oh wonderful. tickle 'VP' 136 here, high sucker quotient because I paid the 14.95 (in May '06). Just getting around to googling VP today. lmao. I wish I was the visionary philosopher that thought up this brilliant marketing scheme. I didn't consider myself to be so naive! BTW, my stats are BA in accounting, IT experienced, love sudoku and boggle & generally very competitive by nature. Myers-Briggs = ENTJ. I used to be a very driven and productive professional, but now own my own part-time business which I am too lazy to promote, but which gives me an excuse to waste lots of time online.

Do we need to have 2 separate clubs...1 for those who googled BEFORE paying and another consolation club for those who googled AFTER paying?

Aw shucks. The elitist feeling was definitely worth the 14.95 until my ego needed more strokes and went googling.

I think I'll leave my printed Tickle achievement certificate hanging on my wall, just for the irony

Right, hi, we all got here via Google - but did anyone look any further down the list of results?

Not too far and whoah, Google has a cached copy of the IQ results page showing that it (the Google search engine spidering software) is ALSO a visionary philosopher!

Excellent, I'm on a par with a giant online catalogue. I mean I could have figured Google for a Word Warrior or something but it isnt about to pass a Turing test. And you and I are all in the same little box, all as equally visionary as something that spends all day, every day, from now until the end of time reading web pages. Actually now I come to put it like that, given that I've read this far, it must be right.

Still not sure if I should feel good about it though. I shall philosophize(se?) about it just in case I'm missing out on a good thing.

I am only 15 years old and I, too, got "visionary philosopher." My IQ is apparently 133.
I took the test for a second take and came up with 140 (definately not accurate).
These scores were from the tickle version.

Does anyone know of any DECENT, free, online IQ tests? Maybe I will have to wait until I can take a real one.

Sure, I'm smart but that test was ridiculous.

Hi, I took the Tickle test and got 138, although I should add that I had taken it
several years ago and so I was obvioulsy at a bit of an advantage, forget what I got the first time
but obviouly less.
The question which really through me was the 'john likes' numbers eg 100 not 99, 400 not 300, 3600 not 3700
with 900 1000 1100 and 1200 as options.
This comes early in the test and it really threw me because I knew I 'should know' the answer and that it was
'staring me in the face', I guessed the right answer (for the wrong reason!!) which is 900 (all square numbers)
but it really pissed me off for the rest of the test, as subconsiously my brain was still trying to work it out!
(and I knew it was!).Another question I got wrong (well didn't know the reason for the right answer given I guessed corectly)initally was the :-

In a race from point X to point Y and back, Jack averages 30 miles per hour to point Y and 10 miles per hour back to point X. Sandy averages 20 miles per hour in both directions. Between Jack and Sandy, who finished first?

I just could not think clearly at the time but when I went back to it in a clearer frame of mind I figured it was sandy
fairly easilly.

A question which seems to have puzzled some was:-

Which one of these five things is least like the other four?
Plum
Grape
Apricot
Peach
Cherry

I figure this is grape because all the others have stones in them (I know I am right because eventually I got all 40 right=IQ 140? Yes? I don't believe you can get higher than 140 on this test.

Another question I would debate is:-

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; __________ is doing it.
Virtue
Luck
Happiness
Sanity
Nostalgia

I believe the answer is virtue however I prefer happiness (which is wrong in this test).
Virtue is *trying* to do it, you might try and fail but morally that is still correct.
Happiness fits because you would be happy if you did it, one presumes, or at least happier?
This is slightly flawed answers as you might just be a miserable bastard anyway whether you succeeded or not,
however the virtue is also a flawed answer because you might attempt to do it and fail, thus not doing it
under this condition could be considered virtueous?

So you could say the test compilers were virteeous in trying to produce a agod IQ test but I think they would have been
happier if they had succeeded!!! :O)

The swines!!

A couple of other points IQ tests can I believe have different scales so the 'max' on one might be 140 but 160 on another.

I scored 146 on one once but I think 140 is the max on the tickle IQ test? I also scored 132 on one after 2 pints :O))

Finally IQ has little or no value in the world of work!! Ever seem a job asking for a high IQ? Never!!!

You don't see many people with high IQ's driving around in Rolls Royces or living in mansions, but then who would want too?
People with high IQ's often to not value the materialistic things so much, they have higher ideals often.

i just took the tickle test and scored 133. the same score i recieved when i was 16 and graduated high school i am now 26 and own myown business with no college edu. i guess i made it alright. i never gave much thought to iq tests and just took it for fun. nice site. enjoyed reading everyone remarks..

Checked email, saw advert and one thing just led to another. Scoffed at the result, bulked at penalty payment, Google! But the posts seem either very smart or vaguely smart and funnier than average - so that makes time wasting ok. I like the things that Carlos and Diogenes said. But cheating with a pen and paper and repeat takes on a FAKE IQ test? Really! Do the real thing you cowards. I’m shocked and appalled. But you prefer fantasy than reality right? Who doesn’t?

