Commenter Teffec recently posted a list of verbal IQ questions in the comment section. I thought his questions had potential so rather than releasing them into the comment section, I decided to make them into a formal test. All the questions were written by Teffec (unless like the great David Wechsler, he stole many of his test items), though I suggested he add some easier items and I’m the creative genius behind the test’s name 🙂
There are 24 questions (all verbal analogies) that start off super easy but become progressively much harder. The test requires a mix of abstract reasoning, general knowledge and vocabulary and should be a pretty good proxy for verbal IQ, which in turn is an excellent proxy for overall IQ. Don’t google the answers (not even to check spelling), not that doing so would help much and I did make sure the test accepted a few misspelled answers.
You can take the test here.
It only lets you take the test once so give it your best!
I gave it a 10 minute time limit so don’t perseverate too long on any one item. After the test is done you’ll be asked to anonymously provide a bit of personal info just to help me norm the test, but this is optional. It will give you your raw score either way.
Let us know how you scored in the anonymous poll below:
UPDATE 2022-03-20
To the person who got 12 right at 6:24 am, consider your score to be 13. You failed item 4 because of a misspelling but I updated the scoring to now accept that misspelling because it’s not supposed to be a spelling test.
If people are wondering why it reports scores out of 27 when there are only 24 items, it’s because of the few personal questions after the quiz is done. These are not counted in the scoring since they’re not part of the test, so consider your score out of 24.
Someone gave the cutest answer to item #5. I feel sorry for that person; not because they’re stupid, but because the test is clearly culturally biased against them. Perhaps where ever they live, that is the right answer.
Pumpkin Person 
44%. Will we get to see the answers?
Maybe at some point. It’s up to Teffec. I don’t want to spoil it before it’s normed.
8/24
I’m actually going to cry, this is so bad like why am I so dumb. I thought I did decent.
I can’t stop thinking about how stupid I am. Can someone please cheer me up a bit? 😭😭😭
What’s wrong with 8 out of 24? I haven’t normed the test yet but I’m sure when I do, that will equate an IQ well above 100. Also this test is for entertainment purposes only. It only gives a rough measure.
8/24 is super low compared to others
I know its a rough measure and is culturally biased, but it still implies low verbal IQ and by extension a low full scale IQ and I don’t want that
All I asked was to be comforted and you start [redacted by pp, 2022-03-20]
Whatever, it doesn’t matter anyway. Do you have a rough idea as to when the preliminary norms will be released? How many submissions are you looking for in general?
I look forward to seeing the norms.
Thank you and good luck.
I’ll have preliminary norms by tomorrow at the latest. Obviously the more submissions the more accurate the norms are likely to be, but there’s enough right now to get a very rough idea. Thank you for participating!
Is the poll working? Results were 0 responses after I voted. No “see results”-option either.
I’ve apparently used up all my free polling & I need to pay to see results of this poll. But I’ll be posting the score distribution soon enough.
I got a 10.
Well done!
thank you. in all honesty this was a very culturally dependent test and that is why i think i scored what i scored.
I was really excited when I saw this and I’m grateful to Teffec and yourself, but I think I did awful. I mostly hate that I forgot about the time and obsessed over the last problem, when I should have gone back to some previous ones I hadn’t answered.
Bruno will soon comment “I got 24 in 3 minutes but I almost didn’t get one.” haha
No looking at the example given I would do very badly because of my English level and the Anglo-cultural load dear Vegan DHA .
It happens that I have seen a certain movie recently with kids so this question would instantly make me think about [redacted by pp, 2022-03-20]
But I am surprise it is a Teffec question for a verbal IQ test … I think I ll skip this test.
I would have liked to get the Isis test that Ganzir said he had
Taken …
Bruno is a great example of how you can be a omega male but still be really attractive to women as long as youre 6’5.
I recall you had a perfect score in another verbal test on pp’s blog, so I was expecting you to do really well on this one, too. But indeed, this is about culture more than the other one and it made it even harder for me.
