by Graendal on October 12th, 2004
Although everyone thinks it's Steven Hawking with an IQ or slightly over 200, it's actually Marilyn vos Savant with and IQ of 228.
Please be sure to note however, that results can very from test to test and from day to day.
There is no set way to measure intelligence as there are too many aspects to take into account (memory, problem-solving, etc), so don't put too much faith in your IQ rating. You could easily score 140 on an IQ test and still seem dumber than the dog next door. :-)
by camper grass on December 18th, 2005
On a more modern level, the highest IQ ever recorded was by Marilyn vos Savant with 228; however that is a mental status ratio IQ (used for children). Adult IQs are measured by standard deviations, in which her adult IQ would compute to about 185, which is lower than famous chess master Bobby Fischer (187).
Other contenders would be Leonardo da Vinci, estimated at ~200. Another would be William James Sidis, estimated also at a similar level. Statistically speaking, the highest possible IQ would be a probability of about SD 6.7, or 1 in 100 billion (total number of people who ever lived). In SD IQ, that is about 200. Thus, theoretically speaking, that is the maximum IQ possible. All the preposterous stories about people with IQs of well over 200 are impossible. In fact, no one has probably ever reached an adult IQ of 200.
There are, however, close contendors. An example of an ultra-elite group of intellectuals would be the Giga society, which accepts people only with an IQ of 196 or higher. This would mean a 1 in 1 billion probability. Currently, there are 6 members, which would technically mean these are the 6 smartest people in the world.
by lightfly on October 26th, 2006
The highest rating of a person that was very intellectual may have never been recorded. I believe that the prize goes Albert Einstein. I mean think about it, he helped come up with the theory of relativity! I have posted two links on this subject. He was also the person of the century.
http://www.einstein-website.de/z_information/variousthings.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
by Anonymous on October 6th, 2006
Funny, if you do a search on Goggle for William Alfred Quannigton the ONLY thing that turns up is this page, if this person had this IQ would there not be something somewhere about him on the net, I beleive one of the above posters is writing some type of fantasy
by me a loser on June 20th, 2005
no i.q tests can really measure intelligence . the most intelligent person may not have given any iq tests at all . the iq tests too are very unscientific . i think einstien had the maximum iq but it was never recorded !
by Amina Jacobs on October 9th, 2004
Marilyn VosSavant has an IQ of 228, which is the highest recorded IQ in history. She has a weekly trivia column in Parade magazine (part of the Sunday LA Times) which is how I know of her.
by trampp on September 21st, 2008
who really knows...iq tests are limited by many things
by GiraffeyedDonor-ish on December 10th, 2007
I believe it's one of these two people:
Marilyn vos Savant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_vos_Savant#IQ
William James Sidis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James_Sidis
by Tom 47 is back in his bear COAT on September 27th, 2007
I think it was Albert Einstein,...186. Measured at Princeton University, in the forties. I don't know what test they used.
by TDS_NYC on September 1st, 2007
I think this fascination with the IQ "high score", as seen above in Mr. Anderson's book topic, is silly, and I say this being an adult that tested above 200 when in college. Incidentally, the "Anderson" top 10 is inaccurate.
Why not stop hiding behind these labels, and try being more productive in society. It's what we do, not what we think we can do that really matters.
TDS_NYC
by Anonymous on August 15th, 2007
Chuck Norris= IQ of 6000
by qwertpoiuy1234509876 on May 4th, 2007
how much percentage of the world population took te IQ test???? I GUESS THE MOST INTELLIGENT PERSON IS YET TO BE DISCOVERED
by Theo4Trinity on February 2nd, 2010
This article is incorrect. The highest IQ ever recorded is Billy Sidis.
by mike on December 26th, 2007
The highest IQ was also that of Iqbal Saleh Abba. It was 235 and this was the ceiling so far for living adults tested under strict psychological supervision of a very highly qualified psychologist. vos Savant has inflated her IQ- her childhood score in Missouri was 186. Hoeflin who connived with her to promote his pseudo Mega test contrived the score with false statistics and illogical statistics to 228 or even 230.
by jessica725 on December 24th, 2007
It is a common misconception that Marilyn vos Savant has the highest IQ in the world. Althought "Graendal" is correct that her score is indeed 228, that score is only one of 2 types of IQ scores. By the terms of the IQ scores that most of the people know as our IQ, Marilyn only has an IQ of 186.
