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IQ vs Rating!!
By Misa-Misa, 5 months ago, In English

Here is mine. $$$100$$$ is the average for this open/free for all test.

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anyone tell me how to improve IQ? do i need start practice from *80?

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    Wtf your memory!!

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    start practicing questions rated from your iq to iq+20 /s

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      I guess I have to practice more questions with "verbal" tag

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    Pretty sure that verbal IQ score, at least as evaluated on this test, can be improved by reading books that use fancy words. You could unironically climb like 15 or 20 points on this test by expanding your vocabulary.

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      Easier said than done. It might seem counterintuitive, but vocabulary tests are the best one-dimensional measures of IQ. This is because one's vocabulary largely reflects their learning capacity. Like someone with a bigger vocabulary will likely be able to learn and retain information better than someone with a smaller vocabulary.

      Increasing vocabulary can be done, but it would require a lot of effort (definitely more effort than increasing codeforces rating). The sad thing is that, even if you do increase your vocabulary, you haven't legitimately increased your intelligence, although you might've increased your score on vocabulary tests by a bit.

      As a side note, this test's vocabulary section is likely inaccurate for non-native English speakers.

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I'm sure there are good intentions with this post but this test is a very mediocre test. It has a correlation of around r = ~.5 with the WAIS (a professional IQ test). Good IQ tests usually correlate with each other at around r = ~.8+. If you want to take an actual (now defunct) IQ test, take the AGCT: https://agctest.com. It has an estimated r = ~.9 correlation with general intelligence (general intelligence is a factor which can't be measured directly, you can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics) ), and it is accepted by Mensa.

If you take the test on https://agctest.com, read the instructions carefully. There are 2 pages and 40 minutes for 150 questions. Results are free. And since I know there are a lot of kids on this site, don't enter your real name, but enter your real age onto that website since it will affect your score.

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Here's mine. I guess I expected the most from verbal, but that sucked.

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So it looks like higher IQ means lower rating?

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no way

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This old post looks also at this correlation https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/90996

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Adding a datapoint for the OP in case they want to do some research on these scores (I think someone did such an experiment on CF earlier too, by the way).

As someone pointed out, it's not the most accurate test out there (and I think IQ as defined by these tests is a scam).

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    Pretty sure this isn't accurate but yeah

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      I just noticed how we got kinda complementary scores on the memory tests. And it's surprising how high other people score on memory too. Maybe competitive programming incentivizes development of memory (at least the kind of memory measured by this test)?

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        https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/123873?#comment-1098368 Not necessary. A china GM got 122 on memory.

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          That makes sense, though incentivizing something doesn't mean mandating it :)

          I'd say 122 is still a pretty decent score though, considering that the average is supposed to be 100, and considering other reds have gotten scores lower than this on spatial reasoning (which is related to visualization and can be similarly argued to be relevant for competitive programming).

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Vebral is hard.

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Here we go again

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I have 90 IQ.

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Kinda interesting, I wonder if CP trains you for this kind of tests...

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Does anyone else think that training for algorithms/math competitions helps with these sorts of tests? I feel fairly confident that had I not had this sort of training, I would’ve scored a lot lower; in some sense I do think training in mathematical reasoning does build IQ, but perhaps the speed of IQ increase is something that is more “inborn,” or the acceleration of IQ increase, etc.

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I believe that everyone is getting low on verbal because the test doesn't test you on your mother language. I also thought that i had better spatial than memory.

NOTE: If someone is collecting data, note that i don't really participate on CF contests, my elo would be higher if i would

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I think the verbal part is hard for non-native people (like me)

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    Wait, I refreshed the result page and got a different verbal score :\

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I speak English better than my native language but anagrams still managed to screw me much more than it should

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I am 80 IQ , do I solver harder problems or what

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    mine is 87 ; 107 spatial ,100 memory and 90 verbal (btw no reason to take this IQ test seriously)

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Even this https://www.mensa.org/public/mensa-iq-challenge is probably a better test than the shitty psychometric one

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Verbal game not so strong.

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    My little sister seems to have greater verbal IQ than me, F.

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https://ibb.co/bNNjnk3. I should practice more on social skills lol

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not a native, the english stuff really crushed me :<

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got absolutely destroyed in spatial

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  122        71         131
 58/85       8/34       14/17
 23/26       2/27       13/18

The word test is unfriendly to ones who's not master at English. sad

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ToO WeAk I aM :(

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    it's joever for english non-native speakers :despair:

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Everyone flaunting their IQs in comments like a gangsta. Wait kids until the real gangsta (jiangly, Radewoosh , tourist etc) enters the club with their 200+ scores.

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Now take away that I am not an English native speaker, and I will have ~140, just like many other tests have shown me.

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143 / 113 / 146 (not a native speaker, so verbal is low)

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only in english :(

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Full Scale IQ
99
Memory IQ
104
Verbal IQ
92
Spatial IQ
134

Result

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This comment section will be a lot easier to read when the magic with handle colors ends

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so the solution for me is to memorize all the solutions to all the problems? lol

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https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/FSIQ/results.php?data=T67b4SVfwxKY

Because of something I can't paste a screenshot

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Full Scale IQ: 138 Memory IQ: 139 Verbal IQ: 131 Spatial IQ: 134

I struggled with the 3d shape one, and the one where you memorize the shaded boxes.

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https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/FSIQ/results.php?

Take away the verbal sections and my estimated IQ is 144.

Though WITH the verbal section... it's a whole different matter.

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