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― Huk-L, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

91% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
8% scored lower.

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Definitely not nerdy, you are probably cool.

I want to be a nerd though.

― booger, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

15. I am not a nerd. Sarah's mum says I'm the jockiest boyfriend she's had. Sarah agrees.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Denying nerddom merely means you are one at heart.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

I am a geek, but, alas, not a nerd.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

I got "definitely not nerdy, probably cool." Their standards of cool are pretty low if you ask me. Probably nerds wrote the quiz.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

94% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
5% scored lower.

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Definitely not nerdy, you are probably cool.

I agree about their standards of cool. They only seem to be interested in science nerds.

― Allyzay Needs Legs More (allyzay), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

10% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
90% scored lower.
What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Nerd King. Apply for a professorship at MIT now!!!.

Damn. I didn't think I was *that* nerdy!

You know... just because I'm nerdy and all my friends are 30... see!!! See!!! I get Busted lyrics as well as Star Trek references!

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

Evidently...

94% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
6% scored lower.

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Definitely not nerdy, you are probably cool.

Apparently their definition of "nerd" applies exclusively to tech geeks and science fans.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

34% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
65% scored lower.

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Low Ranking Nerd. Definitely a nerd but low on the totem pole of nerds.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

I know several folks from my high school who would STRENUSOULY disagree with my score.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

62% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
36% scored lower.
I really don't know much about computers at all, but I have learned by osmosis. I had to memorize the periodic table at some point for a class, and I guess it stuck.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

67% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
32% scored lower.
What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Not nerdy, but definitely not hip.

I'm... NOTHING!

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

If you quibble with your nerd rating, you should automatically get 50 more percentage points.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

Okay, how nerdy can I be if I fluffed the test site's ready-made HTML?

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

I got 3%. This means I DESPISE nerds.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

37% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
62% scored lower.
What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Low Ranking Nerd. Definitely a nerd but low on the totem pole of nerds

Good thing I forgot the periodic table over the years.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

exactly the same as jocelyn.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

77% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
22% scored lower.

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:
Not nerdy, but definitely not hip.

-um, I guess it's close. I hate to think of myself as "not hip" .. "not trendy" or "not extrememly hip" I'll accept...

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

I don't despite nerds. I despise jocks!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

94% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
5% scored lower.
What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Definitely not nerdy, you are probably cool.

Yay! I'm cool!

(Then again, if I'd really be cool, I wouldn't need an *Internet test* telling me it...)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

If you've ever worked as a programmer, that thing was gonna call you a nerd of some stripe or other, as kate seemed to be saying. What was the nerdiest answer to "which is not a real computer programming language"? The nerd inside me made me pick the very first one, but now I think the correct, theoretically most nerdy answer was the third choice given.

And, oh yeah, the Roches to thread.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

I think I got the programming language one wrong. But all the maths and science stuff... sheesh, it was almost insulting.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

I'm not telling people what my score was now.
I'm not as bad as Kate.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

What do you mean *BAD*?

I'm proud of scoring high on tests! Ok, which probably only makes me more of a nerd...

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

83% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
16% scored lower.

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:
Not nerdy, but then again maybe not all that cool either.

― 3ho, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

59% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
39% scored lower.

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Not nerdy, but definitely not hip.

― Aaron Hertz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

I thought knowing what James Clerk Maxwell looked like might have made me more nerdy than it did.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

I said they were both Isaac Newton, hahahaha.

― Aaron Hertz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Was there anything in that test that was actually a positive test of hipness? Like:

Can you tell Lou Reed from Doug Yule?
Lou who?
Doug who?
Why, do they look alike?
Yes, but only on "New Age"
Yes

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

So which one isn't a real programming language? I thought they all were!

I got Definitely not nerdy, you are probably cool. Somehow. Maybe because I didn't know what to put for the GPA question.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

51% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
48% scored lower.

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Somewhat nerdy. I mean face it, you are nerdier than about half the test takers.

haha, the fact that i threw out the dead rat two nights ago and that i don't have a CURRENT subscription to computer shopper or scientific america has saved me from proper nerdom.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

"not nerd and not hip"
you have no idea how depressing this makes me feel

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

I figured the langauge question was some kind of macho computer nerd thing, like "You pussy! BASIC isn't a real language!" or something. I got 86%, which mystifies me: I mean, I'm really cool.

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was a trick question because the language is called Assembly Code, not Assembler Code, but then I googled and found out that apparently they are both programming languages!

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

(Or was that the other way around? I'm not just a nerd, but a dyslexic nerd at that.)

