are u a genius? take test here

[chinman75]

http://www.mensa.org/workout.html

post your scores here

I got a 20/30

 

[yakko]

I quit after reading question 2.

If two typist can type two pages in two minutes how many typist will it take to type 18 pages in 6 minutes?

My question is whether each typist is typing two pages or if they are typing two pages total?

 

[konichiwa]

27/30

 

[Descartes]

yakko:

"If two typists can type two pages in two minutes..."

two typists, two pages, two minutes. This means that in 1 minute, each typist has an output of 1/2 a page. So, 1 typist can type approximately 1 page in two minutes. With that, 18 minutes / 6 pages = 3 pages/minute. It requires two typists for 1 page/minute, so 2 * 3 = 6 typists.

 

[Bluga]

28/30

No i am way smarter than that.

 

[perry]

19/30, I won't give excuses for the ones I got wrong cept to say that I suck at word games.

 

[Dedpuhl]

21/30. Not bad for breezing thru it....

 

[AMB]

They are no genius



<< 6. If you count from 1 to 100, how many 7's will you pass on the way? >>

 

[LordMaul]

Heh, i got all the ones I didn't go &quot;BLEH! I am not gonna waste my time on that one...&quot; right...

 

[EmperorNero]

I got 20/30...but that's because I used an hour to do it

although I didn't use every minute of that hour, I took an hour total (went to anandtech for 5 mins, read a news article for a bit, searched songs from napster, it took me a while to comprehend the confusing questions, etc).

I've never even heard of the word for 19 but it is now added to my vocab

I got 14 on a lucky guess

I still don't understand 25

and I think 10 is the coolest question on there but the most impossible.

 

[GL]

24/30...only had 20 minutes to do it though...gotta run out the door now!

-GL

 

[imhotepmp]

i got 23/30


breezed through it, although number 30 i m stil kinda confused on



imhotep(MP)

 

[Wangel]

Isn't someone going to post the answer so that we can impress our friends who are looking over our shoulders?

 

[chinman75]

answers are given once u have completed the test and receive your score

 

[Descartes]

#25 was actually really easy...

1 10 3 9 5 8 7 7 9 6 ? ?

Skip every other number, and you'll see the pattern. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, etc. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, etc.. The only thing that made me see it was thinking of the fibonacci sequence.

#10 I missed... eh well.

 

[Vortex22]

26/30...
Banalities? Never even heard of that...

 

[Vortex22]

imhotepnp,

2 of the available answers are almost identical except that the lines go all the way into the center on one of them (like they do on the shape you have to relate it to) and they stop at the end of the petals on the other.

 

[chinman75]

more tests available at

http://www.queendom.com/tests.html#career

 

[ArkAoss]

21/30 fricken spelling games

 

[unxpurg8d]

I'm mathematically-handicapped ... ummmm ... and logically-handicapped, and .....



Okay, okay, I'm just a smidgen slow. Heh. But that's okay, the intellectual club I belong to has wayyyyyyyyyyyyy more members than Mensa. Yeah, it's tough scheduling meetings now that the Cartoon Network's come to local cable, but we manage.

 

[novon]

12/30 answering randomly, didn't have the patience.

 

[Spamela]

i've met several mensa members and am a former member myself. i'd say that a high score on a test suggests that you are good at taking tests, rather than being a genius.

 

[Descartes]

Spamela: Perhaps you know of some other way of at least making an attempt to determine the intelligence of someone? Did you take the real Mensa _test_ ? Did you take an IQ test? They're all tests... and, as far as it goes, the Mensa one is probably one of the most difficult, and tests aspects of the human intellect that no SAT/ACT can.

 

[Harrald]

Math in my head...No problem...



Word games..........Big problem.


I still can't spell my name

 

[Spamela]

Frost:

my opinion is that tests measure at best potential, whereas genius is demonstrated by output. when i was a member mensa accepted SAT or GRE scores to establish eligibility.