Whats your IQ? (NOT a 'OMG, I'm smarter than you thread!')

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Do you talk about official I.Q tests or I.Q. tests from magazines and internet?
Here in Italy, we don't do I.Q. tests

Online i did Raven progressive matrix tests and i got

105
116
103


With classic test i got 37

But those tests were online.

137 or 142
depends if u favor stanford bennet or wheshler

157 if you buy the online one

so in any case apparently I am a genius, and still I can't spell to save my life!?!

Age 11; 168 (Proctored, lengthy test)
Age 14; 173 (Proctored, retested due to my absentee folks thinking my bad grades had anything to do with my intellect.)
Age 23: 172 (Wanted to show off for my then fiancée, and also join mensa for kicks)

My scores are high, but I am very good at taking tests. I have never felt they are accurate representations.

I've taken online tests, they are highly erratic, I've scored anywhere from 155 to 185.

My EQ is embarrassing, although my score has reached an almost average level over the last couple of years.

I'm not sure. They tested me when I was 16 but they wouldn't give me my score. On online tests I've scored between 120-140 so I'm going to say I'm somewhere in that range. It probably would have been higher if I was better at math.

QFT.

I have spent most of my life studying certain specialized topics in immense detail, and I am very confident of my abilities in those narrow areas. But whenever I discuss those areas I either get blank looks or people call me an idiot because they can't follow my logic. To me it's obvious, but that's because I skip a lot of steps that would take pages and pages to explain. So being very smart in one area makes you look like an idiot. Which is exactly what "idiot" originally meant, someone with their own unique ideas (from the prefix idio- as in idiosyncratic, idiolect, etc.)

Being very smart in one area makes you SEEM like an idiot in that area, and makes you genuinely dumb in other areas due to lack of practice.

But in answer to the OP, I took a test when I was 15 (I think) and scored 144. I liked that number - high enough to be in the top one percent, but not so high to be provocative. So I never took another test.

IQ tests have a built in flaw for the person who wants to achieve. For a test to be reliable there must be a lot of people with similar abilities. If a lot of people have similar abilities then why focus on that area? There is no need. I want to do things that nobody else can do, where I can make the most difference.

GMAT 710

Christ...you guys need to mobilize and take over the planet!

With my official diagnosis an IQ test was administered, but in the cases for aspergers diagnosis they are used to see how people work in separate situations, and it's typical for a person with AS to score in very exaggerated variances of 20-30+ points difference per test focus. This means that the test cannot be a truly accurate representation of your intelligence, because they are built for someone who averages very evenly throughout the focus groups.
This was the case with myself, where I tested comparatively low on a number of groups, whilst maintaining a supposedly 99th percentile in the remainder for tests and tasks that were within my specialized areas. I was told that those scores are more representative of my true IQ.

Also keep in mind that the tests don't solely focus on speed, there's general knowledge/word knowledge/memory tests and visual aptitude tests. And, on top of that, if the test is as part of a diagnosis, it'll be made clear to you that it's not a test of intelligence, so the tester will take into account the fact that there might be a requisite time to ponder.

For reference, my visual aptitude score - which was timed, admittedly - was incredibly high because I love doing puzzles/notice the difference type games, so that was where I shone. A social recognition test I performed abysmally in comparison, which wasn't timed and I could take as much time as I needed.

Hope that helps in some way?

Wow, wow.. i see very high IQ here. In one online American test (I'm not English) i had 127, best score in how i use language, since in MENSA only 111, i didn't eat that day and was tired and drink alcohol, i was just curios how is my IQ when I'm in not god condition.

Mines 129 (You could round up and it would be 130).
I'm told that's very good, I don't really care about it though, its just a number.

around 175 im not sure which scale you're referring to.

75 to 80 but mostly because I don't have AS... but do have HFA.

About a gross, 144.

IQ is supposed to be a factor times 100. So that implies my effective mental age is 1.44 times my present age. Or, 144%.

My dad was tested by the US Army in WWII. They told him he had to get 100 to qualify for the Air Corps. He said, that he KNEW he missed SOME of them, so there was no way he got 100%...

He became an air traffic controller in the Air Corps.

I quickly did one online and got 125, though of course it can easily be questioned. A good few years ago I took one and believe I got 118.
Personally, I beleive I am somewhat articulate, though I wouldn't call myself intelligent.
And as you can see I can't spell either (believe), but I shall leave my mistake so you can all laugh at it

Gosh...I've never taken a formal one; only online ones.

On one I got 117. (*can't remember where this was*)

On another I got 127. (I'm pretty sure this one was on that 1 'psych'/pop-psych test site "Tickle[dot]com"...?)

And on another I got 143. (at "iqtest[dot]com" )

*shrugs*

I got 124 on iqtest.com

On Wisc, that's an 145.