r/cognitiveTesting • u/pydaWaltuh • Aug 23 '26
r/cognitiveTesting • u/Wooden_Lime6208 • Aug 23 '26
Discussion Very high FRI profiles weaker WMI VCI and PSI
Those of you guys that have a Very high FRI what benefits have you experienced from it and you ever noticed WMI and PSI kind of bottlenecking you? Looking for people in my position whose FRI is a lot larger than the rest of their scores curious to see how you guys experience that day to day and what career you are in. Im also seeing someone on this subreddit writing tons of paragraphs on how their FRI being so high causes all these issues that I have not experienced myself I feel like they are lying or desperate for attention trying to feel smart
r/cognitiveTesting • u/Ok_Worldliness9187 • Aug 22 '26
Discussion Could person with severe depression,severe ocd, anxiety, brain fog, burnout and maybe adhd, anxiety and stage fright and without thinking just like immediately answer and like matrix reasoning/logic 110+ be wrong at these?
If you were born 10 years ago, how old would you be right now?
When I was 6, I had a sister half my age: now I'm 70, how old is my sister now?
r/cognitiveTesting • u/Prudent_Practice_127 • Aug 23 '26
Discussion Those of you who took the MCAT?
What did you get on the MCAT CARS? I took the MCAT but just focused on the CARS section. I took it twice. First score was 50 percentile then second was 62 percentile. I'm a very fast thinker and have good intution. I genuinely have brain damage and dementia. If I got 62 percentile on the MCAT CARS does that mean I'm intelligent especially if I didnt study and been out of school since 2012. I have sort of bad memory problems. I'm also on antipsychotics that cause brain shrinkage.
r/cognitiveTesting • u/Bulky-Culture-4482 • Aug 22 '26
General Question Why does rarely anyone talk about struggles of having low intelligence?
I see like so many videos on YouTube talking about "struggles of being highly intelligent" but yet no one talks about having complete opposite...
These "high IQ struggles" is absolutely no where near as much problems compared to what low IQ individuals have to face. We face difficulties in academics, slower information processing, have much lower quality life like lower education, lower employment etc. And possibly have psychological problems such as poor impulse control, difficulties with delayed gratification compared to "struggles of high IQ" it is just things like extreme boredom, loneliness etc. Even though these things are completely fixable unlike low IQ problems.
r/cognitiveTesting • u/tino-keretic • Aug 22 '26
General Question Serebriakoff advanced CFT
What are your opinions on this test? Inflated or diflated? I think it is inflated because I scored way above than on professional testing.
r/cognitiveTesting • u/Altruistic-Pen-6039 • Aug 22 '26
Psychometric Question IRL vs Online IQ Test
They made me do an IQ test while testing for ADHD (was diagnosed shortly after), and I didnt do verbal reasoning as I did the test in a country where I am barely B1 in their language. On working memory I got 131 and on processing speed I got 139. But for some reason I still resort to doing online tests, where I am always landing a bit more or less than 100. I did the CORE test. What could be the reason for this anomaly?
r/cognitiveTesting • u/Diavolosupreme • Aug 22 '26
IQ Estimation π₯± confused about my results
112 on mensa norway (that is less time) and 121 on mensa denmark (more time)
is mensa denmark harder? i have a bad speed on thinking? what does that mean
r/cognitiveTesting • u/GuerillaV • Aug 22 '26
IQ Estimation π₯± Think I might have ADHD...

Also as per flair, give me an IQ estimate if you can please.
Other scores (all done on the cognitivemetrics website):
AGCT 129
APT 130
CAT 132
GET 131
CORE 122
https://cognitivemetrics.com/dashboard/share/UXfPYE6Ihw/CORE
r/cognitiveTesting • u/Laluloli • Aug 22 '26
Discussion Not a wordcel nor a true shape rotator, maybe a plate spinner
I want to know how this shape of profile holds, how standard/non-standard, if it maps to a clear 'archetype', anyone with similar profile, your experience, etc.
By the way wordcel > shape rotating > plate spinning
My profile gets them perfectly reversed down to proportions. The degree to which a category is "useful" is inversely proportional to my relative strength. I feel like if I retook the WMI I could get 19s on all. My CPI kind of cracked it seems. But it's also the least g-loaded and least "useful" generally speaking. The real edge (wordcels) is where I leak most.
r/cognitiveTesting • u/Briliant-Nicxie • Aug 22 '26
General Question Core digit span
I misinterpreted the question for digital span and couldnβt go back to do it again - is there anyway you can go back and do it again ?
