IQ Community · a free entertainment self-insight round, compared anonymously · not a clinical IQ test · early access
IQ Community is a free, adaptive round of pattern, logic, memory, and word puzzles, built for fun and personal self-insight, not as a clinical or diagnostic instrument. Finish a round and, if you are 18 or older, you can opt in to see one honest, anonymous sentence: how your result compares to other players, banded to the nearest 5 percent. There is no leaderboard, no name, and no ranked list — and no exact player count is ever shown, at any cohort size. The comparison itself only turns on once a real cohort of at least 1,000 people has actually played; until then, the honest label is “not enough players yet,” never a guess.
Ages 13+ to play (a self-attested date of birth is checked first, fail-closed). Comparing or sharing a result is a separate, stricter 18+, opt-in step. The scoring backend behind the round is early access: see “What is built, what is not” below for the honest, current state.
IQ Community is a short, adaptive round of pattern-matching, logic, memory, and word puzzles, playable in a few minutes, that resolves to a for-fun, 0-100 self-insight index. The community angle is one added, opt-in step on top of that same honest round: once you finish, an adult (18+) can choose to see a single anonymous sentence describing how that result compares to a real cohort of other players — not a table, not a rank, not a name.
It is not a psychological or clinical assessment, and it is not used, by us or by any school on the platform, to make a placement, diagnostic, or gifted-identification decision about a student. It is not a leaderboard in the sense of a public list of who scored what — there is no such list anywhere in this product, at any player count. It is not a substitute for an evaluation by a licensed psychologist.
This is the one feature that makes IQ Community a community rather than a private activity: an opt-in, anonymous way to see where a result lands relative to other players. It is built around one hard rule, stated plainly, not buried in a settings page.
The comparison ever produces exactly one sentence: “you scored higher than approximately X percent of players.” There is no table of other players, no usernames, and no ranked list anywhere in this feature, at any cohort size, today or planned.
The percentile itself is rounded to the nearest 5 before it is ever shown — a coarse band, never a faux-precise decimal. Nothing about the display implies more precision than a rough comparison actually carries.
An aggregate over a thin group of players can re-identify individuals; a single player is trivially their own 0th or 100th percentile. So a comparison is suppressed — shown as “not enough players yet,” no percentile, no player count — unless the real cohort has crossed this floor. This is a k-anonymity rule, not a marketing gate.
The number of people who have played is used only, internally, to decide whether a comparison is safe to show at all. It is never printed on this page or anywhere in the product — not as a live count, not as a running total, not as a rounded estimate.
Nothing is compared or shown until you choose to opt in, and the opt-in prompt itself is only ever offered to a confirmed adult (18+). A player under 18 never sees the prompt, regardless of their round result.
“This comparison is not built yet” and “not enough players yet” are different, specific statements about different conditions. This page and the product always say which one is true, rather than one vague “unavailable” message.
A finished round maps your performance onto a plain 0-100 index, computed on the server from your real answers — never invented or estimated in your browser. That index is a self-insight number, full stop: it is not the traditional intelligence-quotient scale, it carries no clinical or diagnostic weight, and it is a snapshot of one playful round on one particular day, not a stable trait measurement.
If the scoring backend cannot genuinely finish a round, you see an honest “not available yet” message and no number. The index is never clamped, guessed, or filled in from a partial answer.
Never a validated, standardized, or clinically normed intelligence-quotient score. Never a placement, diagnostic, or gifted-identification input for a student on the platform.
Only the person who played sees their own index by default. The anonymous comparison band and the share card are both separate, opt-in, adult-only steps — neither is automatic, and neither is on by default.
Taking the round at all requires a self-attested date of birth and an age of 13 or older under this product's age policy. COPPA governs online collection from children under 13; this gate is one data-minimization control, not a certification or compliance guarantee. The check runs before anything else: an empty field is a gentle prompt to fill it in, but an unparseable, future, or under-13 date blocks the round outright, and the block is enforced on the server, not only in your browser — a date that fails the check is discarded, never transmitted anywhere. There is no retry loop that hints at the exact cutoff; a blocked visitor sees one honest, final message.
Comparing a result anonymously, or sharing one, is a separate and stricter gate: 18 or older, confirmed, and opt-in. A player between 13 and 17 can take the round and see their own private result, but is never offered the comparison prompt or the share card — those affordances do not exist for a minor account, regardless of how the round went.
We ask for a date of birth only to check age. No name, no email, and the date itself is never stored beyond that one check.
