Hi! Welcome to the home page of #mensa, our IRC chat channel on the Undernet network.

A good many of us are members of the organization “Mensa”, a society for people with a high IQ. But we are not affiliated with them and in no way speak for them. The only connection that we have is that a lot of us are members of Mensa.

Sometimes the chat in the channel is serious, sometimes light-hearted. You do not need to be a member of Mensa to take part.

You may wish to read the guidelines for our channel or view the profiles of some of the #mensa regulars.

We have maps showing the locations of some of the #mensa regulars in North America, Europe, Southeast Asia, and Australia and New Zealand.

The #mensa online forum

BobG has set up for us an online forum.  Details

Thanks Bob.

The #mensa blog

Newtronic has set up for us a channel blog at undernet-mensa.blogspot.com

Thanks newt.

Interested in what your IQ may be?

There are links to online intelligence tests at www.allthetests.com/intelligence.php3, www.iqtest.com and www.iqtest.dk.

Or you could try the Mensa "Mensa Workout". Follow the link from www.mensa.org.

These are not official IQ tests, but they should give an indication of what your IQ may be. Mensa will accept scores from any of a large number of standardized IQ tests (but not online tests).

For information about Mensa, see the Mensa website at www.mensa.org.

Join us in #mensa

There is no cost. You can be anonymous. You can join us simply by using a web browser to access the Undernet Webchat interface. Most web browsers that support Java are suitable, e.g. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla or Opera.

For links to the Webchat interface and a help page, go to
www.user-com.undernet.org/userguide/join.php.

For safety, remain anonymous by not entering your real name in the "Full Name" field. You could put something cryptic or witty.

That page also tells of an alternative method, i.e. using an IRC client. Most experienced IRC users prefer to do that since most IRC clients offer extra facilities and a more pleasing interface. However, using an IRC client does involve downloading the IRC client software then installing it on your computer.

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