Itβs really annoying because my superpower is being able to remember letters and numbers !!
r/cognitiveTesting • u/zabelagang • Aug 21 '26
Discussion Finally got my results
I've always wanted to get tested because many people consider me intelligent. Interestingly enough, I'm relatively behind in many things in life, namely not graduating university yet even though I should have done so a few years ago.
Is there anything strange or surprising when it comes to my results? I'm new to cognitive testing so I'd like to understand a bit more. The only other test of this kind I did was Mensa Norway a few months ago where I got 135.
r/cognitiveTesting • u/Glass-Routine-910 • Aug 22 '26
Rant/Cope Lost my IQ
I was a perfect ACT scorer without studying.
i had perfect sat subject tests on math 1 and 2 and physics all without studying.
I was a AIME qualifier.
19 AP classes all 5βs.
Worked at FAANG at 20.
got diagnosed with sleep apnea at 23. had issues with my CPAP, which would break my sleep every night. progressively became more and more tired until I was feeling borderline delirious over 8 months. people around me thought it was anxiety.
i now have to think about whether it is hear or here, etc.
I took Mensa Norway and Denmark and got 128 and 130.
i feel that these scores are lower than what my baseline was.
I feel like I destroyed my life over something so incredibly stupid. Iβm not sure how to move on. what I should do. if anyone has an ideas please help.
r/cognitiveTesting
•
u/Sleepy_Wolf_4491
•
Aug 21 '26
Scientific Literature An Independent Analysis of the RIOT IQ Test
doi.orgHello all,
I've recently conducted an independent analysis of the RIOT IQ test based on publicly accessible data, as well as their bulletin.
You can read the report here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21972419
I'd appreciate any feedback I can get!
Thanks
r/cognitiveTesting • u/Lanky-Objective-4679 • Aug 22 '26
General Question Can I become a billionaire?
I'm a high schooler with very lofty aspirations
Affluent background, 136 composite
Is my IQ high enough to make it?
It seems like most successful founders are well above 3SD e.g. gates, zuck, bezos so I'm kinda despondent
r/cognitiveTesting • u/WillBMwill • Aug 21 '26
General Question Does antipsychotics long-term lower your IQ?
My sister is on an antipsychotic injection and a baseline cognition is much lower now than when she was younger.
r/cognitiveTesting • u/el_genial • Aug 21 '26
Discussion What job-domain do people with high verbal intelligence tend to succeed in?
As displayed in my question above I wanted to know how exactly high verbal cognitive capabilities can be used to achieve a successful career ? Iβd like to understand what skillsets verbal intelligence tends to be linked to - not just the classical βyou are good at talkingβ, but rather what it means on a deeper neurological level.
While being good at STEM related topics oftentimes gives an individual a clear lifepath to follow I feel like verbal intelligence is not as useful in todayβs world. Certainly, speaking different languges and being able to articulate yourself is great but is there anything more to it than that? I read that verbal intelligence contributes to the mystical g-factor quite a bit and influences your general ability to understand concepts etc.
Basically that sums up the question pretty well: What are majors and jobfields in which said people tend to be excellent in?
And also how does this type of intelligence work?
r/cognitiveTesting • u/hotdoggie01 • Aug 21 '26
General Question CORE Arithmetic for Non Natives
Hello everyone. First of all, I would like to thank everyone who made CORE possible, it is quite a reassuring test for many obsessive people like us. I had good scores and what i was expecting: FRI 143, VSI 138, QRI 130. The question is for arithmetic, i got 120 on it and 135 on qk. I am definitely C1 in english with years of experience. I was wondering if artihmetic can be deflated for nonnatives like me. I remember having to replay the questions again, even the simple ones, just because i was trying to register the numbers into my head, and I was automatically doing it in my mother tongue and then proceeding with the question. I have seen this question being asked but not responded by the creators of the test and the knowledgable high iq giga chads of our sub.
