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Take this IQ test free online, with instant results. Your score, your percentile and a breakdown by question type appear the moment you finish, with no email and nothing to unlock. It is a free online IQ test of 33 reasoning questions, scored the same way for everyone. Read on for how to check your IQ, what the questions look like, and how to tell whether an online IQ test is real.
Your IQ score, how you did on each kind of question, and an explanation for every question you missed.
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Sample report
After you finish, you can go through every question you missed, with the right answer and why it is right.
A real report for raw scores of 14, 3, 4, 2. The marked stretch on each bar is the typical range for that section, and each small square is one question. Yours is drawn the same way from your own answers.
A set of reasoning problems whose score is placed on a scale where 100 is average. This one has 33 puzzles across four kinds of reasoning, takes most people about 9 minutes, and shows your score the moment you finish.
An IQ score, your percentile, and a breakdown across matrix, series, verbal and numerical questions. It opens on the results page with no email and nothing to unlock.
Satisfying real curiosity, seeing how your reasoning compares, and a first read before a supervised test such as Mensa's. It also makes a fair warm-up for aptitude tests at work.
Diagnose anything or replace a psychologist's assessment. It cannot see creativity, judgement or persistence. Online scores also run higher than supervised ones, so read yours as a position on this test.
Your IQ is a position on a scale where 100 is the middle. To find it, you take a reasoning test scored against that scale, whether you call it an IQ test, an intelligence test or an IQ quiz. Five steps get you the truest reading from this one.
Most people finish in about nine minutes, and there is no time limit. Silence notifications and close other tabs before you start.
Rushing costs more than people expect. In our US data, people who finished in under two minutes averaged about 30 points lower than people who took ten to fifteen.
Twenty of the 33 questions are matrix puzzles. Look for what changes along each row, then check that the same rule holds down each column.
The test runs in 12 languages, and the verbal questions depend on reading them well. If English is not your first language, choose yours from the language menu at the foot of the page.
A second attempt usually scores a little higher, because the questions are familiar by then. Your first calm attempt is the fairest read.
Only an assessment by a psychologist gives a clinical IQ. An online test gives you a well-founded estimate.
Four kinds of reasoning, each question multiple choice with four options. None of it needs specialist knowledge.
There is no time limit. Taking your time helps more than most people expect.
A grid of shapes with one cell missing. You find the rule that runs across the rows and down the columns.
Number and letter sequences, a counting puzzle, and a rate problem built to punish the first obvious answer.
An opposite, a synonym, an analogy, and the word that does not belong with the others.
Everyday data questions: a percentage change, an average and a median, taken from small tables.
Try one
What comes next in the sequence? 3, 7, 13, 21, 31, …
43. The gaps between the numbers grow by two each time (4, 6, 8, 10), so the next gap is 12, and 31 + 12 = 43.
A practice question, not one from the test. More practice questions with answers
Original research
After the last puzzle, and before the score appears, we ask each person one question. Then we line the answers up against the scores. Six results stood out.
Score compared with people of the same age and country
Each dot is about 5 adults. The bright line marks each group's average.
01Confidence
People sure they would ace it scored below average
We asked 30,075 people, before they saw their score: Before you see it: where do you think your score will land?
Adults who expected to land well above average scored 4.3 points below the adult average. The people who guessed one step lower, above average, beat them by 8.4 points. Only 7% of adults made the boldest guess.
See how well people guess their own IQ02Sleep
The longest sleepers scored 9 points lower
We asked 31,169 people, before they saw their score: How many hours did you sleep last night?
Adults who slept nine hours or more the night before scored 8.7 points below the adult average. The top group was not the well rested: it was people on five to six hours, 10.6 points ahead of the long sleepers. One question cannot say why, so read it as a pattern, not as advice.
See IQ scores by hours of sleep03AI use
Daily users scored 5 points below occasional users
We asked 30,491 people, before they saw their score: How often do you use ChatGPT or another AI assistant?
Adults who use an AI assistant a few times a week scored highest, 3.3 points above the adult average. Daily users landed 4.9 points behind them. The lowest group never uses AI at all, 3.9 points below average.
See IQ scores by AI use04Device
A dead heat. But computer users beat phone users by 6 points
We recorded the device on 185,649 first attempts: iPhone, Android, Windows PC, Mac or iPad, Chromebook
Adults on a Windows PC scored 6.1 points above adults on an Android phone, and 5.2 above iPhone users. Mac against PC? A dead heat, 0.1 points apart. iPhone did edge out Android, by 0.9 points.
See IQ test scores by device05Star signs
People who know their sign scored 5 points higher
We asked 29,158 people, before they saw their score: What's your star sign?
Adults who did not know their sign scored 5.4 points below those who named one. Which sign made no difference: all twelve landed within 2.8 points of each other, and none could be told apart from another.
See IQ test scores by zodiac sign06Cats or dogs
Too close to call. But people who love both beat people who like neither
We asked 31,650 people, before they saw their score: Cat person or dog person?
Adults who said both scored 2.6 points above adults who said neither. The old argument stays unsettled: cat people and dog people were 0.6 points apart, too close to call.
