It’s your requirement though, not theirs. I’m not part of Mensa and have no chance neither will to join, but this attitude “do some genius work then we’ll talk” really annoys me. It’s unlikely that I will do, but if I did, we wouldn’t talk, cause who cares. Like they need to work hard to prove something to a stranger (I’d make it invalidate membership). Some people can beat that score, some cannot, that’s it. Social people do things to feel accepted and loved (or feared, or hated). Unsocial may do that for themselves, out of curiosity, for an idea, to fight with reality, because they can. But not to impress some guy out there. It doesn’t have to be utilitarian; analyzing sudoku solving methods with 4 digits or playing other hard “games” is as intellectual as creating a cure for cancer. The only difference is how some Joe judges or benefits from it, which is irrelevant.

If this reads harsh, I did not mean it, but you social guys think you understand better, but often you do not.

I never announced my iq because I’ve seen that the answer other people usually get is either “ooh that’s high” or “what are you bragging about, it’s a number” or “mine is N”. Never heard the one that I find actually interesting: “which test it was, and oh, how did you analyze Nth, because it has three patterns with similar fitness, but only two were available as an answer”. Never once.