Free IQ Test

Yes — the test is completely free, with no account, email address, or payment required. It runs entirely in your browser, your answers are scored on your own device, and only the finished score travels onward if you choose to share it. The site is funded by display ads and optional paid certificates, never by charging for the test itself.

You have a 25-minute limit for all 35 questions, and most people finish comfortably within it. There is no reward for rushing: difficulty rises steadily, so the sensible strategy is to move quickly through the early items and spend your remaining time on the harder ones. When the timer reaches zero the test submits automatically and scores whatever you have answered.

No preparation is needed — a fluid-reasoning test measures how you handle unfamiliar patterns, not knowledge you can revise. There is nothing to memorise and no syllabus to study. The most useful things you can do are simple: take it somewhere quiet, when you are rested, on a screen large enough to see each matrix clearly.

Yes — the test runs in any modern mobile browser with no app to install. That said, a larger screen genuinely helps: the matrices are detailed, and squinting at a cramped phone display can cost you correct answers and pull your score down. If you have a tablet or laptop handy, it is the fairer way to see what you can do.

Online IQ tests, including this one, are estimates rather than clinical measurements. This test uses the same progressive-matrix format as well-known nonverbal reasoning tests and is self-consistent, but it was not normed against a supervised population study. Treat your result as a solid snapshot of your pattern-recognition ability, and read the methodology for exactly what “calibrated” means here.

You can retake the test as often as you like, but expect your score to drift upward on a second attempt. This is a well-documented practice effect: you recognise the pattern types faster the second time, which inflates the result without reflecting any real change in ability. We never reveal which option was correct on any item, precisely so the test stays fair across retakes.

Mensa admits people who score in the top 2% of the population — roughly IQ 131 on a 15-point standard-deviation scale, the 98th percentile. A result from this test cannot qualify you for Mensa: the society only accepts scores from its own supervised testing or a short list of approved, professionally administered instruments. We are not affiliated with Mensa, and any comparison we make is purely to that statistical threshold.

It is a real pattern-recognition test built on Raven's Progressive Matrices, the same nonverbal reasoning format used in established IQ assessments. What it is not is a clinical, diagnostic instrument. A formal IQ measurement comes from a test like the WAIS-IV or Stanford-Binet, administered one-on-one by a licensed psychologist. This is an honest estimate for curiosity and practice, and we describe it that way on purpose.

The average IQ is 100 by definition. IQ scales are built so that the mean of the population sits at 100 with a standard deviation of 15, which means roughly two-thirds of people score between 85 and 115. Your score says how far you land from that midpoint, not how many questions you answered correctly — see the average IQ by age guide for why the average stays 100 at every age.

Your percentile is the share of people you scored higher than, not the share of questions you got right. A percentile of 84 means you scored above roughly 84% of typical test-takers. Because the bell curve is densest in the middle, a few extra correct answers near the average move your percentile more than the same gain out at the tails. Our percentile calculator converts any IQ score into its percentile.

A “good” IQ score depends entirely on what you compare it to, but as a rule of thumb anything above 115 already places you in the top ~16% of the population. Most scores fall between 85 and 115, so a result in that range is squarely typical rather than a cause for concern. Our guide to what counts as a good IQ score unpacks the numbers in full.