Anybody else like the Kohs Block Test?

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I was just getting a metal testing exam for my disability. Overall I found the entire exam to be pretty challenging, until we got to the Kohs Block Test. The entire time I was doing the test I was thinking. You call this an IQ test? Please give me more blocks, more colors, a more complicated design. Make this more challenging, please.

When I finished I told the psychologist giving me the test, well that was easy. She looked at me kind of surprised, and told me that I would be surprised at how many people have difficulties with it.

So anyways, is anybody else really good at the Kohs Block Test. I'm thinking it might be an autistic thing.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xze_9ION-4I[/youtube]

This was one of the tests included in my Dyslexia test. Like your self I found it stupidly easy and completed them all with time to spare.

Then there was some matrix tests although I can't recall the specific name nor do I have my test results handy to check but they looked similar to the image below. You had to look at a series of them and pick the odd one out. Again I "completed all but one of the matrices in a very short time" that last one of which I couldn't quite describe why it was different but there was just something about it. Turned out I was right on that one also. Not entirely sure of what my exact IQ is as the test wasn't really designed for high results but broken down into different areas scores ranged from 86 to 142. In any event, it was enough to get me into Mensa. Not that I cared but just wanted to see if I could.

Looks like a blue pentagon with one orange line would work.

I loved the blocks when I was tested as a kid.

I did absolutely miserably on that test. I felt like a complete moron trying to put a square peg in a round hole. My score on that part of the test was half the rest of my scores.

I had fun with the blocks test, and like you , I wished it was a lot more challenging.
The lady giving me the test was amazed at how fast I did it, and said I was the only person she tested who got all of them right.

But that matrix test 'christof' posted was kinda confusing.

I'm yelling at the kid in that video.

I don't believe I ever took that particular test, but I did take a similar one, the WISC-III block design test. When I took it at age 8, my scaled score was 19, considered to be "very superior." It came down to 12 when I was 15, however.

I always found that stuff easy. I never knew people had a hard time with it until I was 15.

Those are very easy for me.
I had a IQ test before and the results were highly scattered.
My highest was matrix reasoning rated above %99th percentile
My lowest was wisconsion card sorting aswell as paragraph copying on the wrat-r, both under 3rd percentile.

It's a known ASD thing (though not to the point where it's diagnostic or anti-diagnostic by itself).

I would struggle with that test and, indeed, have scored very poorly on tests like that in the past. I have dyspraxia though which explains a lot, I think, because not only do I have issues with my fine motor skills but I also struggle to visualise how things fit together. I remember getting so frustrated in school whenever we studied tessellation as we would inevitably be asked to do our own designs of tessellated shapes and mine would never fit together. Even though I knew cognitively how to do it, it just wouldn't transfer to paper.