Cuber's IQ

[kcl]

I agree with what you said. I believe you need a pretty high IQ to have a chance of doing very well. But of course dedication and practice is the other part of it. The way I think of it (and other things) is that dedication and practice will take you as far as your potential. Our potential is pretty high, but if you have higher IQ your potential is also higher.

This is basically what I intended to say. A higher IQ may increase POTENTIAL, but potential is useless of the dedication isn't there, which is why I claim IQ is not a major factor.

 

[rj]

This is basically what I intended to say. A higher IQ may increase POTENTIAL, but potential is useless of the dedication isn't there, which is why I claim IQ is not a major factor.

We should take a poll.

 

[Bh13]

Agreed. I would vote for IQ being a major factor.

 

[thesolver]

Technically, they're right. A large component of IQ is pattern recognition, including mirroring and rotation. If you ever do an IQ test, you probably see a series of shapes where two are identical, but one has a certain degree of rotation applied to it.
If you don't possess these skills, you will struggle to understand how cubies move; mirroring algs; looking ahead, etc..

I'd go as far as to say you need a pretty high IQ, amongst other things, to be a great cuber. You can be an average cuber without, though!

Agreed because solving any puzzle does rely on intuition. But I have seen people solving the cube even if they have a low IQ.

 

[sneaklyfox]

Agreed because solving any puzzle does rely on intuition. But I have seen people solving the cube even if they have a low IQ.

You'd have to have very low IQ to not be able to solve the cube. But usually people with higher IQ have faster brain waves. That's why I think you can be faster if you have higher IQ.

 

[TDM]

people with higher IQ have faster brain waves. That's why I think you can be faster if you have higher IQ.

I have an above average IQ, but my recog/lookahead sucks

Off-topic question, but then this is the off-topic forum: Are there any cubers with an IQ of over 150 (except rj's dad)?

 

[sneaklyfox]

I have an above average IQ, but my recog/lookahead sucks

That's where practice comes in.

 

[kcl]

I have an above average IQ, but my recog/lookahead sucks

Off-topic question, but then this is the off-topic forum: Are there any cubers with an IQ of over 150 (except rj's dad)?

I haven't been tested recently but I tend to be anywhere from 145-160. IQ tests are all scored slightly differently.

 

[KongShou]

I have an above average IQ, but my recog/lookahead sucks

Off-topic question, but then this is the off-topic forum: Are there any cubers with an IQ of over 150 (except rj's dad)?

Im pretty sure im in the 160 ish range, if not more. Last IQ test was in year 7 and that gave 168. currently in year 11.

edit: i have just been told it wasnt as high as 168, so maybe just over 160. but then again, it varies a lot between tests.

 

[TDM]

I haven't been tested recently but I tend to be anywhere from 145-160. IQ tests are all scored slightly differently.

Im pretty sure im in the 160 ish range, if not more. Last IQ test was in year 7 and that gave 168. currently in year 11.

I was doing some IQ tests today (got bored, idk how I got onto doing random IQ tests on the internet), and they were giving me similar results to my last IQ test (last was 139, I was getting between 141-144). But one thing I never knew was that there are different tests. I read that there was one that is usually used in USA and one for Europe (idk how reliable the website was though, but I read in other places that there are different tests which give different scores). I got 144 on one and 170 for the other. Can't remember which was which though.

 

[rj]

I haven't been tested recently but I tend to be anywhere from 145-160. IQ tests are all scored slightly differently.

Lol. That's around my IQ too.

 

[windhero]

Pretty much all the online IQ-tests are ******** and way too easy. They are made just to make you feel good about yourself. Hell, I've scored 180-200 at some of them and as you should probably know that is pretty much impossible, as it is very hard to even make a test that could qualify you to such a high IQ. If you want to boast with being above the top 2% in the world aka a member of mensa, you should do the official mensa IQ test (requires a score of 131 currently). If you actually stop and think what it means to have +160IQ (which is the max with the regular standford binet scale) at the regular 15 std dev you are probably either widely delusional of your own intelligence or just a very rare coincidence. That would rank you in the triple 9 society which has a tad over 1000 members worldwide as of now.

So yeah, enough of this IQ bs with no real evidence to support it. A picture of the results of a mensa test would suffice, but the e-tests do not.

 

[Cubenovice]

So yeah, enough of this IQ bs with no real evidence to support it.

Finally a voice of reason

 

[Ronxu]

Pretty much all the online IQ-tests are ******** and way too easy. They are made just to make you feel good about yourself. Hell, I've scored 180-200 at some of them and as you should probably know that is pretty much impossible, as it is very hard to even make a test that could qualify you to such a high IQ. If you want to boast with being above the top 2% in the world aka a member of mensa, you should do the official mensa IQ test (requires a score of 131 currently). If you actually stop and think what it means to have +160IQ (which is the max with the regular standford binet scale) at the regular 15 std dev you are probably either widely delusional of your own intelligence or just a very rare coincidence. That would rank you in the triple 9 society which has a tad over 1000 members worldwide as of now.