See cat people vs dog people IQ scoresMethod
Every figure above comes from people who took the test on this page. Nothing is modelled, and nothing is borrowed from other sites.
Read the full methods and download the dataAverage IQ by country
Here are the ten highest averages on our test. Then the part national IQ tables leave out: how little separates one country from the next.
Score index for adults. The UK sample is 100, and one question is worth three points.
Score index, UK sample = 100
Each bar is the gap from the UK sample, and the thin line is the 95% range. The ten are 2.8 points apart from first to tenth, and the first seven cannot be told apart from one another. 58 of the 76 listed countries sit within one question of the UK.
96.9% of the variation in scores is between people in the same country
That is across 74 countries. Only 3.1% of the variation lies between one country and another.
All the variation in scores across 74 countries
The same thing in test points
Standard deviation, test points
How we gathered it: 406,401 first attempts by adults, 20 July 2026 to 29 September 2026, adjusted for age. A country is listed only when its figure is reliable, and 76 qualify. The split above leaves out Indonesia and Malaysia; across all 76 it is 16.9%.
Average IQ by country: all 76 countries and the methodIt is a real reasoning test, built on published research and scored the same way for everyone. It is not a clinical assessment, and it does not pretend to be one. Here is what that means for how accurate your score is.
Every question counts the same. Each right answer is worth three points, and 16 or 17 correct out of 33 lands at about 100. Nothing is weighted or curved, and your score is worked out the moment you finish.
Drag to see how each answer moves the score.
The scale stops at 55. Below that, a score reads 55.
The 33 questions are built on the International Cognitive Ability Resource (ICAR), an open bank of reasoning items that psychologists developed and published for research. Twenty of them are matrix puzzles, which depend on finding rules and holding them in mind. Researchers have also tested how these open measures behave in large online samples.
It gives a fair estimate of how well you reason through these kinds of puzzles on the day. Reasoning scores predict later school results fairly well, but they cannot see creativity, judgement or persistence, and this test cannot diagnose anything. Average scores have also risen from one generation to the next, so read yours as a position on this test, not a fixed quantity.
No online test gives an official IQ, and unsupervised scores usually run higher than supervised ones. Psychologists give the Wechsler scales or the Stanford-Binet one to one. Mensa accepts its own supervised test or approved earlier results. How to qualify for Mensa
Your score, your section breakdown and an explanation of every question you missed are free, with no email and no card. The only thing for sale is an optional certificate and report, paid once. It is not a subscription.
100 is the middle of the scale. Every 15 points is one standard step away from it, so two people in three score between 85 and 115.
The top of the scale, and the range that high-IQ societies such as Mensa look for on a supervised test.
Well above the middle of the scale. On a short test, a few questions either way can move a score in or out of this band.
Above the middle of the scale, and a strong result on these puzzles.
The middle of the scale, where half of all scores on it fall. For everyday life, this range is simply normal.
A little below the middle. On an online test, rushing or reading in a second language can pull a score into this range.
Well below the middle. One short online test says little here, and a calm retake on another day often reads differently.
The bottom of the scale. A result here on a short online test is not a diagnosis. If it worries you, a psychologist can give a full assessment.
Labels are the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-IV) bands on a scale with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. Every percentile from 55 to 160 is on the IQ scale chart. What a specific score means
Yes. Your score, percentile and section breakdown open on the results page without an email, an account or a card. We earn money from an optional certificate and report. You can ignore both, and nothing in your result is held back to sell them.
About nine minutes for most people, and there is no time limit. Rushing costs more than people expect. In our US data, people who finished in under two minutes averaged about 30 points lower than people who took ten to fifteen.
Anything from 110 up is above average, and 120 puts you ahead of about nine people in ten. The usual Mensa line, 130, is reached by about one person in fifty. For everyday life, anything between 90 and 109 is simply normal. The IQ scale chart has every percentile.
No. MyIQTested is an independent site with no connection to myIQ.com or Cerebrum IQ. Here your score, percentile and breakdown appear without an email or a card, and nothing is charged unless you choose to buy the optional certificate.
Both: half of the first-time takers who tell us their age are under 18. Read a child’s score with care, though. Everyone is scored against the same reference point, so a child’s number is not adjusted for age the way a clinical test is. For school gifted testing, our CogAT practice test is closer to what they will actually sit.
Yes, as often as you like, but expect the number to move. Of 894,632 people who took it twice, 35.1% changed by ten points or more, and very high first scores usually came down. A calm first attempt is the fairer read.
By counting correct answers and placing the count on a scale where 100 is the middle. Here every question is worth three points, and 16 or 17 right out of 33 lands at about 100. The reference point is fixed rather than re-estimated from takers, which is one reason online scores run high. The old formula, mental age divided by real age, only ever worked for children.
Your score is worked out in your browser. Like most sites, we keep anonymous usage records, such as scores, timing and approximate country, and publish only aggregate figures, such as our research pages. You do not need a name or email to take the test. The detail is in the privacy policy.
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