What kind of IQ test would an aspie perform best on?

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I've been reading that pattern recognition is generally very strong in people on the spectrum, while verbal ability is frequently a weakness. This would seem to me to suggest that someone with AS/high functioning ASD might score significantly different on different IQ tests depending on what they entailed. He/she might underperform on a highly verbal IQ test yet perform very well on a mostly non-verbal pattern recognition test like Raven's Matrices. This is just an off the cuff reasoning though. Anyone have any actual info or anecdotes? Thanks.

IQ has been discussed many times on here.

Aspies would do quite well at verbal tasks; not so well at performance tasks (e.g., matching a block pattern with actual blocks with a picture).

It depends on the person. There's no one test that all autistics do best on.

The Raven's Progressive Matrices is a strength for many, but a weakness for others (including me). Some do really great on verbal assessments, but others not so much - even a verbal high functioning person can have mild language impairments or just have stronger nonverbal skills.

Overall, the best approach would be to use multiple tests assessing multiple areas of ability, and just see where the person's biggest strengths happen to be.

I could do very with with pattern matching block puzzles, particularly if the blocks are very small, so that normal people have problems with their hands being too large. It would help even more if cross dominance were necessary.

I'm highly verbal. I can whiz through the Miller Analogies Test with little effort. The Raven Matrices, as well as the now-discredited Stanford-Binet IQ test, forget it!

I usually score as high as is possible. Though I don't know what different IQ tests there are. So Atleast the ones I've tooken.

Why? I thought block patterns and puzzles with backside up were special strengths for those who think in patterns - many aspies.

I did best in verbal, reasoning and patterns.

Aspie here and did 100 % on verbal and got a really good score on the part where you put blocks together according to a pattern.

Don't ask me how I did with maths...

Really? Now you are projecting your own traits onto the entire diagnosis. I did extremely well on a "guess the pattern/next symbol" test once on a recruitment site that used that to test executive functioning for an interview, in fact they had me lined up first for the IRL interview.

Didn´t do well in math either. At first my tester thóught so - because I seemed to remember long rows of numbers, but I remember them as sound patterns, so guess how it went backwards.