World Capitals - Learning Mode

Use spaced repetition to help you learn the capital cities of all 196 countries of the world!

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Last updated: October 17, 2023

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Country	Capital City
France	Paris
United Kingdom	London
Italy	Rome
Germany	Berlin
Spain	Madrid
United States	Washington D.C.
Russia	Moscow
Greece	Athens

Country	Capital City
Ireland	Dublin
Japan	Tokyo
Netherlands	Amsterdam
Norway	Oslo
Vatican City	Vatican City
China	Beijing
Belgium	Brussels

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Level ∞

Oct 15, 2023

This quiz is a new, experimental feature called "Learning Mode". The goal is to use spaced repetition to help you learn the capitals of the world.

Every answer has a "strength" of 1 to 5.

This method of learning works best when you come back repeatedly until all the answers have a strength of 5 at which point it should be permanently memorized.

This feature is in Beta and still needs significant work. But let me know what you think!

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Level 74

Oct 15, 2023

It would be nice to see what strength my answers are at. Like a stats page of sorts I guess.

But I like the idea for learning! It'll be fun to use for the flags which to this day I still don't have all memorized.

Level ∞

Oct 15, 2023

Good idea! We will have better metrics coming soon.

Level 45

Feb 7, 2024

Hey, this mode is cool. But I have a thing: You could add fewer simultaneous countries to answer, because 15 is a lot! Take it easy, put down 5 or 8 so you can memorize them better! I speak from experience. I tried doing this with chatgpt and it worked! I learned 7 new capitals (because the rest I already knew and I added them so as not to say what I already knew, but, you know? chatgpt is a little crazy with these instructions). This is just a suggestion, if you don't want it, it's ok. Only suggestions being suggestions.

Level 58

Feb 20, 2024

I second this! My brain gets fried trying to compact 15 capitals in at a time. Otherwise, this is a great learning tool!

Level 42

Oct 15, 2023

I have already learnt every capital but this mode is very very useful for people who haven’t

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Level 49

Oct 15, 2023

This is perfect for me, because I'm trying to learn all capitals. I've already memorized all European and Asian capitals but I haven't learned all. I'm Excited to see this new feature grow.

Level 49

Nov 2, 2023

Same for me, I know already a majority of European and Asian capitals so I can now (try to) learn all of them. It’s a very smart feature and I love it!

Level 27

Oct 15, 2023

This is really good and useful, especially for me since i'm learning capitals right now!

Level 56

Oct 15, 2023

this is cool!

Level 91

Oct 16, 2023

Looks like I might have run into one of the bugs in the Beta version. I have taken the quiz multiple times - enough to get off of level 1 for each capital. I then expected to be presented with another round of capitals to see which I could push to level 3 and which I still had problems with on level 2. However, instead I am now presented with the same list of (easy) capitals each time I take the quiz. The metrics note that I am maintaining level 2 on each.

Level ∞

Oct 16, 2023

Should be fixed now. You can't move onto level 3 until time has passed from level 2. The quiz should just tell you to come back later.

Level 91

Oct 23, 2023

Thank you for the clarification on the timing. I've been putting off memorizing the capitals for years and hopefully this will provide the incentive I need to nail down those last 58 I can't seem to remember!

Level 81

Oct 17, 2023

I really like this new feature, this is pretty cool! Will there potentially be an option in the future for users to convert quizzes into Learning Mode, such as harder randomized quizzes, like this one to make them easier to learn?

Level 64

Oct 17, 2023

I'm hoping that once any kinks have been ironed out "Learning Mode" will be made "public" as it were, by which I mean anyone can create a learning mode "quiz" of their own. I am personally very interested to use it to help me learn and remember Norwegian vocabulary!

I think this feature has great potential, and once fully completed and accurate I think language students might find it a very helpful tool for whatever language they might be learning/studying.

It is also of course very helpful to those of us who love geography. A flag version of this would be most welcomed by me too! I'll bet a US State Capital version of this would be very popular.

There could be history ones too, for people who want to learn the dates of specific events, or perhaps names of famous battles. The possibilites of this are quite far reaching. It'll definitely take JetPunk to the next level if the cards are played correctly!

Level 61

Oct 17, 2023

Learning Mode still isn't enough to teach my stupid ahh 💀

Level 46

Oct 17, 2023

This would have really helped with that word scramble for capitals.

Level 44

Oct 17, 2023

Thanks, I'm learning the capitals so this really helps!

Level 44

Oct 17, 2023

I just got all the capitals with strength 2, why does it say to back later? I wanna learn now!

Level ∞

Oct 17, 2023

To strengthen you memory, you need to wait.

You can always practice here.

Level 55

Oct 18, 2023

As someone who knows all of the countries and about 5 of the capitals, this is a great new format

Level 65

Oct 18, 2023

That one country at the end LOL!

Level 59

Oct 18, 2023

I LOVE THIS!

Level 59

Oct 19, 2023

I am having the same issue as someone else. I got several levels out and then had to stop. I went back to the home page the next day, and now I come back to this quiz and it has me back at level one even though the stats say I have already gotten over 150 right.

