October 06, 2004

• er, 1465. No idea where the 1481 came from.
• 65
• 16 point bonus for being concerned enough to correct your score. You can have the 1481.
• 165. Usually I score much higher on these, but I had to deduct a lot of points in that last section. Just because I play the guitar shouldn't detract from my geekiness - I know a lot of Rush songs.
• wow. I am flabbergasted to report that I scored at whopping -175 points, yes that is "negative one hundred seventy five points" I was doing alright until the negative points section where my tendency to drink & ability to get laid regularly by handsome members of my chosen sex did me in... I am a faux-geek! no wonder I can't get a real webdev job!!
• I am enough of a geek to know that this isn't the real geek test. The real one is longer, gives a percentage score, and depends less on gaming.
• Well, I aint gonna add it all up in my head. So I switched off. Aren't they geeks enough to code it out?
• Inability to get laid as a female does not mean you are a geek. Inability to get laid as a female generally indicates that you are dead. Medusa may re-claim her points.
• Worship Neal Gaimon as a god..... 25 Know how to spell Neil Gaiman....... 50 Notice the comments order has just reversed....10 Appreciate that geekery is about far more than just gaming.... 1466
• Become increasingly puzzled by flip-flopping comments order.... 3.1415926
• 65.
• 780. I racked up lots of points on gaming-related questions, but ended up having to subtract a shitload of points for playing musical instruments, being in a rock band and being a fraternity member in college. I'm somewhat pleased that choir has received it's due recognition as a geeky pasttime!
• How much do I get for giggling at a pi reference?
• 620, right where I wanna be.
• 1135. This is better than some geek tests, but geek code (or an updated variant) is really a better way to go, since it lets you declare what kind of geek you are and how much of each type.
• Misspelling "its"... - 20 points.
• I scored a zero. Hmmph.
• Well, hell. I made 470 until I had to start subtracting. And Medusa, if I can be an internet consultant, anyone can. Okay, I'm a project manager. Plus I fake it a lot.
• hiking, wearing some trendy clothing and riding a motorcycle and the fact I don't play RPG's did me in ... 775
• Wanting to score high on this test. Add 1000.
• Negative 485 points. Half of my positive points came from owning both a Rush album and a Joe Satriani album. My love for playing sports put me in the decidedly non-geek camp.
• What Nostrildamus said. This has to be a wind-up. A non-coded geek test? What next? A monochrome colour blindness test? Anyone who can be bothered to add that lot up as they go is either extraordinarily patient or extraordinarily bored.
• 900 Do I lose points for having to use a calculator?
• Anyone who can be bothered to add that lot up as they go is either extraordinarily patient or extraordinarily bored. Use the calculator that came with your OS.
• I was somewhere in the negative 100 to 200 range - I couldn't decide whether playing an upright electic bass put me in the cool instrument category (which it most definitely is) or in with the rest of the virginal, lute and harpsichord players out there.
• Patient? I used a calculator, of course.
• 160. It was looking pretty bad for a while there. Thank god I'm a druggie who did jail time!
• Anyone who can be bothered to add that lot up as they go is either extraordinarily patient or extraordinarily bored. Or is, of course, a geek. (1245)
• 510. Lost points for actually having a life. (Added in my head; I'm not patient so I must be bored.)
• Damn that Dr. Who mania put me over the 1000 range. 1040, but my ability to actual live and work out in the physical universe kept me from being too geeky. And one can be too geeky. Even this test admits it.
• Bah! Molest me not with this pocket-calculator stuff. I added everything in my head as I was going along. It's all 5s and 10s, so it's not really that difficult. Heh.
• 420. casual geek domain for me.
• I'm too lazy to even start up the OS calculator and type in the figures for this. Click, click, .. bah. Too lazy.
• 660. Of course, had this been a fully thought-out Geek Test, one wouldn't have had to subtract 150 for being in a rock band if any of that rock band's melodies were written using mathematical algorithms (which some were. How can you blame us? The two main writers were a Math major and an Astrophysics major). That shoulda garnered extra points, in my opinion. The fact that I'm married docked a LOT of points. Though we did meet over the internet, so that was a +60.
• 790. Geekier than some, not as geeky as others, which suits me just fine.
• Casual geek, here too. *wonders if this test could be used to diagnose, Asperger's Syndrome, High-Functioning Autism and Schizoid Personality Disorder.*
• -75. Hmmm.
• For the gamer geeks: A Something Awful review of what might be the worst. RPG sourcebook idea. ever: The Book of Erotic Fantasy. (just posted this on another thread, but I figure its rightful home is here)
• 1405. However, just to show that there has been some improvement over the years, if I'd taken this during the height of my geek phase, or within a couple years of that, the score would have been 1935.
• Also, I'm surprised at the lack of RHPS-related geekdom on that test. I've seen - and been - audience and cast for that thing. It qualifies as geek.
• ooh, magical venereal diseases!
• 110! That's actually a relief, methinks.
• calculator? I added it up in my head ... 1 point :p
• Didn't think I was the least bit geeky until this test...1455.
• [-15] Of course if I had been a little more current on my D&D this number would have been quite a bit higher. So shawnj, 1465 eh? Have you happened to attend a Klingon camp recently?
• 200. Having a Rush album earns you geek points?? I think the deduction for "not a virgin" should be X = (21-age)^3 if you are under 21. I mean come on, if you are 15 and making it with the ladies, SCA is not in your future.
• -320. No joke.
• Do I get points for adding it in my head tho?
• 365. About what I expected.
• 375 Level 2 geek (casual geek) . I never thought of myself as a geek, hmmm...
• -240. It's those damn designer clothes.