Thus, the person who has the highest IQ is actually a South Korean by the name of Kim Oong Yong, holding an Guiness Record of an outstanding IQ of 210.
by Sarabian on October 10th, 2007
IQ test alone does not establish inteligence. The really intelignet people are those with IQ of above 160 and at the same time of certain other qualities like orderly mental faculty which allows them to think totally defferently from others and to produce new ideas which others could only wonder. On this term I belive Leonardo Davinci must be crowned as the most intelligent person ever.
by Henry - ACS on October 9th, 2007
I'm fairly certain there is a 200+ IQ score but if you think <0.5% of the population are 140 or above, that means about 4 standard deviations, so 10 points is about 1 deviation, a 200+ score is 10 standard deviations
7σ 99.99999999974 %
That's...
74 people in every 100 billion people will have an IQ of over 170, if the assumptions I have made above are correct :)
by Imsmart on October 9th, 2007
350+ IQ would be like 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 percentile right?
by Cowboy-Matter of Fact on September 1st, 2007
I have no idea but I know Billary, Moore and Gore have to be in the bottom 10 percentile.
by Anonymous on November 8th, 2006
To quote Socrates: I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance
by WiseUser on October 18th, 2006
The highest IQ ever recorded is probably what people are wondering about. I have found that the highest IQ ever recorded is Marylin Vos Savant, however I do not believe this statement. Her IQ was 228 and was tested when she was a child, wich means the test she took when she was a child was a simple test made for children. The test she took when she was an adult was 186, and it was not taken as a test for children, but for adults. I have found that she negates to the idea of taking the test again, (she probably is afraid of losing her record.) I believe that the smartest person that ever lived was god, nonetheless his IQ is estimated 350+.
by WiseUser on October 18th, 2006
The highest IQ ever recorded is probably what people are wondering about. I have found that the highest IQ ever recorded is Marylin Vos Savant, however I do not believe this statement. Her IQ was 228 and was tested when she was a child, wich means the test she took when she was a child was a simple test made for children. The test she took when she was an adult was 186, and it was not taken as a test for children, but for adults. I have found that she negates to the idea of taking the test again, (she probably is afraid of losing her record.) I believe that the smartest person that ever lived was god, nonetheless his IQ is estimated 350+.
by benmdc on July 9th, 2009
Ben Da Costa 255
by Informed on August 19th, 2009
The highest IQ ever RELIABLY recorded belonged to South Korean Oong Yong Kim. Unlike Marilyn Vos Savant whose IQ was measured in her 40's and skewed by her advanced age, experience, and education, Mr. Oong Yong Kim was more reliably tested when he was a mere 4 years of age. He got into the Guinness Book of World Records for this feat. But the Records officers never take into account that the more reliable IQ measurements are done at childhood ages with no skewing factors.
And unlike James Siddis who no longer has the prodigal gift in mathematics amd has never been tested or verified to fluently speak several languages as a child, Mr. Oong Yong Kim, on the other hand, has been reliably verified as both a mathematical prodigy and a multi-fluent linguist since the ripe old age of 4 years. Moreover, during a 1960's television show in Japan, Oong Yong Kim performed integral calculus mentally (without pen or paper), composed poetry, and fluently mastered 4 languages at the age of 4, without the benefit of any academic education or institutional training. His mental age being that of an extraordinary Ph.D. graduate of 26 years of age would lead one to believe that his theoretical IQ was way over 600 points!!!!! Measure it yourself mathematically below:
[(mental age)/(chronological age)] x 100 = IQ
Oong Yong Kim's theoretical I.Q. is calculated below:
IQ = [(mental age of 26)/(4 years of age)] x 100 = 650
Oong Yong Kim undisputed highest ranking IQ is supported by his South Korean people's HIGHEST IQ RANKING IN THE WORLD as independantly verified by various scientists in England, Finland, Austria, and Zurich/Switzerland in 2002, 2003 and 2004. Moreover, South Korea has consistently scored the highest math and science test scores in the world from the 1990's to the present day. And if that wasn't all, South Koreans were ranked by Harvard University as the most competent race on earth!!!!!!!! What more proof does anyone want in regards to this subject matter. I mean really!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I rest my case.
Informed
by Cerebral Stud on January 21st, 2009
Mine is! I got a 145 on tickletest.com!
by Alchemist on March 25th, 2009
Without doubt, my cat Niblick. His IQ is 50. Given that 1 human year is reputedly the equivalent of 7 cat years, Niblick's real IQ is 350.
by Issac Newton on January 23rd, 2009
Mine of course. I will have posted my psychiatric results that were administrated by Harvard. I got in when I was fifteen because I could do set matrixes and even proposed a soultion to the Ryeman Hypothesis. They were amazed that I could MULTIPLY five digit numbers in my head and memorized 150,000,000 digits of PI. Because I am only in my tenties, I am still unknown. I speak French, Spanish, Latin, Hebrew,German and Albanian.
Go to mdbo.webs.com and leave a commpent+ view the papers.
