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A few years ago I did 2 50km walks. First one was hellish towards the end, second one was ‘fine’. I’m now thinking of doing a 100 walk in September, but am curious how people who have done that found it?

A follow on question, which feels stupid to ask, is what people do to slow themselves down? My natural walking pace is quite fast, 6.5 k/hour and I know that’s bad for very long distances but I always end up reverting to it, even if I try not to.

I recently took the relatively new official UK Mensa IQ test online.

Based on life experience and previous unofficial tests I have taken, I would put myself in the 'bright, but not exceptional' category.

The results came through Friday, split into two separate sections:

CATlab SAM: 124 (94th percentile)
NoVo: 97 (42nd percentile)
Combined:114

When doing the test I found the CATlab SAM part the most difficult. I'm not a native English speaker and there were a few words I don't recall ever coming across. That's not to say I found the NoVo part easy (there were a number I didn't answer), but I am genuinely puzzled by the score I achieved there.

I would have expected to score higher on the NoVo section than the CATlab one, yet it was the other way around by a huge margin.

Has anyone else taken the same test and been left wondering if there may be a software/scoring error with this specific test type?