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I remember reading an eclectic test about a year ago, which measure approximately how eclectic your taste is. But as I cant seem to find that one I've done my own version that is similar, if not the same but here we go.
You take your top 50 artists and one by one go to their pages and list all the similar artists that aren't already on your top 50 and count them, the higher the number the more eclectic your taste is etc.

My Top 50 Artists:
Agalloch
Amon Amarth
Tori Amos
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
Arch Enemy
Behemoth
The Birthday Massacre
Black Sabbath
Blind Guardian
Clutch
Collide
Corrosion of Conformity
Death
Dimmu Borgir
Dissection
Down
Dream Theater
Emperor
Enslaved
The Gathering
Immortal
In Flames
Isis
Judas Priest
Katatonia
Lamb of God
Mastodon
Meshuggah
Ministry
Napalm Death
Nightwish
Nine Inch Nails
NOFX
Opeth
Pain of Salvation
Pink Floyd
Porcupine Tree
Radiohead
Rush
Smashing Pumpkins
Strapping Young Lad
Swallow the Sun
Therapy?
Tool
Devin Townsend
Type O Negative
Ulver
Vader
VNV Nation
Zyklon

The Similar Artists:
The 3rd and the Moral
The 69 Eyes
1349
AC/DC
Accept
After Forever
Agua de Annique
Alabama Thunderpussy
Alcest
Alice in Chains
Anaal Nathrakh
Anathema
Anthrax
Anti-Flag
Antimatter
Apoptygma Berzerk
Fiona Apple
The Arcade Fire
Arcturus
Assemblage 23
At the Gates
Atheist
Ayreon
Ayria
The Bakerton Group
Bad Religion
Bass Communion
Bathory
Baroness
Syd Barret
The Beatles
Beck
Belphegor
Bjork
Blackfield
Bloodbath
Blood Red Throne
Blue Oyster Cult
Blur
Borknagar
Brutal Truth
Burzum
Bush
Kate Bush
Callisto
Cannibal Corpse
Carcass
Carpathian Forest
Chiasm
Children of Bodom
Chimera
Claire Voyant
Coldplay
Control Denied
Covenant
Cradle of Filth
Crowbar
The Cruxshadows
Cryptopsy
Cult of Luna
Cynic
Damageplan
Danzig
Dark Funeral
Dark Tranquillity
Darkthrone
Daylight Dies
Decapitated
Deep Purple
Deftones
Deicide
Demons & Wizards
DevilDriver
Ani DiFranco
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Dio
Dirty Scarab
Dismember
The Doors
Dope Stars Inc.
Dozer
Draconian
Drudkh
Edguy
Eisblut
Eisregen
Emmerson, Lake & Palmer
Empyrium
Ensiferum
Epica
Equilibrium
Evergrey
Extreme Noise Terror
Eyehategod
Faith No More
Fates Warning
Fear Factory
Filter
Finntroll
Five Horse Johnson
Frontline Assembly
Fu Manchu
Funker Vogt
Gamma Ray
Garbage
Genesis
David Gilmour
Gojira
Good Riddance
Gorgoroth
Graveworm
Green Carnation
Halford
Halo33
Hammerfall
PJ Harvey
The Haunted
Head Control System
Helalyn Flowers
Helloween
High on Fire
Hungry Lucy
Hypocrisy
I:Scintilla
Iced Earth
Icon of Coil
Ihsahn
In Extremo
In The Woods...
Insomnium
Interpol
Ion Disonance
Iron Maiden
J.B.O.
Jack Off Jill
Jesu
Jethro Tull
Kalmah
Kansas
Kataklysm
Killswitch Engage
Kidneythieves
Killing Joke
KMFDM
Korpiklaani
James Labrie
Lacuna Coil
Lagwagon
Lard
Leaves' Eyes
Led Zeppelin
Geddy Lee
Life of Agony
Liquid Tension Experiment
Lucifer's Heritage
Machine Head
Manes
Manic Street Preachers
Marilyn Manson
Marduk
Mayhem
Sarah McLachlan
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Megadeth
Mogwai
Monster Magnet
Moonspell
Morbid Angel
Alanis Morissette
Motorhead
Muse
My Dying Bride
Naglfar
Nasum
Necrophagist
Neurosis
Neuroticfish
Nile
Nirvana
No Use For a Name
Norther
Novembers Doom
Novembre
Nevermore
No-man
Obituary
October Tide
ohGr
Old Man Gloom
Old Man's Child
Orange Goblin
Orgy
Orphaned Land
Ozzy Osbourne
Pantera
Paradise Lost
Pearl Jam
Pelican
A Perfect Circle
Pennywise
John Petrucci
John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess
Pig Destroyer
Pigface
Pineapple Thief
Primordial
Pure Reason Revelution
Puscifer
Queens of the Stone Age
Rainbow
Rancid
Rebel Meets Rebel
Red Sparowes
Trent Reznor
Rhapsody
Riverside
Rodersand
Rollins Band
Rosetta
Jordan Rudess
Saturnus
Satyricon
Saxon
Scar Symmetry
Seabound
The Secret Meeting
Shadow Gallery
Shadows Fall
Shape of Despair
The Sisters of Mercy
Skinny Puppy
Sarah Slean
Soilwork
Solefald
Sonata Artica
Sonic Syndicate
Soundgarden
Spock's Beard
Stam1na
Stone Temple Pilots
Superjoint Ritual
Switchblade Symphony
Symphony X
Taake
Tapping the Vein
Terrorizer
Textures
Theatre of Tragedy
Frederik Thorendal's Special Defects
Tiamat
The Devin Townsend Band
Tristania
Tarja Turunen
Ugly Kid Joe
Unearth
Vanity Beach
Vesania
Roger Waters
White Zombie
The Who
Steven Wilson
Windir
Wintersun
Within Temptation
Wolves in the Throne Room
Woods of Ypres
Xandria
Yes
Thom Yorke
Zimmer's Hole
Zombie Girl

Which gives a total of: 271