About What Is My True IQ
What Is My True IQ is an independent publisher dedicated to making rigorous cognitive assessment accessible to everyone. We combine well-established psychometric frameworks with modern interactive design so that anyone, anywhere, can explore how their mind works.
Our mission
Most people will never sit through a clinical IQ assessment — they are expensive, slow, and often intimidating. Yet understanding your cognitive strengths is genuinely useful: it can guide your studies, your career choices, and the way you learn new skills. Our mission is to translate decades of academic research on intelligence into a short, friendly, and honest online experience.
We publish original articles about intelligence, memory, reasoning, and learning. We also maintain a free 25-question matrix test that estimates fluid reasoning ability and produces a detailed personalised report.
The science behind the test
Our questions are inspired by three pillars of modern psychometrics: the Stanford–Binet tradition of progressive difficulty, the Cattell–Horn–Carroll (CHC) model of cognitive abilities, and the Raven's Progressive Matrices approach to non-verbal reasoning. Together these frameworks let us probe fluid intelligence — your ability to spot patterns and solve unfamiliar problems — without relying on language, culture, or formal education.
Every item is calibrated against an internal difficulty curve. Easier items measure baseline processing speed and visual discrimination; harder items push abstraction, working memory, and analogical thinking.
How we build questions
Our visual matrices are designed in-house. Each puzzle follows a single underlying rule — rotation, progression, alternation, addition, or substitution — and we reject any item where two answers can be defended. We test every puzzle on a small panel before it enters the public pool, and we retire items that show ambiguous solving patterns.
Editorial standards
Articles published on this site are written by contributors with backgrounds in psychology, neuroscience, and education. We cite primary research whenever we make a quantitative claim, and we distinguish clearly between established findings and ongoing debates. We do not sell supplements, "brain pills", or unverified courses.
Contact
Questions, corrections, or research collaborations are welcome at hello@whatismytrueiq.com.