I wish you’d take it just to see how a very high IQ but not super informed on North American culture individual would perform.
About the Isis test, well, if you don’t want to pay, I guess it’s not happening.
PS: I found the Titan test online. Do you know if the answers are available in case I ever want to take it?
Bruno has been very generous in taking tests so if he doesn’t feel like taking this one, you should respect that and move on.
Thanks PP and Vegan no offense taken 😊
Btw I expect to check if my answer to Fraz was correct or wrong [Empire state building] when you publish the questions and answers even if I don’t see it as a « g » loaded question . I may be wrong about that too.
Waou Philo, I remember I said that (195) to Afro a long time ago and I subtracted some (very few) centimeters because I have been shy with my height … I remember he said it was unusual for French to be even that tall wich is true. Even more for a Southern European like me. Thanks god I am not slender at all nor hunched. I am a taller version of Sebastien Chabal (who is 191 only)
PP I think my saying what I’d like Bruno to do is perfectly respectful. We’re not talking about blackmail here. Kiss Bruno’s ass on someone else’s expense.
Kiss Bruno’s ass on someone else’s expense.
LOL!
Bruno, explain [redacted talk about specific item, 2022-03-21]. I don’t see the relationship. My g is not high enough lol!
Bruno, what would you regard as a “g loaded” question? Goggle and gaggle are g loaded words!
Hey what was the one James peach:: New York?
Probably shouldn’t discuss answers, at least not for a while.
What did 44% map to? I can’t recall my number score
12
I scored 14
Pepe, if the page had some kind of tracker that recorded me leaving the page and going to Google, be aware that I was using the calculator function for the math problem, not looking anything up
That’s the highest score yet!
Obviously
How many scores so far?
23 people have actually submitted scores & dozens more visited the test but didn’t take it.
Mfw I outscored Ganzir
The new batman movie is good even though they inundated the cast with blacks and black women in particular to make up for not having a black batman.
Can you imagine a black batman??? LOL.
Puppy your social intelligence test is valid only if Anime gets the worst score. If you can’t even guarantee that, then the test isn’t valid.
There’s no way to know if he’s the lowest unless you take it
That doesnt make sense. You have animes score and a bunch of others. He should now have the lowest score.
But that doesn’t mean it will remain so as more people take it. So far only Ganzir, Bruno, Teffec, Anime & Loaded have taken it.
Teffec can’t take it, that’s cheating T_T
Is he the one who got 16?
LOL! No idea who it was.
how do you rate social answers pumpkin?
good judgment usually happens in practice, not on paper.
True, but it’s interesting to ask why would one world perform well on one but not the other.
most conservative men are really insecure about their masculinity. they parade around thinking that it is important to champion their values and what not but only come across as grandiose narcissists.
their masculinity is so fragile. they fight for honor courage etc. but are the most perverted and backwards people on the planet. i hope at least once they get a dose of their own medicine.
What would an 11 be?
Hey Pumpkin. Will this test likely have a very high ceiling since the maximum score you’ve come across is 14?
Yes, although the highest score is now 16.
REEEEEE
I got 7. Sad thing is that verbal is my “strong” side.
7 is not bad. Probably around the average of a university grad.
I got a 7 as well, but my first language isn’t english so I have no idea if this will translate to a higher score if the test was written in my mother tongue (spanish).
I’ve been told I have a large vocabulary and use precise words when describing a thing, a concept or an idea, but in english is an entire different story.
Vegan, I have had a quiet moment and just tried : 13.
Thanks, Bruno!
Pumpkin, I wonder if [redacted by pp, 2022-03-21]
No it is not
15
Enjoyed taking your test, Teffec. Nice job.
I’ve gotten out of my house more and the hallucinations have subsided. At the library, I found a book. It said schizos have borderline working memory. I Isolate too much and am stressed. should not have eaten that edible 2 months ago. Canibus-induced psychosis.
Teffec, you should revise this test so you can call it TRAVIS
Very creative comment (no joke).
