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IQ tests as regular measurement tools are terrible ideas. You'll quickly burn through the doable ones available online, and you will have destroyed their reliability for yourself by test-retest and other learning effects. Almost any other test would be superior - play Grid Wars, for example.
Grid Wars is probably even better than Quake. If you're not alert, you'll know it in a few seconds rather than minutes, and there seems to be surprisingly little learning - my own high scores seem to be quite randomly distributed in time.