Are you a geek ? (yeah right, like I need to ask)

[Erax]

Hello, everyone !

Take this test and see how you score. The questions are quite good and up-to-date. Unlike other tests of the kind, you don't have to be American to understand most of them.

The inner geek (http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html)

My score was 50.(something)% - 'Super Geek'. I blame my dad for allowing me to read his science fiction paperback collection back when I was a kid. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[Cyrien]

I am only a 42.40631% - Major Geek.

Darn. I thought I would score higher. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[dogscoff]

~23% That's consistent with the scores I used to get on the nerd test back in the day. Surprising, I thought my Geekiness was slipping (I've definitely become more mainstream since living with a woman)

[Slynky]

22.09073% - Geek

(they should have added a block for knowing how to cut and paste the score... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif )

[David E. Gervais]

I scored 13.21499% --> Geekish Tendencies

I'm a little dissapointed, I thought I was much more of a Geek than that. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

i got 19.5% - Geek.

personally, i think it says more that i clicked on 'more RAM' before i clicked on 'more friends'. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif without even thinking about it.

[Loser]

Jeeze, what does it take to score high on this thing.

53.0572% - Super Geek

And that's with claiming to still watch television, or reading it as "I ROUTINELY WATCHED..." If I take that literally (and appropriately took the check out of "exaggerated on this test to score better") I only get "48.91519% - Super Geek".

[ December 04, 2003, 15:20: Message edited by: Loser ]

[tesco samoa]

35.10848% - Major Geek

Dogscoff I am in your boat as well... Look under the bed...

[Katchoo]

16.76529% - Geek

Wow, that's a relief! For a moment I was worried I would score over 16.66530%!!

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

I humbly kneel/snicker before my higher scoring comrades. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

And yes, I wish I was a Vampire.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

vampire = glorified leech.

[se5a]

14.00394% - Geekish Tendencies

I thought I was more of a geek than that...

just did a quick brouse thro again and got a few I missed.
15.18738% - Geek

[ December 04, 2003, 16:50: Message edited by: se5a ]

[Loser]

human = glorified toaster pastry

[Will]

42.99803% - Major Geek

Probably could have a higher score if I got into all those card-game RPGs back in the day. But I think Major Geek fits well http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[DavidG]

I give you all 50% bonus points if you actually continued answering questions after about the first quarter. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[rdouglass]

40.03945% - Major Geek

Doesn't seem right though - they should somehow compensate for "time-in-grade" as a Geek. (I know there were a few that answered 'before 1996' but they should have also had 'before 1976' for some of us 'I-was-a-geek-before-geek-was-cool' geeks... ) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Loser]

Yes.

[rextorres]

I only got a 31% but would still like to know what is the odd/even number rule for star trek movies.

[ December 04, 2003, 18:34: Message edited by: rextorres ]

[Loser]

odd = bad
even = good

[gregebowman]

Hmm, I'm kind of disappointed. Only scored 21%. I could have sworn I was more geekier than that. Maybe I do have a life afterall.

[Alneyan]

I did it a while before and scored... Well, between 5 and 6%. Sorry, I haven't pasted the score so. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Should I leave as it appears I am not a geek according to this test? In all fairness, I shall add I score that low because the questions were biased as far as I am concerned. The question is, was it actually an advantage or not? *Snickers*

[Wardad]

17.55% - Geek

[Parasite]

Originally posted by Alneyan:
In all fairness, I shall add I score that low because the questions were biased as far as I am concerned.<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I agree the test was biased for American culture. Or anyway American geek http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif culture.

[Parasite]

Originally posted by Loser:
Jeeze, what does it take to score high on this thing.<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It scores one per box checked divided by the number of boxes. If you click them all, it will call you a "liar". http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

I think I got "Geek God" only after I exaggerated a bit, otherwise "Super". It has probably improved since then http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif because I printed it out, figured out the code and looked up some of the terms.

[Edit:] Will 70% of men now retake the test just to be called a liar? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ReEdit:] 59.96% on the retake. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[ December 04, 2003, 21:13: Message edited by: Parasite ]

[farstryder]

34.31953% - Total Geek

but i already knew that...

