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Is a 119 IQ Good? What the Score Means

A 119 IQ is a little above the average of 100. About 90 in 100 people score lower than 119. Clinical reports using the WISC-V or the traditional WAIS-IV wording would call 119 High Average.

Percentile
89.74
How rare
1 in 10 score 119 or higher
WISC-V wording
High Average
Traditional wording (WAIS-IV)
High Average
Distance from 100
1.27 SD above
On an SD 16 test
about 120
On an SD 24 test
about 130
Our test's usual range here
107 to 131 (90%)
Where 119 sits on the IQ curveA bell curve with a marker at 119. The shaded area to the left is the share of people who score lower; 119 is at the 89.74th percentile.70100130119

What does a 119 IQ mean?

A score of 119 is 1.27 standard deviations above the average of 100. On most IQ tests one standard deviation, the typical distance from the average, is 15 points, so 119 is 19 points away.

119 sits near the top of the 110 to 119 band, 1 point below the next band up. About 17 in 100 people score from 110 to 119, the band just above average that holds 119.

What percentile is an IQ of 119?

A score of 119 is at the 89.74th percentile. That percentile is the share of people who score lower than 119, not the share of questions right. Five points higher, 124 is at the 94.52nd percentile. Five points lower, 114 is at the 82.47th percentile. Across those ten points around 119, the percentile moves by 12.05.

How rare is an IQ of 119?

About 1 in 10 people score 119 or higher. In a town of 100,000 people, about 10,000 would score 119 or higher.

For every 100 people who score exactly 100, about 45 score exactly 119. These figures for 119 come from the normal curve that IQ scales are built on, and the IQ calculator works out any other score.

What would 119 be on other tests?

Not every test would print 119 for this position. Older Stanford-Binet forms and many school tests use a standard deviation of 16; there, the same position as 119 is about 120. On a scale with a standard deviation of 24, used by the Cattell test, it is about 130. 119, 120 and 130 all mean the same percentile.

Is 119 a good IQ score?

The scale does not grade the person behind a 119; it places one result among other people’s results. As a position, 119 is a little above the average of 100. What a 119 is useful for depends on the purpose, and a single online result is too rough for decisions about school, work or support. A 119 describes some kinds of reasoning on one test, on one day, and leaves out a great deal that matters, such as effort, knowledge and character.

Is a score of 119 gifted?

There is no single gifted cutoff that a 119 either meets or misses; each school or program sets its own rule. Many programs use the top 10 percent as a guide, and a 119 is in the top 10.26 percent of people, inside that guide. A child’s 119 counts for a program only when it comes from a supervised test given by a psychologist or the school. Our guide for parents explains how that works.

How far is 119 from the average?

119 is 19 points above the average of 100, or 1.27 of a standard deviation. About 39.7 percent of people score between 100 and 119. About 10.3 percent score higher than 119. Our average IQ guide explains why the middle sits at 100 rather than at 119.

What does an online result of 119 mean?

An online result of 119 is an estimate. When our test shows 119, the estimated range next to it is usually about 107 to 131. That range for 119 is provisional: it comes from our scoring model and a simulation, not yet from real test takers. Our methodology shows how the range is made.

An unsupervised online 119 may also run a little high: a large review found a gap of about 3 IQ points. Taking the same kind of test again usually raises a score like 119 a little, mostly on the first retakes. Our guide are IQ tests accurate covers this in depth.

To see where your own result falls next to 119, take the free IQ test. It has 30 questions and shows an estimated range with every result.

Scores near 119

  • 117 IQ: 2 points lower, at the 87.15th percentile.
  • 118 IQ: 1 point lower, at the 88.49th percentile.
  • 120 IQ: 1 point higher, at the 90.88th percentile.
  • 121 IQ: 2 points higher, at the 91.92nd percentile.

Look up any score from 70 to 160, not only those near 119, in the score explorer.

FAQ

What percentile is 119 IQ?

A score of 119 is at the 89.74th percentile. That means about 89.74 percent of people score lower.

Is 119 IQ gifted?

Whether 119 counts as gifted depends on the program. Many use the top 10 percent as a guide, and 119 is in the top 10.3 percent.

How many people have an IQ of 119?

On a whole-number scale, about 1.2 percent of people score exactly 119. About 1 in 10 people score 119 or higher.

Can an online test show 119?

Yes, as an estimate with a range: on our test a 119 usually comes with an estimated range of about 107 to 131.