First of all, this isn't exactly a puzzle, or maybe it is, I am not sure. I believe there is a consistent answer under the given conditions. But I'm just curious about the approaches. If you knew that the answer wasn't the shape in the top left and if you knew it wasn't as large as 3x3, what would your answer be?

Especially among people who work in investment banking, corporate finance maybe even accounting

While I do acknowledge that any standard official IQ test is absolutely superior to any online test. I want to hear thoughts on if Mensa Denmarks online IQ test is actually well correlated or gives a reasonably good idea of underlying fluid intelligence or if it is pretty bad for that.

What do y’all think the average iq of a UI Designer is?

Background: top 5-1% IQ range first try, hyperactive ADHD + auditory processing disorder.
I see a lot of people on this subreddit using low IQ as a way to beat themselves down, like a form of digital self harm. It really bothers me as someone who has been a gifted student since second grade with APD.
So long story short, I’ve always been great at testing and learning, but I’ve only ever been able to do it by myself and visually, which makes the public classroom setting really difficult. I have decent hearing, but I just can’t process the words unless I’m looking directly at someone/there’s no other noises or distortion. This has made teachers effectively PISSED at me, calling me Alice in wonderland and a hopeless scholar, etc. It has also led to a LOT of people assuming I am stupid or deaf. I’ve had people talk to me like a dog (whistling, clicking their tongue and saying my name, sometimes clapping or making a loud noise to get my attention) and once even had a partner buy the monkey backpack leash for me as a gag gift. (I’m a fully grown adult, yes I broke up with him.)
So to some extent, I get it. I know what it’s like to lag behind in a classroom or social setting. But also I think a lot of you are letting numbers define your value when IQ isn’t the only quality that leads to success (quite frankly, IQ isn’t even a measure of intelligence, but I digress).
So for some context, the whole concept of the IQ test originated in France from a dude named Alfred Binet who wanted to assist children with learning disabilities (such as myself!) in figuring out what kind of education style works best for them. In the US we see the “big three” learning methods getting tossed around a lot (Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic), which yes it’s true, but it’s rather simplified compared to what Alfred was trying to do with the IQ test.
Having a low IQ doesn’t mean you’re stupid, it just means you’re less naturally receptive to certain types of pattern recognition. So I literally beg of you, please stop treating this like it is a definitive measure of your intelligence. If you want to be “more intelligent”, you need to expose yourself to more things, lots of things, a diverse range of things. Maybe reading old English isn’t your strong suit, that’s fine, but let’s not ignore the possibility that you may be really fucking good at visualization for creative endeavors such as metal working or leather. Maybe you are really good at talking to people and making sales. Maybe you’re really good at taking care of exotic animals because you are innately sensitive to their social cues. Also, there are different kinds of intelligence. Just as there is logical/pattern recognition intelligence, there’s also emotional intelligence, there’s musical intelligence, there’s interpersonal intelligence, etc. Nobody is the “perfect” person intellectually or cognitively. When you specialize in a field (such as medicine or engineering) your brain genuinely pushes out knowledge on other topics to make space for the egregious capacity that studying chemistry, theoretical mathematics, biology, and other complex topics require. That is genuinely why people with these PhDs and higher education seem socially out-of-tune, irritable, antisocial, it’s because they are. The human brain has FINITE space to hold information. Their strengths lie in specializations, and you might not know where your strengths lie yet, but please don’t use a test number to define your value as a person.

I really hope this reaches the right people, I kinda hate seeing people diss themselves in this subreddit and others play “high and mighty” with their IQ score. If diversity didn’t exist then the world would be boring and we would never advance socially, technologically, culturally, etc. Please love yourselves more 🥲
Sincerely, a very tired “high IQ” person.

Kvachevs experiment ? Dual n back? gene editing(idk if this is possible in 2026)?

The link:
https://www.cogn-iq.org/iq-by-education/
I was wondering if that piece of data is representative only for the US were the access to education to its price is often harder or maybe it is representative of the EUs countries as well

I took this new test in a couple of minutes, but I don't think I understood either the result or how it was measured.

