The Nerd/Geek/Internet Test
Check the box next to the statement/question if you have, ever thought about, or see yourself performing that statement/question.
Each one of these statements/questions relates to being a Nerd, Geek, or an Internet Freak. This test will calculate each factor and tell you which one you are most like.
  1. You kiss your girlfriend's home page.
  2. Your bookmarks takes 15 minutes to scroll from top to bottom.
  3. Your eyeglasses have a web site burned in on them.
  4. You find yourself brainstorming for new subjects to search.
  5. You refuse to go to a vacation spot with no electricity and no phone lines.
  6. You finally do take that vacation, but only after buying a cellular modem and a laptop.
  7. You spend half of the plane trip with your laptop on your lap...and your child in the overhead compartment.
  8. You dream in HTML.
  9. You find yourself typing "com" after every period when using a word processor.com
  10. You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, like you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
  11. You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading.
  12. Your heart races faster and beats irregularly each time you see a new WWW site address in print or on TV, even though you've never had heart problems before.
  13. You step out of your room and realize that your parents have moved and you don't have a clue when it happened.
  14. You turn on your intercom when leaving the room so you can hear if new e-mail arrives.
  15. Your wife drapes a blond wig over your monitor to remind you of what she looks like.
  16. All of your friends have an @ in their names.
  17. When looking at a pageful of someone else's links, you notice all of them are already highlighted in purple.
  18. Your dog has its own home page.
  19. You've already visited all the links at Yahoo and you're halfway through Lycos.
  20. You can't call your mother...she doesn't have a modem.
  21. You check your e-mail. It says "no new messages." So you check it again....and again.
  22. You refer to your age as 2.x
  23. Even though you died last week, you've managed to retain OPS on your favorite IRC channel.
  24. You code your homework in HTML and give your instructor the URL.
  25. You don't know what sex over three of your closest friends are, because they have neutral nicknames and you never bothered to ask.
  26. You laugh at people with 2400 baud modems.
  27. You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop and check your e-mail on the way back to bed.
  28. You tell the cab driver you live at http://123.elm.street/house/bluetrim.html
  29. Your virtual girlfriend finds a new net sweetheart with a larger bandwidth.
  30. Your friends no longer send you e-mail...they just log on to your IRC channel.
  31. Your wife makes a new rule: "The computer cannot come to bed."
  32. You are so familiar with the WWW that you find the search engines useless.
  33. You get a tatoo that says "This body best viewed with Netscape 3.0 or higher."
  34. You never have to deal with busy signals when calling your ISP...because you never log off.
  35. You ask a plumber how much it would cost to replace the chair in front of your computer with a toilet.
  36. You forget what year it is.
  37. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.
  38. You ask your doctor to implant a gigabyte in your brain.
  39. You leave the modem speaker on after connecting because you think it sounds like the ocean wind...the perfect soundtrack for "surfing the net".
  40. As your car crashes through the guardrail on a mountain road, your first instinct is to search for the "back" button.
  41. You decide to stay in college for an additional year or two, just for the free Internet access.
  42. Every single time you press the 'Get mail' button...it does get new mail.
  43. You press it again, and again, and new mail keeps arriving.
  44. You start using smileys in your snail mail.
  45. The remote to the T.V. is missing...and you don't even care.
  46. You create a homepage with the impression to cure the afflicted...but your hidden agenda is to receive more e-mail.
  47. Your hard drive crashes. You haven't logged in for two hours. You start to twitch. You pick up the phone and manually dial your ISP's access number. You try to hum to communicate with the modem. You succeed.
