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Geek, nerd, or dork?

by Vladimir Cole on Dec 25th 2006 10:28AM

Blog MilitantGeek helps us make sense of the difference between geeks, nerds and dorks with this handy table. We've carefully assessed ourselves (and our readers) against this handy chart, and have determined that most of us are nerds, though a few of us (hackers in the mod & homebrew community come to mind) have ascended to the level of geek.

Because MilitantGeek asks "What did we miss?" we provide the following suggested updates:

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Tags: dork, gamer culture, geek, nerd

Reader Comments (35)

Looks like I am a geek. My dream job is to work for NASA, I compete in robotic competitions, and one of my favorite TV shows ever is A-Team.

Geeks FTW!

They have Geek and Nerd around the wrong way.

I guess I'm a gerd, or a neek.

well im 1/3 geek
5/9 nerd
and suppose im 1/3 Dork
i suppose i should add on an extra nerd for just adding a comment here...

Geek for sure. The HL2 source code is amazing!

lol i fall under all 3 in some places and none at all in others

i guess im half geek/nerd/dork and half...normal?

Dream fights:
Geek: Google vs. Microsoft
Nerd: Marvel vs. DC
Dork: WWF vs. WCW

Damn I'm 2/3rds nerd and 1/3 geek. WTF I thought I was even invited to the social?

4/9 nerd
4/9 geek
1/9 dork JCPenny ;)

This is the kind of stupid sarcastic bullshit that holds gaming sites back from being legitimate journalism. It does nothing but insult its audience, categorizing them all as anti-social and adverse to reality. Can we lose this stupid stigma already and stop perpetuating it?

What sort of social outcast is it that spends hours making a spreadsheet?

"Favorite App : MS Excel"
labels you -what-?

thank geeks for thinkgeek (i'm a geek)!

Lol, so according to them I'm neither. Woot.

8/9 Geek 1/9 Nerd (SW/LotR soundtracks ftw).

Also API docs are very sexy.

Lol, love the Excel question. Where would you put on the chart spends hours and hours using excel to analyze statistics to predict fantasy football performance?

Got geek and nerd switched around. Maybe it's just me, but geeks have always been the obsessive ones and nerds have always been the booksmart ones. Otherwise, funny stuff!

Am I the only one who thinks the geek answer is the coolest?

Ok this is way off topic and may have been asked before, but i really would like to know how much hard drive space the Core System by itself has...I understand the benifits of the premium system but i dont want to spend 100 extra dollars if i can help it...any feed back will be much appreciated

Tack on another for having "geek" and "nerd" possibly reversed?

Nerds are the bookies (though the D and D makes sense) with the acne, Geeks are the obsessive people into alterna-culture.

I'm about 50/50 Nerd/Geek Ratio. I'm actually quite content with that.

I'm in agreement with Eric Baker, for me geeks have always been more pop culture related than nerds.

Im 5/9th's Nerd. 4/9th's Geek. Even in a Nerd,Geek,Dork area of society I don't quite fit in....
SIGH...LOL!!

Alas, the humble Spaz is overlooked again

Agreed, geek and nerd are switched.

I like this test myself: http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=9935030990046738815

This article has nerd and geek horribly, horribly confused. =[

ok dorks play dnd and are the ones with the ironic t-shirts so redo the dork and by the way dorks do not wear watever mom wants so stfu about things u dont know

I like Excel spreadsheets... I find reasons to make them. Oh excel, how I love thee. So I guess I'm urban with geek tendencies cuz more than half of the things here don't apply to me.

ha ha... i'm a geek and i'm lovin it!!!!

Hmm... I don't know about this table. I've always thought that it was more of a social skills thing. Like, geeks are ok at interacting with ppl, wheras nerds are sort of annoying, i guess?

Nick Mendez is a definatly nerd. not jk, hav u red his comment? if not read it.

This is funny But I am completely sure that all of the stats for geek/nerd are mismatched... perhaps the writer made a mix up... or he is a geek wanting to be a nerd or vice versa...

ha! i looked at all the tables and guess wat? none fit! hahaha in ur faces geekoids!

HIS PETEY ok nate is soo not any of the above along with my sexy babe gavin

SAME HERE CUZ IM A SEXY MAMA!!!!!!

if any of u dorkwads want a pic to bad ur acne scares me!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
SAVE ME PETE

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