Mental and Intellectual Powers
Along with his other super-powers, Superman also possesses a super-intellect and other superhuman mental powers.In Spring 1940 Clark Kent exhibits the ability to temporarily halt the beating of his heart. In several occasions in subsequent years, Superman employs this unique ability in order to enable him to feign death. Superman #21 alludes to Superman's having temporarily halted the beating of his heart and put himself into a state of suspended animation, and World's Finest Comics #54 cites Superman's ability to control his heart action in order to simulate the signs of death. Control of one's heartbeat would seem to involve mental control of one's physical functions, but in his only clear description of this feat, Superman describes it as one of "super-muscular control." "To make you think I had 'died,'" he remarks to a group of captured criminals in January 1958, "I used super-muscular control to stop my heart from beating - just as I'm doing now to make it beat faster and louder, listen!"
In Summer 1940, Superman is described as possessing a photographic memory.
In January 1941 Superman cures Lois Lane of her amnesia by means of hypnosis and a month later, as Clark Kent, he hypnotizes her into forgetting the super-feats he is about to perform so that he can rescue her from a burning cabin in his role as Clark Kent without betraying his dual identity.
In January 1942, Superman is able to converse fluently with a mermaid despite the fact that her tongue is completely foreign to him because his advanced intellect instantly comprehends her strange language. (Superman #14)
In July 1943, Superman is described as having a "super-brain," but later texts refer to Superman as having a "super-intellect."
In January 1945, Superman visits the public library and reads through a mountain of books and articles about himself in only five minutes, and in November 1945, he is described as reading a 500-page book in ten seconds flat.
In September 1947, Superman is described as having a super-instinct that alerts him to the fact that someone is watching him.
In July 1948, Superman demonstrates the ability to solve complex mathematical equations with the speed and accuracy of a giant computing machine.
In July 1950, Superman's super-intellect enables him to solve, in seconds, a complicated mathematical problem that the Metropolis Science Foundation's mighty electronic brain takes ten minutes to solve.
In July 1951, Clark Kent memorizes a 400-page book in a matter of seconds, and in September of the same year, Superman comments that, for the sake of convenience, he has memorized the entire Metropolis phone book.
In November 1953, Superman is described as having a "super-memory."
In March 1954, Superman's super-intelligence enables him to solve a complex equation that involves dealing with mathematical ideas unknown to ordinary men.
In March 1955, Superman memorizes all the existing books on eye surgery preparatory to performing a complicated eye operation.
In April 1955, Superman is described as having used his photographic memory to memorize all the files of the Daily Planet.
In May 1956, Superman is described as being able to recall every action of his life with his "super-human memory." Subsequent texts refer to Superman's "power of total memory" or "total-recall memory," noting that it enables the Man of Steel to remember everything he ever said or did.
In January 1958, Superman is able to match up a suspect's fingerprints with those on file in Washington, D.C., as the result of having used his super-memory to memorize the entire fingerprint file of the F.B.I.
In June 1958, while relaxing at his Fortress of Solitude, Superman defeats a great robot he has built in a game of super-chess, despite the fact that the robot - which possesses a super-electronic brain - can think and play with the speed of lightning and plans a million moves at once.
In November 1960 Superman is described as having mastered Kryptonese, the language of Krypton, through his memory's power of total recall.
A text dated August 1963 notes that Superman possesses the super-intellect of a score of the world's most brilliant minds put together.
Originally posted by DarkCrawler
Pre-Crisis Superman makes even Richards to look like a retard.We are talking about man who could invent a time machine in a second...
ya thats the thing about superman. he does not always show he to bright but then he will pull some ****ing crazy at super genious feat.
True...sometimes normal guys defeated him.
"A text dated August 1963 notes that Superman possesses the super-intellect of a score of the world's most brilliant minds put together."
http://hem.bredband.net/b153434/Index.htm
Add IQ's on that page together and you get the IQ of Superman...which would be about 4000 😂
Richards understands universal concepts much better than Batman does, I think.
However, Bruce Wayne comprehends magical elements much better than Richards does.
And as well, Bruce has a much higher volcume of common sense.
In a universal aspect, not many know more than Reed, but Bruce Wayne would smoke him on an IQ test imo, becaue it isn't entirely stat/science/math related, but applied logic.