Comments on: So Easy, Even a Mefite Can Do It

So Easy, Even a Mefite Can Do It

netbros — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:47:34 -0800

The Idiot Test. [not idiot-ist]

By: nola

nola — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:54:05 -0800

Hey it worked!

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:56:39 -0800

The only way to win is not to play.

By: danb

danb — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:01:49 -0800

I like the "pass" and "fail" tags, but I wonder if that sets a bad precedent. Will all text links have "read" and "dontread," all YouTube links have "watch" and "dontwatch"?

By: Science!

Science! — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:05:54 -0800

I are teh stupid.

By: gubo

gubo — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:07:15 -0800

Since a square is a type of rectangle, I thought I was going to get bonus points by clicking on one. (Yep, I'm an idiot.)

By: bjrn

bjrn — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:12:10 -0800

Hooray. I am brilliant!

By: kisch mokusch

kisch mokusch — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:15:13 -0800

Idiot Test 2 Idiot Test 3 Idiot Test 4

By: starman

starman — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:19:34 -0800

Also see The Impossible Quiz.

By: Navelgazer

Navelgazer — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:24:29 -0800

Oh god! It dragged me down to it's level and then beat me with experience!

By: orange swan

orange swan — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:26:14 -0800

Hey, I passed. Now if I were only dumb enough to believe that meant anything about my level of intelligence.

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:48:27 -0800

I failed. I am not so smrt.

By: vers

vers — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:55:14 -0800

Brill. Yeah me!

By: milarepa

milarepa — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:55:53 -0800

I think they need to learn the definition of "rectangle."

By: DU

DU — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:11:12 -0800

A picture of two cats is a picture of "a cat".

By: tellurian

tellurian — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:14:15 -0800

I wish they had a 'save game' feature. Like milarepa said 'rectangle' tripped me up multiple times and I couldn't be bothered starting from the beginning again. I very much doubt it was worth it to persevere.

By: mattoxic

mattoxic — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:20:12 -0800

I got sick of playing and invaded Iraq instead

By: tellurian

tellurian — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:23:03 -0800

The Ultimate Idiot Test

By: intermod

intermod — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:36:11 -0800

It dragged me down to it's level Here you go: One simple rule for its versus it's! I am merely "smart". Failed the quick response test.

By: afx237vi

afx237vi — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:40:22 -0800

Huh, I messed up on the "lightest blue" box. Is turquoise not a shade of blue? Maybe I'm colour-blind.

By: alligatorman

alligatorman — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:41:03 -0800

I didn't press the green button fast enough. I'm smart, and satisfied.

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:42:44 -0800

Click this link to see video of a Mefite failing the Idiot Test!

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:51:06 -0800

My wife says I don't need to play, she knows the answer.

By: netbros

netbros — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:00:55 -0800

The Idiot Test. [idiot-ist]

By: bjrn

bjrn — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:01:43 -0800

Tired of seeing if you're an idiot or not? Duck - Think outside the flock. No instructions here, you just have to figure each level out yourself.

By: EatTheWeak

EatTheWeak — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:01:44 -0800

I made it to "smart" after a few tries, then realized this game wasn't any fun. Kinda like college.

By: hexatron

hexatron — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:03:32 -0800

Self-link to a ten-year-old page of idiotic recreations.

By: goatdog

goatdog — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:09:01 -0800

I, too, believe that turquoise is a shade of blue.

By: benzo8

benzo8 — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:17:16 -0800

Turquoise is a shade of blue. A rectangle isn't a square though...

By: msconduct

msconduct — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:19:34 -0800

wait ... there are pass/fail tags?

By: Kronos_to_Earth

Kronos_to_Earth — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:26:14 -0800

The Rickroll post was very funny.

By: Kronos_to_Earth

Kronos_to_Earth — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:26:31 -0800

Um, wait a minute.... Oh, hell.

By: jhc

jhc — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:44:23 -0800

I too failed on the quick-response test. Then I didn't go back, because it was reminding me too much of my bar exam.

By: cortex

cortex — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:50:10 -0800

Here you go: One simple rule for its versus it's! Here you go: It's just a misplaced apostrophe.

By: crapmatic

crapmatic — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:56:16 -0800

Well in all fairness this is just an "attention to detail" test dressed up in idiot test clothes.

By: jeffamaphone

jeffamaphone — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:57:57 -0800

So this test defines a non-idiot as: * Someone who knows the difference between a square and a rectangle. * Someone who isn't color blind. * Someone who can count cats. * Someone with good mouse dexterity. * Someone with a decent memory (or a pen and a piece of paper). I somehow imagined it would take more.