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

none of those are programming language as real programmers only program in native code in binary.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

I thought maybe the answer was Assembler because the REAL computer nerds would use machine code?

xpost

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

25% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
74% scored lower.

I'm a mid-level nerd, 2nd (so far) on the ILX nerd rankings (to Kate).
I also no longer have a "Discover" subscription, thus saving me from a higher ranking. Good thing I haven't finished my Ph.D. yet, also.
And yeah, those science questions were insulting. I like the one where they asked what "c" was, and one of the answers was "the speed of light" and another was the actual value of the speed of light. Obviously, they're daring you to pick the latter and proclaim your ultra-nerdiness for knowing it.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Oi! I'm not quite the hightest. This person was:

91% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
8% scored lower.
What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Definitely not nerdy, you are probably cool.

I want to be a nerd though.

-- booger (blink18...), January 12th, 2005 3:37 PM.

(And I'm only that high cause Noodles hasn't taken the test yet.)

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

i couldn't remember whether it was in m/s or km/s (must be m/s right?) so i just chose speed of light. i think i'm becoming more cool with age!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

4% scored higher,
0% scored the same, and
96% scored lower.

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:
All hail the monsterous nerd. You are by far the KING NERD GOD!!!

― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

79% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
19% scored lower.

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Not nerdy, but then again maybe not all that cool either.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

xpost to kate:
Exactly. I thought it was either Assembler (one word) or Assembly Code (two words), but not Assembly (one word).

xpost:
another was the actual value of the speed of light.
Ha! I had convinced myself there was a units problem!

xpost (obviously!)
I don't despite nerds. I despise jocks!
This test was obviously written by a jock, whose binary view of the world includes only jocks and nerds, thus either placing in the non-jock class or ignoring the existence of the set of people like us - The Cool Ones!

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Sorry about that Kate ... looks like I've slipped to fourth now ... fifth once Noodles takes the test ... and the Aussies are sleeping now, so hopefully Andrew can deliver later ...

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

81% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
18% scored lower.

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Not nerdy, but then again maybe not all that cool either.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

I score a 9 and apparently "despise nerds" so I'm just dropping by for as long as it takes to say that.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

I got an 87, I'm satisfied.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Skipping 43 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Telnet/ssh are file transfer protocols.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

xpost:
What does this mean?
Every fcuking time I see this I have to remind myself that it's part of the output of the test and not somebody actually asking the question.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

Actually *I've* decided that 'not nerdy and definitely not hip' really means that I'm probably the most coolest of all, well think about it!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

That's exactly what I'm talking about! And that's the yin to the low nerd on the totem pole yang!

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

56% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
43% scored lower.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

What does that mean, Dom?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

(I'm laughing Muttley-style at that one.)

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/promos/homepage/12tech-moth.jpg

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

86% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
13% scored lower.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

Wannabe

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

18% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
82% scored lower.

High-Level Nerd. You are definitely MIT material, apply now!!!

Surprise, surprise.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

The nerd inside me made me pick the very first one, but now I think the correct, theoretically most nerdy answer was the third choice given.

I picked BASIC, even though I knew the more rabit elitist nerd opinion is Pascal.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

Telnet/ssh are file transfer protocols.

Technically not correct. FTP is the File Transfer Protocol. telnet/ssh are used for remote logging into machines (though you can tunnel some services via ssh)

― ILX KING NERD GOD (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

This is why you're 96% nerd and I'm only 75% :)

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 13 January 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

Exactly. Thank you, Samantha ;)

(Geez Louise I have to pick a new identity. I'm not Samantha -- only one person on ILX is Samantha and I'm not her! I am, however, Dee, so, you know....)

(Anyway, thanks for agreeing with me. You grand old nerd you.)

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

26% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
73% scored lower.

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Mid-Level Nerd. Wow, it takes a lot of hard nerdy practice to reach this level.

I was thrown by some of the US school level questions and had to wing those by assuming parallels. Also like Andrew I picked BASIC even though I thought Pascal was right because it is shit =)

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

I'm "lightly nerdy". 58% scored higher.

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

Ah, but you see, Pascal isn't shit, Trayce. I learnt to code originally using Pascal, and I don't think my path would have been simpler using any other language.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

"Not nerdy, but definitely not hip."

thank you so much!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

im not a computer nerd, BUT I AM A NERD. there are many different varieties.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

big surprise

81% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
17% scored lower.

