From one of my mailing lists, for today’s polling pleasure, I present to you: How nerdy are you?.
My score was…
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What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:
All hail the monstrous nerd. You are by far the SUPREME NERD GOD!!!
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Dude, when did this happen? I was so cool in high school. Really. I mean, I dressed cool, I acted cool, I was cooler than cool. I was so cool, I was chilling. Hip, ph4t, l33t, and all that good cool, non-nerdiness.
Wait, no. I was a cheerleader. In Drama. And Show Choir. I just dreamed that I was cool and popular. That’s right.
Now it’s time to go back and try to select the least-nerdly answers. I think it was knowing the speed of light in meters per second, and knowing what element Mn was (I memorized the periodic table in high school, and that’s one I remembered) that pushed me over the top…
Post your nerdliness here, if you take it 🙂
–Ok I am so ashamed. I took
–Ok I am so ashamed. I took the test and the grand total was… 69% scored higher than me and 31% scored lower which means I am NOT nerdy but DEFINITLY not hip. I am so ashamed. I so wanted to be a nerd. LOL Teresa the Flautist
well…
You’ve kissed Matt “Nerd God” Barnson though… so that should be worth a few nerd points. To prepare for next time you take the test: Go install Firefox. If you don’t know what Firefox is just trust me. Now use it exclusively.
If you don’t have any spare computer parts go get some. Or just take the computer you have now and dissasemble it.
Get glasses. Wear them.
Read an article on computer history and memorize the chronology of Commodore Computers.
Find 3 answers to the following question: What impact has Steve Wozniak had on your life this week?
Learn to use an abacus.
These tips will get you started. You’d better get going, you have a lot of catching up to do in this group.
–THAT IS JUST SO WRONG!!!!!!
–THAT IS JUST SO WRONG!!!!!! BUT FUNNY. Teresa the Flautist and fire dancer
NOT NERD
Opposites attract, huh? I took this test, only to help Teresa feel better about not being a nerd. Someone has got to be normal!
My score was a whopping 19% So 81% are nerdier than me. I’m so not a nerd that I couldn’t get the score to paste onto this comment. Where’s Matt when I need him, anyway? Two floors up? I’ll leave it the way it is.–
Christy
Not A Nerd Either
I don’t feel so bad now. 84% scored higher than me. I wanted to be a nerd too.
Angela
Nerdome
50%
Bust some of the science stuff I needed for nursing..
I’m a male nurse..
Crap, I lose.
Yikes!
I took it and scored 97!
Honestly, I was surprised. I’m certain that Matt is far more technical than I am. Also, he’s more handsome. And, he can totally kick my butt in FPS games.
So in my defense, I claim that this test isn’t sufficiently accurate to measure the depths of one’s nerdity. I suggest this one: http://www.innergeek.us/.
Alas, I fear that by knowing this only confirms how hopeless things are.
* Worst first post EVER *
Technicality
I don’t think the test was measuring technicality, but instead the way you look at life. Like, for instance, there are two right answers to one of the questions. In E=MC², E is Energy, M is Mass, while C is both “the speed of light” and about 250 million meters per second. If you choose “the speed of light”, it lowers your score a bit, while if you choose “I don’t know”, your score goes even lower. So you get points for being exact, and (I think) for responding “looked it up” to the question of “What is Mn?”. Because not knowing it, and wanting to be right on an online poll so Googling it, is even nerdy-er than knowing the answer off the bat 🙂
So instead of it being one of those polls where there are “right” answers, he’s weighting them differently. I think I lost points because I go out with my wife every Friday night.
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Matthew P. Barnson
Not terrible I guess
I thought…
Man, Jon, I thought you’d score way lower. Nerd in jock’s clothing, perhaps? Closet-nerd?
Then again, you weren’t nerdy in school or the military (what could be less nerdy than military service?), but you’re more nerdy now, maybe :). Working for an IT consulting company, planning your home theater system, doing volunteer set crew work for a local high school…
Nerds run the planet. Good on ya!
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Matthew P. Barnson
–Shocked is all i can say!
–Shocked is all i can say! Teresa the Flautist and fire dancer
What is shocking about it ?
What is shocking about it ?
Just curious ?
JB
Jock
I think it’s because you were seen as a “jock” back in school, not a “nerd”.
I suspect I was firmly in the “nerd” camp, but the nerds wouldn’t take me…
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Matthew P. Barnson
–He’s right. I remember you
–He’s right. I remember you being the football playing set builder. I would have never thought you had interest in computer’s. I think it’s great when someone understands them. I on the other hand remain blissfully ignorant. Teresa the Flautist and fire dancer
You managed…
You managed to figure out how to join an online community, register, and post, Teresa.
That makes you nerdier than roughly 99.99% of the world’s population 🙂
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Matthew P. Barnson
lol
lol — Teresa the Flautist and fire dancer
Hmm
I scored an 80/20. I think if I had taken this before I was married, I coulda scored in the 90s. Thank my wife for reducing my nerdiness…
My $.02 Weed
I dont understand..
I got a 84/16??? How is that possible, and I work in IT. If I let my boss know that I’m only 16% nerdy, I could get fired…
— The One-and-Only Bryan Gregg