Nice quiz! You include the PRC type-in for China, yet DPRK isn't accepted for North Korea and the ROK isn't accepted for South Korea, though some of the new quizzes do include this type-in. Also, scroll mode, please
People normally call the Koreas that to shorten names on fast paced quizzes like this. For instance, typing Congo for both Democratic Republic of Congo and Republic of Congo in the Countries of the World Quiz. Writing CAR for the Central African Republic.
To be fair, who calls china prc?? I have never heard anyone calling it that. "He guys I am going on holiday to PRC".. No (thought you never can tell the weird habits of certain countries, it is allways surprising how sometimes things are so alike, yet so different)
I think the only ones that in real life conversation are called by their abreviations are the UK and the USA not even UAE I think, though I don't have enough info on that one to be sure (havent had/heard many conversations about it, but it feels weird to say.)
I use ROK and DPRK because we are one country, Korea, with two states. Both countries' citizens use these names to be respectful in English. ROK is very very common in ROK.
UAE is a common layover stop, especially these days, and people usually say Emirates or UAE.
PRC is used to avoid saying "mainland China" over and over when discussing Chinese/HK/Taiwan/Macau. ROC is less commonly used by English speakers in ROK.
Not that I would want to because that would be like copy pasting answer, so cheating. But that wouldnt work for me. Neither on my laptop or tablet will there be spelling suggestions.
Got 'em all with two seconds to go. Pro tip: Get the three and four letter ones and the small countries (like Singapore) out of the way so you can crank out the 10 letter ones.
I just go (generally) west to east; having some sort of geographic order makes it easier for me to remember which ones I'm still missing and helps me transition between them more quickly.
If anything I would do the longer ones first. Because as time progresses I start fumbling more and more, and at superspeed I can still throw out the short ones, but the long ones are getting a mess (plus more places to make errors)
If you're only going to give us a minute to do this in... could you please finally accept KSA for the KSA, DPRK for the DPRK, ROK for the ROK, and maybe ROC for Taiwan. I think PRC is already accepted for China but that only saves you two letters, unlike the others which are significant.
man I typed as fast as I could and only got to 28, but yea three words I f-ed up the spelling so that cost time. But man you got to be supersonic to get 48.
Got it in 45 seconds. DPRK, ROK, ROC, PRC can be got in the first second. KSA for Saudi Arabia really helps. It's just the stans that really slow you down.
It is extremely difficult or nearly impossible to do this without looking at a list and typing. Looking at map and trying to do it via recall is extremely difficult. I think that max I have gotten out of probably a dozen+ attempts is 43, which is just under 5-star status.
Finally got 5/5 stars. 45 countries. Only took me about 43 tries. Not as easy as the European one. Harder than the African one which I will keep trying.
literally the most democratic state in the universe
UAE is a common layover stop, especially these days, and people usually say Emirates or UAE.
PRC is used to avoid saying "mainland China" over and over when discussing Chinese/HK/Taiwan/Macau. ROC is less commonly used by English speakers in ROK.
...with 2 seconds left
I just managed to type all of Asia except for most of the Middle East-