22.6 % for me. Not much of a nerd, really, and not a math or science nerd at all. Whole sections of the quiz didn’t apply to me or anything I know.
85.4% (427/500)
“Revenge of the Nerds” poster-child
I have *got * to get out more.
We have a new leader. You have passed **Chronos **
I was starting to worry. I didn’t see anyone score higher than me until down near the bottom of page 2.
NQ = 36 eh…closet nerd. shh!
I think that makes you Queen of all the Nerds. We are your humble subjects, Your Majesty.
36.4
But for extra credit, I tried to find out just how outdated this test is.
This version is from 12-5-93, but some of the computer questions were already in the version from 3-12-92. The question about 1MB ram was added in the version from 3-21-93.
Here you can download all versions of the test. The links on that site don’t work, but if you can’t figure out the correct URLs from them, you’re not a nerd. 
40.8%. I’m a Closet Nerd.
Robin
A friend of mine built a functional MP3 player from chips for his senior project in Computer Engineering. Now he works at a company that makes electronics for handheld electronics, like cell phones and PDAs. Once when I was visiting at his house he had a work project hooked up to his computer, complete with soldering equipment and parts everywhere, and a special password dongle for logging into the company server. He’s currently 27 years old.
As for me, I scored a 54.8%.
46.2%. And yes, it’s way out of date. I don’t even get credit for knowing pi past 5 places!
35.2% - slightly higher than average. I’ll comfort myself with the thought that only nerdy people take this test.
GT
Scary thing is I bet a lot of us 35-45 year old Computer Geeks either hand built from chip level or helped hand build from chip level. There were many kits in the 70’s into the early 80’s. I helped one friend build a tandy kit. I built a heath kit and helped 2 friends turn a Commodore 64 into a portable unit. I did the soldering, they did the design. It was a “Fun” project. I suspect in 1984 I would have scored in the 80’s if there had been a test then.
It’s right on the edge. I work with 780 nm lasers to cool + trap rubidium (and still only got 49%!). If you get enough light at 780 together you can see it on a normal sheet of card (unsurprisingly looking red) but typically we used flourescent cards to spot the beams.
That’s an additional nerd point: thanks to the above, I have directly observed an object at less than a thousandth of a Kelvin.
Ditto… okay, more IT consulting than software developer, but…
Quoth DeVena:
With anyone in particular?
(and yes, that was a pathetic nerd attempt at flirting. Best to be unambiguous about that, given both how inept nerds are at flirting, and how oblivious we can be).
When I’m flirting, I shall do this (makes broad, forwards sweeping gesture with hand).
Now that’s cold! So were those poor Rubidium atoms all shivering together as one? I guess you could consider that a kind of Chem.Engin. nerd joke, since you get a Bose-Einstein Condensate at microkelvin temperatures. 
I only wish it were so. We’re still trying to achieve BEC, but the final evaporation stages aren’t working as we might hope. May switch to a dipole-trapping approach for the final stages.
48.4%. I am appalled. Appalled.
mm