Countries of the World Quiz

Updated for South Sudan independence!!!

apparently there's still about 21 percent of people who weren't aware of south sudan. I say that because if you get sudan, then you should also get south sudan. it's just like north and south korea now.

Got them all first time of asking... but I have an issue that I NEVER had before the update... If you scroll up or down whilst doing it (sometimes I like to check the alpha order if I'm struggling) then when you go back up to the map (which I rely heavily on to tell me what I do and don't have) then the java (or whatever it is you use) messes up considerably, and doesn't fix itself... it leaves like a ghost over the top... here's a link to an image to show you what happens... its not so bad with all 196 countries greened out... but you can imagine how messy it looks when you see all the borders as you fill out!! http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/706/mapoftheworldc.png/

Okay I cleared my cache, hit refresh etc... and now it's worse lol... sometimes the images don't appear at all and I get broken links! haha... this certainly never happened before the update either :( http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/832/afterclearing.png/

PROBLEM! The map has a "ghost, pale" image behind the "green" completed image and I can't see what I've done and what I haven't. Most annoying!

@Rittings, mine is doing that too!

Cool! southern Sudan. Time to re take the quiz.

186/196 sooo clooooseeeeee

I may or may not have spent 2 hours memorizing all the countries so that I may have gotten 100% on the quiz...

YES! 5:07 remaining! Took over 25 tries, including the old version, but I finally got it in less than 7 minutes! Woo!

Inbetween1 it is spelled Ecuador :)

171/196 = 87%.

Sharastarr1, thanks, got it down to 6:25. I can't go any faster I don't think. I type about 60 wpm, so you must be doing 90 or 100.

I knew most of them thanks to the Animaniacs, but I had trouble on spelling many of them. "United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru..."

@Kiden, that's a great song :D

190 ALMOST THERE!

Just wondering how many of us have cracked the 8:00 barrier and the top 10 fasted times

man 184! I'm getting so close :D

I'm so frustrated. I keep missing just one! It's not even the same one! LOL

100% with 2:20 left : ) Now I just have to wittle down the time

I did it !

8:01! So close

@glennish I'd love to know the top ten too!

ooh i was so close i missed lebanon (somehow), comoros, and samoa

196/196 with 5:08 remaining. Is there a documented record?

Quizmaster...you could give us a top 10 recorded times for completing this quiz right?

My best time finishing with 8 minutes on the dot left...so anything close to 4 min is doable...anything faster than 3 minutes 30 seconds would be impossible...could you tell us how many people have times in the 4 min to 3:30 range? Just interested to see how many people can do this faster than 4 min but not cheating

There's really no way to tell if cheating occurred. The fastest time that looks legit is 3:04. I say it looks legit, because the user took the quiz a few dozen times, showing improvement over time.

That would be the equivalent of typing about 70 words a minute.

I'm overly competitive. Sorry about bugging you

Been doing this about 2 weeks and have finally got all of them.The one I kept missing was Sierra Leone for some reason! Now at just under 9 1/2 minutes.I have no idea how anyone human could type them all in 3 minutes.......

I used to miss Sierra leone as well...I dont think 3 minutes is possible either, but then again I used to think 7 minutes was impossible and I can do it under 4 now on occasion. Still 3 min would have to be one of the fastest typers in the world

So I thought I'd done it again and hadn't realised that since last night there are now 2 Congos...more long winded names to type...will never beat the time I've set now!

This quiz made me want to learn all the countries in the world. Now I get 100% every time, go me!

100%!!!

I'm up to 163. If I remember a few that I usually don't, I leave off a few that I usually don't. Ai carumba!

Up to 174! I will get them all eventually.

i wonder what the stats would look like if it didnt include people who retake the quiz over and over again

@acer I meant is as I completed the quiz in 3 minutes and 45 seconds (so 8 minutes left), so I'm assuming that's what quizmaster meant too :)

Every single one of the 196 I've memorized. I would think that the least guessed would be some of the lesser antilles or some of the oceania countries such as tonga, vanatu, etc. but it is actually sao tome and principe. Didn't think that would be least guessed.

Best time ever ~ 6:22 left!!!! =)

Yah, me too. My mind went blank. I said Vatican but not Vatican City.

Up to 183. I've started trying to put the ones I have trouble remembering first. Singapore, East Timor, and most of Oceania always give me trouble.

100% finally! :)

Great quiz. I've learned a lot. I'm a quadriplegic and my typing is limited to one thumb. So I use voice activated software to fill out the countries. Unfortunately the software makes lots of mistakes--ginny for Guinea, dionna for Guyana, etc.--which I have to correct w/ the thumb. Still I'm up to 180 in 12 minutes.

