How Nerdy Are You?
Are you a nerd? Are you a nerd and proud of it?
Let’s see how nerdy you are. Using Weird Al’s “White & Nerdy” as a general guide to nerdiness, I’ve developed this list of questions:
Are/were you first in your class at school? +5
Are/were you first in a class at school? +3
Ever played D&D? +3
Own any M.C. Escher art or books? +3
Do you drink hot tea? +3
Do you drink Earl Grey tea? +2
Still have your action figures in their original packaging? +3
On display? +3
Own a book by Stephen Hawking? +3
Have a page on MySpace? +2
Know pi to ten places? +3
A hundred places? +3
A thousand places? +3
Play Minesweeper instead of Solitaire? +3
Download and run the latest new software? +3
Do you know Pascal? +3
Do you do Calculus or any math for fun? +3
Ever used a soldering gun (or iron)? +3
Can you beat your friends and family in trivia games? +3
Are you fluent in JavaScript? +3
Are you fluent in Klingon? +5
Do you own a Segway? +5
Do you collect X-Men comics? +5
Do you collect any comics? +3
Have you ever worn a pocket protector? +5
Do you edit Wikipedia? +5
Can you quote any lines from Monty Python’s The Holy Grail? +3
Do you know HTML? +3
Do you have a webpage for your pet? +3
Do you own a fanny pack? +3
Do you wear it? +3
Were you in the AV Club? +1
Were you in the Glee Club? +2
Were you on the Chess Team? +3
Were you in the Math League? +3
Were you a member of any honor society? +2
Do you prefer Picard over Kirk? +5
Or, can’t decide between Kirk and Picard? +3
Do you own a copy of the Star Wars Christmas Special? +5
Do you wish you did? +3
Have you ever been bowling? +3
Did you go willingly? +3
Scoring
Highest possible score: 124.
What’s your score?
Mine is 43. That makes me about 35% nerdy.
I haven’t determined what different percentages should mean, but I welcome your ideas in the comments!
Hmm, so I’m the first to comment on a post titled “How Nerdy Are You?” HAHA. Yeah, I’m 41%…shoot, almost capped you. Knew I should’ve mail-ordered that Segway….
If you have 41%, you’ve got me beat. I only had 35%.
I got me a 55 score. That doesn’t make me too nerdy, eventhough I was the most popular geek in high school and uni….
Thanks for stopping by!
A “popular geek”? Isn’t that an oxymoron?
I got 46
See, now I’m going to expect you not to get the science wrong in your Twisted News stories.
I scored 36… but then,
I learned higher math using a slide rule.
I was the first in my department to have a computer on MY desk.
I’ve controlled the fission process in a nuclear reactor.
I was the the fairwater planesman on a planned emergency surface of a nuclear submarine.
I wore a pocket protector before pocket protectors was uncool.
You win.
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OMG! I got a 78! I’m a loser!
I got a 58%. It makes me sad.