500 questions? :eek: Anyone taking the whole test should score a 100% on “Nerdity” 
Another complaint about the test: WD-40??? Noooooo. WD-40 is what your idiot neighbor squirts on everything in order to mess it up. Real nerds never use the stuff and own The Right Lubes (of many different types).
Oh: and subscribe to “Omni” and “Scientific America” [sic]? Sheesh.
But WD-40 is what you use to free up rusty old pieces of non-silicone base Tech that are so fun to play with. So many of us Geeks keep WD-40 & Spray Silicone and Never Seize and 3-in-1 oil and Etc.
26.8% - and I’m a friggin software developer.
I fully expected to see a question on how old you were when you first got laid.
Perhaps, but I maintain that whereas the definition of “geek” has evolved rapidly and now means anyone who is excessively knowledgable on a given subject, a nerd remains a guy who is focused on academic pursuits to the detriment of developing social skills.
Nerdity Quotient: 33.4% (167/500)
Nerd-wannabe
Average score: 32.4%
That seems pretty accurate.
Nerdity Quotient: 40.8% (204/500)
Another vote for the test being out of date. By at least 10 years.
[sub]Seriously, 512Kb of RAM? Smallest I got is 4Mb, and it’s 17 years old.[/sub]
I’m thinking that should also get you bonus nerd points (now I want to go back and take the test and do the same!)
Mrs. Franchi scored a 48% with heavy points for Sciences. I am surprised, she scored higher than me and I’m the one that builds Computers and stills plays D&D occasionally.
52.2%. It’d have been higher, but my subscription to EGM ran out earlier this year, my 386 died last November, and I totally blanked on Planck’s constant. I’m a nerd who masquerades as an English/Philosophy type. It’s fun stuff.
Buncha amateurs. 78.6% here, even with the test being out-of-date. If we update the Usenet questions to include message boards, then I’m up to 80.8%.
You want to know the mark of a true nerd? I once wrote a Turing bot which had more romantic success than I did.
Incidentally, I’ve seen later versions of this test, but most of them are cluttered with things not related to nerdity. Despite its datedness, I think the 500 question version here is the most representative.
Your Wootness, we bow in your presence.
You know what? I’m a moderate nerd. You know why I know that? Because I’m still here at work waiting for something to finish cooking. Nobody made me do this. I’m not getting paid for it. I’m doing it because I want to know the answer to the question, and if I don’t have that result in my head, it will bug me for the rest of the night. I may very well be the only person on the planet who cares about the answer.
Know what else? Either I have ADD, or that test is too damn long. Sorry, but I lost interest about halfway through. If I had to estimate, I’d probably be in the 50s to low 60s.
62.8%… and I don’t even work in any sort of computer/science related field, though an ex-boyfriend did and I learned a lot of stuff from him, what I don’t still remember from school anyway because I have a freaky nearly-photographic memory and random stuff just floats to the surface from time to time. People where I currently work and at my last couple of jobs have been known to call me instead of the actual IT people. (My last job made an offer after I left to be re-hired in IT, but I hated both the company and commuting to the city.) I have a membership to the local science museum, which I can’t even blame on the kids 'cause I don’t have any. And I spent my 21st birthday - which was on a Saturday, btw - at the aquarium. With my mom. Then I went to bed at 8 pm because I’d had to get up early. So I think I’m pretty damn nerdy in my own right, too. I’m just not sure how I feel about having it confirmed.
So answer the first 250 and submit, then double your score. And then add another .2% for the question “Have you ever extrapolated?”.
51.8. Many of these things stem from having paid attention to my husband when he’s talking about old computers, having a damned near photographic memory, and being much geekier when I was younger. On an updated test, I’d probably score lower, assuming it retains the same focus.
:smack:
Brilliant! Can I be a doofus and a nerd at the same time?
68% I don’t know whether to be proud or hang my head in shame.
I’m gonna go open the telesope domes now.
It depends, I think. The undergrads at university (CSE) build a rather simple computer for comp. arch, wiring and basic command set for a stack machine included. I’d think something like that counts.
Oh, yeah - 51%. But since I misread the results page (I thought I had a 32.4%), I feel that I lose some points.
28.8%
Aw, man, I suck. 
32.0%, but there’s not enough questions about OCD. If they had more of an emphasis on OCD, I’d have scored much higher.