IQ Metrics runs eight test formats on one shared engine. Each measures a different set of abilities, takes a different amount of time, and reports its result differently. Compare them below and pick the one that fits your goal.
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Every format runs on the same scoring engine. What changes is which abilities are sampled, how many items you answer, and how the result is reported.
Full assessment
All four domains — verbal, numerical, spatial and abstract reasoning — in one sitting.
Best for a complete cognitive profile
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Quick screen
All four domains, compressed under a hard clock. No pausing, no going back.
Best for a quick estimate when time is short
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Language-free
Abstract and spatial pattern reasoning only. Nothing to read, nothing to calculate.
Best for a language-independent assessment
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Ages 4–17
Age-appropriate items across all four domains, in three age bands. Scores are age-normed.
Best for parents testing a child aged 4–17
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Single domain
Vocabulary, word relationships and verbal logic — a focused deep-dive, not a substitute for the composite.
Best for checking one specific ability
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Single domain
Mental rotation and visual pattern completion — a focused deep-dive, not a substitute for the composite.
Best for checking one specific ability
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Single domain
Number series and quantitative pattern logic — pattern recognition, not arithmetic speed.
Best for checking one specific ability
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Start here
A shuffled mix of verbal, numerical, spatial and abstract questions in one sitting — any question type may come up.
Best for the fastest way to start
Start the test →Verbal, Spatial and Numerical report a domain percentile, not an IQ score. Only the four multi-domain formats produce a composite IQ.
Start from what you want out of it, not from the format name.
The only format that samples all four domains in depth and returns a per-domain breakdown alongside the composite.
Fewer items under a hard clock. Directionally useful, and honest about being less precise than the full assessment.
Pattern and shape reasoning only. Nothing to read, nothing to calculate — so vocabulary never becomes the bottleneck.
Ages 4–17, in three age bands. Scores are age-normed, meaning a child is compared with children of the same age.
Focused deep-dives into a single domain. They return a percentile for that ability, not an overall IQ score.
A mixed set of question types across all four domains. If you’re not sure what you’re looking for, start here.
All eight formats are the same machine with different settings — which is why their results can be read against each other.
Every format draws from the same tagged item bank. A format is a selection rule over that bank, not a separate test written from scratch.
Answers are scored server-side and mapped to the standard scale — mean 100, standard deviation 15 — so a score means the same thing across formats.
Each test says what it samples and how precise its result is. Fewer items means a wider margin of error, and we label it rather than hide it.
Want the long version? The IQ Test Guide covers scoring, percentiles and what the four domains actually mean.
These are self-administered screening tools. They are designed to give you a reliable estimate of how you reason across several kinds of problem, and they do that well enough to be genuinely informative.
They are not clinical or diagnostic instruments, and they are not equivalent to any named professional battery. If you need a formal cognitive assessment — for a school placement, a workplace accommodation or a medical question — see a licensed psychologist. Read more about our approach on the About page.
It’s our most popular assessment — a shuffled mix of all four cognitive domains, no signup, and your score, percentile and full breakdown the moment you submit.
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