• Hhmmm.... On the geek side I only scored 20 points; I own Monty Python; stoners can, too, ya know. Rock, Paper, Scissors; that's how my SO and I decide everything. My total; -145 Sex and drugs did me in.
• If my score is negative, do i get to go back in time and get un-beaten up in high school?
• Does this mean those of us with a negative result have to get our own blog?
• ...and can someone tell me what RHPS is?
• Rocky Horror Picture Show. And I would've scored higher if it'd been on the test. Oh. 450, used KCalc to add it up. I'm not patient.
• This test seems like it has the potential of being the start of a dating service. Likewise high scores could hook up and would not be bothered by their signifigant other's lack of hygine, obsessive star wars references and lack of sexual interest. Us lower scores could take drugs and fuck.
• Minus 465.
• I was safely in the negative until that damn bonus question at the end.
• couldn't some geek have done that page up with checkboxes (or a spreadsheet) so that all i would have to do is check boxes? all that MATH!
• -145. The two year rule cost me a good deal of points. I thought that my 150 points for computer languages (I know more than 5, but I had to account for the 2 year rule) would help me out but I lost that in one shot with being in a rock band. [I'm bad at arithmetic so I wrote a little program to help me calculate me score. I think those cancel each other out, though.]
• 1440. I thought I would score higher but damn those girls for liking me... dammit. stop it, girls. i already told you i gots to be gayer!
• prizmatic7, you are a bit obsessed about this gay stuff. Even got it in your profile. Me thinks he doth protest too much.
• just 30 :-( + 50 for using google search to calculate the score.
• 1205....All of my cool bonuses cancelled out with my heaps o' computer knowledge (7 languages + assembler & machine, that alone did me in). Sorry, I'm a computer engineer. But yeah. Confirmed geek. regrets not thinking of using google to add the scores
• I like how this test recognises that there are people who read Star Trek novels and have huge anime posters on their walls who are not scientists or mathematicians. At one point, a friend and I, annoyed at the computers/science/math bias in all nerdity tests were talking about how we should flex our inner tweed and write "The Paper Nerd" test. You would get points for not being able to move in your rooms for the books piled on the floor, having unhealthy obsessions with historical trivia or just fetishising paper products. (Mmmm.....notebooks...) Or maybe there should just be a "Social outcast" test? Do you find crowds intimidating? Do you have trouble telling what clothes look good on you? That would be the heart of geekiness.
• Well, if having heaps of paper and books sitting around on every flat surface in a room is geeky, then I suppose I am not only so, but descended from geek ancestors going back at least two generations. Invariably carry memorandum-pads and smallish notebooks in my pockets (which of course bag). Uncomfortable without paper and pen in easy reach -- they must be a security blanket for me.
• I'm not bothering with this test except to note that their model of 'geek' is Americentric and biased in favour of gamers, and they misspelt Muad'Dib.
• Good lord, people. Whether you add this up in your head or with a calculator is beside the point. The point is that it's startlingly pathetic that a test of geekiness isn't automated. Geeks may well be good at mental arithmetic but any true geek would program such a test. See it?
• squidranch: i'm mostly obsessed with test scores. i have deranged plans to link every comment where i relate my test score to my profile, then quote all my scores every time i get a new one... *pause* er... does anyone else think that sounds really, very nuts..?
• 230. I too lost points for being a rocker. However, if I had taken this test in high school I would have scored much higher.
• 1460. eek.
• I fucking hate this racist bullshit. What the fuck does it matter where you come from - especially if you come from a country that's given us democracy, philosophy and - most recently - a fantastic Olympic games? You stupid nazis make me SICK.
• Oh right it says "geeks". I misread. God I hate nazis.
• What type of Nazi are you?
• Josef Mengele, evidently. I think I need to go to church, now.
• 700 - The computer languages helped me.
• fuyugare: i now hate tests, forever. that was rather distasteful (although kudos for godwinning a thread about geekiness! that takes style, that takes grace, fuyugare gave good face... um.)
• It's because we like SF, and games, and I have missed you -- glad you're back up and online again, Alnedra!
• And to think: this is all made possible by the Accountbook-less Office and by the Miracle of the Interwacky.
• Oh I saw it decani What I find particularly interesting is all these geek tests that claim to be the diffinitive test for geekdom. The questions caught my attention more; what was considered a geeky trait vs what wasn't.
• I'm Josef Mengele, too. One of mah very favourite Nazis.
• 185. Even though I'm not in a rock band, they take too much off for being in one. I know too many geeks in bands to let that pass. And if they didn't have the two-year rule, I'd be in the low 500s. (By the way, what's the 21 club?) js
• Oops, sorry prismatic7.
• Oh why not take another trip down geeky lane? Try this much longer test. I come out as 30.x% or a total geek. I'm not sure if that makes me feel better or worse.
• 36.x% This is the test I remember.
• Hmmm... 46.x%. A Super Geek. *starts planning a superhero costume*
• 29.58% > Total Geek.
• 31.36095 - Total Geek.
• 50.4931% - Super Geek.
• 9.8% - Geekish Tendencies I've never even heard of some of the stuff on that test
• I've never even heard of some of the stuff on that test For which you are truly blessed.
• 850ishTwo points: the SCA is a GREAT place to get laid. as someone who speaks Klingon, I had no idea there were Klingon language camps. Now THAT'S geeky
• I posit that this geek test is fraudulent, in that it does not have the capacity to calculate my score as I say yea or nay to the listed phenomena. Surely simple addition is a mundane task that should not be occupying the mental capacity of a true geek?
• and that remark obviously disqualifies me completely from the test, doesn't it.....