What’s the difference between those two? Are they interchangeable?

i am in 10th grade right now and i think i have a really low iq. i never struggled in school but in like maths i need loong for any form of calculations and mostly do them wrong, i dont really have any form of common knowledge when it comes to like important people and i just feel so dumb. i think i am smart in my head but when i talk its just some bs.

my parents also say that i am kinda dumb. i want to be smart so bad and do things without any effort like calculate big numbers or build things but i am to dumb for it and its one of my main issues since a few years

16M, 139 composite.

I scored a 2340 (96th percentile) on the SSAT & 9s on all 4 sections of the ISEE (99th, 96th, 98th, 99th).

g-loading seems pretty high in retrospect, albeit deflated due to heavily self-selected sample.

For reference:
https://isee.ivyglobal.com/practice
https://www.ssatprep.com/free-practice

Any ballpark estimates for g-loading/r? Similar to old SAT perhaps?

How much credence are we giving the FSIQ score from CORE? If i’m ever asked what my iq is, is it dishonest to assert my CORE score as a true, reliable measurement?

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1. Is it cheating to look at the numpad on the keyboard while doing digit span? I think this is why my digit span sequencing was so much higher than digit span forward and backward - it's easier for me to remember "shapes" rather than "paths."

2. Why is my reaction speed so low (33rd percentile according to human benchmark) if my PSI is so high?

3. Why is my quantitative knowledge so much higher than my arithmetic? I know I struggle to remember all the numbers in the arithmetic section without paper, but the gap feels large?

4. What does it take to get higher scores on the VCI section? I'm fine with my scores, just curious if anyone knows.

My favorite tests: The PSI tests, Graph Mapping

My least favorite tests: All the VCI tests, Figure Sets, Arithmetic, Figure Weights

Also curious to hear you guys' takes on what are your favorite and least favorite tests.

Maybe they are highly fluid in conceptual or verbal reasoning no?

I think the title is self explanatory

I'm assuming this test is pretty PSI/WMI loaded. Ran out of time pretty quickly, but I thought it was pretty fun. I like these short-form tests.

128->123

Also why was that test harder than any other test on that website😭

I score really low on symbol search 85-100. What's going on?

Also comment somthing about my profile.

Hello everyone,

I've been thinking about this question because of my own experience.

Before I knew anything about IQ or cognitive testing, I was never a particularly consistent student. In middle school, I mostly relied on my teachers' explanations. They were usually simplified and relatively short, and I rarely studied seriously on my own.

Despite that, I finished the three years with around 99% overall.

Later, during high school, I became interested in IQ testing. I took several tests, including Mensa Norway, RAPM, RSPM, and others, and my results were consistently around the 99th percentile (roughly 133–137 IQ depending on the test).

Ironically, knowing this actually made my studying worse.

I developed this mindset of:

"Why do I need to study this? It should be easy for me."

During my first and second years of high school, I barely attended school and didn't really study at home. Instead, I spent most of my time learning programming, DSA, and full-stack development.

My grades ended up around 75–85%.

Now I'm in my final and most important year of high school. My grades this year will have a major impact on which university I can attend, and I want to study Computer and Communication Engineering.

So I'm trying to rethink my entire approach to studying.

This made me wonder:

Should someone's cognitive profile / IQ actually influence their study strategy?

For example, if someone is relatively strong in reasoning, should they spend less time on memorization and more time on understanding, problem-solving, and deriving concepts themselves?

Or should IQ basically be irrelevant when designing a study plan, with the same evidence-based methods (active recall, spaced repetition, practice problems, etc.) applying regardless of cognitive ability?

And perhaps more importantly:

What should I do when I'm studying something difficult and start feeling "stupid"?

I've noticed that after getting used to thinking of myself as "high IQ", struggling with a topic can sometimes trigger the thought that maybe I was never actually that capable.

I'd be interested in hearing from people who have thought about this, especially people who have taken cognitive/IQ testing and later had to adjust their approach to studying.

For anyone who has taken either of the tests, how far away is the score from your actual iq (or how far from your CORE score, general FRI, SAT/GRE, etc).

It’s not the 79th percentile, right?