IQ 107

If you lined up 100 random adults by score, a 107 would put you at about position 68 from the bottom. That is inside the 85 to 115 band that roughly 46 million people in the UK share.

Within this range, scores a few points apart are closer together than the test's own margin of error. A 104 and a 110 could easily be the same person on different days.

This is the shared result of most of the people you know, from colleagues to friends to family. Nothing about it is a barrier to the things people usually care about.

Put 107 next to 100 and the difference is 0.47 of a standard deviation. On timed abstract puzzles that shows as being a touch quicker or more accurate; outside the test, other things matter far more.

You can follow complex instructions, learn new software, manage money and pick up a trade or profession. The ceiling on those is set far more by practice and interest than by a few IQ points.

Where a score like this shows is mainly in speed on unfamiliar, timed problems. Given time, familiar material and a clear goal, people across the average range reach the same answers.

An overall 107 can hide a very uneven profile. Two people with the same total can be strong at quite different things, so the useful question is which kinds of question went well for you.

• Lean on structure. Checklists, notes and routines free up working memory for the hard part of a problem.
• Go deep in one area. Expertise lets people reason quickly in their own field whatever their overall score.
• Protect sleep and focus. Both beat cramming for anything you need to remember.

Scoring 107 or higher is a 32% share of everyone. Scaled up to whole populations, that works out as:

An IQ of 107 or higher is 1.4 times rarer than 102 or higher, and 112 or higher is 1.5 times rarer again. At this point on the curve, each extra point makes a score about 8% rarer.

What your 107 could really be. Even a good supervised test has a margin of error of roughly 5 points either side. A true score anywhere from 102 to 112 would be consistent with a 107, which spans the 55.3rd to the 78.8th percentile. Short online tests have wider margins.

Which scale was it on? A 107 reported on an SD 16 scale converts to about 107 on the usual SD 15 scale, and one from an SD 24 scale (seen in some Cattell-style results) to about 104. Check which scale your score report used.

Nobody famous has a verified IQ in most cases, and retrospective estimates are only made for a narrow group.

The estimates on our historical profiles run from 115 to 250, so none lands close to 107. Historians only estimate IQs for people who did something extraordinary, which skews the list. It says nothing about what famous people could actually score.

A few degree, university and job profiles on this site carry IQ benchmarks close to 107. Treat the education figures as rough estimates from admissions-test data rather than measured IQs.

How 107 stacks up against the scores just around it and the round numbers people usually ask about. Each score links to its own page.

People with an IQ of 107 typically score about 1090 on the SAT and about 20 on the ACT composite. Scores vary a lot from person to person, so the range shows where about four in five land.