Well, that was kind of lame...

[mdlbear]

(ganked from shaddyr)

Comments

[braider.livejournal.com]

So what you're saying is that the person who wrote the quiz isn't very computer savvy?

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've no idea what the scoring mechanism is there, I know some of the answers I gave were nowhere near ubergeeky and I got 100% too.

'course, real computer geeks don't spend time making up lame quizzes. :)

[mdlbear]

Precisely. I've seen better.

[mbumby.livejournal.com]

I was only 77. Waaah. And worse, compared to the people in my age group, I'd have scored a lot lower. (Closer to 72?)

[phillip2637.livejournal.com]

I like the rollover that says, "My computer geek score is greater than 100% of all people in the world!" Leading me to wonder what planet the author thinks you live on, and whether he's ever heard of boundary conditions. :-)

[mdlbear]

I actually had to copy that from the alt text -- idiot test writer didn't know about the title attribute. Feh!

And I especially liked the way he inserted "html" into the list of programming languages, as if he thought it belonged there.

[chatworthy.livejournal.com]

I too got 100%, and I really should've scored in the 90's, 'cause I don't host my own webservers.
Maybe I got extra credit for longevity? Or maybe it's not a percentage. Or maybe it's just release 1.0.

[mdlbear]

I shaded the truth a little on that one: I host several of my own websites, but not a blog per se -- yet. There will be several in a week or two.

Not to mention the fact that I had a website that was essentially a blog long before the term existed.

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

85.
I have no idea where they got that from. I don't program much of anything but the microwave oven and the VCR. Still getting that 12:00 to stop flashing is more than most people can do. :D
Then again, I do blog and 100 percent of my job is done at the computer, including almost all communication.
And I've used computers a loooooonnnnnngggggg time.
It definitely is a weighted quiz though, pegged at 100. Which explains your score.

[mdlbear]

Yeah, the 100 is a percentile of test-takers, or maybe of people in general, not a percentage of right answers.