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Take the Nerd Test
By Great White Snark | June 8, 2007
For a long while now, I’ve been pretty liberal about swinging my sarcasm stick at unwitting and mostly-defenseless nerds. My (admittedly-flimsy) defense against charges of hypocrisy has been that I am much more geek than nerd. Today, I put that position to the test, and I’m glad to say that–while my confidence has been shaken, slightly–I have been affirmed. I am only “lightly nerdy”. A healthy 59% of the population enjoys graphing calculators more than I do.
Click on the score to take the test yourself. Let me know if you beat my score. You know… so I can feel better about myself and have someone to poke fun at.
UPDATE: Reader Nickolai pointed me to the THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST. I wish he hadn’t. The results accuse me of being a “modern, cool nerd,” in spite of my geek score outweighing my nerd score (56% Nerd, 60% Geek, 13% Dork). Sigh. Stupid, broken tests! Oh, well… at least I’m not a dork.
For The Record:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored better than half in Nerd and Geek, earning you the title of: Modern, Cool Nerd.
Nerds didn’t use to be cool, but in the 90’s that all changed. It used to be that, if you were a computer expert, you had to wear plaid or a pocket protector or suspenders or something that announced to the world that you couldn’t quite fit in. Not anymore. Now, the intelligent and geeky have eked out for themselves a modicum of respect at the very least, and “geek is chic.” The Modern, Cool Nerd is intelligent, knowledgable and always the person to call in a crisis (needing computer advice/an arcane bit of trivia knowledge). They are the one you want as your lifeline in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (or the one up there, winning the million bucks)!
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June 8th, 2007 at 8:52 am
I scored a 35, but I refuse to believe I am less nerdy than you. I’m sure my totally un-nerdtastic GPA in college pulled down my overall score.
June 8th, 2007 at 10:48 am
I refuse to believe it, as well.
June 8th, 2007 at 11:00 am
Wow. I scored 32. Nerd wannabe. It apparently means my nerdiness is “not nerdy, but definitely not hip.” Tell me something I don’t already know.
June 8th, 2007 at 11:44 am
Oh, you’ve got to be kidding me. This new test ranks me Pure Nerd: 69 % Nerd, 17% Geek, 21% Dork. Can I really be more nerdy than GWS?
June 8th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Holy crap, I got Joe Normal.
June 8th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Ok, it’s official. This test is all awry.
June 9th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
No no GWS, I believe I’ve joined the realm of “the normals”. Sorry, I’ve got to go off to some party… or something that normals do.
June 9th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Congratulations. Let me know what it’s like…
June 10th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
That’s more like it: 65 % Nerd, 34% Geek, 34% Dork.
I take issue with the equal weightings to Geekhood and dorkiness though. I’m much more geek than dork (i hope).
June 11th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
wow. a 19. not nerdy at all. i’m in shock. i’d like to organize a conference call with every girl i went to school with from the ages of 9-15 and inform them of this fact.
June 11th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
19? That’s barely on the scale. I’m surprised you’re able to interpret and understand half the things on this site.
Or. Maybe you can’t. Which is all-the-better for you.
August 30th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
i scored a 53
omg im a nerd XD
i thought im a nerd wannabe …..i thought wrong T_T
March 26th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
OMG I cant believe I got a High-Level Nerd… over 87 percent -depressed- I’ll be waiting for you to laugh at me…