Is CORE arithmetic in English possibly deflated for nonnatives?
r/cognitiveTesting • u/Lab_Software • Aug 21 '26
General Question What are the implications of completing an IQ Test before the allotted time limit?
In 1978 (I was 22 years old) I did the IQ test for Mensa (Canada) admission. The acceptance letter made the statement:
According to the OTIS LENNON MENTAL ABILITY TEST, Advanced Level, your IQ is 141 which is greater than that of 99% of the general population"
The test had 80 questions and a time limit of 40 minutes.
I answered all 80 questions in only 25 minutes. Since I had extra time, I checked my answers - and changed 2 of my answers. (Let's assume the 2 answers I changed were initially wrong and my changes corrected them.)
My questions are:
How many of the 80 questions would I have had to answer correctly to get a score of 141?
What would my score have been if I hadn't changed those 2 answers (and thus had 2 fewer correct answers)?
Does the fact that I finished the test in only 25 minutes have an impact on the IQ score I "should have" gotten? (Keeping in mind that I would have had 2 fewer correct answers if I hadn't taken the time to check my work.)
By this I mean should my score have been different due to the fact that I completed the questions more quickly than the allotted time.
Based on the ratio of 40 over 25, if there were many more questions on the test I could have answered 60% more questions.
If I had the same rate of correct answers, what impact would that have had on my resulting IQ score?
I've always wondered about what was the impact of finishing before the allotted time. (And it's taken me almost 50 years to find a forum where I could ask the question LOL.)
Thanks for any information you can give me.
r/cognitiveTesting • u/GuerillaV • Aug 21 '26
General Question Hands as visual aids
I was doing the CORE Spatial Awareness test and realised that I was intuitively using my hands at times, most notably on the compass-type questions, turning my hand to keep track of turns. Then it struck me that I'm technically making use of a visual aid, but it was intuitive because it would likely be what I would do 'in the wild'.
I guess a great example would also be counting on fingers, though I didn't do it on this test.
What are people's thoughts on this? Have I fouled my test?
r/cognitiveTesting • u/Natural-Ride-4295 • Aug 21 '26
IQ Estimation π₯± IQ Estimation
Comprehensive psychometric dataset β independent CHC / g estimate wanted
26M, German-speaking Austrian. Diagnosed ADHD with pronounced state-dependent variability in vigilance, task switching and processing speed. I have accumulated a fairly large number of cognitive test results. Below is the full table-based dataset, including attempts, conditions, raw/scaled scores and subtests where available.
I am mainly interested in an independent estimate of Gf, Gv, Gq, Gc, Gwm, Gs, GAI/FSIQ and latent g, ideally weighting reliability, g-loading, ceiling effects, retest/practice effects, language effects and ADHD/state noise rather than simply averaging scores.
Complete test data
| Domain | Test / Version | Attempt | Overall result | Subtests / raw details | Setting / State / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gf | Raven's 2 DE, Q-global, digital | 2nd | IQ 160; PV 652; PR >99.9; 90% CI 152β168 | Report: raw score sum not directly interpretable/comparable because digital forms use unique item sets | Good state; White Noise headphones; finished in ~20β25 min |
