So you think you are smart, maybe a MENSA?

Answer this question and I will tell you whether your IQ way above average. (This is from one of the questions in a MENSA test).

What is the criteria used to separate these letters into 2 categories?


A.....|
B.....|
......|.....C
D.....|
E.....|
F.....|
G.....|
H.....|
......|.....|
J.....|
K.....|
L.....|
M.....|
N.....|
......|.....O
P.....|
Q.....|
R.....|
......|.....S
T.....|
......|.....U
V.....|
W.....|
X.....|
Y.....|
Z.....|

Will answer later, if no one guesses. BTW, no I am not a MENSA, but my ex, or should I say hex guessed right away. (Smart, but not kind)

Edit: It didn't come out right...had to fix. Still doesn't look great. I should have used HTML. Too lazy.

When they're written by hand, anyway. The others have more than one part, and have to be written/drawn with two strokes or more. That's my story and I'm stickin' with it.

and don't feel like showing off?

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all rounded letters? Hmmm......

That's it. You got it while I was logging in!

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So J could also be a letter that is written with no intersections.

basis of my IQ test...LOL. I probably couldn't pass the regular test!!!

I liked the gals in Mensa...the men I knew were all computer geeks and had poor social skills. My favorite Mensa acquaintance was the gal who was a truck driver!!

However, I must say, I was very partial to the annual pinball tournament that we ran down at the old Asbury Park boardwalk during the summer.

just curious.. i used to really be into tests and stuff when i was younger. my depression-addled brain doesn't work as well lately.

what's the IQ cutoff anyway? i've tested everywhere from 128 to 152..

accepts anyone in the top 2% of the population. You can request their tests if you want to take them.

The ones in the column on the right don't.

by a decreasing difference.

Between C to I you have six letters. Between I to O you have six letters.

Then it shrinks to three, then to one.

and with such terrible graphics.

We have 2 winners folks:
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marshallplan

Congrats!

Answer: All the letters to the right of the bar are done with only ONE stroke.

but wouldn't you say that that's a direct outcome of their not having straight lines? Otherwise, you could do "L" or some versions of "J" with one stroke, too.

Unless you want a demented "C". I will give you the "J" because w/ certain fonts...yeah, J can be writted w/ one stroke.

I should have done this quiz using HTML to make it more fair.

in both columns. Nowhere in your initial post does it say handwritten. My answer was correct, even if it wasn't the answer you were looking for. Every letter in the left column has a right angle or an acute angle in it. None of the ones in the right column do.

others are written with one stroke: L, M, V, W, Z

I think the more rightful answer is that those five letters (C, I, O, S, U) are the only letters without intersections (assuming a non-serif style of writing, which is an assumption you'd have to be making anyway to say that those five letters are writting with only one stroke).

I think mensa is wrong on this one.

O is all curve.

See my posts above.

You're the one who pointed out that the left ones have the intersections/corners. Not sure why are debating yourself here.

I said the same thing (though I used the word "intersections") in agreement with you.

Now you tell me I'm wrong.

My idea of an intersection is like in these letters
T R Y H F X
etc

These letters have, in my view, corners but not intersections
D Z N L
etc

Clear as mud?

http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/intersect

and I agree, use of "intersection" was not as good as "corner".

But it seemed your issue went beyond that. Glad to see that it didn't!

But I think my answer in post #15 was rather clever. :-)

And the other is the set of all letters NOT including C, I, O, S, and U.

I'd have said "multiples of 3" or "divisible by 3" except S is 19... S is the proverbial black sheep to my thought process here.

The letters for the acronym US CIO... though there's no I in the US these days when you consider my "I" means "Intelligence"...

They ARE all odd numbers. Though that is wrong because there are other odd numbers in the opposite column...

Dunno. :-(