Does anyone see an intelligence curve for ball pythons? Like amongst individual snakes?

I’m just wondering because I feel like my ball python is pretty smart. She learns new patterns very quickly, and (for instance), after watching me open the three latches on her new tank, within minutes she was going from one to the next, actually pushing on them in turn. It’s like she understands that they’re the key to her escape, even though she could never manipulate them from the inside. It was kind of spooky.

So it also makes me wonder, could ball pythons ever be bred for more than looks, i.e. for their personality or individual IQ? I remember something about an IQ test devised for cornsnakes, and the results were amazing, how they were much smarter than previously thought by us humans – there was just no way of measuring it before.

And how could we test the intelligence of our own snakes – other than setting up an obstacle course! (i guess those are better suited for the feeders…)