Pumpkin dont censor my comment. there was no way that crossed the line. you can redact the parts which cross the line but even then i dont think any it did.
to add to my comment addressing the issue all tests require previous knowledge including facts and events. there is not one test that is suitable to measure intelligence if we did not assume cultural biases because intelligence itself is so culturally biased!
if you want a culturally unbiased test then maybe reaction times or something physiological would suit you better. but even then that would require cultural bias in the way of people who are in more reaction-time dependent geographies outperforming those who are not…..
just things to think about.
This is a crap test. It tests knowledge not intelligence. For a truly good IQ test it should not have any questions that need knowledge of facts or events. Knowledge is an indicator of education level not intelligence
AlI am not American so i never heard of muffin man or listened to Dr.dre songs. Does that mean I am low IQ?
Yes. Yes it does you [name calling redacted by pp, 2022-03-22]:.
You bastard go back to the [redacted by pp, 2022-03-23] pakistan.
No no it does not you #$%**$&% Pakistani
youre a fucking idiot you neurotic fool. India is a shithole because of people like you.
Hey PP, there was a typo on [redacted by pp, 2022-03-23] That probably tripped a lot of people up.
Oh Damn! I guess that reduces the test’s ceiling to 23.
this song is so good it needs to posted twice on the blog.
“OMG WHAT HAPPENED TO VIRGIL!”-a song about Virgil Abloh a famous designer who died of cancer last year
Can you explain the joke there? Are you releasing an updated norming soon? Bummed that there was a typo. I think that it was a good intermediate item.
The TRAVIS joke
Is it just that Travis is a name?
What joke? I just found it clever that Ganzir thought a revised version of the TAVIS could be called the TRAVIS. Usually the R for Revised is placed at the end as in WISC-R or WAIS-R, but Ganzir put the R after the T which changed it from one common male name to another. I’ll be updating the norms probably next week when I go on vacation.
Ye. Teffec Revised Adult Verbal Intelligence Scale. TRAVIS. A common male name. Just a bit of fun with acronyms, without TRAVIS specifically referring to you or anything else
Since when is Tavis a common male name? I’ve never heard it before
I got a 10. Since I was a kid, I’ve actively rejected exposure to anything I perceived as being too popular, to the point of always covering my ears or walking away if, for example, someone mentioned a name like Dr. Dre, who I only knew was related to rap music somehow. I recall overhearing my aunts discussing how they thought I was autistic because of this behavior (among others), but I’m fairly certain I was just a dedicated contrarian. Even to this day, I have an automatic disgust response at the mention of a name like Oprah, which I saw while scrolling through your blog. I know it’s silly, but my instincts tell me she’s a thing to be shunned.
I also didn’t receive any education beyond the fifth grade (or much direct human interaction for that matter), so this wish for distance from popular culture wasn’t really difficult to fulfill. It’s even easier as an adult.
Anyway, were this not the case, I feel like a couple of those questions woulda been freebies, as that information would have been passively absorbed even if I weren’t interested at all. Although I suppose you have to absorb a certain amount of information about a cultural item to be able to gauge whether or not it’s “too popular” in the first place. Still, even getting just one of those would have been a big deal.
I suppose this sort of temperament would tend to have some relationship with IQ. According to your other post about this test, my score on this corresponds to an IQ score about what I got on a WAIS I took some years ago, so it’s not like it’s doing me any injustice. It might be worth mentioning that this was some kind of “culture fair” online WAIS derivative as well, which might mean that its results were meaningless. I score higher on anything with no verbal component, even if the verbal questions are completely unbiased. I can’t remember exactly what I scored on your PATMA, but it was either a 9 or 10 out of 10.
That’s a whole lot of information about me that nobody asked for, but I guess what I’m wanting to say is that I’m struck by how predictively robust a test like this winds up being, despite asking cultural questions that seem to assume a lot about the subject’s exposure to the same information as everyone else. Somehow it still ends up being right on the money even for someone like me. At minimum, it agrees with all the other tests.
you sound very close-minded and on top of that youre probably just saying you shun particular things because theyre associated with certain cultures than others.
theres no objective way of picking and choosing information one finds relevant our brains are like machines so what you put into your head is largely a result of what you deliberately wish to see as relevant or are forced to pick up as a result of survival.
therefore it is highly unlikely that you didnt choose your biases at random but there was something you deliberately thought of as being less valuable for your mind to grasp than other things.
also you might have autism because it seems like a lot of autists will pick and choose information and generally technical information because they have a very hard time relating to people and things.
