What Does a Wonderlic Score of 29 Mean?

A raw score of 29 puts you at the 90th percentile — in the top 10% of Wonderlic test-takers and in range for technical and engineering roles.

Where 29 falls on the distribution

A 29 clears 90% of Wonderlic test-takers. Only about 10% of the population reaches this score. This is the band where technical and engineering employers typically cluster their thresholds, since the test's mathematical and logical reasoning items separate candidates here.

Roles where a 29 is competitive

Role fit: In range for technical roles: engineering, programming, finance, accounting.

For context: Wonderlic's published occupational data lists the average score for accountants at 28. Your 29 is 1 point above that role's average.

Engineering, programming, finance, and accounting hiring typically cluster their cut-scores around this band. The published occupational averages for engineers and analysts sit between 30 and 32.

What a few extra points buys you

If you went from 29 to 32 after a week or two of focused practice, your percentile would shift from 90th to 95th — a 5-point percentile gain from a 3-point raw gain. The Wonderlic's distribution is steep through the middle, so each raw point in the 20s and 30s does meaningful percentile work.

Source: percentiles on this page are interpolated from the anchors in the official Wonderlic Personnel Test sample report (©Wonderlic Inc. 2018), which prints "Score 31 / Percentile in Total Population 94 / IQ Equivalent 121". Remaining anchors follow the commonly cited Wonderlic population norms (mean ≈ 20–21, SD ≈ 7) on the 1992 normative sample of N=118,549. Occupational averages cited above are from Wonderlic's own published occupational data.