What is Keanu Reeves’ IQ?
A high-school dropout at seventeen who went on to co-write a novel with China Miéville; the only IQ number online is one unsourced 136.
Keanu Reeves’ IQ has never been published, and the 136 that circulates for his IQ score comes from one site that names no test. What is documented is four high schools and no degree, then a career from Speed and The Matrix to John Wick, plus co-written books. This site’s estimated IQ for him is 115–130, an inference from that record, not a score.
Keanu Reeves’ estimated IQ
- Attended four different high schools, including De La Salle College, the Etobicoke School of the Arts and Avondale Secondary Alternative School, and dropped out at seventeen, according to Wikipedia. We found no university study and no honorary degree, so no school or college result anchors the range.
- Starred in Speed (1994), The Matrix (1999) and John Wick (2014); the last two grew into four-film series, and he also directed and acted in Man of Tai Chi (2013), per Wikipedia’s filmography. Wikipedia’s awards list shows four MTV Movie Awards (1992, 1995 and two in 2000).
- Created and wrote the BRZRKR comic series with Matt Kindt (art by Ron Garney, BOOM! Studios, 12 issues, first published March 3, 2021, per Wikipedia) and co-wrote the novel The Book of Elsewhere with China Miéville, published by Del Rey on July 23, 2024.
- Co-founded ARCH Motorcycle Company in 2011 and X Artists’ Books in 2017, according to Wikipedia; the press’s own events page records its launch party on July 12, 2017.
- Robert Downey Jr. called him “the most well-read and self-educated of all of us” in a piece by critic Emanuel Levy dated May 3, 2008: a peer’s opinion about reading, not a score.
No test result exists. He has no degree we found, so no academic result anchors the range. Franchise roles, co-written books and two small companies show skill, persistence and collaboration, not reasoning-test scores; 115–130 is a wide, soft inference that could be too high or too low.
- Born
- September 2, 1964, Beirut, Lebanon
- Education
- Four different high schools, including De La Salle College, the Etobicoke School of the Arts and Avondale Secondary Alternative School; dropped out at seventeen; no degree found
- Known for
- Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Point Break, Speed, The Matrix, John Wick
- Writing
- BRZRKR comic (with Matt Kindt, from 2021); novel The Book of Elsewhere (with China Miéville, Del Rey, July 23, 2024)
- Companies
- ARCH Motorcycle Company (co-founded 2011); X Artists’ Books (launched 2017)
- Honors
- Four MTV Movie Awards (1992, 1995, 2000 twice); Hollywood Walk of Fame star (2005); no Academy Award nomination on Wikipedia’s awards list
- Age
- 62, as of November 2026
- Documented IQ test
- None on record; one site prints 136 with no source
What an IQ of 115–130 actually means
Set the claim aside for a moment. If someone genuinely scored in this range, here is what that would represent.
Average is 100 by construction, and about two-thirds of people fall between 85 and 115. Take the test to place your own score on this scale.
| Score range | Classification | Share of people | What it indicates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 85 – 114 | Average | ~68% | The range most people fall into. |
| 115 – 129 | Above average | ~13.6% | Roughly one person in seven. |
| 130 – 144 | Gifted | ~2% | The threshold most high-IQ societies use. |
| Above 144 | Highly gifted | ~0.1% | Figures above this range are extrapolated from the curve rather than measured. |
Percentages are approximate and describe a normal distribution. The same number means different things on tests with different standard deviations.
Thirty questions gives you a measured position on this exact scale — your score, your percentile and the ability breakdown behind it.
Find out in 30 minutes →Who Keanu Reeves is
Keanu Charles Reeves was born on September 2, 1964, in Beirut, Lebanon, and went to school in Toronto. Wikipedia says he attended four different high schools, among them De La Salle College, the Etobicoke School of the Arts and Avondale Secondary Alternative School, which let him study while working as an actor. It says he dropped out of high school at seventeen.
He played Ted Logan in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989), Johnny Utah in Point Break (1991) and Don John in Much Ado About Nothing (1993), then starred in Speed (1994). The Matrix (1999) and John Wick (2014) each grew into four films. He won four MTV Movie Awards (1992, 1995 and two in 2000) and, Wikipedia says, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2005. Wikipedia’s awards list shows no Academy Award nomination.
Reeves wrote the text for two books with the artist Alexandra Grant, Ode to Happiness (2011) and Shadows, according to Wikipedia. He created and wrote the comic series BRZRKR with Matt Kindt, drawn by Ron Garney and published by BOOM! Studios from 2021. The novel The Book of Elsewhere, co-written with China Miéville and set in that world, was published by Del Rey on July 23, 2024; Reeves said of Miéville, “China did exactly what I was hoping for.”
In 2011, Wikipedia says, Reeves co-founded ARCH Motorcycle Company. The press X Artists’ Books, which Wikipedia says he founded in 2017 with Jessica Fleischmann and Alexandra Grant, held its launch party on July 12, 2017, per its own events page. He is 62 as of November 2026, and TheWrap reported on October 26, 2026 that he will star in Netflix’s Maelstrom.