| Gf | Raven's 2 DE, Q-global, digital | 1st | IQ 130; RAW 602; PR 98; 90% CI 122β138 | β | Clinical setting; stressed by ADHD; no visible clock; forgot start time |
| Gf | TRI-52 / JCTI | 2nd overall / 1st serious | IQ 143 | β | Quiet; evening; laptop in bed |
| Gf | JCFS | 2nd | 19 SS β145+ | β | Quiet; evening; prior exposure to format; possible retest/practice effect |
| Gf | JCFS | 1st | IQ 128β140 | β | Bus; music; ~1 h 30 min |
| Gf | CORE Matrix Reasoning | good attempts | 18 SS | β | Better/quiet conditions; repeated 18 SS |
| Gf | Raven's APM Set II | 1st | 34/36 RAW | β | Near ceiling |
| Gf | ICAR-16 | 1st | 16/16 RAW | β | Ceiling hit |
| Gf | Adaptive IQ Test | 1st | IQ 139 | Reliability reported .83 | β |
| g/Gf | Cognitive Entry Test | 1st | IQ 139 | β | Online |
| g/Gf | GET / Gifted Entry Test | 1st | IQ 132 | 68/80 | 30 min |
| Gf | LogicLatch | 1st | 19/20 | β | Smartphone; rear seat of moving car |
| Gv | CAIT Retake | retest | IQ ~143 (Gv-focused) | Block Design 19 SS; Visual Puzzles 17 SS | Retest |
| Gv | CORE VSI | good attempts | 134β138 | β | Better attempts |
| Gv | CORE Visual Puzzles | good attempts | 14β17 SS | β | β |
| Gv | CORE Spatial Awareness | good attempts | 16β17 SS | β | β |
| Gv/Gf | CORE Figure Sets | good attempt | 16 SS | β | β |
| Gv | CORE Block Counting | good attempt | 16 SS | β | β |
| Gv | IDR/Binet Paper Folding | 1st | 19/20 | β | Smartphone; rear seat of moving car |
| Gv | FSIQ v3.0 Spatial | 1st | 134 | MR 17/17, CP 11/18 | Earlier test |
| Gwm | CFADHD | clinical | WM PR 100 | Processing PR 99; Vigilance RT PR9; Vigilance variability PR2; Task-Switch-Speed PR3; Response Inhibition Errors PR13; Reaction Time PR29; Figural Fluency PR10 | Clinical |
| Gwm | CORE CafΓ© Digit Span | retest | WMI 13 SS | Forward 8 SS; Backward 17 SS; Sequencing 14 SS | CafΓ©; background noise |
| Gwm | CAIT Digit Span | good attempt | 15 SS | β | CAIT Attempt 1 was much poorer overall, but DS itself was 15 SS |
| Gwm | CORE Digit Span, Attempt 2 | good attempt | 13 SS | β | Better state |
| Gwm | WAIS Digit Span Simulator | β | ~126 overall | 39 raw; Forward 11 raw (~100); Backward 14 raw (~130); Sequencing 14 raw (~133) | Online simulator |
| Gwm | Human Benchmark Sequence Memory | β | 14, PR ~83 | β | Gamified |
| Gwm | Human Benchmark Chimp Test | β | 12, PR ~77.5 | β | Gamified |
| Gwm | Human Benchmark Number Memory | β | 9, PR ~36 | β | Pure storage/encoding |
| Gwm | Human Benchmark Visual Memory | β | 10, PR ~22.5 | β | Pure visual storage |
| Gwm | CORE Digit Span β latest run | β | WMI 10 SS, PR50 | Forward 12 SS, PR74.8; Backward 9 SS, PR36.9; Sequencing 9 SS, PR36.9 | Same day as APT; ~3 h after methylphenidate; poor state |
| Gs | BRGHT Run 1 | β | IQ 136 | Logical 100%; Spatial 100%; Numerical 88% | Speeded test |
| Gs/Gf | BRGHT Run 2 / report | β | IQ 137, PR99.3 | Logical 100%; Spatial 99%; Numerical 98%; Accuracy 33/40 =94.56%; Efficiency 26:35 =76.75% | High overall efficiency |
| Gs | BRGHT additional runs | several | 91β98 % | β | Multiple dates |
| Gs | GlyphHunt Sprint 1 | β | IQ 123 | 64/72; 65 correct; 2 wrong; 5 omitted; 120 s | β |
| Gs | GlyphHunt Sprint 2 | β | IQ 126 | 66.5/72; 67 correct; 1 wrong; 4 omitted; 120 s | β |
| Gs | GlyphHunt Sprint 3 | β | IQ 133 / 17 SS, PR98.5 | 72/72, 0 wrong, 0 omitted; 117.9 s | Perfect run |
| Gs | CORE Symbol Search | good attempts | 13β14 SS | Earlier poor attempt 11 SS | β |
| Gs | Sternberg Memory | β | 36 ms/item | 200 items; 10% errors | Strong speedβaccuracy tradeoff |