My IQ is 259.
by Anonymous on October 1st, 2009
I had a pretty good IQ with an estimated 167. I learn languages quite easily and known as a polyglot, I have translated many vernacular.
by The Anonymous Witch on October 30th, 2009
atheist ;-)
by Anonymous on October 30th, 2009
The scale only goes to 200, and it becomes wildly inaccurate close to that. +5
by TheBubba on January 3rd, 2009
Sorry Graendal, but you are incorrect.
Marilyn Vos Savant has a verified IQ of 186 (which places her at about 5 on the list)
The highest is Kim Ung-yong with a verified IQ of 210
by Henderson on October 30th, 2009
mine, it's 2500
by Jahono on October 30th, 2009
Hey man, your comments would be better served if they were related to the discussion.
by Anonymous on October 29th, 2009
It's strange how nobody even bothered to mention Kim Ung-Yong, who has a verified IQ of 210.
By the same standards, Marilyn Vos Savant has a verified IQ of 186, not 228.
So it's actually Kim Ung-Yong who holds the record for highest IQ ever, according to Time and Guinness.
by bob b on October 6th, 2009
157
by A Pleb on August 18th, 2008
I do not have the time to read all the answers, of those I have no one has said:
The most intelligent people will never be detected by an IQ test - they would not be so stupid as to let the world know how clever they are.
Mensa Morons?
A Pleb
by Bobby Dias on September 27th, 2006
What IQ test you using? Somebody gets a highest IQ- then somebody else makes up an easy test to make more money. I have taken at least 50 different IQ tests.They are getting easier and easier, to me.
The College Board gives 18 years of age and young(and age liars) an easy SAT test. And then they started giving retests- as many as anybody wants.
by Micah187 on September 23rd, 2006
These answers of 300 are crap, because they are all estimated. The lady from Parade took a child's IQ test, so that is crap also. I believe that the 180-200 zone is is the area where the world's smartest score. Although it is possible to go above 200, there is no documented proof! There are most likely around 150 people living today with an IQ of 185 and above (Not to brag, butI happen to be one(187)). This is why the 300 stuff is bull, I would estimate that the highest exact IQ ever recorded was around 199.
by abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz on April 3rd, 2007
this is a very easy answer!!! Its easily George Bush!!! but i took an IQ test just the other day and i scored a 178 with filling answers in...so i dont really think they are a reliable source to test how smart someone really is...
by ViktorMacedonia on April 4th, 2007
Well, I really dont know about that. But can somebody link me a web page where I can do a real IQ test online?
Although I have a question for u? Im 17 now, and I did an adult IQ test when I was 15. I scored 168, and my father 156. I just want your opinion about that?
by anonymous on August 15th, 2007
Here you go....www.answerbag.com/q_view/9550 ;)
by WHAT_IF on July 24th, 2007
I find your question very humorous. Based on some assumptions I have about why you would like to know. Let me list a few ways in which you have not viewed this question:
Many psychologists and scientists will not disclose the actual scores of IQ tests.
Does a recorded IQ score measure the person’s productive thinking versus their reproductive thinking?
How do the recorded IQs measure divergent and convergent thinking ability?
Who decided definitively how to measure intelligence?
How does an IQ test measure how many ways a person can conceive of something?
Should the true record of intelligence be the amount of useful creations, inventions, theories, etc offered by these individuals? Based on that I feel any test that shows that Marilyn Vos Savant (Ask Marilyn Columnist) is more intelligent than Leonardo Da Vinci to be flawed. Recorded IQ is flawed human measurement. The only times I ever received IQ tests were during my times in the hospital when some psychologist wanted to know why therapy was not very effective on me. Because after three different levels of IQ test even repeating the last one twice just to make sure they were reading it right, MMPIs, and other tests. I can tell you that they were very concerned about me and said I measured higher than both of the therapists in the room combined. Alas, they still never told me my actual score. See I had the ability to think of hundreds of clever ways to stay sick. Despite my intelligence I haven’t nor will I likely ever do anything to help humanity in anyway. So I asked myself if I was truly intelligent how come I haven’t thought of a way in which I would enjoy it? If I was truly intelligent why can I not think of clever ways to fool myself out of my bad habits? I was able to find my way out of my insanity by changing how I thought. I think you get the point. Remember Lex Luthor from Superman? I ask you what good was his intelligence. He never thought of a way to do good things with it? All the intelligence in the world is worthless without the will to use it for the benefit of others. Although I must say I can see how Savants willingness to help others directly with her intelligence is very intelligent. Anyhow...
