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What does this mean? I didn't even get a score.

"Your IQ lies outside the area that the test is able to measure. We are hoping to extend this area as soon as we have gathered more data."

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The test claims to measure IQs between 85 and 145. That means the test probably scored you below 85 or above 145.

I don't know what that means for your actual IQ but I have a feeling you might just score very well on an official IQ test if you're into that kind of thing.

I am Schrodinger's dummy. I am Schrodinger's smarty.

Did you answer all the questions?

Yes. I answered all within the time frame. I still had 14 minutes and change on the clock.

Same here and got the same message ;/

That either means you guessed a lot and got too many wrong – or you were extremely good. If you only took 10 minutes that means you only had 17 seconds per problem; I'm not too bad at pattern recognition (I think) but for some of those questions 17 seconds (or even 30 because it's an average) would be way too short for me.

Yep, definitely. I believe the test is calibrated such that if you get all of the questions right in less than 25 minutes, and without guessing, you're off the charts of this test. That is, you're supposed to use all the time you got, and still score quite high even if you have to guess the last couple of questions. (I got 133, guessing the last three and may have got a couple others wrong.)

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