I'm sorry, but I'm going to call total BS on the takers of this quiz. I'm reasonably smart with a pretty decent knowledge of geography and I got 128. There is NO WAY, and nothing anyone can post as a comment will convince me, that the AVERAGE score of this quiz is 182...out of 196. Nope. Don't believe it. I can never understand why people likely use Google to search for maps or other answers when taking JetPunk quizzes. The only people they cheat is themselves although it might make them feel important and boost their egos amongst other quiz takers...whom they'll never meet.
You're right, some people do look up maps, or, countries. They might also use pause to look at a map. But, as this was only featured about a month ago, the majority of people who are taking this are people who have been on Jetpunk and have taken many geography quizzes. Now that it is on the front page, expect the average to go down.
Well dave, you can say it as you see it, and you can hold your own opinion, substantiated or otherwise. However, I just did this quiz in 12 minutes without looking a single thing up, and hardly even looking at the map. How? By practising many times, and I do it like this:
Oceania: 14 countries (my record is 30 seconds)
Asia: 48 countries (record 3.44)
Africa: 54 countries (record 2.25)
North America: 23 countries (record 1.02)
South America: 12 countries (record 30 seconds)
Europe: 45 countries (record 2.23)
Total: 196 countries.
Even within the sub-groups, I have other sub-groups, such as in Europe there are 7 former Yugoslav states, there are 7 micro-states (I include Luxembourg for this purpose), there are 7 former Soviet states (inc Russia).
In Asia there are 8 former Soviet states - 5 "-stans" plus Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Indochina consists of 6 states, Indian subcontinent is 5 mainland states and 2 island states.
Oceania has 14 states - 2 with Islands in the name, 4 that end in U, 3 obvious ones (Oz, NZ and PNG), 3 more with rugby teams (Samoa, Tonga, Fiji), plus FSM and Kiribati.
Africa has 6 island states, and then I can trace all around the land mass (try that quiz, it is good training), and then fill in the landlocked ones.
South America has 12 countries. Easy.
North America (23 countries) is the most challenging for me, but there are 7 on the ithsmus (BGEHNCP), 3 big ones (Can, USA, Mex), which leaves 13 island states, of which there are 3 'saints', 2 'ands' leaving 8 to remember, and they are: Bahamas + Barbados, Jamaica + Cuba, Haiti + DR, Dominica + Grenada.
So, before you judge people by your own standards, consider that they might just have tried a little bit harder than you to remember them all. It isn't so difficult.
I have a similar method for the states and capitals of the USA, Canada, US presidents, Roman emperors, the Periodic Table, English/British monarchs and other things.
It is because I want to know them. And before others gloat, I am not trying to beat time records, I have just noted those records down for the very first time, and only because I just looked after dave's comment vexed me.
I wonder if this was his first week here. And I am also curious what he thinks when he comes back to this comment now.
On some quizzes people cheat and even admit to it. I can't understand that either. But being on this site for a while, if there is one quiz I expect people here to excel at it is a countries of the world quiz.
As with most things, smart does not have much to do with it, it is exposure. When you see things often enough (whether deliberately or subconsciously) it will be imprinted on your brain.
Also this is not the first and only country quiz on this site, people will have gotten familiar with all the countries on other quizzes. I think when I came to this site for the first time there might have been 10-20 countries I had never even heard of. Now all of them are so normal to me, I have no idea anymore which countries I didn't use to know.
(And I never deliberately studied them like some people do to improve their score)
I disagree Dave. Most people who take the quizzes have mastered countries of the world like me. I find it cool that I can see who all the small islands belong to.
I much prefer this version and the option for showing missing countries helps. It is more pleasing to see them disappear once answered than the other way so yes excellent quiz.
Your question 'How does your time compare to the original quiz? Faster, slower, about the same?' is a sticky, so we can't reply :)
As for the answer, my fastest on the original quiz is 11:40, on the blank map, my fastest is 5:46, and here it's 4:57. You can probably guess the order of how recently I've taken each of them.
Only if you already know them all. If you are new to the site (or very mysteriously are not, but managed to avoid all the country quizes up till now) most people would not know all 196 let alone recollect them at speed, if there is more time people can think about the countries they missed.
Not that I am asking for more time. Just reminding you there is more to it than fast or slow typing. It is not like it is a quiz about typing 1-10
Makes me feel a bit uncomfortable, how much grim satisfaction I felt at making every country sink into the ocean like that, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced and I liked it.
almost forgot singapour
Oceania: 14 countries (my record is 30 seconds)
Asia: 48 countries (record 3.44)
Africa: 54 countries (record 2.25)
North America: 23 countries (record 1.02)
South America: 12 countries (record 30 seconds)
Europe: 45 countries (record 2.23)
Total: 196 countries.
Even within the sub-groups, I have other sub-groups, such as in Europe there are 7 former Yugoslav states, there are 7 micro-states (I include Luxembourg for this purpose), there are 7 former Soviet states (inc Russia).
In Asia there are 8 former Soviet states - 5 "-stans" plus Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Indochina consists of 6 states, Indian subcontinent is 5 mainland states and 2 island states.
Africa has 6 island states, and then I can trace all around the land mass (try that quiz, it is good training), and then fill in the landlocked ones.
South America has 12 countries. Easy.
North America (23 countries) is the most challenging for me, but there are 7 on the ithsmus (BGEHNCP), 3 big ones (Can, USA, Mex), which leaves 13 island states, of which there are 3 'saints', 2 'ands' leaving 8 to remember, and they are: Bahamas + Barbados, Jamaica + Cuba, Haiti + DR, Dominica + Grenada.
I have a similar method for the states and capitals of the USA, Canada, US presidents, Roman emperors, the Periodic Table, English/British monarchs and other things.
It is because I want to know them. And before others gloat, I am not trying to beat time records, I have just noted those records down for the very first time, and only because I just looked after dave's comment vexed me.
On some quizzes people cheat and even admit to it. I can't understand that either. But being on this site for a while, if there is one quiz I expect people here to excel at it is a countries of the world quiz.
As with most things, smart does not have much to do with it, it is exposure. When you see things often enough (whether deliberately or subconsciously) it will be imprinted on your brain.
Also this is not the first and only country quiz on this site, people will have gotten familiar with all the countries on other quizzes. I think when I came to this site for the first time there might have been 10-20 countries I had never even heard of. Now all of them are so normal to me, I have no idea anymore which countries I didn't use to know.
(And I never deliberately studied them like some people do to improve their score)
People using this as a typing challenge hahaha cheats!
Obviously...
Kyrgirhejfdvrçozpkdvpiahrbtybnfepvlsxpjiruçgbgfdfjictànyjtràibnuvfdsfkrohjàbngkfplsstan,
also this works because 'ç' is counted as 'c' and 'à' as 'a'. The type-in is "^K[IY]RG[A-Z]+STAN", (yes this is
already discussed in the blog about type-ins) the ^K means it must start with K, [IY] meaning I or Y,
RG[A-Z]+STAN meaning RG any letters from A to Z STAN.
Exactly same time as Countries of the World
As for the answer, my fastest on the original quiz is 11:40, on the blank map, my fastest is 5:46, and here it's 4:57. You can probably guess the order of how recently I've taken each of them.
There's many quizes where you just spell out every country. If you know them all, what's visually present isn't important.
Not that I am asking for more time. Just reminding you there is more to it than fast or slow typing. It is not like it is a quiz about typing 1-10