I certain you can think of many things more important than IQ :-)
by Anonymous on December 10th, 2007
George W. Bush has an I.Q. of 90.
by jessbabe25 on November 20th, 2007
me.
by forkevbot on January 21st, 2010
My lord you are ALL fools of course the smartest people in the world would never reveal their full intelligence to the public for fear of harassment. I know for a fact the smartest man who ever lived was Jesus Christ. If you beg to differ, then you trully know nothing. If in fact he was not the sun of God i know for sure he was a person, and to be able to manipulate all of man kind like that and be lieing. He must have been extremely intelligent. FOR PETES SAKE WE DATE OUR YEARS BY HIS BIRTH!!!
by Lu_The_Prodigy on January 7th, 2010
Fun challenge - I got a score of 135 at 24 years old. Idid the test on the internet and was under the influence of lets say... Alcohol when I took the test.
Anyone care to estimate my ACTUAL IQ?
by forkevbot on January 21st, 2010
For petes sake its jesus christ u fools. If he was the son of god he is unimaginably smarter than all of us. If he wasnt then he somehow managed to manipulate all of man kind with his intelligence. ONLY A FOOL WOULDNT THINK THIS. WE DATE OUR YEARS TO HIS BIRTH!!!
by DeanDaughrity on January 24th, 2010
Marilyn vos Savant did score 228 on one of the IQ tests she took (the highest ever recorded). She scored 186 on another IQ test. There have been less than a dozen people in history that have ever scored above 200. Steven Hawking and Albert Einstein both had IQ's around 160+ (not 200+). Many of the worlds great geniuses excell only in a given field such as math or physics but may have only average intelligence in other areas. An IQ test covers numerous areas and averages the highs and lows for a total score. A lot of the worlds most intelligent people never took IQ tests. It has been widely accepted the greatest "universal genius" that ever lived was probably William James Sidis (1898 - 1944). His IQ is estimated to have been "well over" 250.
by jessbabe25 on November 20th, 2007
me.
by camper grass on December 18th, 2005
Actually, if Heinrich Von Fersen was talking about Jesus Christ, then he was more or less correct. According to this website: http://www.angelfire.com/ut/JesusChrist1/iq.html
Based on biblical scriptures and his interactions with others, his IQ might have ranged from 300-450.
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Incidentally, Marilyn vos Savant is a columnist in Parade, called "Ask Marilyn."
by Answers101 on February 27th, 2006
Did not know Hawking's test score. Sounds possible. Einstein's was the record I knew of,...186. Savant's score is bogus. Mensa wrote a disclaimer.
by Tom 47 is back in his bear COAT on September 27th, 2007
It is a common misconception that Marilyn vos Savant has the highest IQ in the world. Althought "Graendal" is correct that her score is indeed 228, that score is only one of 2 types of IQ scores. By the terms of the IQ scores that most of the people know as our IQ, Marilyn only has an IQ of 186.
Thus, the person who has the highest IQ is a South Korean by the name of Kim Oong Yong, holding an Guiness Record of an IQ of 210. He is currently a professor at a provincial college in Korea and has a degree in civic engineering. He learned calculus at 3, spoke several languages at 4, and graduated from Colorado State University with a PhD in physics before he turned 15.
by jessica725 on December 24th, 2007
If you are going by feats of being a prodigy, William James Sidis has everyone beat. He could learn a language a day,and knew about 200 languages in his adult life.Regards his academic background, and more feats, he also has everyone beat. Estimated IQ: 250-300.
Source:
http://www.quantonics.com/The_Prodigy_Review.html
by ThePrince on December 10th, 2008
To: ThePrince.
Knowing many languages doesnt make you intelligent. Launguage is just a vessel torwards learning. Many grammer/language teachers can be some of the most ignorant people. Knoledge is knowledge no matter what language its in.
by MikeVee on July 16th, 2009
William James Sidis could alot more than speak and learn languages.
Allready as a baby he showed exstrodinary skills, he started to say words weh 6 month old, eating with a spoon without help at 8 month, he could spell at 1 year, red the new york times at 1½.
started typewriting at 3. learned the great alphabet at 4 and red Hómer at 4.
learned aristotles Logic at 5.
At 6 he could calculate in his head wich day every date in history was.
learned anthomy at 6 and could pass a medical excam.
it took him 7 month at the age of 6 to go from 1'th grade to 8'th grade.
At 8 he was better at math than his father who was geni and psykoligy proffesor at harward.
Between 4 and 8 he wrote 4 books to about anothomy and and two about atronomy.
Passed the Harward Anothomy exam at 7.
Passed for MIT at 8.
I could go on and on, later he also predict the existence of black holes.
he lived from 1898 to 1944.
by Zang on August 18th, 2009
haha '1th grade' - sorry really funny in a discussion about smart people :p
by Jahono on October 29th, 2009
Really interesting discussion though
by Jahono on October 29th, 2009
Hey man, your comments would be better served if you could spell, capitalize, or used proper grammar.
by kingkool on October 29th, 2009