“you sound very close-minded and on top of that youre probably just saying you shun particular things because theyre associated with certain cultures than others.”
I am obviously somewhat closed-minded by nature, although I’ve outgrown it some with age. But, and forgive me if I’m mistaken, could it be that there is an insinuation here that it has to do with Dr. Dre(?) and Oprah being black? I was only reacting to my direct and immediate experience on this blog, after all. Had the icons been Johnny Cash and Conan O’Brien, who I’ve equally avoided, do you believe you still would have thought that?
“theres no objective way of picking and choosing information one finds relevant our brains are like machines so what you put into your head is largely a result of what you deliberately wish to see as relevant or are forced to pick up as a result of survival.
therefore it is highly unlikely that you didnt choose your biases at random but there was something you deliberately thought of as being less valuable for your mind to grasp than other things.”
Yes, the brain is a biological machine that passively absorbs as much comprehensible input as it can about whatever it is exposed to, without conscious consent. This is evident in even the most abstract effort at foreign language acquisition, you wind up absorbing the culture too, whether you care to or not. And it makes sense that we would deliberately gravitate towards whatever information we are naturally interested in or presume to need, and away from information we find meaningless or counterproductive. These preferences are nearly exclusively guided by biology, I expect.
“also you might have autism because it seems like a lot of autists will pick and choose information and generally technical information because they have a very hard time relating to people and things.”
I couldn’t say for sure, I don’t have a clear enough image of what autism looks like in individuals who aren’t mentally disabled–the only kind I’ve ever encountered to my knowledge. I’m well aware of the stereotype of the high functioning autist, but I don’t believe it’s a match, if in the first place it even corresponds to the reality of the condition. It’s entirely too common to call anything unusual and socially maladaptive “autism.”
A strong disinterest towards something is in a very different category from having a disability with it, and I did 11/12 on Pumpkin’s social IQ test if that means anything to you.
Got a 16, I find analogies tests that don’t have multiple choice options to be really hard, probably lacking in active vocabulary vs passive vocabulary. Do you often post tests on here? Because I have a very hard general knowledge test (ceiling is probably >160 at least) that I would like to get some data on.
How long is your general knowledge test?
BTW, I am also working on a fairly short mathematical ability test, and perhaps this would interest you more than the general knowledge test. This test should have around 13 items when I am done (I have most of the items already, just ironing out some kinks – should be finished by tomorrow), and probably will have a time limit of about 30 minutes. I am a math major, and pretty much aced an extended ceiling version of[redacted by pp, 2022-04-12] but I highly doubt that I would be able to solve all of these problems within the time limit, so I believe the ceiling is probably very high. Anyone who does not have a math background beyond high school and who gets full marks on this test could probably be considered a genius (though none of the questions actually require mathematical knowledge beyond high school level to understand and solve). If you want, I can send you this test when I have finished it.
Yeah send me the questions and answers & if it meets my standards, I’ll publish it. Make sure it includes some super easy questions too for all the non-math geniuses like Mug of Pee. Don’t want anyone who makes an effort to score zero.
I’d love to take your current draft. My math IQ is probably like a standard deviation below yours, so my performance would give you a good, rough indication of ceiling height.
I can send you my email, PP.
yes please do. I’d like your opinion before I publish this test. And leave a comment here confirming as soon as you send the email.
do you have autism Austin? are you finished with college now? i remember you posted a lot about your drug use on here!
also your grasp of politics and law is superb far better than a person like Pills is or whoever else tries to flex their understanding of these topics is.
See the contact page of my blog for my e-mail address. I love taking tests and will gladly take yours