By: peacheater

peacheater — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:31:33 -0800

Yay, I'm brilliant!

By: lupus_yonderboy

lupus_yonderboy — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:47:48 -0800

"turquoise is a shade of blue" It is. I almost fell for that. But that turquoise button isn't square! :-D "Definition of rectangle..." Sorry, you're being unreasonable here. "Don't press the square button, press the rectangular one" makes sense to any reasonable person. Finished it, but I did fail on the "press fast" button the first time.

By: edheil

edheil — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:57:43 -0800

Apparently clicking on a square deliberately when they ask you to pick a rectangle, to see whether the creators of the test ever took a high school geometry class and know that squares are rectangles, qualifies you as an idiot. Not impressed.

By: Dark Messiah

Dark Messiah — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:23:31 -0800

Apparently clicking on a square deliberately when they ask you to pick a rectangle, to see whether the creators of the test ever took a high school geometry class and know that squares are rectangles, qualifies you as an idiot. Not impressed. Yeah, I got irked by that, since other tests acknowledge this fact. (And expect you to, as well.)

By: Kloryne

Kloryne — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:46:14 -0800

Dammit Meatbomb...

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:13:11 -0800

The only way to win is not to play. I win!

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:28:34 -0800

At some point there was just a big R made of buttons on the screen and no instructions at all. I presume this stands for some word meaning WIN that starts with R. Right?

By: davejay

davejay — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:29:06 -0800

A lot of you failed on the quick green button, or on the rectangles thing. I was smart enough to assume they weren't smart about the rectangle thing, and smart enough to trust myself to respond quickly to click the green button quickly enough on my first try. So I got through it perfectly on my first go. That doesn't mean I'm smart, but it does mean that I'm smug.

By: jeffburdges

jeffburdges — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:14:43 -0800

I saw a much better version years ago where you started by giving your email, but then answered inane questions indefinitely, after you gave up it'd email you your results, the sooner you quit the higher your IQ.

By: jpdoane

jpdoane — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:16:00 -0800

Yay! I'm a smart

By: turgid dahlia

turgid dahlia — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:11:04 -0800

I couldn't get it to work.

By: Greg_Ace

Greg_Ace — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:49:22 -0800

I didn't take the test. Because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggonit, people like me!

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:50:05 -0800

Yeah, um, colorblind folks aren't idiots.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:40:29 -0800

Way to go!!

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:45:20 -0800

Also, I'm *so* glad this was not a screamer. I mean I have the sound turned off and am sort of conditioned to the point where sudden flashing ghoulish images don't bother me much, but jeez. My college graduate, otherwise perfectly presentable friend found it necessary to unleash that maze game screamer (if you know what I'm on about, great, else, no need to look it up) on a hapless Chilean exchange student who proceeded to let his tongue protrude ever so slightly from between his teeth while making absurdly precise mouse movements, only to segue into an apparent heart attack moments later. I couldn't find the words to say how multi-level lame it was of him. I mean, not only is it cruel and a very cheap form of humour; but jeez, screamers were funny for, like, two weeks in 1999? Uh, carry on.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:51:21 -0800

jess, just wait and a question will follow.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:52:49 -0800

jess, just wait and a question will follow. Is it "how do you keep an idiot in suspense?"

By: smackfu

smackfu — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:40:28 -0800

I had to replay it just to figure out why the hell that wasn't the smallest red button.

By: dirty lies

dirty lies — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:47:43 -0800

How do you do it Jessamyn? I sent you the $5 just to ask you how to keep an idiot in suspense.

By: nax

nax — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:40:41 -0800

Made me laugh. But then, I'm a fool, so that's appropriate

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:42:15 -0800

jessamyn: "jess, just wait and a question will follow. Is it "how do you keep an idiot in suspense?"" FWIW, I had to hold back not to click anything, then the thing asked what letter was signified. I'm not gaming you, madam.

By: Mental Wimp

Mental Wimp — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:23:02 -0800

I think they need to learn the definition of "rectangle." Um, you realized you were taking a test, right?

By: jimstimpson

jimstimpson — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:40:20 -0800

Good game.

By: Phalene

Phalene — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:20:28 -0800

Hmm, I now have a way to amuse emotionally secure five year olds.

By: Michael Roberts

Michael Roberts — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:41:00 -0800

Yeah, I wanted -- badly -- to email him with a subject line of "You Fool!" and a body consisting only of a link to a page of explanation and tools for designing online resources for the colorblind. He's smart enough not to have included any contact information, though. It's probably really unreasonable of me to feel this much inchoate rage over not being able to tell his orange buttons from his green ones, but really -- orange vs. green! ARGH!!!!