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Title: How geeky are you?
Post by: vaskidmark on July 29, 2013, 01:38:46 PM
http://toys.usvsth3m.com/how-geeky-are-you/

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Your final geek rating is:

88%

Smartypants! Why are you mucking about with stupid personality quizzes instead of solving the world’s energy problems and genetically engineering flies that can find their way around windows?

How can this be?  I am the cave-painting boy for Ludditism.

stay safe.

Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: AZRedhawk44 on July 29, 2013, 02:22:14 PM
I only rated 83%.  You out-geeked me.
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: lee n. field on July 29, 2013, 02:37:50 PM
A "3" floppy" is obviously incorrect.
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: AZRedhawk44 on July 29, 2013, 02:38:44 PM
A "3" floppy" is obviously incorrect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#Other_sizes
Title: Re: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: makattak on July 29, 2013, 02:42:20 PM
Well obviously I'm a different sort of geeky because when I saw "Ajax", I immediately thought of the Iliad.
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: Fitz on July 29, 2013, 02:45:46 PM
83 as well
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: MillCreek on July 29, 2013, 02:47:15 PM
Hmm, I am only 83%, too.
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: Nick1911 on July 29, 2013, 02:49:10 PM
86%
Title: Re: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: lee n. field on July 29, 2013, 03:04:52 PM
Well obviously I'm a different sort of geeky because when I saw "Ajax", I immediately thought of the Iliad.

That too.
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: RevDisk on July 29, 2013, 03:07:07 PM

97%.

I think I got the floppy question half wrong. Amstrad CPC was before my time.
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: BlueStarLizzard on July 29, 2013, 03:08:19 PM
I'm not a geek. Duh...

43%. Weird thing is the discripter implied I was good with phone apps but couldn't manage Windows Word help section.

I can do Windows Word and I know how to ax the damn paperclip pop up help thingy, but I almost never put new apps on my phone.
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: T.O.M. on July 29, 2013, 03:22:24 PM
46%

Gotta say this quiz was slanted towards computer geeks more than other types (SciFi, Comics, etc.).  Computers are a tool for me, not my thing.
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: Tallpine on July 29, 2013, 03:39:57 PM
I write software for a living, but I would rather be out riding my horse than taking quizzes on the computer  :P
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: lee n. field on July 29, 2013, 03:40:07 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#Other_sizes

I see 2 extremely obscure 3" disks, that I have never heard of before this day.

Ever seen the 2.5" that Zenith put in their early '90s micro laptop?
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: HankB on July 29, 2013, 03:44:50 PM
73%

Been in tech for decades, but not as a programmer.
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: erictank on July 29, 2013, 05:37:17 PM
46%

Gotta say this quiz was slanted towards computer geeks more than other types (SciFi, Comics, etc.).  Computers are a tool for me, not my thing.

Yup - this was a computer-geek quiz. I only got 87%.
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: BobR on July 29, 2013, 05:42:10 PM
34%

Now I will go do some more "not geek" (you know.....manly)  stuff.   ;)   =D    [popcorn]
 
bob
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: Stetson on July 29, 2013, 07:13:24 PM
94%
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: Monkeyleg on July 29, 2013, 07:44:05 PM
Well, at least BobR beat my 36% as worst (or best?) on the forum so far.
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: Triphammer on July 29, 2013, 07:45:46 PM
41
 Surprised it was that high.
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: Perd Hapley on July 29, 2013, 07:47:46 PM
48%

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You’re just “meh” with technology. One minute smugly downloading a cool new smartphone app to show off, the next staring in despair at the Microsoft Word help system to write a simple letter.


Because I answered honestly. I know that 01000000 was probably supposed to be a binary number, but that wasn't the first thing to pop into my mind. And so on.
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: RoadKingLarry on July 29, 2013, 07:50:29 PM
93%
I owe a good bit of that to APS influence =D

This from the guy that has to wear gloves to keep his knuckles from getting scraped up when I walk around.
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: cassandra and sara's daddy on July 29, 2013, 08:00:40 PM
36
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: Jim147 on July 29, 2013, 08:01:38 PM
79%

Just geek enough to get myself in trouble.

jim
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: BobR on July 29, 2013, 08:31:21 PM
Sweet, I'm still in the lead with the lowest!!!!   =D


Probably because I took less than a second to answer each one, just the first thing that popped into my mind.


bob
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: Neemi on July 29, 2013, 09:40:20 PM
Only managed a 27%...

First thing you think when you see "SI"

I think "yes." That wasn't an option. :facepalm:
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: Monkeyleg on July 29, 2013, 09:51:10 PM
Only managed a 27%...

First thing you think when you see "SI"

I think "yes." That wasn't an option. :facepalm:

That's what I thought at first, too. And I don't even live in California.
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: BobR on July 29, 2013, 11:11:16 PM
With a heavy heart, I must relinquish my crown, but the less geeky has claimed it.

BTW, SI is yes, I don't care what they think it means!


bob
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: Sindawe on July 29, 2013, 11:21:15 PM
68 percent. Test is too chiphead oriented.  Nothing about phospholipid bilayers, shell filling order by electrons in the transition metals or sediment accretion rates on deep ocean plains.
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: Scout26 on July 29, 2013, 11:35:31 PM
59%.  I need to spend more time with the Amish.
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: Perd Hapley on July 29, 2013, 11:39:07 PM
BTW, SI is yes, I don't care what they think it means!


That was the first thing I thought, as well.
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: ArfinGreebly on July 29, 2013, 11:44:06 PM

95% . . . oh well.

I don't know what I missed (possibly the Amstrad thing).

It doesn't seem like there are enough questions to achieve scores of both 95% and 97%, I wouldn't have thought the granularity was there.

Of course, there's always the possibility that the questions are weighted.

Had to guess at the soundtrack question -- I has no audio on this box.
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: Perd Hapley on July 30, 2013, 12:10:22 AM
Had to guess at the soundtrack question -- I has no audio on this box.


Oooh, a workstation. Geek cred for you.
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: Jim147 on July 30, 2013, 12:17:08 AM

Oooh, a workstation. Geek cred for you.

I had to answer what music to that one myself but I always cruise APS with the sound off. Have you listened to some of things you people link to?

jim
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: lee n. field on July 30, 2013, 12:34:53 PM
68 percent. Test is too chiphead oriented.  Nothing about phospholipid bilayers, shell filling order by electrons in the transition metals or sediment accretion rates on deep ocean plains.

Or for that matter, ancient near eastern treaty forms.  More than one way to be a geek.
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: Hutch on July 30, 2013, 05:57:13 PM
Damn.  I'm not the fastest horse in the glue factory.  I obeyed the letter of the instruction, picking the firstest thing I thunk, not trying to choose the nerdiest possibly correct answer.  Fwiw, i took my first course in programming in 1972.
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: grampster on July 30, 2013, 06:34:14 PM
31.  Can somebody come over and turn on my 'puter.  My grandson went home.
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: Hawkmoon on July 30, 2013, 10:08:46 PM
I'm not a geek. Duh...

43%. Weird thing is the discripter implied I was good with phone apps but couldn't manage Windows Word help section.

Not to worry, Liz. I beat you in ungeekness.

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Your final geek rating is:

41%

    You’re just “meh” with technology. One minute smugly downloading a cool new smartphone app to show off, the next staring in despair at the Microsoft Word help system to write a simple letter.
Title: Re: How geeky are you?
Post by: Perd Hapley on July 30, 2013, 11:45:16 PM
...not trying to choose the nerdiest possibly correct answer. 


This.