Hey Pandas, What Was Your “Damn I’m Smart” Moment?

Not "Wow I am smart" but "Damn these people are dumb". Its easy to be the smartest in the room when surrounded by idiots

When I completed a cryptic crossword puzzle for the first time.

When I heard that there was going to be a prequel to the hunger games, I asked aloud:
“What’s the name of the main character going to be, Kitten-ness?”

Being not the smartest bulb in my group of friends, we were having a pint after work and they got in this discussion it was all really smart stuff and with my ADHD I'm already losing concentration.
The conversation got on the subject of telephones, one of them goes 'How does a telephone even work, like really work'

Me: 'It converts the sound into electricity and is then converted back into sound, you know like morse code'

Took a sip of my pint to a look of shock from my friends.

When I reset a programmable ROM in a computer using a bunch of electronics.

My boss is a maintenance douchebag. My fellow plumbers and electricians will understand. Its fun seeing his face when i correct him on plumbing issues.

On the serious side. When i first realized i didnt know something but was willing to learn is when i saw i am smarter then a lot of people. Acknowledging my ignorance allows me to learn more.

When people laugh at my witty jokes ;-) or sometimes someone will adopt a word or phrase I've used because they thought it was original or accurate.

uh one time i got the highest test score in my grade. and i’ve always had to score pretty good on stuff cause of my parents.

I was kind of different in high school. I'm naturally an introvert, but I was trying to force myself out of my shell by becoming somewhat of a class clown. I always made good grades, but never drew attention to that fact. Anyway, one day in Latin class, one of the more well-liked kids came up to me and said, " Kristi, you know how some people look really dumb, and then it turns out that they are really smart? That's you". If this was supposed to be a compliment, it missed its mark. Without even pausing to absorb what he had said, I immediately answered back, "Hey Anthony, you know how some people look really smart?" And left him to finish the thought. I have to admit I was ecstatic that this was not a retort that came to me five hours later!

When I got a 1490 on the SAT on my first try

Having done a lot of dumb things in my time, when I see or hear about someone doing something that I think is dumb... That's my 'Damn I'm Smart' moment by proxy.

Used a pencil to untie a really tight knot. I felt so smart lol. 4000 iq moment genius

Once i became my schools topper in 7th grade. I got the highest marks in all of the school.

I got 100% on a chemistry test *high marks on other sciences too*

I dropped out of high school right before my senior year, to get married (typical dumb kid wanting to grow up too fast). Of course my plan to finish school never happened. The year I turned 40, my stepson decided to leave school to get a job but agreed to test for a GED (General Education Diploma, considered equivalent to a high school diploma). I promised to take the test with him. All those years I'd been scared to take that test because my math & science skills had been very poor. I was terrified! Turns out I aced the test with a score in the high 90s. All that fear for nothing!

One time in 5th grade I was just answering some questions on a worksheet, pretty typical. But the partner I was working with was using single answers, like “yes” or “no” and not really explaining the answer. Anyway, my teacher saw both our worksheets and then proceeded to tell the other kid to look at my answers because that’s how it’s supposed to be. She was giving me so much praise I was literally blushing. Honestly I was just doing what I was supposed to do. I’ve had other smart moments in my life, where I’m actually doing smart stuff, but that was the first time I really realized it — just by completing the worksheet the correct way. To be honest, I think it shows more about the level of intelligence that other students have…

I was in 6th grade, I was told to go to the principals office. Wondering if I did something wrong, I was completely surprised when they said I had won the School Science Fair. Picture in the paper.

When I turned in my Deviant Behavior paper on gangs in the US and received the highest score in the class. We had to include the various sociological theories, citations of studies, etc...it was over a 20-page paper. I managed to snag a 97% on it! Yeah, I bragged my a** off over it, given it was an upper-level college course and hard as hell! LOL

When I got the idea to put the potholder in the microwave under the bowl before I heated it up. Maybe not as fancy and official as some of these answers but it seemed clever at the time.

I'm not much of a horn tooter, but I got 100% in C language class. I don't mean I aced it, I mean I never got one single thing wrong on any assignment, test or exam the whole semester.