TWJC Juggling Lifestyle Quiz

This test takes into account how juggling fits into your life rather than how good you are at juggling, so even people who can't do solid 5 club back crosses while bouncing a ball on their head can score highly. All of the questions below are true of people I know or have met during my year's in the juggling community.

Big thanks to all who have suggested additions to this quiz, particularly Scott Seltzer & David Sallee.

The test was last updated on the 8th of July 2010 & I have slipped a few percentage points to 68.21%.

To complete the test work your way down the list ticking all the statements that apply to you.

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You possess

At least 4 times as many balls/clubs/rings than you can actually juggle

A collection of festival passes...

...on display

A copy of the film Labyrinth

A copy of the film MirrorMask

Several out of date catalogues from various juggling suppliers

A famous juggler's autograph

Items of juggling or circus related art

A juggling related nickname

A juggler.net email address

A collection of back issues of at least one juggling magazine...

... which you reread periodically

Some sort of glove that you wear while juggling a certain prop to protect your hands

An item of juggling related jewellery

A juggling related tattoo

You have juggled

At the supermarket

In the bath/shower

While on the phone

Naked

On a plane

Up a mountain

Under water

Outside in severe weather conditions (hailstorm, electrical storm, hurricane etc.)

You consider

A unicycle as a sensible means of transportation

A Nils Poll hat as not just a prop but part of your wardrobe

Jokes about balls tiresome

The lack of juggling on TV a crime

Others around you when you are juggling

Things you do

You watch jugglers who appear in the background of a film rather than follow the plot...

... & mentally list all the tricks that they perform...

... & you watch for their name in the credits

You give to buskers

You preregister for festivals

You assess the ceiling height for practise space when you enter a room

You criticise drawings of clowns juggling the infamous 'over the head shower with an impossible number of balls'

You see tall objects & think about balancing them on your chin

You read dates/times/phone numbers etc. & check to see if they are a valid siteswap

You twirl pens through your fingers

You plan your holidays around juggling festivals

You take fire/glow equipment to parties

You take photos of yourself juggling in front of famous landmarks &/or city signs

You warm up before juggling

You chart the progress of your numbers juggling

You look for yourself or your friends in the back ground of people's convention videos

You & the internet

The majority of the websites you visit are juggling related

You have created a juggling website...

... which ranks number 1 for a juggling related query on Google

At least 60% of your hard drive contains juggling videos that you have downloaded (or you've got a number of CDs/DVDs full of stuff you've downloaded)

You follow a famous juggler on Twitter

Your friend count on Facebook goes up after each festival you attend

You are a volunteer/editor/moderator for one of the major juggling websites

A majority of your instant messaging contacts are jugglers

You hang out in the IJDb chatroom

You read rec.juggling

You refer to rec.juggling as r.j

You read more than 90% of the messages on r.j

You spend hours after being away from your computer for a few days trying to catch up on r.j

You check r.j for new messages more than 10 times a day

You feel like you know the top posters pretty well

You look forward to messages from certain r.j personalities

You read r.j messages about subjects you're not interested just because you think somewhere in the thread you will either learn something or be entertained

At least 25 of your friends informed you (via e-mail, or other means) about the Chris Bliss video

You keep a juggling related blog...

...which you have updated regularly for at least 2 years

You have performed

In a local talent show

On the street

On a cruise ship

At a school

At a wedding

In a variety show

In a renegade show

On an open stage

On TV

In a feature film

On the radio

In a public show at a juggling convention

In a gym at a festival because people started watching

You know

What the 15th Beni Hassan tomb is

What "Francis Brunn's impossible trick" is

The dates of your country's next national festival (You don't? Then you'd best check the IJDb Events lisings)

W.C. Fields' first names

How to say 'juggler' in three or more foreign languages

To you - (insert the following) - is not a load of jibberish

Up down go

Double double triple

Every others

531

Pass pass self

3-3-10

Inside, inside, self, outside, outside, self

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You are

An IJDb member

(or was) A comittee member of a local juggling club/society

A member of a national juggling organisation

Enjoying this quiz

You understand

Vanilla siteswaps

Synchronous siteswaps

Multiplex siteswap notation

Multi Hand Notation

Ladder diagrams

Causal diagrams

Mills mess state transition diagrams

Raw Juggling Markup Language

You can

Tell different makes of club apart

Match in-jokes to the convention that they came from

Remember the date that you learnt to juggle

Your juggling has caused

You to be late for school/college/work

An injury to someone else

A traffic accident

A security scare

You have

Found yourself on stage during renegade & had no idea how you got there

Attended a workshop

Ran a workshop...

...at least once a day on every day of a multi-day festival

Volunteered to help at a convention

Organised a convention

Baked something to share with jugglers at a festival

Written about juggling

Tactics for getting the best seat at the various big tops at the festivals you go to

Arrived at a juggling club more than an hour early

Counted the number of tricks & variations you can do with a particular prop

Worn a convention pass while not actually at a convention

Gone into a juggling hall at night & come out during daylight

Explained the workings of a juggling notation to someone else

Invented a trick (even if you later found out that it has already been done)

Been told that you juggle too much

Made an item of juggling equipment

Worked out a trick or passing pattern on paper...

... then couldn't learn it

Bought music after hearing it used as backing to a juggling routine

Taught someone else to juggle...

... & now they are considerably better than you

Wanted to cause physical harm to someone who informed you that you had lost a wheel

Travelled to a juggling festival in a foreign country without planning how to get home

Attended a juggling festival despite being too injured to juggle

Juggled with underwear

You & the medium of video

You have used a camcorder to analyse your juggling

You have made a juggling video...

... for an on-line contest...

... & it won

One of your videos has gone viral

You have participated in a collaborative video project

You have organised a collaborative video project

Miscellaneous

Every room in your house contains at least one juggling prop

Most of your T-shirts are convention T-shirts

People have asked you if you are/want to be a clown

You have or have had a juggling related injury

In summer the back of your body gets a much deeper tan than the front

Music sometimes triggers a fantasy performance in your mind

When riding a bike someone has commented, "what's with the extra wheel?"

You can think of questions that should be in this quiz

You are going to email your friends about this quiz...

... & brag about your score

Other tests

The main inspiration for this test was the Geek Test. Other juggling related tests include the Juggler's Aptitude Test & the Unicycle Fanatics Test.