I am not making this as a brag post - rather, I am testing a theory. I think serious poker players in general are exceptionally smart. Personally, I am very good at logic/IQ tests. I am good with numbers, patterns, etc...certain word scrambles get me though.

Anyway, this is a 30 question 30 minute test used by Mensa to decide if you would have a good shot at passing their full entrance test. Mensa for those that don't know is a sort of 'genius society' - you have to score in the top 98th percentile on their test to get in.

Mensa Test

I scored a 28 out of 30 - I f'ed up one of the word scrambles, and the calendar question (you will see..). How do the rest of you score? I am guessing many will score well, maybe in the 24-27 range. 29-30 would be certainly impressive provided you didn't cheat :-)

Don't be afraid to say, wow I only got 20...some people just aren't great at number patterns or word problems and I am curious if great minds goes with good poker players.

I'm basically a dolt who scores off the charts with patterns/number matching.

"Other" smarts is a whole different thread - I didn't want to exclude the socially challenged among us like cuin4years ;-)

Good poker players... maybe


Your average poker player.... by all means, no

Well, it's official - I'm a geek.

I scored 27/30, but didn't answer 2 word scrambles at all (I hate those things).

I got 26... I didn't answer 3 of the questions - two of the word scrables and one of the "put a word behind this word and after this one to make some words" I also limited myself to the 30 minutes... if I had a little more time I maybe could have gotten 1 or 2 more right.

I got 25... missed the aformentioned calendar problem, and 4 of the word problems (I hate letters)... got every number question right though... I also did this while 2-tabling poker, but I wouldnt have done better than that anyways.

I did a few and got really bored, so I stopped

Yea, thats basically what I meant by "serious poker players." Still I think 100 average poker players would beat say, 100 average baseball players.

does that really tell us anything?

i read the first question and said "**** it i dont feel like doing this"

The first one is easy.. :-)



Why yes, yes it does. It tells us on average poker players are smarter.

You guys suck. I got 33 right.

I was at 25/25 until I decided to climb a ladder and was attacked by a shark.

Too bad there wasn't a whale to save you. Of course, you'd still have to deal with the walrus.

LOL for a second I thought I sub consciously clicked backed into the Animals thread. I just posted the cage bracket :-)

your title and new avatar make me happy

what i meant was that 100 poker players being smarter than 100 baseball players isnt a great accomplishment. i would say the average baseball player is probably below the average intelligence level.

Smarter then average football player and deffffinitely smarter then NBA players

when Mark Prior went back to school to get his degree I remember reading that only like 16 players in MLB had college degrees.

Interestingly Prior did say that in his speech, though it was wrong and investigated...it isnt all that far from the truth. 42...pretty sad.

http://indi.ca/2004/06/42-mlb-players-with-college-degrees/

Well, I also made 28/30 and it took 15 minutes, because I spend some time on the scambles, which I did not get right. Maybe because I am not English language. May also be, because solving a test from Mensa has nothing to do with being a genious. It just proves a certain ability to solve logical problems.

Very few people are geniouses, and to be so, you need to be able to use your skills in new ways to the better for humanity. To have a skill is nothing. To use a skill for yourself is nothing. To use a skill for the service of your family is something. To use your skills for the better of humanity is ....... Oh well, if you begin to care about humanity, you don't really care about labes like genious anymore. You just do the work.

<<<--------- It's a celebration, bittches.






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I got an 18. Pretty embarassing for a guy who's going to Georgia Tech. It wasn't my standardized test scores that got me in though. It was my ability to work my *** off and make really good grades.

Which is exactly why you'll go farther and be more successful than most people that are better test takers. Well done.

I tried it but after 5 minutes I got bored and stopped.

Bump so I will find this again when I get home.

more successful doesn't mean smarter. Working hard to get really good grades doesn't take intelligence, it takes motivation and effort.

wow tough test. i got 24/30..so i'm not as smart as some of you mofos.

Cool test.

I got 27/30.

I missed 7,13, and 19.

Thankfully none of the retards I play with regularly are.

28...i missed #7 & #19

oh, and i got a 30 on my second try too brv

I got 16 out of 30. I'm an idiot, then again...I am horrible at standardized testing. I took a generic math test in my senior year of highschool and it say I had skills a little above algebra....Heck, i was taking calculus that year.

If I tried harder and was in the test taking move...I'd say I would be between 20-23

Then again...I would rather study/work hard to do well in tests...

But still...I'm an idiot.

CrazyJpe, are you just restating my point with different words or are you trying to pick a fight with someone that agrees with you and posted exactly the same thing?


buzz. wrong answer Alex. 1st try. Banalities was definately the hardest question for me.

EDIT: RSM you got me thinkin', which is near impossible... so nh. Why would you think I cheated, so I guessed one answer on the test and hit submit.... well ding ding ding, it gives you all the answers. Now I feel stupid for ever posting my score.

-1 for me.

I wouldn't have got banalities in a million years, what does it mean?

Ironically, that is one of the ones I got wrong too. And my fiance who scored fairly poorly on the test overall got that question in like 10 seconds.

So maybe she's not as good at numbers, but is great with words. If the test was more about words and less about numbers, do you think she would score better than you?


It doesn't make sense to say that people who are better with numbers are smarter than those who aren't, as it seems this test is trying to say.

24/30. What can I say? I'm from the Midwest. Not bad though.

Had a couple of correct guesses in there. Used poker instincts to get the right answer? Yes. Yes.

what that hell are banalities?

Also the ****ing post-box post-haste one got me. Duh.

LOL that question got me too. The very first thing I thought of was "postal" and then i'm like no that's too many letters. I ended up guessing "mail" ...pretty dumb lol.

apparently I'm functionally retarded.

I scored 14/30


ISAL

i only got 20.

i had the lowest sat score of all my friends, too.

I got bored after 10 but I got 10 so far, maybe I will do it in chunks of 10...

Just keep repeating to yourself "At least I'm not RKIGS, t least I'm not RKIGS"

Edit: For the record, 26 out of 30.

-1's happen to us all

well, not to me, but the rest of you, yeah, -1's happen




p.s. didn't really think you cheated, just giving you shit

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already tested into mensa when i was 16. easy peasy.

i got 25/30 but i didnt submit 3 word answers, I was stuck on grasshopper.

22 outta 30 that damn syllable on the month thing made me feel like an idiot. Ohh wait I am an idiot.

The month one was so hard, you are thinking one way and it's totally simple and right in front of you. So easy it's impossible.