YESSSS! I have been doing this quiz every morning, and today was my first time getting it done. I have 2:50 left to spare, so I'm not nearly in the running for fastest time, I'm just glad I've learned so much in the past few weeks. I make myself do it once a day, and I would have finished yesterday if not for dadgummed Nauru. I'll never forget it now, though :) Guess I get to work on world capitals next.

yocoy - ivory coast definitely works. that's what I type.

ineedahobby- I don't mean to accuse you of cheating by any means, but finishing this quiz in under 3 minutes is rediculous...that would mean you are typing faster than a country a second...while I can do this with certain countries...like for all the guinea(s) I dont see how with countries like central african republic that anyone could average less than a second per country..I'm certainly not the fastest typer in the world, but I like to think I'm pretty quick and with a handfull of typos the fastest I've finished is 3:49 (with 8:11 remaining)..When transcribing the average WPM is 40 (with a standard deviation of 16.25) so 69.75 WPM (your average) would be almost 2 standard deviations away from the average...or in other words almost the best anyone could hope for...Obviously anyone of us that is finishing this in under 6 or 7 minutes has the countries memorized, but its still not the same as typing what is being said to you...so, I would think 3 minutes would be close to the fastest anyone could do this wit

Finally, I have been working on this for way too long, but I finally got them all. With just 1:50 left it's nothing to brag about, but I don't care, I'm just happy for myself.

I finally learned all the countries with a lot of time left on my timer. Now I just have to learn all the capitals too, and then.. The flags... Maybe something else too :D

6:22 damn I need to warm up my hands.

Finally... I've been doing this quiz like everyday for weeks now and i finally got 100% with 43 seconds to spare... sooo happy :D

Woot! Yesterday I got them all with 24 seconds left..today with 49 seconds left. Love this quiz!

slytherinsnakelover - some of us obviously care a bit more about our spelling

Keep going, YoungSinema! It has taken me months to get all of them. This is such a great quiz.

Arghhh for some reason I ALWAYS forget one or two countries..and they are usually in the oceania area... But I am proud to say I finally reached 100% with 4:50 left. Yess! Now just to beat my time :) Lol..not sure why I've been so obsessed with this quiz!!

I didn't even know you could turn the time off! YoungSinema - I found if there were always some I was forgetting, I'd write a few of them down on a piece of paper, and after I had entered all that I could remember, I would check the paper and enter any I'd forgotten. After a while I wouldn't need to check the paper

Young Sinema...This is how I got them all (it took me probably about 25 doing the quiz or so). First go through all the regions and try to get as many as you can...then with the harder countries just try to remember all the countries with the same first letter...Like I do malta,maldives,moldova, and monaco at the same time...and angola,andora, and antigua...Bahrain,bhutan,brunei, and burma....things like that will help

5:14 remaining! And I typed most of South America in one box, after having typo'd Argentina, so I can definitely get faster.

I've gotten it to 8:13 left....so 3:47...If I can get to 8:30 I think that will be my ceiling

I did it in 10:15 left.... haha beat that

IMHO better to go with regions than trying to do them in alphabetical order. anyone who can get more than half of these countries probably knows about where everything is, and whatever they don't know, they can learn very quickly. then you are able to visualize the map, and do one region at a time. Having a good visual grasp makes it MUCH easier than trying to do them in ABC order, trust me. Same applies with the periodic table.

Oceania grouping: Largest and most well-known islands are (Australia, New Zealand, Fiji). The three outcasts are (Papua New Guinea, Kiribati, Tonga). Next is all countries that end in "U" (Nauru, Palau, Tuvalu, Vanuatu). Last are the "M and S" islands (Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands).

Woo down to 7:46 remaining!

I seem to be peaking at about 5: 30 remaining. Not sure how people are getting everything with 7 and 8 minutes left. :\

@juanne Palestine is not a country. It's a geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan river.

188 96%

Isn't Taiwan considered part of China? I am aware of the situation with Taiwan given the case maybe you should also add Hong Kong and Macau

It is the same color as Greenland. lol

Yay. 100%

This time I had about 1:48 remaining and ironically I forgot the seychelles until the very last country, only because I happened to look over it.

i cant wait for independence of kurdistan, chechnya/dagestan, western sahara, siberia,, united states of america,, others.... whatever happened to catalonia, brittany, courland, crimean khanate, punjab, mysore, barbary states, scotland, united provinces ... ??? Am i late?

Taiwan is not part of China. The Taiwan government claims the "Republic of China" while the government of China is the "People's Republic of China." They are different governments. The Taiwan government is what got forced out by the communists after WWII. All they have left is Taiwan, and the communists have mainland China.

My best score is 189. It's the countries I can't spell that I don't get! I've mastered Asia, Europe, South America and Australiasia. It's West Africa and the Carribian I struggle on. *-*

4:08 remaining. I'm improving!