What an IQ certificate is worth
Let us deal with the important part first, because most pages offering certificates do not. A certificate generated from an online test — this one included — is a souvenir. It records what you scored on a specific web test on a specific day. It is not evidence of anything to a school, an employer, a visa office or a high-IQ society, and any site suggesting otherwise while charging you nine dollars for a PDF is selling the impression of officialdom rather than the thing itself. Ours is free precisely because we are not pretending it is more than it is.
What actually counts as an official assessment
A recognised result comes from a supervised sitting with a qualified psychologist, using a standardised battery, in controlled conditions, with your history and circumstances taken into account. That process takes an hour or more and produces a report rather than a certificate. It is what schools use for educational placement, what clinicians use in assessment, and what high-IQ societies accept for admission. The distance between that and a web page is not a formatting difference; it is a difference in what was measured and how.
What is on your certificate
| Field | Where it comes from |
|---|---|
| Name | Whatever you type — nothing is verified |
| Score | The number you enter from your result screen |
| Percentile | Calculated from the standard scale, mean 100, SD 15 |
| Test | Which of our tests you took |
| Date | Today's date on your device |
Reading the percentile properly
The percentile is often more informative than the score, and it is not linear in the way people expect. A score of 115 is the 84th percentile — better than five in six people. 130 is the 98th, the top two per cent. But 145 is the 99.9th, which means the twenty points between 125 and 145 cover far more of the population than the twenty points between 85 and 105. This is why small differences near the middle of the scale mean very little and small differences at the top mean a great deal.
Nothing is stored, nothing is sent
The certificate is drawn in your browser on a canvas element and saved directly to your device. Your name never reaches our server, because there is no request to a server involved. We do not keep a copy, we cannot look yours up, and there is no record that you generated one. That also means we cannot re-issue it if you lose the file — generate another.
Which test to take first
The free IQ test is the most defensible number on the site: thirty mixed questions across matrices, series, analogies and rotation, with a twenty-five minute limit. If English is not your first language, take the culture fair test instead — it uses shapes only, so vocabulary cannot cost you points. Take it once, rested, and treat the result as a band of roughly ten points rather than an exact figure.
Frequently asked questions
Is the IQ certificate really free?
Yes. The certificate is generated in your browser and downloads as an image. There is no payment, no account and no email step at any point.
Is an online IQ certificate official?
No, and no online certificate is. Only a supervised assessment by a qualified psychologist produces a document that carries weight with a school, an employer or a high-IQ society.
What is on the certificate?
Your name as you type it, your score, the percentile that score falls in, the test you took and the date. Nothing is stored on our side.
Can I use this certificate to join a high-IQ society?
No. Societies admit members only on the basis of a supervised test they administer or explicitly accept, and no web certificate qualifies.
Why do other sites charge for a certificate?
Because the moment just after you finish a test is when curiosity peaks. The document costs nothing to produce, which is why ours is free.
Which test should I take to get a certificate?
Any scored test works. The 30-question free IQ test gives the most defensible number, and the culture fair test is the fairer choice if English is not your first language.