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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StarDust4Ever" data-source="post: 92307" data-attributes="member: 3033">I think there's a distinct possibility, however mindlessly "whacking" the balls up towards the top of the table does not require great skill, intelligence, or dexterity, and I believe most players start out playing this way. Like anything else, the more you practice, the better you get at it. Well designed pinball tables have layers of complexity much like an onion.My analytical reasoning was 154, but my verbal processing was 108. Somehow, these two scores averaged out to a conglomerate IQ of 131. Skews that large are not common since most people's scores are very close, so they diagnosed me with an uncategorized learning deficiency that never showed up with standardized tests. This is because standardized tests use a percentile ranking to compare your scores to the national average and not your own IQ. Anyway those tests were performed 14 years ago. My mind has likely developed since then since you never stop learning (and probably regressed slightly from hitting the bottle too many times - cest la vie). I need to get tested for Mensa as I may actually still have a shot at it.Either way, I have adult ADHD an play a lot of video games, but...Pinball is more than about being "smart". You have to react quickly. A chess grandmaster may have an extremely high IQ but may also spend hours calculating his next move. In pinball you got to be faster than that.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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