# The Nerdity Test **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 23, 2005, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nerdity-test/318221 "2005-08-23T02:45:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nerdity-test/318221/1 "2005-08-23T02:45:57Z")
[Nerdity Test](http://home.rochester.rr.com/jbennett/nerd/n500test.html) I scored 40.6%… Who’s the nerdiest of us all? ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nerdity-test/318221/2 "2005-08-23T03:12:23Z")
Freaky. I got a 40.6 as well! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Dr.Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Love)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nerdity-test/318221/3 "2005-08-23T03:38:28Z")
25.2%. Some of the questions on the test are a bit outdated. I doubt having an e-mail address is a sign of nerddom anymore. ---
**Author:** ![robinc308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@robinc308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robinc308)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nerdity-test/318221/4 "2005-08-23T03:43:17Z")
54%. But then I’m a software engineer - what did I expect? ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nerdity-test/318221/5 "2005-08-23T03:47:43Z")
52.8% I am Nerdier. Far nerdier than thou. Lots of the questions are way out of date, though. Also, I deserve extra points because I was annoyed that they measured the wavelength of visible light in Angstroms and I didn’t know the conversion factor from nanometers. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nerdity-test/318221/6 "2005-08-23T03:49:45Z")
> [@Dr. Love](#): > > 25.2%. Some of the questions on the test are a bit outdated. I doubt having an e-mail address is a sign of nerddom anymore. Or answering “yes” to the question “have you ever used a computer?” ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nerdity-test/318221/7 "2005-08-23T03:56:25Z")
32.4% here . I thought I was nerdier than that . 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nerdity-test/318221/8 "2005-08-23T04:02:58Z")
32.4%. I guess I’m just a wanna-be. ☹ I think that if I had taken a similar test when I was 16, I would have scored much higher. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nerdity-test/318221/9 "2005-08-23T04:13:43Z")
Nerdity Quotient: 47.6% (238/500) Closet Nerd Average score: 32.4% Scary, Is there something weird about the test that 32.4% keeps coming up at Straight Dope. Funny the way being older, married and with kids cost me many Nerds points I would have earned at 20. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nerdity-test/318221/10 "2005-08-23T04:33:26Z")
29.4. But I think I’m definitely nerdier than that. The test is too light on literature/pop culture. ---
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nerdity-test/318221/11 "2005-08-23T04:43:24Z")
I couldn’t finish it. Oh my god. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nerdity-test/318221/12 "2005-08-23T04:47:03Z")
Funny indeed…perhaps they weren’t looking at the top of the page. I got 40.4%. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nerdity-test/318221/13 "2005-08-23T04:49:29Z")
23% I guess that’s about what I expected. In areas like Star Trek, I didn’t have any boxes…but when it came to computer use I checked almost everything (except for the programming languages questions) ---
**Author:** ![JimOfAllTrades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@JimOfAllTrades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimOfAllTrades)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nerdity-test/318221/14 "2005-08-23T04:56:55Z")
54% (270/500) Some of those questions are seriously out of date. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nerdity-test/318221/15 "2005-08-23T05:23:49Z")
51.6%. I’m probably getting less nerdy as I age. ---
**Author:** ![KeithT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@KeithT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KeithT)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nerdity-test/318221/16 "2005-08-23T05:28:54Z")
49.6% I’m not sure what’s more amusing – how out of date the computer section is, or the fact that I’ve used a light pen (and got credit for that question!) in the last two months. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nerdity-test/318221/17 "2005-08-23T05:30:36Z")
24%. I must not be nerdy enough, because the out-of-date questions don’t bother me. ---
**Author:** ![Meaty\_Beaty\_Big\_and\_Bouncy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Meaty\_Beaty\_Big\_and\_Bouncy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meaty_Beaty_Big_and_Bouncy)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nerdity-test/318221/18 "2005-08-23T05:46:16Z")
46.4% 232/500 ---
**Author:** ![uglybeech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/82dd89/32.png) [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nerdity-test/318221/19 "2005-08-23T05:47:19Z")
45.6% I’d say the test is about 10 years out of date. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nerdity-test/318221/20 "2005-08-23T05:48:53Z")
32.4%. Seems as though _nerd_ is being used on the test to mean math or science nerd. There are, it’s now recognized, many flavors of nerddom. Me, I’m a music, history, and pop culture nerd. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nerdity-test/318221.md?page=2)