gifted? genius?

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Just look at Richard Feynman (cannot post link, have not posted enough). Nobel Prize. One of the greatest physicists of the 20th century. IQ of 125, wouldn't qualify for MENSA (though I'm sure they would like to be able to brag about having him as a member, so they could attract more membership fees).

i was able to change my IQ score when doing the internet ones but my mom told me that i had a high IQ so it should be in the gifted range XD

Meh. 3.5 standard deviations above the mean, for whatever that's worth.

I had an IQ of 137 last time I tried a mensa test.... really just did it for s**ts&giggles

contrary to popular belief, you sometimes have to think visually when working with programming. I find it much like drawing, especially with OO languages. The process is much the same:

1. draw guide lines -> do the UML and write down methods you know you need, create classes etc.
2. Rough details -> Make nescessary variables, include parameters and just make the program work without tweaks & tricks
3. Draw fine details -> Tweak the program, find better ways to do what is needed (ie. switch ifs with switch/cases or use a smaller data type for a given value)
4. Erase erraneous guidelines -> test and further optimization
5. Drawing done! -> Program done

It's the way I work with proogramming, and like drawing, it allows for some leeway throughout the process, one thing is, you get a program working before you tweak its performance using custom algorithms and the like.

I've never taken an official IQ test, but I usually test in the lower range of gifted for any sort of academic standardized test that isn't timed. But if it is timed, forget about it, my scores are around average.

I got a Professional IQ test done last year at the hospital by a Professional and the Professional told me that my IQ is 77. I do NOT know how my IQ is only 77 when I live by myself and when I take care of myself and I am really smart too.

Did some CATs tests when I was 11 at school. I got 149 on the quantative part (the highest ever recorded at my school) and high scores (130+, can't remember the precise values) on the other two elements.

I've never had a proper IQ test, I figure I'd score highly though.

I have absolutely no idea what my IQ score is although I have read about the biographies of people who are actual geniuses(Isaac Newton). They fully devoted their life to their work: Which is more important than any standardized test score.

Mine is 122 and I'm 16 years old so I think that I have a pretty high IQ compared to other people.

I'm generally in the 150-160 range when I'm tested. I highly doubt the accuracy of iq tests. I'm terrible with mathematics, spelling, heck, any abstract concept really. Nothing genius about me. I was never in a "gifted" class either.

Probably pretty low, I wouldn't be surprised if it was higher when I was around 16-18. Seems like my past keeps me unable to concentrate. I could navigate around the internet at a faster pace and able to remember, now i'd be lucky to remember how many pages i have went forward or backward.

meh. just finished one. 23 questions in something ridiculous like 4 minutes. then it tells me I have to pay $10 to find out. judging by how easy it was though i would have to be 140+ but that would be more due to my memory for where the letters are in the alphabet and my number skills rather than any form of intelligence

I don't know my IQ and I'm not interested either. I think IQ is something that has limited usefulness, anyways. It might help clarify someone's intellectual ability if they are struggling academically [i.e. are they developmentally impaired, gifted and bored, have learning disabilities? etc.] but for the most part, success and happiness doesn't come from only your processing power.

IQ 152 in an official test... Doesn't make me articulate and certainly hasn't made my life any happier/easier.

Different IQ test results in different scores meaning different things. For example the top 2% for iq scores is 130 on standford binet 5 and 148 on the cattel. So going by percentile based scoring, I am in the top 2% which is called genius by mensa. I also recently had achievement testing and I scored in the 99th percentile for most of the parts, my lowest was 85th percentile in breif mathematics, but it was near the end of the test and I was having extreme anxiety.

Overall in my opinion IQ test are not a good measurement of intelligence as they mostly only test logic, when there are also many other types of intelligence such as creative intelligence.

My IQ has been too changeable over the years I've been taking tests. I've had as high as 168 before, but my score has also been 118, as well as many other figures in between, usually around the 120-145 mark so I've voted for that option.