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**Ratius**

http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/what-level-geek-are-you

300, albeit somewhat, cheesy questions.

94/300 here.

"figurines"? LOL, I'll shove one down your throat ya big jock gakker

**cincydooley**

81. I thought at the beginning that it was going to be much higher.

**pretre**

Was just commenting on how bad the quiz was on facebook.

**Beer_&_Bolters**

127/300 for me.
Would have been a lot higher if i'd read Harry Potter or Game of Thrones. Or watched Dr. Who.

**Trondheim**

I got 18, not much of a nerd I suppose

**pretre**

Trondheim wrote:
I got 18, not much of a nerd I suppose

I find that score unlikely. Even just from the thread titles you've created you have a higher score than that.

**Talizvar**

155 out of 300.
I am a bit scared: am I half geek?
Middle of the road geek?
Many questions I would be afraid to admit to answering yes.
I was feeling like I was indulging my inner "Sheldon".
Love the picture of 'Moss" from "The IT crowd" at the end.

**Wyrmalla**

52, and that's with most of the points coming from the computers bit (the hell is Ruby?) . ...I guess I just don't do as much stupid crap as others. =(

**Jinx Magiga**

84/300

I haven't even hear of half the things on that list though

**privateer4hire**

43/300. I think I am getting old.

**chromedog**

109/300

Not caring about M:TG, harry potter, comics in general or game of thrones probably let me down.

**weeble1000**

117/300...I thought I wasn't much of a geek, but seeing the ratings of others I'm not so sure. I mean, some of those questions should really be weighted, right?

Oh, darn it...having just written that I should probably up my total to 118 for critiquing the reliability of the questionnaire.

**Laughing Man**

167. Doesn't help that it's biased towards a few specific examples of each genre.

**1hadhq**

35/300

Hoped for less.

**Glaiceana**

85; "You’ve got the makings of a great geek. Maybe you’re still testing the waters a bit, but you definitely share a lot of interests with nerds. Stop denying your true nature."
If I had been into comics I probably would have scored higher, its not that I don't like them, just never really got into them xD

**Xca|iber**

91/300

But some of those questions should be given additional weight, and some should get less. Also, this pretty much only covers really mainstream geek categories. (i.e., there was a greater quantity of questions about GoT, MTG, and comics than say, video-game modding, Stargate, etc).

Also, a lot of the "follow-up" style questions didn't apply to me for the specific subject mentioned, but would apply for a different question (such as some of the "do you know this phrase by heart?" questions).

But hey, I already knew I wasn't that obsessive as a geek... except that I took the time to analyze the relative merits of a silly online quiz...

**gohkm**

95/300. Guess my geek creds haven't gone away over the years.

**ironicsilence**

pretre wrote:
Was just commenting on how bad the quiz was on facebook.

i did the same today

**Darth Bob**

99/300

Mostly comic and gaming stuff.

**Eggs**

131. I know im a geek though.

**Lt.Soundwave**

160/300

I am dissapoint

**Shredsmore**

27/300

I guess I'm not very geeky lol.

**Nevelon**

131. Not bad

**Chaos Legionnaire**

25 out of 300.
Well, that's a relief, I guess....

I do agree that some of these questions should carry more weight than others.

**mattyrm**

I cant believe people take the time to fill these bloody things in!

I was at about 40/80 by the time I got bored and fethed it off though, and that was basically just from reading comics. I would presume that any busy reader would break 100 just off books and graphic novels alone.

**cLrK**

35/300. Seems about right; going to echo others in this thread and say that some questions should be worth more

**The Grumpy Eldar**

109/300. Lots of stuff are a huh in that list. Game of Thrones is overrated and MTG is plain out boring in my eyes (just like most cardgames) so a lot of that fell off. Plus DC/Marvel comics do not get sold here.

Edit: Would be 130 actually. Forgot some questions.

**Tannhauser42**

128/300 for me.

**fursphere**

125/300

I knew of almost all the books there, I just haven't read a lot of them (yet).

**TheAuldGrump**

Laughing Man wrote:
167. Doesn't help that it's biased towards a few specific examples of each genre.

165 out of 300 - you beat me.

And, yeah - it is way too heavily weighted, and is, I think, aimed at younger geeks than I. They left FORTRAN out of the computer languages, and APL! You don't get geekier than APL! (APL stands for 'A Programming Language' GNU was not the first geeky name, either.)

No questions about 'Have You Ever Written A Program On Punch Cards?'

This is all... all... Pop culture geeks!

*Sputter! Fume!*

The Auld Grump - my first programming course was on an Altair....

*EDIT* And no history geek questions! Where is Ada Lovelace, for the love of all the ones and zeroes?! Where is Rotwang?!

No mad science geekery questions! No 'Have you ever built a Tesla Coil? No 'Have you ever made an X-Ray machine?' No 'Have you ever made an atom smasher?; (Well, we tried - the darned thing just would not hold a vacuum.)

No questions in Fennish!