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I saw CleverNickname's latest JE and it reminded me of a cool geek test I found recently. It's got a lot of questions but pretty accurate.

Check it out here and post your score!

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  • My score (Score:2)

    by glh ( 14273 )
    60.55227% - Extreme Geek

    Although, I took it the other day and I was 52%. So I'm going to say I'm somewhere between 50-60. I have to go back a good 10-15 years to honestly click on some of the questions, which I suppose makes me less geeky now, so I think the number is inflated.

  • 37.27811% - Major Geek

    A lot of the points I lost were from not bothering to spend money on things. If I had the funds (or the parents) that some geeks have, I'd have scored significantly higher. Oh well, I have other priorities.

    --Dan
  • Notes:
    -I've been to band camp (No, I do not play the flute.)
    -When I was 7 or 8 years old, Weird Science was my favorite movie. Don't ask, because I don't know.
    -Stopped wearing day of the week underwear when I was 7 due to lack of saturday/sunday.
    -Doesn't everybody collect neat looking rocks?
    -I love how many decimal places they give. :)

    • Stopped wearing day of the week underwear...due to lack of saturday/sunday.
      Are you saying you don't wear underwear on the weekends? :-) Sorry, I had to beat red5 to it.

      I love how many decimal places they give. :)
      Yes, that was my first reaction.

      • I can neither confirm nor deny said accusations. But I do know that "days of the week underwear" exclude weekends. This leaves you in an awkward position come saturday. You have to switch to a different theme of underwear, which can be tramatic.

        And, you, sir, need to extricate your mind from the gutter. :)
    • -I've been to band camp (No, I do not play the flute.)

      So what instrument do you play?? I'm going to guess clarinet or saxaphone, because those were the only other instruments girls typically played. Although, being a "Total Geek" all bets are off, so I suppose you could have played trumpet, trombone, or xylaphone (or maybe the cymball).
      • I was in drumline. I was in the pit/frontline my first year (various instrumenets). My second year I played bass drum (try marching when you can't see in front of you). My last year I finally moved up to the snare line.

        And yes, I had a finely developed sense of arrogance and belief that the non-drumline band members were a bunch of pansies. :)
  • I have too much of a 'range' of geekiness:

    48.52071% - Super Geek

    I guess you did better than me. The marching band and food network (along with the rp background I had) really pumped up my points.
    • Heh. I think you're pretty close to me. We had a lot of the same tendencies in High School anyway.. :) By the way, I'm not sure "better" is a higher score...

      The marching band got me, but so did the movies and authors questions. Also, I'm not sure why playing more than one instrument is considered geeky? (Playing them at the same time maybe...)
      • (Playing them at the same time maybe...)

        What about two of the same instruments at the same time... ;-)
        • LOL... flashback :) and irritating half the band while doing it! Remember that one time we made April cry? :)

          • Yeah, we were making fun of angela landsbury, which happened to be her solo, so she thought we were making fun of her... lol... oh back in the day...
          • You guys went to school together? That's cool.
            • Yeah, we go "way back". We went to the same high school (Pickerington HS, Pickerington OH). It seems like FK moved away Jr. year (or around then), but I can't remember the exact time. Anyway, we both played trumpet in the band. We were definitely the best, or at least liked to think we were :) We actually had this really annoying song that we used to play during band camp and practices that drove everyone nuts. We were definitely band nerds...

              We also did a lot of geeky stuff outside of school, including
              • I don't remember anything about "DOSH"? Refresh the ol'noggin.
                • Hehe.. Selective memory? I'll try to jog your memory.. Dan S. gave dubbed the nick name. It was because of your affections for a certain Oboe player.

                  • geez... I know what you are talking about, but don't remember ever being called that. BTW - She works at wright patt with Optical Lasers (she double majored in chem and physics and got her phd in physics). Heard from her last year, and was even gonna meet her, but the plans fell through. I should try to contact her again...
                    • I think Dosh was the pet name we used when we saw both of you together at a distance. :)

                      Optical Lasers at Wright Patt? That sounds like a good fit for her. She was definitely a smart cookie. It'd be cool to see some of the people from high school again from our little group. I haven't spoken with any of them since my freshmen year of college (except you, and Lukens a few years ago). Makes me wonder what they've been up to.

  • Moo (Score:2)

    by Chacham ( 981 ) *
    26%.

    And I checked off the exagerated box. :-)

    I think the test is stupid. However, the question are mildly humorous.

  • Whoo Hoo! I Win!! (Score:3, Funny)

    by bethanie ( 675210 ) on Wednesday June 11, 2003 @11:11AM (#6171290) Journal
    37.47535% - Major Geek

    I'm just glad that I register on the scale! Not bad, considering that I got no points for the VAST majority of the technical stuff! :-)

    They need a whole section about Slashdot:
    • I read Slashdot
    • I have posted on Slashdot
    • I have had a story accepted
    • I have friended someone
    • I have been fanned
    • I have been freaked!
    • I have excellent Karma
    • I have whored for Karma
    • I have a journal on Slashdot
    • I posted a link to this test in my journal

    This was fun. :-) Thanks, glh!

    ....Bethanie....
  • 41.02564% - Major Geek

    I would have scored higher, except that whole section on parties killed me. I never missed a party. (Mostly because they were at my house.) Oh, I never really played a lot of D&D... there weren't enough people around that were smart enough to figure out the rules, unless I wanted to play with just 2 people.

    I was in band in HS. I played Clarinet, Tenor Sax, and timpanis. I was in Choir in college, so many of my points come from music geekiness.

  • Re: (Score:2, Funny)

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  • 37.67258% - Major Geek (Score:3, Interesting)

    by daoine ( 123140 ) * <moruadh1013@ya[ ].com ['hoo' in gap]> on Wednesday June 11, 2003 @12:12PM (#6172160)
    Huh. Not too shabby.

    I must admit, I never had DOTW underwear, and I hate Star Trek with a passion. This makes it difficult to score high on any Geek test.

    • I never had DOTW underwear

      That question really threw me. What people would put the day of the week on there underwear. Is it really that hard to tell kids to change them every day?

  • Total Geek. Due to my experience with role playing, and my dislike of it, I didn't score higher. I know what role playing is, and several genres, but I don't participate.

    I just don't have the patience for role-playing. My attention span is relatively short, and most of the rules books are too complicated to make for short turns for me. I like RPG video games, but that's mostly because all of the paper-and-pencil turn stuff is built in. No dice to roll. No 'roll this other die for critical hit', etc.

  • My family's scores: (Score:3, Interesting)

    by slothdog ( 3329 ) <slothdog AT gmail DOT com> on Wednesday June 11, 2003 @12:40PM (#6172484) Homepage
    me: 43.58974% - Major Geek
    My wife: 32.74162% - Total Geek
    my 9 8/12 year-old daughter: 18.73767% - Geek
  • 33.72781% - Total Geek

    Reminds me of another test where the question numerals where in hexadecimal. I think even the scoring was. Probably a Nerd test ;-)

  • 31.95266% - Total geek, I think not being a Trekkie really penalized me, aswell as only having antenna TV.

  • 19.52663% - Geek (Score:3, Informative)

    by red5 ( 51324 ) <gired5.gmail@com> on Wednesday June 11, 2003 @01:34PM (#6173099) Homepage Journal
    Just over the line. I answerd a few of the questions no that I would have answered yes to back in 1998. I guess I'm getting less geekie as I grow up.
  • I personally felt that some questions were too generic across society, but whatever. After all, this is just for fun.

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