[Alneyan]

I agree the test was biased for American culture. Or anyway American geek culture. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hmm I don't think so, as even in my forsaken corner of France we heard about everything mentioned in the quizz so it *is* known everywhere else in the world. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif (Yes, we are probably the only place left where you can still buy Colonization (PC Version, shipped in 1994) for... what, 60 dollars But I digress) What I meant is that I... how to put it... I don't exactly fancy sciences, nor programming or something along these lines, and I don't really like Star Trak or Star Wars either.

However, if fantasy and/or other science fiction authors were involved, and if you remove all the programming stuff and add instead questions such as "how many hours a day do you spend on your computer?" or "do you spend more time on your computer than doing anything else?", my score would then be much higher. Thus the bias for me and the *very* low score. I am still not sure if I should sue the author or rejoice about the outcome though. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ December 04, 2003, 20:45: Message edited by: Alneyan ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

well, the test is based on the auther's idea of what a geek is. since everybody has a different idea, every test will be different.

[TerranC]

I'm a total geek.

25.04931% - Total Geek

I thought I would score about 30% - what with everybody calling me a nerd and a geek.

[Andrés]

26.23274% - Total Geek

[Renegade 13]

14.00394% - Geekish Tendencies

There's hope for me yet!!

[Kamog]

I got...

35.10848% - Major Geek

Hmm, I question whether all those decimal places are really significant.

[BadAxe]

35.89 Geez I am a loser.

[Loser]

watch it, don't you let me catch you stealin' my flavor.

[Atrocities]

HELL NO I am not a geek, but I do play one in real life. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

Someone please just shoot me now. I beg you, put me out of my mysery.

[ZeroAdunn]

I have done homework for somebody else - does this count if I got paid to do it?

I ROUTINELY WATCH History or Discovery Channel : Does this still count if my only other options for TV are HGTV, TCM, or QVC?

I WANT TO BE (OR HAVE BEEN)a superhero: I want the superpowers, but I don't really want to be a superhero, does that count?

9.86193% - Geekish Tendencies - not to bad

[Puke]

Extreme Geek at 60.15779, but i exagerated and claimed a bunch of things that i HAVE done rather than CURRENTLY do.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

maybe we could make our own geek poll. one of my contributions would be: how many Elder Scrolls races can you match up with homelands?
7.

Nords - Skyrim
Wood Elves - Valenwood
Dark Elves - Morrowind
Argonian - Black Marsh
High Elves - Summerset Isle
Redgaurds - Iliac Bay
Imperials - Imperial Province. half point, at most.

[Torkle]

63.51085% - Extreme Geek

As with others, I included things that I have done at one time or another, as opposed to things I am currently doing. Using this rule of thumb, geekiness can only increase with age.

[PvK]

It gave my answers a 18.14596% - Geek.

I think the term geek is so subjective it doesn't consistently mean anything, even if it means many different things to different people. Personally, I don't think of myself as a geek, except to mean someone who's interested in intellectual things, including computers, games, and things outside USA pop culture crap. That's one way that it's USA-centric, since USA culture tends to distrust and/or disresepect intellectuals, or anything non-mainstream, or just foreign to the USA. Geek is often a label used by mainstream clods who are afraid to think outside the herd, and so ridicule those who do with a derisive stereotype.

Nonetheless, I can think of several flaws with the test, such as:

The answers don't appear to be waited at all, so "I have Vulcan ears surgically attached" and "I have day-of-the-week underwear" count the same amount as "I play Weird Al Yankovic" or "I own binoculars".

I'd add some more questions (which I'd have to check), such as:

* I criticize the accuracy of this test.
* I have looked at the source code of a web page.
* ... to see how it worked.
* ... to see how this quiz works.

There should also be one for Parasite:

* I figured out that if you click all these boxes, this quiz calls you a liar.
* ... by clicking all the boxes myself.
* ... by reading the source code.
* ... by writing a script to click all the boxes for me.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

PvK

[ December 05, 2003, 20:37: Message edited by: PvK ]

[Atrocities]

I scored 9.86193% Geekish Tendancies.

The quiz did not ask a lot of standard geek questions.

The Tough Questions!

1. Are you over weight?
2. Have you ever been on a date?
2a. In the Last year
2a1. More than 1
2a1a. Are you still dating her?
2a1a1. Have you had sex yet?
2b. In the Last two years
2b1. More than 1
2b1b. Are you still dating her?
2b1b1. Did you ever have sex with her?
2c. In the Last five years
2c1. More than 1
2c1c. Are you still dating her?
2c1c1. Did you ever have sex with her?