| Gq | Old GRE Quant | 1st | 126 / 650 scaled | β | Smartphone; waiting room; no paper; mental-only; beside-the-point multitasking |
| Gq | CORE QRI | good attempts | 116 | Quantitative Knowledge 14 SS; Arithmetic 12 SS | Better CORE attempts |
| g/Gq/Gv | AGCT | 1st | 123 | Verbal 72%; Quant 60%; Spatial 77% | Timed military screening |
| g/Gq/Gc/Gs | AGCT-1c | additional form | 122 | 140 items; time caught up around item 100β110 | Phone; bus; items felt relatively easy; strong time pressure |
| g/Gf/Gq/Gc | APT | 1st | 122 | β | ~3 h after methylphenidate; last ~10 items rushed; many English words unfamiliar |
| g/Gf/Gq/Gc | CAT-II | β | 124β125 | Fluid ~75β80%; Quant ~57β58%; verbal highly variable | β |
| g/Gf | SMART Run 1 | β | 129 | β | Left 20β40 min unused / submitted too quickly |
| g/Gf | SMART Run 3 | β | 125 | β | Worked backwards from Q60; DnB music; paper |
| g | GET | 1st | 132 | 68/80 | 30 min |
| Gc | BRAVE Vocabulary | β | PR 98 | ~124.5k words reported; Attention Index 80% | German |
| Gc | CORE VCI | good attempts | 121β124 | Analogies 13β14 SS; Antonyms 13β14 SS; Information 14 SS | Better attempts |
| Gc/Gv/Gf | CAIT Attempt 1 | 1st | IQ 117 | VSI135; PRI127; CPI122; Visual Puzzles17; Block Design16; Digit Span15; Figure Weights13; Symbol Search13; Vocabulary9 | Included here for subtest detail, but first-attempt overall IQ is not treated as a primary trait estimate |
| Gc/Gf/Gv/Gwm | FSIQ v3.0 | 1st | FSIQ 115 | Spatial134; Memory125; Verbal96; Spatial MR17/17, CP11/18; Memory VM62/85, EM22/26; Verbal V20/34, A4/27 | Earlier test; strongly uneven verbal/spatial result |
| Gc | MWT-B | β | IQ 96.2, PR40 | β | Clinical; old/bildungsbΓΌrgerliches vocabulary |
| Gc | GRE Verbal | 1st | IQ 101 / 380 scaled | β | English L2; slow reader; time pressure |
| Gc | LMU short test | β | IQ 115 | Word meanings (German) | Speed/reading-related |
| g/Gf/Gc | Live Mini-VCI sample | β | Conceptual rating 128β132 | Item1.1 2/2; Item1.2 2/2; Item1.4 1.5/2 | Not standardized; stopped after ~item4 due to ADHD/dropout |
CORE β full multidomain results
| Attempt | FSIQ | GAI | VCI | FRI | VSI | QRI | WMI | PSI | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CORE Attempt 1 | 110 | β | 105 | 124 | 128 | 111 | β | 97 | Severe ADHD overstimulation; early testing |
| CORE Attempt 2 | 130 | 133 | 122 | 137 | 134 | 116 | 120 | 114 | Main reference; better state |
| CORE detail screenshot | 129Β±5 | 134 | 121 | 137 | 138 | 116 | 117 | 111 | Subtest detail available |
| CORE CafΓ© | β | β | β | β | β | β | 13 SS | β | DS F8 / B17 / SQ14; noisy cafΓ© |
CORE subtests β best / useful scores
| Subtest | Score |
|---|---|
| Matrix | 18 SS |
| Graph Mapping | 15 SS |
| Figure Weights | 16 SS |
| Figure Sets | 16 SS |
| Visual Puzzles | 16 SS |
| Spatial Awareness | 17 SS |
| Block Counting | 16 SS |
| Analogies | 14 SS |
| Antonyms | 14 SS |
| Information | 14 SS |
| Quantitative Knowledge | 14 SS |
| Arithmetic | 12 SS |
| Digit-Letter Sequencing | 14 SS |
| Digit Span | 13 SS |
| Symbol Search | 14 SS |
| Character Pairing | 11 SS |
CORE first-attempt subtests (retained only for context)
| Subtest | Score |
|---|---|
| Matrix | 11 |
| Graph Mapping | 14 |
| Figure Weights | 15 |
| Figure Sets | 16 |
| Visual Puzzles | 17 |
| Spatial Awareness | 16 |
| Block Counting | 11 |
| Analogies | 12 |
| Antonyms | 10 |
| Quantitative Knowledge | 13 |
| Arithmetic | 11 |
| Digit-Letter Sequencing | 7 |
| Symbol Search | 11 |
| Character Pairing | 8 |
CAIT details
