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I failed my first attempt. (You get two tries. I doubt I'll try again unless I'm *really* perfcrastinating.) "IntelligentPeople.com offers you the opportunity to meet and form relationships with people who, like you, have an IQ higher than the average person" seems to imply that your IQ need only exceed 100. - ⓞnor

Intimi-dating - and now they have all your answers. :) - torque

Not too hard, if you're into puzzles and this kind of thing. I'd be curious to see how well this site works if it ever reaches critical mass (there are only 8 women between the ages of 21 and 30 within 50 miles of Mountain View, and none of them logged in after 8/26. Not very promising). - Tudor Bosman

I'm a lapsed Mensa member (they admitted me based on my GRE scores, I never had to take an IQ test for them). I gave up my membership the month after I joined, when I received the first issue of some Mensa periodical. The quality of opinions stated in there didn't seem any higher than what you'd find in any reasonable online community; the smugness factor was much higher. Since then, I've been skeptical of IQ as a measure of, well, just about anything except for your ability to solve puzzles. - Tudor Bosman

I'm normally "into puzzles and this kind of thing", so now I'll have to try again just to scrape my ego off the floor. :) For the questions I could answer, it felt like they were using the same tricks many times. I wonder if ultra-niche dating sites rely on setting up LDR's or what, if this doesn't work in the SFBA 6 months after launch I can't imagine it will ever work anywhere. - ⓞnor

I passed, but their test is arrogant and poorly designed. My wife is at least as smart and intelligent as I am, but she wouldn't even bother to try. - andrei_c

I occasionally daydream about online communities with some sort of entrance exam (though I would not make it an IQ test!) but Tudor's Mensa experience reminds me of how that basically never seems to work. Better to have a place where you can select in/out what you do/don't like, i.e. FF. As far as dating goes, raw smarts is one of the few things I *could* quickly determine from someone's profile or a quick chat, seems like IQ is one of the least interesting pre-filters you could apply. - ⓞnor

Andrei: I agree with you on the "poorly designed" part (they do rely on the same trick over and over again, as egnor said). Arrogant? it's an experiment. Maybe being "into puzzles and this kind of thing" has something to do with the eventual success of a relationship, and if you don't want to give that a try, don't join the site. I don't particularly believe that; if my fiancee was as anal(ytical) as I am, we probably would have killed each other by now :) - Tudor Bosman

What's the gender ratio on this site? - Jim Norris

ⓞnor, if you failed the test, I call BS on their ability to gauge intelligence :) - Karl Rosaen

I "passed" on the first attempt though I've always been good at these sorts of things. I guess there are 9 women between 21 and 30 in a 50 mile radius of MV now? - Erica Baker

This is supposedly a website for intelligent people yet apparently it isn't designed by intelligent people. They just emailed me my password in cleartext. :-L - Erica Baker

Finally a dating community where my otherwise useless ability to rotate shapes and detect obscure patterns will be appreciated! - Alex Mendes da Costa

meh - j1m

Okay, I have redeemed myself by passing on my second try. For some reason my morning brain got their "rotation" trick but not so much their "XOR" trick. Also, I tried to figure out who each of you were. If you got a "flirt" from me, I guessed correctly. Otherwise, some poor person is maybe confused. - ⓞnor

"surreality is the only place I feel safe. wrapped in a blanket of illusions and loosely related visions. Contemplating the transcendence of soul through the dimensions." - Alex Mendes da Costa

Has anyone managed to make contact with any spatially-aware hotties yet? It's only giving me the option to send flirts to you ⓞnor. - Alex Mendes da Costa

Hey, are you insulting my intelligence? - ⓞnor

Thanks guys, although I don't swing that way... - Jim Norris

Further down my Google search for "best word ever" is "catawampus," an adjective that means "in a diagonal position or arrangement." Not sure if that describes you accurately :) - Bret Taylor

Gödel would say "indescribable". - DeWitt Clinton

But you can't describe something as "indescribable", because then you are inherently--merely through the act itself--*describing* something. - Nathaniel Payne

@Nathaniel - Yeah? Prove it. (Sorry, bad Gödel joke.) - DeWitt Clinton

If I successfully proved it, the world would implode. It's like mixing matter and anti-matter. - Nathaniel Payne

un-like! - Jim Norris

Is this for real? "Perhaps the most famous consumer of rodent cheese is US President, George W Bush. And although he cannot spell, pronounce, or even remember it, Fromage des Merdes is said to be his favourite." - Sanjeev Singh

LG: I think this is the first time I've EVER heard you utter anything remotely close to negative hahahahhaha - Mona N.

This is a relatively brilliant statement compared to many other statements Bush has made. - Sean McBride