What is your IQ?

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Im not sure i paticly wanna tell evryone what my IQ is, but its not on this scale...

I have an IQ somewhere between 120-140... all though I haven't taken an offical test. I have taken a test that was for the higher ranges of IQ, I received a 135... I think.

Having this IQ is strange, its not enough to be super Brilliant, but its enough to understand most of what the Brilliant develop if you put your mind to it.

Looks like preety high scores.

I have been tested between 132 and 143 on the WAIS and the WISC.

The latest test, my VIQ was 138 and my PIQ was 117. So, somewhat typical of an Aspie, there is a 21 point difference between my Verbal and Performance IQ scores, performance being weaker of course.

By the by, for those who have taken the WAIS or the WISC, how did you score on the Block Design if you recall? I had scored an 18/19 on that particular part. 9/18 is supposed to be average but supposedly many Aspies perform quite well on this because of poorer Central Coherance and thus we are better able to segment the designs into their constituent parts and then recreate the design more easily.

Block Design? What kind of test is that... I remember a standardized test I took where one of the tests had a sheet of paper that was folded and then punched... and you were supposed to figure out where the holes were... I scored extremely well on this. Off the chart actually, I was decently above average in math and other related subjects. But this was higher than my teacher had ever seen anyone score, in anything.

This was back in 6th grade though. I wonder if this block design is a similar test, and this was a sort of early sign of AS that I had.

I have a cousin who is a genius but I don't know what his IQ would be. When he was 3, he pulled a clock to pieces. His dad told him "you'd better put that back together or you'll get a smack" (kind of jokingly) and he just about fell over when the boy put it together perfectly.

He had to get him to pull it apart again and put it together again before my aunty would believe. He just seemed like a normal ordinary little boy.

I don't think I am as smart as that but being very intelligent is something of a mixed blessing. You can see a lot more shortcomings in the world and this is likely to lead to depression and despair at times.

I also have the trouble that I don't look intelligent so people often treat me as if I'm thick and they don't expect much of me (sometimes that is a good thing if I feel like being left alone but on the other hand, it means that I don't get such a good chance to shine at what I'm good at)

I got tested recently over a period of a few weeks (3-4 hours test time) by Dr. Cameron (some asperger's specialist who's been researching it for the last 10+ years). I got very, very skewed results, but apparently this is typical of asperger's. If you think about it, it's really not suprising, given that the tests are weighted to give most NT's, not aspergers, roughly equal scores in all categories.

I don't have the figures here, and am just going by what I can remember from the marks I saw as I was going along, but I got 'above average' in most things, 'superior' (145+) in verbal IQ and 'below average' (90) in working memory. There was also an executive functioning (decision making) battery that I did, where I think I got a very nearly perfect score (best he'd ever seen in one bit), but I haven't seen him since doing it, so don't know the score.



The reason for this is how they balance the tests. The older you get, the more of a handicap they put on you, since you should be able to do relatively better purely on account of your age. When I was being tested, since I was 21, it was impossible for me to get the highest percentiles on anything since I was too old and the handicaps just ouright dissallowed the 0.001 percentile scores that young kids were theoretically able to attain (though it varied considerably with the different tests).

What age were you when you got the 116? It may be that your development profile has lagged behind their benchmarks, which would result in you having too high a handicap for your developmental age (assuming you want to score it for a long-term 'lifetime' IQ, which is what the handicaps are there for in the first place, otherwise most kids would score as ret*d compared to adults).

I was in kindergarten when I got the 136 and I was in middle school (don't remember which grade: 6th or 7th) when I got a 116. I don't have the breakdowns of those anymore.

In HS I did quite well on the PSAT's gathering a score that would be 1330, 690 verbal and 640 math.

On my SAT's I caught mono and forgot my calculator (arggh!) and got a 1150. Verbal 610, Math 540.

On all tests I consistently score under the 50th percentile for writing mechanics.

ACT's I also forgot my calculator (see a pattern here?) and got a composite 26.

Bright, but clearly not Vos Savant-like.

The Block Design Test is merely part of the Perfomance testing in the WAIS.

The subject is given 6 to 9 blocks (9 as the designs get harder) and then has a 2-D design laid out before them and they are timed on replicating that particular design using the different colored red and white faces of the blocks. I found it quite fun actually. One of the few performance tests I was quite good at. Sigh.

I've never taken an official test, but according to my 1350 on the SAT, my IQ is probably about 141.

Here's the conversion chart for anyone else who never took an IQ test.

I agree with that, scoring in the upper 99th percentile I have allways known I was smarter then most people, but I remember at a very early age knowing that I had to hide it from people. Kids dont like you pointing out how easy some thing is when in fact it's not.

Even now, as an adult I still do this, watch friends and people I work with struggle with some a problem, see a solution and then wait untill I think enough timehas passed that they wont freak out. Old habbits die hard.

ghost I thought you might find it interesting that I had a 1350 SAT score and my IQ is around 138.

Cool, I guess that chart is pretty accurate.

Rob, so true. I spent years pretending I wasn't very smart because people got jealous. The rules changed when I left home and then it was supposed to be cool to parade your abilities but I never found popularity by being bright.

I get frustrated with quiz shows such as "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" because I know most of the answers and the compere lets them take a really long time to answer the question instead of putting on some kind of time limit.

Couldn't go on the show though because I'd get really bad stage fright.

I think the SAT's are probably a better indicator, because they are standardized. I got a 740 math and 648 english.

The SATs *were* an indicator of IQ before they were dummed down by the college board. If you took the SATs before 1993 (or maybe it was 91???), Mensa would accept the scores as proof of having an IQ in the 98th percentile.