  48. Your cat always viruses your dogs homepage.
  49. Your blood is 17% Java.
  50. ISDN lines are added to your house on a hourly basis.
  51. Your ISP regards you as a business partner rather than as a customer.
  52. You find yourself dialing IP numbers on the phone.
  53. Have you ever used a computer that did not have Windows 3.0 or was not a Macintosh?
  54. Have you ever programmed a computer in BASIC?
  55. Have you ever programmed a computer in PASCAL?
  56. Have you ever programmed a computer in C or C++?
  57. Have you ever programmed a computer in Assembler?
  58. Have you ever written a program more than 1000 lines long?
  59. Have you ever written a computer game (including video games)?
  60. Have you ever infected another computer with a virus intentionally?
  61. Have you ever used UNIX?
  62. Have you read email in the 24 hours?
  63. Have you ever installed new hardware on your computer?
  64. Have you ever built or repaired your own computer?
  65. Have you ever spent more than 8 hours programming a computer?
  66. Have you ever spent consecutive Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings programming a computer?
  67. Have you ever left a really cool party because you wanted to be on the computer for any reason?
  68. Have you ever taken a derivative?
  69. Have you ever taken a partial derivative?
  70. Have you ever solved a triple integral?
  71. Have you ever solved a Determinant Matrix?
  72. Do you know what a Prime Number is?
  73. Have you ever taken a Reimann Integral?
  74. Do you know how to add the numbers 1, 2, 3, ... 100 in less than one minute using just a paper and pencil?
  75. Have you ever taken a limit?
  76. Have you ever seen a fractal?
  77. Do you have Pi memorized to more than 5 digits?
  78. Do you have e memorized to more than 5 digits?
  79. Have you ever integrated a function that was discontinuous at one point?
  80. Do you know the first seven Prime Numbers?
  81. Can you find the area of a circle of radius r?
  82. a sphere of radius r?
  83. from x=0 to x=1 for y=x^2?
  84. Have you ever entered a math competition (math team, American Invitational Math Exam, and so on?)
  85. Have you ever won something in a math competition?
  86. Is your Math SAT score above 600?
  87. above 700?
  88. 800?
  89. Do you know the Quadratic Formula by heart?
  90. Do you know the polynomial formulae for sin(x) and cos(x) by heart?
  91. Have you ever taken a calculus-based science course?
  92. Did you ever enter a science fair?
  93. Did you ever win anything in a science fair?
  94. Do you know Avogadro's Number?
  95. Do you own your own lab coat?
  96. Have you ever solved an equation for oxidation-reduction reaction?
  97. Do you know Maxwell's Equations?
  98. Do you understand Einstein's Theory of General Relativity?
  99. Have you ever felt left out at a party?
  100. Have you ever been called a nerd, geek, loser, wimp or other similarly derogatory comment?
  101. Have you ever seen "Revenge Of The Nerds" and identified with the main characters?
  102. Have you ever asked a question in a class?
  103. Have you ever corrected a professor in class?
  104. Do you usually sit in the front of the class?
  105. Have you ever gotten straight A's in a semester/term/quarter?
  106. Have you ever gotten BETTER THAN straight A's in a semester/term/quarter?
  107. Have you ever made a technical joke?
  108. If you even bothered to load this page.
  109. Have e-mail addresses on more than 3 servers.
  110. For fun you think up funny domain names. (My favorite is "www.dot.com" get it? dot-dot-dot-com, I kill me!)
  111. ....and have checked to see if they exist!
  112. Have more money invested in your computer than your car.
  113. Think people who can't set the clock on the VCR are pathetic.
  114. Have ever included :-) in an e-mail message.
  115. Have thought up about 100 smiles more clever =(8^)
  116. Have ever used a computer for more than 6 straight hours (while not at work)
  117. Have ever used a computer past 4AM.
  118. Own more than 6 computer books thicker than 2 inches.
  119. Just measured books in an attempt to dodge the above.
  120. Find yourself interupting computer store salesman to correct something he said.
  121. Have ever helped computer store personnel with software.
  122. The first thing you notice when walking in a business is their computer system.
  123. You know more IP addresses than phone numbers.
  124. Friends use you as tech support.
  125. You log more hours with your ISP than your work.
  126. You subscribe to more than 4 comp.* newsgroups.
  127. Have ever named a computer.
  128. Co-workers have to email you about the fire alarm to get you out of the building.
  129. Have ever found "stray" diskettes when doing laundry.
  130. Your computer has it's own phone line - but your teenager doesn't.
  131. You check the national weather service web page for current weather conditions (rather than look out the window)
  132. You have made your ISP completely rethink that "unlimited access" thing.
  133. You get really excited when Yahoo adds your link.
  134. You consider writing a program to change your backgroud/screensaver regularly.
  135. You have ever modified an ini file.
  136. You have ever made a program give you a an error message that says "(reserved error -###) there is no message for this error"
  137. You are suprised that there are other real foods besides pizza.
  138. If you have ever dozed off while at the computer.
  139. Have ever emailed yourself.
  140. The tech support folks at your ISP call YOU for the tough ones.
  141. You have more than one copy of the same version of software on your machine.


GJ's Score for the Nerd/Geek/Internet Test
AreaPercent
Internet73.07692307692308
Nerd96.36363636363636
Geek94.11764705882354
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