The Nerd, Geek or Dork Test
I’ll start this out in a fairly geeky way: I was listening to a podcast by the name of Tech News Today. The hosts got went down the long-existing rat hole encircling the differences between nerds, geeks, dorks, etc. A listener informed them of a 60-question quiz to allow curious persons to determine how much of a nerd, geek and dork they are. The quiz is provided by OKCupid, is free, and doesn’t even require registration on their site, so to anyone who’s found themselves perplexed by the answer to this most important of all questions, I suggest you take this quiz and, while it is not really THE definitive answer, it certainly is A definitive one.
My results are below:
Your result for The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test…
Pure Geek
48 % Nerd, 83% Geek, 48% Dork
For The Record:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored better than half in Geek, earning you the title of: Pure Geek.
It’s not that you’re a school junkie, like the nerd, and you don’t really stand out in a crowd, like the dork, you just have some interests that aren’t quite mainstream. Perhaps it’s anime, perhaps it’s computers, perhaps it’s bottlecaps, perhaps it’s all of those and more. Your interests take you to events and gatherings that are filled with people you find unusual and beyond-the-pale, but you don’t quite consider yourself “of that crowd.” Instead, you consider yourself to be fairly normal.
Which, you are.
Thanks Again! - THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST
Take The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test at OkCupid
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