By Elora Mercer, Celebrity Research WriterFigures checked by Leon Falkner, Data & Research AnalystReviewed by Aarav Vardhan, Editor-in-Chief · Last reviewed November 2026
.jpg){kind=link}
Keanu Reeves: the documented record
The estimate above rests on this record. Every entry here is a matter of public fact, which is more than can be said for the number itself.
- 1964Born September 2 in Beirut, Lebanon.
- 1981–82Drops out of high school at seventeen (by his birth date), after attending four different high schools.
- 1994Stars in Speed; the 1995 MTV Movie Awards give him Best On-Screen Duo with Sandra Bullock.
- 1999Stars in The Matrix; at the 2000 MTV Movie Awards it wins him Best Male Performance and, shared with Laurence Fishburne, Best Fight.
- 2008On May 3, critic Emanuel Levy quotes Robert Downey Jr. calling Reeves “the most well-read and self-educated of all of us.”
- 2011Co-founds ARCH Motorcycle Company; Ode to Happiness, a book of his text with Alexandra Grant’s art, is published, per Wikipedia.
- 2017X Artists’ Books holds its launch party on July 12 at NeueHouse Hollywood.
- 2021BRZRKR, written with Matt Kindt, is first published by BOOM! Studios, March 3 per Wikipedia.
- 2024The Book of Elsewhere, co-written with China Miéville, is published by Del Rey on July 23.
- 2026TheWrap reports on October 26 that he will star in Netflix’s Maelstrom, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra.
Where the 136 figure came from
Following a claim back to its first appearance is the part almost nobody does — and it is what most people are actually asking.
Keanu Reeves’ IQ has never been published, and the 136 that circulates for his IQ score traces to no test we could find. The one page we opened that prints a number is the IQ Archive entry at thegeniusindex.pages.dev. It heads 136 as an “Estimated Cognitive Quotient” and later calls it a “reported IQ”, with no test, source or date. How numbers like this spread is covered in where celebrity IQ numbers come from.
Is Keanu Reeves intelligent? That question circulates mostly as a fan trait, not a number. The best-known remark is from Robert Downey Jr., quoted by critic Emanuel Levy in a piece dated May 3, 2008: Reeves is “the most well-read and self-educated of all of us.” Far Out Magazine ran it again on December 25, 2024. It is an opinion about reading, not a result; see reading and IQ for the research.
A figure near 136 is not impossible, but nothing documented requires it. On a scale with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15, an IQ near 135 is roughly the top 1%. Reeves left high school at seventeen and has no degree we found, so no school record anchors a number. School results and IQ are linked only loosely, so a poor school record is missing evidence, not a low score.
Beside other actors here, 115–130 puts Reeves level with Brad Pitt, who also left university without a degree, and just under Matt Damon’s 120–135. Damon left Harvard short of a degree but shared an Oscar for a screenplay. Reeves’ record has no comparable prize on the lists we read; it is broad instead: franchise roles, co-written books, a motorcycle company and a small press. That shows persistence and collaboration, not reasoning-test ability.
How we read a number →Born September 2, 1964, in Beirut; attended four different high schools including De La Salle College, the Etobicoke School of the Arts and Avondale Secondary Alternative School; “dropped out of high school when he was seventeen”; Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2005; ARCH Motorcycle Company co-founded 2011; X Artists’ Books founded 2017 by Reeves, Jessica Fleischmann and Alexandra Grant. Filmography years: Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure 1989, Point Break 1991, Speed 1994, The Matrix 1999, John Wick 2014, four films each. Awards list: four MTV Movie Awards and no Academy Award nomination or win shown. BRZRKR: created and written by Reeves and Matt Kindt, art by Ron Garney, BOOM! Studios, 12 issues, first published March 3, 2021.
Identifies Q43416 as “Canadian actor and musician (born 1964)”, born 2 September 1964. The entry lists education and award items by identifier only; no IQ statement.
Reports Downey recalling a meeting with Reeves in a hotel lobby in Sydney, Australia, and quotes him: “When you talk to him, you can tell he’s the most well-read and self-educated of all of us.” The page does not say which films each actor was promoting.
Repeats the Levy quotation about Reeves being “the most well-read and self-educated of all of us” and links to the original interview page. The remark is Downey’s opinion; the article gives no test or score.
Reproduces the publisher’s announcement: Del Rey, an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group, publishes the novel on July 23, 2024; it is set in the world of the BRZRKR comic series Reeves created with Matt Kindt and Ron Garney, published by BOOM! Studios. Quotes Reeves: “China did exactly what I was hoping for.”
Lists the launch party for X Artists’ Books on Wednesday, July 12, 2017, welcoming designer Jessica Fleischmann, artist Alexandra Grant and actor/writer Keanu Reeves, and describes the press as “a new press publishing interdisciplinary and collaborative artists’ books”. It does not use the word founder.
Newest headline: “Keanu Reeves to Star in Netflix’s ‘Maelstrom’ From Director Jaume Collet-Serra,” October 26, 2026. No sign on the page that he has died; used for his status as of November 2026.
