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I'm 28% total geek. (although I think there weren't enough LotR, SG:1, or gaming questions.)
[ June 30, 2004, 10:59 PM: Message edited by: Eruve Nandiriel ]
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Yeah, I took this once. I seem to recall scoring as "total geek," but I'm too lazy to take the test again. Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
28.79684% - Total Geek
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
26.8 %
I did way better than I expected...
Posted by Snarky (Member # 4406) on :
28.59961% - Total Geek
Posted by Boon (Member # 4646) on :
28.20513% - Total Geek
Posted by Misha McBride (Member # 6578) on :
54.43787% - Super Geek
w00t!
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
28.20513% - Total Geek
Posted by weezer (Member # 6643) on :
Only 17.9% geek.
But how's this for geekiness: I made a replica of a Minith Tirith helmet from Return of the King. It's only paper mache, but it still turned out really well.
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
26.0355% - Total Geek
Misha McBride
Posted by Mabus (Member # 6320) on :
35.89744% - Major Geek
No surprise here.
Posted by Bekenn (Member # 6602) on :
41.22288% - Major Geek
Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
38.06706% - Major Geek
Highlights: said yes to...
-worn a costume other than for Halloween or a play -they might be giants -shirts that proclaim geekdom -collect vintage computers -collect neat looking rocks -2+ Dragonlance characters
Heehee.
Posted by HollowEarth (Member # 2586) on :
I'm not even going to bother. I'm a geek, but normal enough to know it. Besides, if you ever used the internet the test will label you a geek. Triple if your a science/engineering major.
Posted by Jalapenoman (Member # 6575) on :
only 25.04% here. A lower score than expected. I guess the fact that I hate RPGs and am not a computer geek is responsible.
Posted by Human (Member # 2985) on :
23.86588% Geek...hmm. A lot lower than I expected, but then...most of my geekiness was in media and culture, not in actual computery stuff.
Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :
10.45365% - Geekish Tendencies
Posted by larisse (Member # 2221) on :
I am 47.92899% - Super Geek. Personally, I think I should get extra points for not rounding that score off.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
29.5858% - Total Geek
Hmm...it seems that I'm on the edge of almost being a "Major Geek."
It was the Star Trek and the periodic table of elements that did it. Posted by alath (Member # 6150) on :
40.23669% - Major Geek.
Higher than I expected. Neat.
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
50.29586%. Super Geek. I scored higher because I'm a chick, but my score was lowered by my lack of desire to 'collect' things.
This made me literally lollerz: "I wear... my shirt tucked into my underwear."
Only today I took care of the pesky shirt riding up problem by securing it firmly within my undie's convenient elastic band.
Good times.
[ July 01, 2004, 02:36 AM: Message edited by: Ralphie ]
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
I haven't taken it recently. Who thinks they can predict an interval my score will fall within? Posted by Heather Laurae (Member # 3796) on :
My score was a little below 9%, and they called me a "Poser"!
Posted by Danzig (Member # 4704) on :
17.75... I think it was higher at one point.
Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
quote: 13.80671% - Geekish Tendencies
Posted by Bekenn (Member # 6602) on :
quote:I haven't taken it recently. Who thinks they can predict an interval my score will fall within?
That's easy! Your score will be x where 0% <= x <= 100%
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Bekenn is my favorite newbie.
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
22.68245% Geek
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
41.61736% - Major Geek
The whole time I was hoping someone would just hunker down and create a "Geek test for those who don't read Dragonlance and LARP, or a test for those geeks with taste."
Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
quote:"Geek test for those who don't read Dragonlance and LARP, or a test for those geeks with taste."
Congratulations, you get my first hatrack --|--.
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
34.51677% - Total Geek. Sadly, most of my geekiness was accumulated in my childhood. My latter day geekiness really isn't up to snuff.
-Bok
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
Glynn - I hear ya, man.
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
44.57594% - Major Geek
Edit: Although I think I'm in a similar boat to Bok. If I had taken this test 10 years ago I think I would have scored much higher.
[ July 01, 2004, 11:18 AM: Message edited by: saxon75 ]
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
46.9428% - Super Geek
Hobbes Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
57.59369% - Extreme Geek
Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
quote: 15.18738% - Geek
Hmm. The literature section killed me.
Is there no hope? Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
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Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
Google will show us the way!
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
30.76923% - Total Geek
Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
28.00789% - Total Geek
I would have done a lot better, except that I don't know any computer languages or have any programming skills, and am not crazy about math.
If my brother and I took this test together, we would make one totally Uber geek.
Posted by kerinin (Member # 4860) on :
24... i suck
Posted by Mr.Gumby (Member # 6303) on :
I'm only 19.13215% - Geek. That test helped because I thought that I was a tottaly geek throughout most of my life, but not anymore after seeing your scores.
[ July 01, 2004, 12:54 PM: Message edited by: Mr.Gumby ]
Posted by Zevlag (Member # 1405) on :
66.46943% - Geek God
Posted by Lupus (Member # 6516) on :
27.6
PS: some of the things on there were wrong...how can wanting buffy and/or willow be geeky...have you seen them?
The have you watched and have you read sections really nailed me. I watch/read to much scifi and fantasy
[ July 01, 2004, 02:32 PM: Message edited by: Lupus ]
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
46.35108% - Super Geek
That's gone up considerably since I've started roleplaying. And I don't like that they had band and show choir, but no orchestra! Come on, who's geekier than the people who play stringed instruments?
<--cello geek
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Really? You play cello too? Sweetness, cello rocks!
