the creator of the test should implement a penalty for guessing thus authenticating results further but hey if he doesnt i still think its a great test.
“Once I started reading the questions I thought “Oh easy peasy! Like Oprah doing long division in the fourth grade.””
Very disturbing thought pattern.
Ganzir are you also a libertarian? I bet you are.
No I’m a libdem
RR is not neurotypical Melo. Has it never dawned on you that RR reads a shit load of boring academic articles. Only someone on the spectrum would do that with their spare time. He also takes things extremely literally. Hes not autistic but he has a touch of it.
Its hard to explain but RR doesn’t demonstrate any intuition either.
That’s just him trying to find certainty in a chaotic world.
Stupid? Yes. Autistic? No.
23/30
PP
Is your extreme obsession just a character or for real ??
If i was Oprah i would thought [redacted by pp, nov 17, 2020]
I got 100%; seems pretty simple:
This test really is too easy. Has it been normed on a normal sample?
No idea how he normed it
Thought speed was a consideration so I finished as fast as possible, w 7:25 left on the clock. Didn’t check my answers.
9/30 I m pride n joy, and a hope for the future of English language and literature !!!
30/30 verbal. 25/30 non-verbal. Not a demanding test. IQzilla tests are timed to 20 minutes and much more demanding, nonverbal that is…
25/30 verbal 28/30 nonverbal. I still don’t really understand verbal iq. What happens if you’ve never seen a particular word before? Idk how that can measure intelligence if you’re just recalling words.
I think, like many with IQs exceeding 145 sd 15, we tend to a poorly calibrated view of the world. Specifically we find fault or error externally when we tend to do too well. For instance, the Raven’s test appears utterly trivial to me. Yet, it still stands as a test that stumps most, and averages 100. And I, like many posters on this sight, am inclined to comments like;
“Oh, that really didn’t test anything.”
or
“My IQ is not really that high.”
tending, as it were, to downplay any external measure that sets me too far above the mean. Of course, there exists the arrogant sort that always wants the spotlight. However, if you play close attention to this type, even if they score well on IQ tests, they tend to incompetence, that is, they tend to error about themselves especially when they do as they see it—poorly. So, if you look at “real” IQ tests, tests given by educators, military, corporations, you probably will find them almost and always trivial. But it’s no fault of the tester or test designer in most cases; it’s that they are truly well calibrated to society in general. And just because one test, tests you lower or higher, even by a large margin, that in and of itself does not invalidate the test. I’ve scored from 130 sd 15 to 160 sd 15, depending on the test, the circumstances, etc. Life is that way, all variations on a theme. So, don’t always miscalculate or depreciate the value of such an external measure. You might be more intelligent than you think!
P.S.
If you like this test, you may enjoy this site: https://www.writingtoiq.com
Damn that website is very cool!
I put in a piece I wrote for school that legitimately illustrated my writing skills and received a score of 129.
I put my comments in when I had the red avatar in from this comment section:
https://pumpkinperson.com/2019/07/14/28440/#comments
I got a 105, a 151, a 107 for the three I was most interested in.
Just goes to show you that intelligence is not static but can be altered to create situationally appropriate conveyance of messages when used correctly!
Awesome man keep up the good work!
Btw this comment received a 143 in and of itself. Hahah.