Purely on the basis of such a test, I was singled out from my mates as being in the “will probably gain alienating and mindless employment" box. Now I’ve been put in the “just short of a genius” box, well isn’t that just wonderful – something at last to validate my existence. I’m just thrilled. I am no longer deprived of that artificial, smug, false sense of superiority and worth that I’ve craved or so long. Or is it that Tickle is an American site and highly intelligent Americans are the equivalent to slow Brits? Nah

I conveniently prefer to think that such tests are deeply flawed (let me count the ways). I havn't taken an IQ test since - and don't intend to. The result is probably more to do with education and culture. I'm not sure what good it is doing. Except perhaps to pick out the real genius – intelligence that money or education can't buy. Isn’t it amazing that there are so many geniuses about here?

I am thinking that this has more to do with personality or inclination, cognitive style – compulsively curious, prone to being distracted from remunerative occupation. Someone who gets their kicks from being led up blind alleys in pursuit of something more meaningful. Are there many amateur or even professional philosophers here? Guess what - this is all there is. The truth is not out there. But if you find it, I bow down in awe and respect - be so kind as to post the link.

Basically I’m experiencing an overwhelming and profound sense of indifference. I might go and try something constructive - like study philosophy. I’m grateful for a bit of a laugh. Cheers.

Jacqualine Clouseau CI

Hi, Works as expected, very good.
Thing is i use a Internet Explorer Autoconfiguration file 'proxy.pac' it seems that the 'copy settings from internet explorer' function does noet uderstand these files?
Or am i doing something wrong?

Mike

Thank you very much. I love SharpReader !

I took the Tickle Test last evening and got a score of 133. This is precisely the score I got in 1978 (almost 30 years ago when I was 23) in graduate school taking a Master's degree in education during a course on Intelligence Testing where we were all administered the Stanford Binet - that is the test where I was scored as having an IQ of 133. I always thought on-line intelligence tests were a joke - not any more.

I only wish that, after almost 30 years of working at the professional level and in living a challenging life, my IQ score would have improved!! But it has remained exactly the same.

Hi,

Sharpreader is really great tool. However, there is one feature that I'd like to see in the future versions: Please add support for feeds using Windows Authentication. We are having several internal blogs inside the company and those require authentication. Using basic authentication is not an option. So please add support for windows authentication. :-)

-J

Hi Luke,
many thanks for the perfect tool.
May I ask you? Is there the possibility to override 10 minutes refresh rate? Sometimes man need shorter response.
Thank you.

Hi Luke, any chance you can add an option to support auto proxy configuration urls?

Hi there!
You wrote about spammers - i read your article and i also read your users comments - and i have to say two words - first of all atribute rel=nofollow doesn't solve the problem - coz many spammers are using scirpts to spam blogs so they're spaming everything with relnofolow or without it - PR and high position is one thing - and traffic is second thing - so rel=noffolow solve the first problem but there's also second unsolved problem - so i think the best protection is antyspam plugin - there;s many of them. And i see you have here right now a spamm problem above - so i strongly recommend installing one of those plugins

Sorry. One more thing. Would it be possible to have a lower refresh rate?

Wow! What a great product! This software is extremely accessible with my screen reader! One suggestion. It would be nice if you could choose a wav file to play upon an alert. This would come in handy because I can't see the alert when it comes up. This could also be used if someone is in another room near the computer and wants to be alerted to any RSS updates.

Well, hello folks! I too am a Visionary Philosopher with an IQ of 138.

I too googled "visionary philospher".

I had taken an online IQ test several years ago. That particular test was timed and I received a score of 139. So when I got news of my 138 score I felt it was fairly legit.

My smartest choice, though, was not shelling out the 15 bucks.

Glad to be part of the club guys :)

Hi Luke !

First thing. I would just like to say that you made a great piece of software.

I have just one problem with it so far.... Data directory... Could you make this configurable? I mean one option in Configuration to where to put files? Problem is that I would like to run two instances of SharpReader, one that will be active and get all RSS feed, and another one, that is copy of data directory of one other computer, which won't be live (won't get any feeds but I will look through old ones).

I think that someone called Allan has already requested feature like this, but there was no reply so far (I think).

Thanks for all your good work...
Andy

Is there a way to make it work with protected LiveJournal feeds that use HTTP Digest auth ?

Well, since IE is merged in with Windows, browserbased viruses/trojans will have a much easier way in.
Firefox will still be safer.

Setting up a black hat community could be, in a lot of ways, a good thing. But not disclosing the vulnerabilities won't do any good for the internet.

Hey - this is a note to let you know you have another satisfied SharpReader customer here - I really like it.

But I still have suggestions :)

1) Add some basic browser control buttons to the preview pane (Back, Forward, Refresh)
2) maybe also add a "show in new browser window" button to the preview pane too.
3) an option to have 3-column view (like Outlook 2003 default view)

Thanks dude!