Hobbes Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Yeah, though I don't have much opportunity or time to play anymore. I'm hoping to get back into it once coursework is done (and my frustration from undergrad wears off).
Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
15.77909% -- Geek
I like how they compute it to 5 decimal points... Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
I'm sorry, Sunen, it's just that my brand of geekiness also leans towards class and sophistication. I love nothing more than the idea of a bunch of old gentlemen sitting around a pub drinking scotch, smoking cigars and talking about literature and academics. I'm just not that into what most people think as "geeky" and I think of as a complete waste of time.
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
60.94675% - Extreme Geek
I actually laughed out loud at least 10 times and beamed with pride on several of my answers, especially about playing Risk all the way to the end.
This was mucho fun! Thank You!
P.S. Pharmacists are required to carry pocket protectors...come on!
Posted by fil (Member # 5079) on :
We had an orchestra when I went to High School...we just called it "Band."
Honestly, I know there is a techinical difference but I would still see both versions playing "Eye of the Tiger" at concerts, so what is the diff?
I had gotten 49% or some such last time I checked. It keeps going up, though, the more I talk to other geeks. For example, once I heard who Jeanine Salla was, I had to go back and re-do the test. Still resisting urge to learn how to program calculator and do high and roll step simultaneously.
fil
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
quote:I love nothing more than the idea of a bunch of old gentlemen sitting around a pub drinking scotch, smoking cigars and talking about literature and academics.
So you're a Pretentious Geek.
Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
Geez, how many cellists do we have here, anyway? Me, Tom (didn't he say that he played?), Megan, and did Hobbes just imply that he played, too?
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
fil, MY high school orchestra NEVER played Eye of the Tiger. We played Brandenburg Concertos and some of Handel's Concerti Grossi, and other things written specifically for a string orchestra (no brass, winds, or percussion). The band played pop songs and marched for football games.
and to continue de-railing the thread...wow, more Hatrack cellists? ...could there be a hatrack cello choir? Neat! Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
<-- cellist
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Pep band ALWAYS played "Eye of the Tiger" at basketball games. So did jazz band. I loved it.
< - high class, low brass.
FG
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Don't get me wrong, Farmgirl; I have nothing against Eye of the Tiger, per se. I just have a problem with high school string orchestras playing things that are much better suited to bands simply because their directors are too overworked (or lazy) to find all the good music written for string orchestra. Pep band/jazz band/marching band is a much better place for tunes like that.
Posted by Space Opera (Member # 6504) on :
I'm only a 19 percent Geek...however, I think more should be added to your score if you're sad about your low level of geekiness.
space opera
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
That is a LONG frickin' test! I gave up halfway through and quit answering, and still got 21%
Farmgirl
Posted by Magson (Member # 2300) on :
I've done this one a while ago. I think I was somewhere around 30%. The guy next to me got over 50%, and another guy who got 30-ish had his wife try it and she got about 45.
Fun test, but long.
Posted by Zevlag (Member # 1405) on :
I KNOW I am NOT the geekiest one here.
The Geek Club election thread seems to be missing. But I certainly wasn't president.
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Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
Band = Brass, Woodwinds, & Percussion
Orchestra = All of the above plus strings
Katharina,
No only pretentious, but elitist too!
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
So, when's the last time you did that? Last week? Last month? Ever?
It's just been my experience that the truly-secure aesthetes have nothing to prove. *grin*
[ July 01, 2004, 05:45 PM: Message edited by: katharina ]
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Primal, orchestra can also be just a string orchestra. There's plenty of music written for just strings (or strings plus harpsichord) from all periods of music history, particularly since orchestras in the baroque and part of the classical period were just that...strings. Brass, winds, and percussion didn't get added til later.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
44.97041% - Major Geek. And proud of it.
Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
Yes. Very geeky, Hobbes. Posted by Happy Camper (Member # 5076) on :
29.38856% - Total Geek
About what I expected.
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
Would be geekier on a Linux box.
You'd take the geek cake if you were doing it on a tricked out Amiga. Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Actually, I used to be doing it on a Linux box, but then a faster comoputer came and the Sys Admin couldn't get Red Hat installed so instead it's XP.
Hobbes Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
There are other types of Geek than Computer Geek.
Case in point:
62.52465% - Extreme Geek.
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
The fact that you haven't just downloaded an iso of Redhat and installed it yourself shows your low-level of computer geekiness.
Posted by Mockingbird (Member # 5640) on :
I am a Geek, but only a minor one, chiefly due to my love of SF & fantasy (I crushed the literature section) and odd trivia. My score was 16%.
I sent this test to my computer programmer/video game-playing brother, who I think has beat everyone I know with a score of 67% - Geek God.
I also took the time to follow the link to the related message board, where a high score is viewed as a sign of greatness. Some poor (my term, not his) guy scored 90%. Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
I had my oldest son take the test last night -- he got a 42.6% I think, and that is without him even knowing any programming languages. But he was strong on the sci-fi books, movies, and RPG stuff.
So he's geekier than me.
Farmgirl
Posted by Bekenn (Member # 6602) on :
Heh.
Makes you proud, doesn't it? Just brings a tear to the eye....
Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
39.8% Major Geek
I want ASIMO!!! Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
38.65878% - Major Geek
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
I think it's weird seeing JTK post. I mean, I made the handle.
It's just weird.
Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
Hmmph. No one's even cracked 50%. And you call yourselves geeks.
edit: oops I forgot to look at the first page. No one except Misha McBride, Ralphie, fugu, Zevlag, alucard....
Never mind that I posted this.
[ July 03, 2004, 03:55 PM: Message edited by: kaioshin00 ]
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