Heads the entry “Estimated Cognitive Quotient 136” and says “Keanu Reeves has a reported IQ of 136”. No test, source, confidence label or date; the only date on the page is the site’s 2026 copyright footer.
No school, testing-body, clinical or media record of an administered IQ test, and no Mensa claim, turned up in the pages checked: Wikipedia and Wikidata and the Levy and Far Out pieces. The only number found is the unsourced 136 on the IQ Archive.
The sources behind our estimate
The figures that circulate for Keanu Reeves, what we were able to confirm, and where the two diverge.
One page we opened, the IQ Archive entry at thegeniusindex.pages.dev, gives Keanu Reeves an “Estimated Cognitive Quotient” of 136.
We found no published IQ test result for Keanu Reeves. thegeniusindex.pages.dev heads its entry “Estimated Cognitive Quotient 136” and calls it a “reported IQ” in the body text; it names no test, source or date. The parts of his Wikipedia article we read do not mention IQ, Mensa or intelligence tests.
136 sits six points above the top of this site’s range, a small gap by the standards of these pages. It is still the usual direction: the only figure is higher than the record supports, and it comes with no test. Closeness to a plausible range is not confirmation.
Want a number that does hold up? Every figure on this page is somebody’s claim. Take the 30-question test and get a percentile you can check rather than a figure you have to trust.
Keanu Reeves — frequently asked
What is Keanu Reeves’ IQ?
Keanu Reeves’ IQ has never been published: no test result is on record, and the 136 that circulates names no test. What is documented is four high schools without a degree, a career running from Speed and The Matrix to John Wick, and co-written books. This site’s estimated IQ range for him is 115–130, an inference, not a measurement.
What is Keanu Reeves’ IQ score?
No IQ score for Keanu Reeves is on record. The only number we found is 136, on the IQ Archive at thegeniusindex.pages.dev, which cites no test, source or date. Treat any figure attached to him as a guess.
What is Keanu Reeves’ estimated IQ?
This site’s estimated IQ for Keanu Reeves is 115–130. On a scale with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15, that spans roughly the top 16% to the top 2%. It rests on his documented career and writing, and it is wide because no test result or degree exists to narrow it.
Is Keanu Reeves intelligent?
Nothing published measures it. People describe him as well read: Robert Downey Jr. called him “the most well-read and self-educated of all of us” in a piece dated May 3, 2008. That is an opinion, not a score. His record shows co-written books and two companies, but he also left high school at seventeen.
Did Keanu Reeves take an IQ test?
No IQ test is documented for him. The parts of his Wikipedia article we read do not mention IQ or Mensa. The only number online, 136, comes with no test attached.
Did Keanu Reeves graduate from high school?
No. Wikipedia says he attended four different high schools, including De La Salle College and the Etobicoke School of the Arts, and dropped out at seventeen. We found no university study and no honorary degree.
Has Keanu Reeves written a book?
Yes, with collaborators. He created and wrote the BRZRKR comic with Matt Kindt (BOOM! Studios, from 2021) and co-wrote the novel The Book of Elsewhere with China Miéville, published by Del Rey on July 23, 2024. Wikipedia also lists Ode to Happiness (2011) and Shadows, text paired with Alexandra Grant’s art.
How does Keanu Reeves’ estimated IQ compare with Brad Pitt’s?
This site’s estimate for Reeves, 115–130, is level with Brad Pitt’s 115–130 and Robert Downey Jr.’s, and just under Matt Damon’s 120–135. Pitt also left university without a degree, and Damon left Harvard short of one. All of these are estimates from public records, not test scores.
How does my IQ compare with Keanu Reeves?
You can find out in about fifteen minutes. The IQ Metrics assessment is 30 questions, scored on the same 100-mean scale used throughout this page, so your result and the estimate above are at least expressed in the same units — one measured, one inferred. Once you have a number, the leaderboard shows where it would sit, and how we score and norm it explains the benchmarking.
Where does this estimate come from?
From the documented record rather than a test — the method is named above and set out in full under how we read a number. Compare it against the other actors profiles, starting with Natalie Portman.
- Take the 30-question IQ test — get a measured score and percentile of your own
- Average IQ by country — how the scale behaves across populations
- How IQ Metrics scores its assessment — the method behind our own number
- More on how IQ testing works — reliability, error and what a score can and cannot say
- More actors profiles — same field, same method
More actors
Photograph of Brad Pitt by Harald Krichel (81st Venice International Film Festival, September 1, 2024), CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped and with background removed for the portrait above. · Photograph by PhilipRomano, CC BY-SA 4.0. Background removed for the portrait above. · Photograph of Robert Downey Jr. by Philip Romano (Lincoln Center Theater gala, May 18, 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0. Background removed for the portrait above.
An estimate is an inference.
Yours can be measured.
Thirty questions, scored against general-population benchmarks. Your score, your percentile, your ability breakdown and a printable IIF certificate.
Find your IQ score now! →