What Is Andrew Tate's IQ?

Andrew Tate does not have a verified IQ score. The number attached to him online, 148, comes from his own unverified claims and from fans repeating them; no test report, named examiner, or scoring document has ever been produced. The companion claim that he is a Mensa member is equally undocumented. This article traces where the figure comes from, what is actually documented about Tate, and what it would take for any celebrity IQ number to count as evidence.

The 148 has the classic profile of an internet number. It appears on question-and-answer forums, celebrity-IQ aggregator sites, and social media clips, and it is usually attributed to remarks Tate made on livestreams and podcasts. No primary footage showing a checkable test document has surfaced, and no testing psychologist has ever been named. The safest description of the claim is also the accurate one: it is a number Tate and his fans have repeated online.

The Mensa claim rests on the same evidence, which is to say none. American Mensa admits people who score in the top 2 percent on an accepted standardized intelligence test, a bar that sits near an IQ of 130 on modern scales, and the society verifies scores before admitting anyone. No confirmation of membership exists for Tate. Our article on celebrities who are Mensa members covers cases where membership actually is documented.

Other figures float around the same listicles, including numbers in the high 130s. None of them cites a test, a date, or a document either. When different sources give different numbers for the same person and none can say where its number came from, the most reasonable reading is that no underlying score exists at all.

Tate, full name Emory Andrew Tate, was born in December 1986 and is named after his father, an American who worked for the US Air Force in Britain and who was also a chess master. He was raised in the United States until his parents divorced, then moved to Luton, England, with his mother. Before internet fame he was a kickboxing world champion four times.

His father's record is the one verified intellectual credential in the family story. Emory Tate was an International Master and a five-time US Armed Forces chess champion, remembered by the US Chess Federation as a "brilliant tactician." A parent's demonstrated ability raises the odds of high ability in a child, but it guarantees nothing about any individual.

The rest of the public record is stormier. Tate was removed from the reality show Big Brother over a video that appeared to show him assaulting a woman; he said at the time that the footage had been edited and called it "a total lie trying to make me look bad." Numerous platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, have banned him. In Romania he was charged with rape, human trafficking, and forming an organised crime group to sexually exploit women, charges he denies, and he left Romania for the United States in February 2025. He is also wanted in the UK to face sexual assault allegations, which he likewise denies. None of it settles anything about his IQ, but an article about the man should not pretend the context does not exist.

IQ scores are reported on a scale with a mean of 100 and a "standard deviation," a measure of how spread out scores are, of 15 points. A genuine 148 would sit more than three standard deviations above average, around the 99.9th percentile; by pure arithmetic, roughly one person in 1,500 scores that high. That is comfortably beyond the Mensa cutoff of about 130. For a sense of the neighborhood, see our article on whether 145 is a high IQ score.

Numbers in this range travel well online. They are high enough to sound extraordinary and low enough to sound plausible. That is an observation about marketing, and marketing is the one skill everyone agrees Tate has.

In psychometrics, a score exists when a standardized test is administered under controlled conditions, scored against representative norms, and documented. Intelligence researcher Russell T. Warne makes the point throughout his book In the Know: professionally administered IQ tests are reliable and valid measures of general intelligence, and that reliability is exactly why an unverifiable number from an unnamed test carries no evidentiary weight. The instrument is trustworthy; the anecdote is not.

• A verified score has a paper trail: A test name, a date, an administrator, and a report. Documented celebrity scores offer at least some of these. The Tate 148 offers none.

• Achievement is not a percentile: Four kickboxing world titles and an enormous audience demonstrate discipline, risk tolerance, and marketing skill. None of those is a measure of general intelligence, in either direction.

• Repetition is not verification: A claim does not become better documented by being repeated. The 148 has been quoted thousands of times and sourced zero times.

The pattern repeats across celebrity IQ lore. Our article on Tom Brady's IQ walks through a case where a documented cognitive test score actually exists and still needs careful interpretation.

A meaningful IQ score requires three things: a test with published reliability evidence, "norms" built from a large representative sample so a raw score can be converted into a percentile, and administration conditions that rule out cheating and coaching. That is what separates measurement from self-report. Anyone curious where they actually stand can skip the folklore: the Reasoning and Intelligence Online Test is a modern, properly normed assessment, and RIOT IQ offers a free IQ test that reports scores against current norms rather than livestream lore.

There is no verified IQ score for Andrew Tate. A figure of 148 circulates online and Tate has encouraged that image, but no test report, testing psychologist, or documentation has ever been produced. Any specific number should be treated as unverified.

Both claims are widely repeated on social media and celebrity-IQ sites, usually attributed to remarks Tate made on livestreams. No verified test result or Mensa membership confirmation exists, so both remain undocumented.

He was a four-time kickboxing world champion and built a very large online following, which shows discipline and marketing skill. General intelligence is measured with standardized tests, and Tate has never released a verified score, so his IQ is simply unknown.

His father, Emory Tate, was a genuine chess talent: an International Master and five-time US Armed Forces chess champion, remembered by US Chess as a "brilliant tactician." A parent's ability raises the odds of high ability in a child but guarantees nothing about any individual's IQ.

Mensa admits people who score in the top 2 percent on an accepted standardized intelligence test, which corresponds to an IQ of about 130 or higher on most modern tests. A true 148 would clear that bar easily, which is part of why the unverified claim spreads so well.

Andrew Tate's IQ is unknown. The 148 is an unverified claim that has never been accompanied by a test report, and the Mensa membership has never been confirmed. What is documented is a kickboxing career, a chess-master father, and a talent for staying in the feed. If a number ever matters to you, hold it to the same standard this article applies to his: a real test, real norms, and a score someone can check.

1. BBC News. (2025, February 27). Who is Andrew Tate? The self-proclaimed misogynist influencer. bbc.com

2. Shahade, J. (2015, October 19). Armed Forces champ & brilliant tactician Emory Tate, 1958-2015. US Chess Federation. uschess.org

3. Warne, R. T. (2020). In the know: Debunking 35 myths about human intelligence. Cambridge University Press. doi.org

4. American Mensa. (n.d.). Join American Mensa. us.mensa.org