League of Legends players have been found to be the most intelligent in an IQ survey of g*mers, with an average score of 120.4.
It's reported that playing video games can be beneficial for your brain and cognitive function. But if you've ever played a multiplayer game online, you may very well question that... however, the folks at WhichBingo surveyed 1,002 g*mers to find out which video game player bases are the smartest.
They partnered up with a team of psychologists to administer an intelligence test.
The remote IQ test assessed the cognitive skills of participants in four areas: verbal communication, mathematics, logic and visual reasoning.
Popular online strategy game League of Legends secured the highest IQ score of 120.4.
Following close behind in second was the player base of the successful single player title Black Myth: Wukong with an IQ of 119.8.
Baldur's Gate 3 players placed third overall, with an average IQ of 117.9. Then, Counter-Strike was fourth, with a 116.1 score, and it looks like Valorant wasn't part of the study.
On the other hand, FC 24/FIFA 23 players recorded the lowest IQ in the study, with an average score of 89.8.
For context on IQ scores, sub 85 is deemed below average intelligence, 85 -- 115 is deemed average intelligence, anything over 115 IQ is deemed above average intelligence.
The study also found that PC players had the highest average IQ with 114.1, and mobile/tablet g*mers had the lowest at 99.9, when working out the intelligence by platform. PlayStation g*mers had 111, Xbox 105.9 and Switch 103.4 on average.
In terms of gender, female g*mers had an average IQ of 107.9 in the study, and males 105.8.
Which games have the smartest players in terms of average IQ?
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more likely
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!macacos !r-slurs
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Neighbor Brazilians play Bomba Patch, we are too poor to play FIFA
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Not a surprise to anyone who's even visited /r/soccer.
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!football
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I blame Brazil.
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Wrong, c*nt
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Actually yeah I didn't see it was 23/24. Those aren't on the PS2 can't be Brazil.
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!coomers !g*mers !ifrickinglovescience
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At this point I'm sure you're the guy spamming BBC porn in the LoL gen in /vg/
https://arch.b4k.co/vg/search/text/irelia/deleted/deleted/
https://arch.b4k.co/vg/search/tnum/496487704/deleted/deleted/
!coomers
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I'm so disappointed in you BWC, what happened? Have you had a stroke? Why are you joining the soy side?
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Nibba look at your profile header
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Bruh tf you mean? I literally snagged the last ever post on reddit drama by talking about hentai, and then came here to you praising it. Why are you surprised my wallpaper or whatever is a buxom elf doing the two titty peepee dance? I thought you were a WM+XF chad and here I find you going on about BBC? Did you meet moonmetropolis and get blackmailed in real life?
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!m'cacos
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The common denominator here is
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Didn't even test StarCraft smh
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"female" g*mers
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iq of female (female) g*mers: 90
iq of female (male) g*mers: 130
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the first league of legends female pro player was a
then she killed herself because of a botched surgery
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To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand League of Legends. The gameplay is incredibly nuanced, and without a solid grasp of strategy and champion dynamics, most of the mechanics will go over a typical player's head. There's also the complex meta, which is intricately woven into the fabric of the game—players must draw heavily from deep knowledge of patch notes and professional play to truly grasp the layers of strategy at work. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to appreciate the depths of champion synergy and team compositions, to realize that it's not just about winning games—it's a reflection on teamwork, communication, and personal growth. As a consequence, people who dislike League truly ARE idiots; of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the brilliance behind a perfectly executed teamfight or the subtle art of map control, which itself is a cryptic reference to the balance of power in competitive gaming. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as the strategic genius of players like Faker unfolds on their screens.
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Goes to show that high IQ is a curse
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!incels how many of you neighbors were/are grinding league? Not proud that I reached gold, proud that I deinstalled and never looked back.
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I made absolute BANK boosting people to diamond in 2012 (it was the highest rank).
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Never played League
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I grinded hard during covid year. Then I've played it on and off. Mostly now I only play with friends.
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No one I know is remotely fricking happy playing league kek
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Chink g*mers playing chink games have high IQs. More news at 7.
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2 rice games and an neurodivergent friend simulator for DnD. Sounds about right.
Surprised DoTA is that low, but the playerbase is mostly SEAsians and Eastern Yuropoors so I guess that tracks.
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This also explains a lot
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Lowering all of these by about 15 points seems about right.
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The FIFA/FC entry explains a lot.
EA can keep putting loot boxes in because the players are all but guaranteed to be dumb enough to keep buying them.
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peruvians and filipinos anchoring the dota score HARD !dotards
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and Russians
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I haven't played dota in a long time, I forgot how much I hate them until this post.
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Could this be a "who are the most and easiest people to rope into Bingo betting by congratulating them on their IQ?"
studypress release by a Bingo company instead? A hubris test of competitive/hard game communities by a betting company in other words?Jump in the discussion.
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I'd believe LoL has the smartest players, but 120 is saying they on average have the same IQ as a doctor
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Asians > wh*te doctors
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Wasn't there a study that claimed high rank = high iq and likewiese low rank = low iq? Because I genuinely believe the average iron to silver player to be mentally r-slurred.
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r-slur-sama
my (((family member))) is a doctor
but if you put (((xhir))) to play a game, (((xhir))) would probably be low rank because (((xhir))) has never touched a video game
I got to high rank in league, but I'm a total abomination at Valorant (and other fps). I'm fricking wood tier there
usually being low rank has more to do with not taking the game seriously or playing a lot I guess
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woah haven't seen you around in ages
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I got grass awarded for a month and it was easier for me to wait the whole month than go outside and touch grass
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you have to be high IQ to reach high rank. The converse is not true.
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You don't need a study to tell you that people who are good at (thing) have higher iq than people who are bad at (thing). That's the whole point of IQ as a concept, that sentence is more or less universally true.
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this study isnt reliable, it just tells you how many asians play a given game
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You need high IQ to read and keep track of the novels LoL has as ability descriptions.
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This doesn't really say anything about the games we didn't already know if you don't normalize by race
BG3 seems to be the exception there and I'm not sure why. Maybe it's but it's also an incredibly normie and mainstream game, not some obscure pixelart crpg
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I went to some very good schools in my youth which required entrance exams and League was by far the most popular video game in those schools.
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I play league and EA FC, and im shit at both. What does that make me?
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Snapshots:
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