Every puzzle item in IQ Community is original: written in-house by our own authors for this product. The items are uncalibrated and not norm-referenced -- none has been tried out on a reference sample. No item is scraped, licensed, or adapted from any outside question bank, and no item is built to resemble any published or commercial intelligence assessment.
The puzzle categories — pattern completion, logical sequences, short memory rounds, and word puzzles — are common, unowned puzzle forms; the specific items themselves are ours, generated for this product and not reused from anywhere else.
The self-attested date-of-birth age gate, the item-by-item round itself, the 0-100 self-insight index shape, the anonymous-comparison band, and the share card are all real, built pieces of this product, not a mockup. What is not live yet is the server backend each of them depends on to produce a genuine result: the session and scoring endpoints that turn your answers into a real self-insight index, the anonymized-aggregate endpoint the comparison band would read from, and the share service the share card would post through. None of the three exist in this deployment today.
That means, honestly: if you take the round before the scoring backend lands, you will see “the free test isn’t available yet” and no number, ever, rather than a fabricated one. If you reach the comparison prompt, you will see either “not built yet” (the aggregate endpoint is not live) or, once it is, “not enough players yet” (the cohort has not crossed 1,000) — two distinct, correctly-labeled reasons, never conflated. If you reach the share card, it will always show “Sharing off,” disabled, with the exact reason named.
The comparison prompt and the share card are both gated to a confirmed adult (18+); a player under that age never sees either affordance, regardless of their round result.
Even for a confirmed adult, sharing requires explicit, separate consent and a live share service before anything could ever be posted. There is no default-on state anywhere in this design.
The self-insight index is entertainment, plainly labeled, and is never used for a placement, diagnostic, or gifted-identification decision about a student on the platform.
No. It is entertainment: a short, adaptive round of pattern, logic, memory, and word puzzles that resolves to a for-fun, 0-100 self-insight index. It is not a validated, standardized, or clinically normed intelligence-quotient score, and it is not a diagnosis of anything.
If you are 18 or older, you can opt in to see one sentence: you scored higher than approximately X percent of other players, rounded to the nearest 5. There is no ranked list, no player names, and no exact player count shown, ever -- and no comparison is shown at all until at least 1,000 people have genuinely played, so a small group of early players is never re-identifiable from a comparison.
That message means the comparison feature exists but the real player cohort has not yet crossed 1,000 people -- a deliberate anonymity floor, not a bug. It is a different, more specific message than 'not built yet', which is what you would see if the comparison backend itself were not live. This page and the product are honest about which of the two is true at any given time.
There is a share card for a completed result, but it is off by default. Sharing requires you to be 18 or older, requires your explicit consent, and today also requires a share backend that is not live yet -- so nothing is posted publicly and no share link is created by that button today. The card shows plainly what it would say once all three conditions are real.
Ages 13 and up, by self-attested date of birth, checked before anything else starts. The check is fail-closed: an unparseable, future, or under-13 date blocks the round, server-side, not just in your browser. We ask for a date of birth only to check age -- no name, no email, and the date is never stored.
Every item is original, written in-house by our own authors for this activity. No item is scraped, licensed, or adapted from any outside question bank or published test. The questions are uncalibrated and not norm-referenced: none of them has been tried out on a reference sample, so no result here is compared against any population.
No. Money is honest-off on this page and in the product it describes: no pricing, no checkout, no card charged, no subscription.
You will see an honest 'the free test isn't available yet' message and no score at all -- never a fabricated or placeholder number. The scoring runs entirely on a server; nothing is computed or invented in your browser.
IQ Community is one entertainment surface among the owned properties on the platform. homeroom.software is the flagship platform brand home and the full product story behind everything on the platform, including the honest posture this page follows.
IQ Community is a free, entertainment self-insight round, honestly labeled throughout: never a validated, standardized, or clinically normed intelligence-quotient score, never a placement or diagnostic input, and never presented as a live comparison before it genuinely is one. Taking the round requires a self-attested date of birth and an age of 13+, fail-closed. Comparing a result anonymously, or sharing one, is a separate, stricter, opt-in gate requiring a confirmed age of 18+. The comparison is k-anonymous: bucketed to the nearest 5 percent, never an exact player count, and suppressed below a real cohort of 1,000 players with the honest reason “not enough players yet.” The share card stays off until an adult signal, explicit consent, and a live share service are all real. Every puzzle item is original and generated in-house; none is scraped, licensed, or adapted from any outside question bank. Money is honest-off: no pricing, no checkout, no card charged, no subscription. No cookies are set by this marketing surface. It uses no third-party advertising or tracking scripts and builds no behavioral profile. Basic short-lived operational logs may record page requests.