IQ 114

If you lined up 100 random adults by score, a 114 would put you at about position 82 from the bottom. That is inside the 85 to 115 band that roughly 46 million people in the UK share.

Scores near the middle of the curve are the most precisely measured, because tests have the most data there. A 114 is one of the more trustworthy numbers an IQ test can give you.

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.

The 14-point gap between 114 and 100 is noticeable on a timed test but rarely in ordinary life. You would not spot it in a conversation or at work.

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.

Being in the average range says nothing about ambition. Careers, qualifications and creative work are open across it, and many people in it are highly skilled in their field.

An overall 114 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.
• Learn in the format that suits you. Some people learn fastest by doing, others by reading or by talking it through.
• Play to your pattern. If visual puzzles felt easier than number ones, that is useful information about how you learn.

If IQ follows the standard bell curve, 18% of people score 114 or higher. Here is what that share means across whole populations:

An IQ of 114 or higher is 1.6 times rarer than 109 or higher, and 119 or higher is 1.7 times rarer again. At this point on the curve, each extra point makes a score about 11% rarer.

What your 114 could really be. Treat any single score as the centre of a range. For a good supervised test, about 5 points either side is typical, so 114 really means somewhere from 109 to 119. Online tests are less precise than that.

Which scale was it on? Score reports do not always say. On the common SD 15 scale your 114 stands as it is. If the report used SD 16 it equals about 113, and if it used SD 24 about 109. The percentile follows the converted number.

These estimates sit near 114. Every figure below is a retrospective estimate, not a measured score. Open a profile to see the evidence and how confident anyone can be.

Our degree, university and job profiles carry rough IQ benchmarks. These are the ones within a few points of 114. The education figures are derived from admissions-test averages, not from IQ testing.

Nearby scores and the round-number landmarks, so you can see how quickly the percentile changes around 114. Every row links to that score's page.

People with an IQ of 114 typically score about 1190 on the SAT and about 23 on the ACT composite. Scores vary a lot from person to person, so the range shows where about four in five land.