3. Do you still live with a parent
3a. Are you over 25?
4. Have you ever had sex before?
4a. With a women?
4a1. At a Star Trek Convention or met at one?

5. Do you drive a volvo?
5a. A dessel volvo?
5a1. Does it need to be painted?

6. Do you sit at your computer in costum to RP?
7. Did you give your computer a name?
8. Do you talk to a hand puppet or pillow?
9. Is your hair always messed up and or oily?
10. Do you shy away from women?
11. Do you think your to nice?
12. Do you often look up and ask Scotty to beam you up?
13. Do you enjoy going to the computer store?
13a. To buy new parts
13a1. To look at the other Geeks?
13a1a. To look at the butt of that fat blue haired chick behind the counter?
13a1a1. To ask the fat blue hairedchick out on a date.

14. Hate guns
14a. But love violent video games?
15. Think that Night Rider was one of the best 80's series ever made?
16. Have never seen an episode of Baby Watch?
17. Participate in no sport or motorized activity?
18. Talk in a nazzally voice
19. Where investing in tech stock when you were 10?
20. Are a self made Microsoft milloniar?

[Cipher7071]

Ya know, geekdom, like so many other fine qualities attributable to human beings, is necessarily of an esoteric nature. One man's geek is another man's Drew Carey. I mean, we've come a long way since those days when early geeks began by biting the heads off chickens. Geez... now geekdom is practically mainstream. I scored 22.09%, which rates as your common garden variety geek. And yet I steadfastly maintain that mediocrity is the hallmark, and yes, the very soul of geekdom. I wear my score proudly.

[Alneyan]

*Cries* I don't recall the three missings, or rather, the spellings.
Khajit => Elsweyr? The name is almost Elsewhere, but not quite.
RedGuards => Hammerfall, Illac Bay is merely one place between Hammerfall and the Breton province. Daggerfall is in the Breton province, Sentinel in Hammerfall.
Breton => The province next to Hammerfell where you can go in Daggerfall. Sorry, I forgot the name. (Well, I could check for the name obviously, but...)
Imperials => Cyrodil is the other name for the Imperial Province, is a bit harder to remember heh.

[ December 05, 2003, 12:11: Message edited by: Alneyan ]

[Loser]

Originally posted by Puke:
Extreme Geek at 60.15779, but i exagerated and claimed a bunch of things that i HAVE done rather than CURRENTLY do. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">There is some precedent for this. Originally posted by Atrocities:
HELL NO I am not a geek, but I do play one in real life. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

Someone please just shoot me now. I beg you, put me out of my mysery. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'm gonna hafta ask you to translate these comments into the local language we like to call 'Context'.

[Thermodyne]

I got a little over 17. Working in IT, having cable TV, and having a decent education has caused me to be classified as a geek. But at the same time proven the test to be geek-BS. Because everyone knows that redneck and geek can not co-exist in this universe http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Slynky]

Good points, Attrocities!

[DavidG]

I'm surprised this one didn't make the list as it must be one of the geekiest things of all time:

1. I speak the Klingon language. (well that is the language made up by some other geek and called Klingon)

or perhaps:

2. I've read Hamlet writen in Klingon. (YES this book is available. I kid you not)

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by DavidG:
I'm surprised this one didn't make the list as it must be one of the geekiest things of all time:

1. I speak the Klingon language. (well that is the language made up by some other geek and called Klingon)

or perhaps:

2. I've read Hamlet writen in Klingon. (YES this book is available. I kid you not) <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">And you scored how high?

[ZeroAdunn]

Suprisingly the only person I've ever seen labelled a geek, or anything in that vein, is someone labeling themselves....

[Erax]

OK, I redid the test without exaggerating (basically replying 'yes' when the real answer was 'I may have at one time, I don't know') and the score was :

39.64497 % - Major Geek.

Not surprising, since I've always been into puzzles and games, which eventually branched out into RPGs and computer games. I also read anything I can get my hands on.

[deccan]

Why is listening to TMBG a sign of geek-hood? I know TMBG from Australian science-fiction writer Greg Egan, but I have no idea what kind of a following they have in the U.S.