IQ Score Guide / 158
Is 158 a Good IQ Score?
What an IQ of 158 means, where it ranks, and what it tells you about cognitive ability.
What an IQ of 158 means
This places you in the top 2% of the population — the threshold for Mensa membership. Exceptional abstract reasoning, rapid pattern recognition, and the capacity to identify connections others miss are hallmarks of this range.
Careers that commonly score in this range
Notable people reportedly in this range
All figures are estimates or reported by third-party sources — none are clinically verified.
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta co-founder and CEO — reportedly scored a near-perfect 1590 on his SAT (pre-1995 scale) before attending Harvard. Multiple published profiles estimate his IQ at approximately 150–152.
Jeff Bezos
Amazon founder — Princeton-educated with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science. Published assessments estimate his IQ at approximately 145–155 based on academic record and documented problem-solving at scale.
Sharon Stone
Oscar-nominated actress — reportedly scored 154 on a formal IQ test, one of the highest formally documented scores among Hollywood actors. Stone attended Edinboro University of Pennsylvania on an academic scholarship at age 15.
Elon Musk
CEO of Tesla and SpaceX — IQ estimated at 155 in multiple technology and business profiles, based on his Queen's University and Penn physics record and documented ability to rapidly master aerospace, battery, and AI engineering.
Recommended reading for this score range
The Intelligence Trap
David Robson
Why high IQ consistently fails to prevent poor decisions — and the evidence-based fixes.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
The definitive account of human cognitive architecture from a Nobel Prize-winning psychologist.
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