86.6
I think this measures not how panic-proof you are, but how willing you are to persist with useless tests. 
Something odd, must have happened to your score, Achernar(see massive time wastage below).
Would you mind explaining how you filled in all the dots in section V in 17 seconds, sciguy? It took me almost 30, and I thought that was quick.
If you want to know where you stand, folks, here are the max scores I calculated:
Max theoretical: 123.2 (You can’t actually score this–it would mean filling in all the dots instantly, and scoring 100% on section 1, which the code doesn’t allow.)
Max legit: 116.2 (Assuming a minimum of 10 seconds to fill in the dots. Also assuming the max legit score on section I, which is 70 by the code.)
The difference sciguy and Sandy are jawing about is around 3 seconds on the fill-in-the-dots. :dubious:
My score was 114.2, BTW. I’ll bring the snakes, guys.
It took me 2:55 to fill in the dots, however, I see that it would have been much easier with Internet Explorer than Netscape, which is what I used. I am also willing to believe that their scoring script is out of whack. I’ll compromise by making sure to panic at least once a day. 
Was there a trick to the dot part? Like TAB, SPACE, TAB, SPACE?
It took me 2:30 with the mouse & click method which I had thought was pretty good.
82.5
82.7
Eh…
93.4 here.
You know who to talk to after the next earthquake.
84.6
It took me over six minutes to fill in the radio buttons, because I have a touchpad instead of a mouse, and it just wasn’t being cooperative. Also, I wondered about some of those questions; I think I missed the one with the quarts and gallons because I don’t know how many gallons are in a quart. I don’t have an alarm clock that rings, so I played a bagpipe reel on headphones–and, somehow, still managed to count the correct number of x’s.
I don’t know. I think I’m more prone to panic than the test thinks I am. I’m pretty high-strung.
70 the first time, 81.2 after I went back and re-did the fill-in the dots part using TAB and SPACE- cut my time down by almost 2 minutes! They don’t say how you should fill them in, so all of you who used TAB & SPACE to start might want to go back and do it the mouse-click way and see what results you get (vice versa too).
I didn’t have an alarm clock, so I played a really annoying, scream-laden song by Primal Scream that I utterly hate.
I get tense in many situations, but that is it, I just go to tense, not jarred or blow up. Like, who wouldn’t get tense if the elevator stopped? No need to panic, but wouldn’t everyone go “Hmm? What’s happening here?”
I do admit to getting tunnel vision when in high-stress situations. I get too focused on one thing and sorta forget what’s going on around me. There was a time back in college when we were heading to the mountains for a trip after class. We stopped at night to get food at a supermarket, and we heard a woman screaming across the street. I looked over there and this woman was being lifted in the air by a guy and shaken. [superman mode ON] We ran across the street to help her, but I was so focused that if not for my friend grabbing me, I would have run right in front of a car. I didn’t even see it. It missed me by inches.[superman mode OFF]
-Tcat
88.4 and 2mins 20secs for the dots. (using the mouse).
And I am generally a real panic merchant, so I am not too sure how accurate this is.
89 and my finger hurts after those damn dots.
Indeterminant.
I did the whole thing and the bloody thing didn’t do anything after I pushed “submit.”
What crap.
82.6
-how many of you considered quitting the test instantly when you saw all of those radio dots??
and I was completely unaware of the TAB & SPACE method
“How long does it take you to place a dot in the center of each of the zeros below?”
What a waste of time!
I’m clearly so laid back that I can’t be bothered to complete the test;
108
Would have scored better if it weren’t for answering truthfully that I’m afraid of spiders and getting stuck in elevators.
Oh, and the relationship of panic to some of those questions…?
In some cases you’re being asked to complete a tedious task under an unknown time limit, which can be stressful to some people. In other cases, you’re being asked to do something requiring concentration while distracted, which is also stressful. It’s as much a stress test as a panic test.
But I question just how much a paper-and-pencil test is going to effectively screen out the panic-prone from the none-panic-prone.
I couldn’t get a result (Mozilla on Linux isn’t one of the browsers they designed the broken site fore) but I’m either very calm or I have a personality disorder: When I think I’m really screwed, I laugh. If I can’t think up a way out, I relax and let things happen to me. It’s the only logical course, really. I have always gotten out all right, but I don’t panic.
Search through my posts for the “Brush with Death” thread. I link to an old thread I started about being face-to-face with a rattlesnake. That’s pretty much typical: I saw my death in that snake’s eyes, and that was the worst I saw, so I laughed. After the inital shock, I could think my way out of the situation.
My score: “java script error”.
92.6
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