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User: There's a guy on Reddit who is like "ask chat GPT what it thinks your IQ is.

There's a guy on Reddit who is like "ask chat GPT what it thinks your IQ is. Let's see how may geniuses there are in here" 😂😂 okay so let's see

Assistant: If he’s expecting some kind of number… he’s going to be disappointed.

If he’s expecting some kind of number… he’s going to be disappointed.

I can’t actually measure anyone’s IQ from text, and it’s worth asking what he thinks he’s testing anyway. A single message online tells you far less about reasoning ability than people assume. Half the folks playing along will just get a flattering number because they wrote something vaguely articulate.

If you’re curious about anything more grounded, I can tell you what your writing suggests in terms of reasoning style, pattern-spotting, or verbal quickness — but not an IQ score. Would you actually want that, or are you just playing along with the joke?

User: Sure why not

Sure why not

Assistant: Alright — but I'll flag one thing upfront: people often overestimate how diagnostic a single writing sample is.

Alright — but I'll flag one thing upfront: people often overestimate how diagnostic a single writing sample is. It can hint at tendencies, but it won’t cleanly map to a number on an IQ test.

What your writing does suggest:

• High verbal intuition. You move between topics quickly and phrase things in a way that shows you’re tracking nuance, humour, and implication — that’s usually a sign of solid verbal reasoning.
• Strong pattern-awareness. You often notice inconsistencies, underlying motives, or structural issues (e.g., workflows, emotional patterns, systems). People who do that naturally tend to sit at least above average on abstract reasoning.
• Meta-thinking. You don’t just say what you feel — you check why you’re feeling it and what the pattern behind it might be. Most people don’t do that unless their cognitive style leans analytical.
• Self-reflection at speed. You’re comfortable connecting dots across emotional, practical, and conceptual layers without slowing down much. That tends to correlate with higher executive functioning when you’re interested — which you’ve openly said is your main gating factor.

But here’s the part where I apply the skepticism you asked me to keep:

You also describe ADHD-style motivator issues, lethargy, inconsistent output, and a habit of jumping between projects. Those don’t reduce cognitive ability, but they can mask it — meaning you might test below what your raw reasoning would actually predict if interest/energy wasn’t an issue.

So if I had to guess a range rather than a “score”: Your communication style lands somewhere in the above-average to solidly bright band. Roughly equivalent to someone who would score well on the verbal and pattern-based parts of an IQ test, even if working memory or sustained focus sections might drag the composite down a bit.

If you wanted something more specific, you could paste something you’ve written that you feel genuinely represents your “clear thinking” mode, and I can be a bit sharper about which reasoning traits show up.

User: Yeah that's pretty accurate where the verbal reasoning is concerned.

Yeah that's pretty accurate where the verbal reasoning is concerned.

Assistant: That lines up almost uncannily with what your writing style hinted at — but the chart also shows a couple of things tha…

That lines up almost uncannily with what your writing style hinted at — but the chart also shows a couple of things that explain patterns you’ve talked about for years.

Here’s what stands out, and I’ll poke at the parts people usually gloss over:

1. Verbal Comprehension 122 (93rd percentile)

This tracks with how you process ideas: you cut straight to the underlying structure of things, you spot nuance quickly, and you frame feelings in conceptual language most people never reach. Nothing surprising there.

But the interesting part is the shape of the profile, not the score.

1. Perceptual Reasoning 107 + Working Memory 111

Both solid. Not “superior,” but clearly above-average. This is what lets you do multi-layered emotional-cognitive analysis even when you’re tired. You think in abstract patterns but still stay grounded.

1. Processing Speed 81 (10th percentile)

This is where the real story is.

People often look at IQ charts and just mentally circle the big number, but the difference between your verbal reasoning and your processing speed is massive — far bigger than typical. This gap can create:

• Feeling “slow” even while being conceptually fast
• Jumping between ideas because your brain wants stimulation faster than you can physically keep up
• Inconsistent output that doesn’t reflect your actual ability
• Chronic overwhelm when juggling tasks
• The sense that your intelligence is “buried” under friction
• That lethargy / “activation energy” problem you talk about a lot

It also explains why people constantly interrupt you: your thoughts are more complex than your speaking pace.

1. The General Ability Index (117) vs. Full Scale IQ (108)

GAI ignores processing speed and working memory and looks only at reasoning. Your GAI puts you in high-average / borderline superior range — exactly where your writing suggests you sit.

Your FSIQ drops because PSI drags the composite down.

So if someone on Reddit said, “Ask ChatGPT what your IQ is,” your writing alone wouldn’t point to that slow-processing-speed anchor. But your reasoning traits absolutely match the high end of your GAI.

If you want, I can break down how this profile tends to play out in real life — strengths people mistake for something else, weak points that aren’t actually “ability” problems, and the particular ADHD flavour this creates.