So yeah, enough of this IQ bs with no real evidence to support it. A picture of the results of a mensa test would suffice, but the e-tests do not.

THANK YOU for posting this! I'm sick of people bragging about their IQ based on some 10 question online quiz.

 

[thesolver]

Pretty much all the online IQ-tests are ******** and way too easy. They are made just to make you feel good about yourself. Hell, I've scored 180-200 at some of them and as you should probably know that is pretty much impossible, as it is very hard to even make a test that could qualify you to such a high IQ. If you want to boast with being above the top 2% in the world aka a member of mensa, you should do the official mensa IQ test (requires a score of 131 currently). If you actually stop and think what it means to have +160IQ (which is the max with the regular standford binet scale) at the regular 15 std dev you are probably either widely delusional of your own intelligence or just a very rare coincidence. That would rank you in the triple 9 society which has a tad over 1000 members worldwide as of now.

So yeah, enough of this IQ bs with no real evidence to support it. A picture of the results of a mensa test would suffice, but the e-tests do not.

Thats right.
Some IQ tests are just scams.
IQ tests do not exactly tell how your brain works

 

[pipkiksass]

Thats right.
Some IQ tests are just scams.
IQ tests do not exactly tell how your brain works

IQ is just mental age divided by physical age x 100. How accurately you can measure mental age, and therefore how useful the score is, is debatable.

That said, standardised tests are useful in establishing a comparable measure of intelligence. It says nothing at all about HOW your brain works, it's simply a number which allows you to be compared with someone else.

Online IQ tests are utter rubbish. Not only are the tests not standardised, but the results are insane. IQ is normally distributed, so roughly 2/3 of people (c.68%) should fall within one standard deviation of the mean. The mean is, by definition, 100. One standard deviation on the IQ curve is 15 points, so 68(ish)% should fall between scores of 85 and 115.

Unless you've done a standardised Mensa test, you don't know your IQ. If you've done a standardised test and your IQ is 160 or more, then you're 4 standard deviations above the mean, or above the 99.997th percentile. Congrats, you're in the top 0.003% of the world's population!

 

[windhero]

IQ is just mental age divided by physical age x 100. How accurately you can measure mental age, and therefore how useful the score is, is debatable.

That said, standardised tests are useful in establishing a comparable measure of intelligence. It says nothing at all about HOW your brain works, it's simply a number which allows you to be compared with someone else.

Online IQ tests are utter rubbish. Not only are the tests not standardised, but the results are insane. IQ is normally distributed, so roughly 2/3 of people (c.68%) should fall within one standard deviation of the mean. The mean is, by definition, 100. One standard deviation on the IQ curve is 15 points, so 68(ish)% should fall between scores of 85 and 115.

Unless you've done a standardised Mensa test, you don't know your IQ. If you've done a standardised test and your IQ is 160 or more, then you're 4 standard deviations above the mean, or above the 99.997th percentile. Congrats, you're in the top 0.003% of the world's population!

This + the fact that a high IQ does not mean that you are actually smart in terms of how we life our everyday lives. To categorize and scale intelligence you'd need much more than just random logical sequence tests. Not to talk about the lonely genius syndrome and all that.

 

[TDM]

THANK YOU for posting this! I'm sick of people bragging about their IQ based on some 10 question online quiz.

Yea, I agree with this and what windhero said. Most of them aren't good.
I don't think I've done a Mensa IQ test, but I've done an official IQ test (could've been Mensa; it was a while ago so I can't remember) and I got 139. It is lower than the online tests (as expected), but not by much.

 

[kcl]

Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

Pretty much all the online IQ-tests are ******** and way too easy. They are made just to make you feel good about yourself. Hell, I've scored 180-200 at some of them and as you should probably know that is pretty much impossible, as it is very hard to even make a test that could qualify you to such a high IQ. If you want to boast with being above the top 2% in the world aka a member of mensa, you should do the official mensa IQ test (requires a score of 131 currently). If you actually stop and think what it means to have +160IQ (which is the max with the regular standford binet scale) at the regular 15 std dev you are probably either widely delusional of your own intelligence or just a very rare coincidence. That would rank you in the triple 9 society which has a tad over 1000 members worldwide as of now.

So yeah, enough of this IQ bs with no real evidence to support it. A picture of the results of a mensa test would suffice, but the e-tests do not.

How does the Wechsler Intelligence test (WAIS-IV) sound to you? I have been tested, by a certified psychologist, and I scored well above what is required to get into MENSA. That being said, I'm not 160s. I got a score in the high 140s on the Wechsler, so that's the most reliable answer IMO, despite the fact that I took it a couple years ago. Please don't call me a liar. I'm saying on many stupid online ones, I score above what my "official" IQ is, just like you said. Just clarifying here. Thanks. I'd also like to clarify that I'm not here to brag. I only mentioned it because someone asked.

 

[sneaklyfox]

Actually, it would be very interesting to see what other cubers average for IQ. 100 is supposed to be average. Over 125 is gifted.

Edit: 100 as mean ninja'd by pipkiksass