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:
Not nerdy, but then again maybe not all that cool either.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 13 January 2005 04:03 (twenty years ago)

Also like Andrew I picked BASIC even though I thought Pascal was right because it is shit

I did this too.

(must reread "why Pascal is not my favourite programming language" some time)

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 13 January 2005 08:41 (twenty years ago)

I have to confess I know bugger all about pascal personally but I've known enough geeky friends who had to do it in CompSci who hated it...

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 13 January 2005 08:44 (twenty years ago)

you are all fuckin nerdy mcnerds. yes, you are. moby says that you are in fact all made or nerds.

― d.arraghmac, Thursday, 13 January 2005 08:53 (twenty years ago)

I'm not Samantha...I am, however, Dee
So you are Dee, so you are. As part of a denerdification process, I have stopped reading login names.

xpost:
This is the geek party line, as Andrew pointed out. But if you've ever had to maintain a production system written in BASIC, and then tell prospective employers that you've spent the last two years doing it, you'd have picked BASIC too.

Nerd level back up in the red.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I have to maintain production systems running on Lotus Notes/Domino, written in LotusScript, IBM's very own horrible, evil bastard son of Visual Basic. It's not much fun, I can tell you.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 13 January 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

97% scored higher,
0% scored the same, and
3% scored lower.

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:
Definitely not nerdy, you are probably cool.

wow. i thought i would score at least a little bit nerdy. that's what i get for dropping out of 1st year computer programming class...

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 13 January 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

xpost:
That's why I became a jock, caitlin, so I could let others do my programming for me.

― Henry A Blacktune (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

ILX KING NERD GOD

SOOOOOOOOOOOO true.

Pascal does indeed ROCK! Or did rock.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 13 January 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

2% scored higher,
0% scored the same, and
97% scored lower.

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

All hail the monsterous nerd. You are by far the KING NERD GOD!!!

I sooo wanted to put RPN as my calculator of choice but I still carry a DAL one around with me everywhere.

The test is clearly faulty since a) Their 'highest' math tops out at 2nd year and b) Chris is a part of the secret inertnet ruling cabal and there for more king nerd than I.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 13 January 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Well, I'm a cool nerd, so screw the lot of ya.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 13 January 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

I sooo wanted to put RPN as my calculator of choice but I still carry a DAL one around with me everywhere.

I was quite pleased that there was a RPN question on there. (I still have my HP-48, though I use the x48 emulator more often now)

― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 13 January 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Their 'highest' math tops out at 2nd year
Yeah, Exactly. And I thought they were going in order, but then the last two seemed reversed, IIRC, which made it more laughable.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Overall, you scored as follows:

61% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
37% scored lower.

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Not nerdy, but definitely not hip.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 13 January 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

OK, now when I see "What does this mean?" I hear Modern Lovers saying "What might THAT mean, Jonathan?" at the beginning of "Government Center."

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

The reason is the language is called Pascal and not PASCAL. BASIC (Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), COBOL (Common [Object?] Business Oriented Language) and FORTRAN (Formula Translation) are all acronyms.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

76% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
23% scored lower.

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Not nerdy, but definitely not hip.

good.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

Casio calculators are the best though.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

83% are cooler,
3% scored the same, and
14% are more of a loser than you.

What does this mean?

You are a loser baby, there are only a few who out-lose you!

not good.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Why has no one yet posted:
I know you are, but what am I?

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

UNIX commands - S/D.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

85% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
14% scored lower.

Not a nerd. I always figured I was more of a dweeb or a spaz anyhow...

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

Overall, you scored as follows:

10% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
90% scored lower.

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Nerd King. Apply for a professorship at MIT now!!!.

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

Their 'highest' math tops out at 2nd year
Yeah, Exactly. And I thought they were going in order, but then the last two seemed reversed, IIRC, which made it more laughable.
-- Ken L (lauter...), January 13th, 2005. (Ken L)

My thoughts exactly

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

38% scored higher,
1% scored the same, and
61% scored lower.

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Low Ranking Nerd. Definitely a nerd but low on the totem pole of nerds.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

Welcome to the Low Ranking Nerd Cohort, Kenan.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

thanks. It's a real honor.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

Wow, Zac/Noodles sure is a big one!

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

I would be really worried if Noodles had been less nerdy than me.

And wait! Who says you have to have no sex life if you're a nerd? easy answer is, have sex with OTHER NERDS!!! Duh!

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

I'm actually pretty impressed that he figured out that the programming language thing was a trick question. That's not just nerdy, it's smarty.

wait, have sex with other nerds? heyyyyy!

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 14 January 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

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