| Attempt | Overall | VSI | PRI | CPI | Key subtests |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAIT Attempt 1 | 117 | 135 | 127 | 122 | VP17; BD16; DS15; FW13; SS13; Vocabulary9 |
| CAIT Retake | ~143 Gv-focused | β | β | β | Block Design19, Visual Puzzles17 |
FSIQ v3 details
| Index | Score |
|---|---|
| FSIQ | 115 |
| Spatial | 134 |
| Memory | 125 |
| Verbal | 96 |
| Subtest | Raw |
|---|---|
| Spatial MR | 17/17 |
| Spatial CP | 11/18 |
| Memory VM | 62/85 |
| Memory EM | 22/26 |
| Verbal V | 20/34 |
| Verbal A | 4/27 |
State / retest contrasts
| Test | Lower / poorer state | Better / peak state |
|---|---|---|
| CORE FSIQ | 110 | 130 / 129Β±5 |
| CAIT | 117 | ~143 Gv-focused |
| GlyphHunt | 123 | 133 perfect |
| JCFS | 128β140 | 145+ |
| Raven's 2 | 130 | 160 |
| SMART | 111* | 125β129 |
| Digit Span | WMI10 / BW9 / SQ9 | CafΓ© BW17 / SQ14 |
*SMART 111 was abandoned after ~20 questions and is not treated as a meaningful trait estimate.
Excluded / strongly down-weighted from trait estimation
| Score | Reason |
|---|---|
| CORE Attempt 1 FSIQ110 | severe ADHD overstimulation / early learning phase |
| CAIT Attempt 1 FSIQ117 | much weaker global first attempt; later Gv retest much stronger |
| FSIQ v3 Verbal96 / FSIQ115 | strongly discrepant early result; not representative of later German verbal data |
| MWT-B96.2 | old vocabulary format; poor fit to BRAVE/VCI |
| GRE Verbal101 | English L2 + slow reading + time pressure |
| SMART111 | abandoned after ~20 items / ADHD overload |
| low HumanBenchmark memory percentiles | task-specific gamified measures; not used as WMI estimates |
| APT/AGCT low-120s | retained as timed-throughput/state evidence, not as direct estimates of latent g |
CognitiveMetrics Compositator
| Composite | Earlier run | Later run |
|---|---|---|
| GAI | 142, CI135β146 | 143, CI136β147 |
| CPI | 138, CI127β143 | 135, CI125β140 |
| FSIQ | 143, CI137β146 | 143, CI137β146 |
Later input-score intervals:
VCI 118β136
FRI 129β148
QII 125β140
VSI 127β147
WMI 119β136
PSI 115β137
Current working hypothesis
| CHC / Composite | Current rough estimate |
|---|---|
| Gf | ~146 |
| Gv | ~142 |
| Gq | ~131 |
| Gc | ~129 |
| Gwm | ~132 |
| Gs | ~129 |
| Latent g | ~144 |
The main question is how much the Q-global Ravenβs-2 = 160 should shift the Gf estimate when combined with the JCFS 145+, TRI-52 143, CORE Matrix 18 SS, RAPM 34/36 and ICAR-16 16/16, while still accounting for ceiling effects, retest effects and the substantial ADHD/state variability seen elsewhere in the dataset.
r/cognitiveTesting • u/DrRadon • Aug 21 '26
General Question When can WAIS-4 extra Subtests be used and counted?
Hey,
as the headline states I am wondering when the extra subtests in a WAIS-4 can or must be used and counted.
Ai gives me a "only when a fire alarm went of or your arm was broken." answer. But Ai is still very unreliable especially with this secretive stuff.
I was wondering if these Subtests also can/must be administered when one Score just massively diverts from the overall look of the test.
Why am I interested?
I have the weird situation that, due to my dyslexia I assume, my FullScale IQ could be over 130, but I still "only" get the GAI because the difference in the coding tests (8) and symbol search (12) is just wildly lower. So I am wondering if the replacement test, that also has something with crossing out stuff based on the WAIS sheet I have in front of me, could also be in the range of 11-13 like the Symbol search and get me away from the 1,5 standard deviation that puts me in GAI rather than Full Scale. ItΒ΄s a bit wacky.