
A few "claimed IQs" of members of the HighIQForum.com (Ѻ), the avatar of the third member, Cornucopia (claimed IQ: 140+), being the "ouroboros" icon, aka representative of the origin of life puzzle, aka great problem of natural philosophy; which was solved by Libb Thims in 2009 (see: defunct theory of life).

A few "claimed IQs" of members of the HighIQForum.com (Ѻ), the avatar of the third member, Cornucopia (claimed IQ: 140+), being the "ouroboros" icon, aka representative of the origin of life puzzle, aka great problem of natural philosophy; which was solved by Libb Thims in 2009 (see: defunct theory of life).

In genius studies, claimed IQ is an intelligence quotient that an existive person declares, proclaims, or self-gauges to possess in a given existence state (IQ state), whether accurate or not; the IQ one claims to have at a given time.

Overview
Real geniuses who gauge their own IQ or intelligence level, in respect to other geniuses, accurately, are very rare.

Feigned geniuses, conversely, i.e. one's who over-inflate their self-gauged intellectual level, are as numerous as fool's gold is to real gold.

In 1946, with founding of Mensa, whose members claim to boast IQs of 132 or above, the phenomenon of high IQ societies began to emerge, filled with basically nobodies who "claim" to be geniuses. There are literally 100s to 1000s of individuals in this niche who claim genius IQs (140+) but are not geniuses, by any measure of the word.

Russell
In c.1925, Bertrand Russell, to cited a noted example, is said to have claimed his IQ was 180 and or that his mind was that of a Nietzsche uberman. [1] This is an example of a real IQ self-estimation, per reason that this is how his IQ, a century or so in retrospect, is now ranked, e.g. (IQ:180|#103) (RGM:113|1,260+).

King
In 1950, Martin King (1929-1968), a child prodigy of sorts who entered Morehouse College in his teens (age 15), at age 21, in an essay for a course on religious development of the personality, taught by George W. Davis, stated the following: [3]

“I have always been somewhat precocious, both physical and mentally. My IQ stands somewhat above the average. So, it seems that from a hereditary point of view, nature was very kind to me.”

Davis, graded the essay “excellent”, and wrote the following comment in the margins:

“Good! I like a man who has an intelligent evaluation of his abilities.”

In six+ decade retrospect, we find King (IQ:140|#493) [RGM:68|1,260+] in greatest minds rankings and a generally considered genius (Ѻ).

Feigned IQs
In 2001, Christopher Langan, to cite an infamous example, in video interview, claimed his IQ was "between 190 and 210" and that he is "closer to absolute truth than any man who has come before". This is an example of a feigned IQ self-estimation.

HighIQForum
In 2013, the domain HighIQForum.com was registered; forum members who join this site, are given the option of setting their “claimed IQ” (max setting of 150), per various IQ certification (Ѻ) methods; site member SolemnDream (Sep 2015) posted the following (Ѻ) about claimed IQs:

“When I first joined this board, it asked me if I wanted to set a claimed IQ. I set mine, not turning down the chance to get some attention. (I'm an extremely honest man, and I'm sure any lonely idealists out there would understand.) I set mine to 150+. If there was a 160 mark, I would have set that. But why? What justifies a high self-claimed IQ? Well, I don't know why you guys did it. And I want to know what you guys think. But for me, it was several things.

One, there are multiple IQ standards, and any score is in a nice, big grey area. What counts as an IQ of 140 on one standard would count as an IQ of 160 in another. You didn't have "160" listed, so I did whatever I felt. I mean, I don't have an absolute. How am I supposed to know what I should be doing? Not to mention that all IQ tests have a high margin of error, especially for the ones that require a tenth or hundredth of a percentile or worse so you can join the closed IQ communities elsewhere on the net. Two, IQ isn't an absolute. Everyone's IQ changes constantly, because IQ is based on the overall population's intelligence—something that differs by trend and culture. Depending on the IQ standard being used, if you are smarter than 1 out of 10,000 people, you can have an IQ of 160. And that's what I went by. I've lived closely with a much larger number of people in my life than most people live closely with their entire lives; and having been communicating with and hearing from such a large group, I feel like I can estimate how many people I am smarter than.

However, there are always people I feel stupid around. I mean, if you end up reading around about any of the posts I wrote or will write about problem-solving, weighing of fiction and tropes, analysis of dreams, and a lot of other things... well, you'll see I'm pretty gifted. But there's always people who are better linguists, scientists, or mathematicians than I am-- even people that I think might be less biased when they argue than I am. People like TrueSpock are so awesome that they make me feel anxious that people won't accept my intellect (and I am always dealing with self-worth issues). I mean, I never claimed to be incredibly verbose, or good at chess. I just claimed to be very passionate, creative, analytical, a very good problem-solver, and have an exceptional moral compass (self-centered and jerkish way of communicating aside). When it all comes down to it, I'm judging my IQ by the number and complexity of problems that I am able to solve in comparison to the rest of the world-- or by the variety, subtlety, and value of details that I am able to notice, comprehend, and analyze in comparison to the rest of the world. And isn't that what intelligence is made of? But what do you guys think? I mean, what verifies your high IQ to you? Do any of you ever worry that people won't accept your claims, maybe because you don't fit a stereotype? Any other thoughts?”

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Other
In 2014, Inderjit Singh, aged 18, devised, using a three part Buzan IQ methodology, a “real IQ” calculation formula, of his own device, from which he claimed (version 6) to have calculated his his own IQ was 160. [1] On 17 May 2016, Singh edited his IQ to 165; and then for months later, on 29 Sep 2016, edited his IQ to 170 per reason: "I suppose my IQ is at 170 now, though the climb to 185 or 185 will be significantly slower than the explosive progress of the past few years". On 31 May 2017, Singh attempted to change his existive Hmolpedia IQ to 175 with comment “quickly editing my own page for better clarity”.

Keys
In IQ keys, the abbreviation IQCE or

is short for claimed IQ of existive person.

Quotes
The following are related quotes:

“I have always been somewhat precocious, both physical and mentally. My IQ stands somewhat above the average. So it seems that from a hereditary point of view, nature was very kind to me.”
— Martin King (1950), “An Autobiography of Religious Development” [1]

References
1. Anon. (2003). “Greatest Geniuses IQs” (Ѻ), SciForums, Dec 9.
2. Singh, Inderjit. (2014). “Calculating the Real IQ of Geniuses” (Ѻ), Hmolpedia treads (post #13-21), May 18 – Jun 23.
3. King, Martin L. (1950). “An Autobiography of Religious Development”, Essay written for Davis’ course on the religious development of personality; in: The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr, Volume 1 (editors: Clayborne Carson, Ralph Luker, Penny A. Russell) (pg. 359). University of California Press, 1992.

External links
● Why do a lot of people on the Internet claim to have IQs of 140? (Ѻ) (2016) – Quora.