practice test: 10/10 -no iq rating for this one
series: 10/13 -iq rating 131 - finished in time limit (easily)
quick iq test: 12/15 iq rating 136 -finished in time limit (barely!)
matrix A: 18/18 -iq rating 150 -forgot to run timer, dunno how long i took
dominoes test: 20/30 -iq rating 136
matrix B: 6/22 -iq rating 121 -ran out of time by a long shot
I got tired of the tests after that, which might partially explain the last score, hehe. Other IQ tests I have taken at other sites have ranged from
125 to 145 so I think these tests at nicologic are reasonably accurate, or at least as accurate as IQ tests go. Usually I get in the 130s so I
wasn't too surprised by these results. I don't feel very smart, though. I should get some of my friends to take these and see if they get what I
would expect, based on how smart/dumb I feel they are compared to me.
IQ tests tend to test 'pattern recognition' rather than what I would call 'intelligence', though. I suppose recognizing patterns is part of
intelligence, but there's a lot of other things that make people smart, and there are people that have natural aptitudes for one thing and not
another. Most of the tests I have seen are also biased towards mathematics and logic, as opposed to things like creativity.
Niels Bohr was a brilliant physicist, but his language skills were so bad he had to dictate his thesis to his mom to write down because he couldn't
string two sentences together on a written page. My mom is brilliant with words and can write really well, and has an excellent memory, but she
absolutely stinks at math. People have different skills and aptitudes, and different training, and I think this reflects on IQ tests.
Suppose instead of being raised in Canada, where I had access to good living conditions and 17 years of schooling (so far...), but instead grew up in
some impoverished village somewhere, where I was lucky to get one meal a day and spent all my time doing manual labor for pennies so that there would
be enough food on the table. I probably would have scored extremely low on an IQ test (assuming I was even literate enough to take it) I wouldn't
put too much faith in these tests. People can have good days and bad days, too. Who knows, maybe if I took the other tests I haven't done yet, I
might get much higher (or lower!) than I did today, due to amount of sleep, stress levels, or something else.
I took the tests at
www.highiqsociety.org... about 2-3 years ago, and got roughly the same scores I did on the ones
at nicologic. If you really like these tests, maybe try the ones there, too.
Isn't that the site were if you score over a 126 you get to become a member?
I feel I am as far form genius as one can get. A high IQ does not equate to success, money or
happiness....I'm not sure what it's supposed to mean. I know people that are not so smart that are very happy and successful, I know people that are
very bright and miserable and poor...and all mixes in between... I would say it means nothing in the big sceam of things!
I'm not sure how anyone can be sucked into that, especially when they
are supposed to be above average intelligence. I took those tests awhile back, I don't remember the exact scores but I think they were all in the
130s. 
You are pretty smart guy yourself. 