Level 61

Oct 19, 2023

Love the mode. Just a few wishes:

- Split countries with more than one capital, so people can learn all (For example like: South Africa (1)=Capetown, South Africa (2)=Pretoria, South Africa (3)=Bloemfontaine)

-Remove the usual accepted Type-Ins, so one could learn the correct spelling too.

Level 63

Oct 20, 2023

This looks awesome QM! How do you calculate strength percentage? I'd love to understand what goes on behind this.

Also, looking forward to the day when this leaves Beta and becomes mainstream! Until then, I'll keep enjoying the Beta!

Level 73

Oct 30, 2023

It seems to me that if a capital is on level 1 it gets one point, level 2 is worth two points etc. Then you add up all the points and then work out your score as a percentage of the maximum score of 980

Level 62

Oct 22, 2023

"Please come back later" But, when?

Level ∞

Oct 22, 2023

Working on this!

Level 49

Oct 26, 2023

Make a morse code one

Level 44

Oct 26, 2023

When I type some answers, press the give up button and try again, I keep getting the same countries. Does someone know how to fix that?

Level ∞

Oct 26, 2023

Very sorry about that. Fixed now!

Level 55

Nov 4, 2023

This is a fun and unique feature. I quite like it! Interesting to see if this can be adapted more map quizzes or other quiz types as learning country shapes for example could also be an intriguing prospect.

Level 77

Nov 4, 2023

I’m starting this hoping to memorize all of them. I had 60 or so where I had to just give up, try to remember the first five, and then give up to see the answers and get the next few. It might be slow going here…

Level 77

Nov 8, 2023

I got 171 on the capitals of the world on a map. My score for the regular capitals of the world was only 100!!! This is definitely helping me very quickly. I love this mode

Level 77

Nov 5, 2023

So, I’m on my third pass through, and I apparently don’t know 60 capitals (looking at you, Oceania!), and I worry I’m starting to remember the order the answers appear in rather than which capital matches which country. Do answers randomize at higher levels?

Level ∞

Nov 5, 2023

Good suggestion. I think we will add this.

Level 77

Dec 27, 2023

Feedback: I’ve gotten to 95% and I’ve not quite learned some of the capitals that I have on level 5. I think it’d be better to go down by 2 levels if you miss on level 4, or some system where constantly missing and getting on the second attempt (maybe don’t allow a second attempt instantly?). For instance, I ALWAYS missed, say, Bangui for CAR. I would always miss it but get it on the second attempt. The one time I could draw it from my memory got it to level 5. I am not practicing that one anymore, even though I’m sure I would miss it on the capitals of the world quiz. Anyway, just my experience.

Level 69

Nov 6, 2023

Very confused. First time taking this quiz, and all my responses are at level four? Does it take typing speed and/or not having to backspace into account? Or.....? I'm pretty good with the capitals, but based on others' comments I'm not understanding how I'm starting at a level 4.

Level ∞

Nov 7, 2023

If you get it right the first time you go directly from 1 to 4.

Level 62

Nov 13, 2023

on the other hand, it seems that failing to answer only gets the item down one level, and I get the level back on a second try. I still have no clue about the capitals of Oceania but I am crawling them to level 4. They should be at the initial level, so I could benefit from more frequent repetitions.

Level 91

Nov 13, 2023

This is incredible! I've been taking quizzes on this site for 3.5 years and could never earn the world capitals badge because I couldn't get get 20/20 on the two random world capitals quizzes. Thanks to this learning mode quiz, I have now earned that badge. I still have a ways to go (currently 68.8% through this quiz), but I can visibly see my progress toward getting all 196 capitals memorized. Thank you, QM!

Level 63

Nov 14, 2023

So, once all my answers are at top strength, will they stay there permanently or will they slowly decrease strength as time passes?

Level ∞

Nov 15, 2023

I think they will remain at top strength. What do you think. Should I add a decay of 1 year or something?

Level 77

Nov 16, 2023

Here are my thoughts, for what they’re worth: I think if someone has gotten all 196, getting all 196 at the same time each year might get tedious. I wonder if it might be better to make random groups of 30 or so decay every 2-3 months? Doing two rounds is quick and easy. 13 rounds is a bit much. It’s the reason I haven’t gone through the entire French vocab.

Level 77

Nov 16, 2023

You could also make it so it doesn’t cap at level 5, and each level pushes the questions further and further into the future. Level 7 could be a month, level 8 a year, etc.

Level 63

Nov 17, 2023

Yeah something like that was my initial thought, random decay, although you seem to have thought a bit deeper about it. I'd imagined about a year after a capital hits level 5, it becomes available for level drop, but doesn't necessarily always get lagged.

Level 73

Nov 14, 2023

Does this actually have almost 20,000 takes already?

Level 42

Dec 3, 2023

This is the greatest feature I have seen on this website and I love Jetpunk more than i love myself!!! please continue to make more of these

Level 27

Dec 4, 2023

I really like this because it actually helps me learn the capitals. I know the capitals for the capitals quiz where I can just drop all of them with no rhyme or reason, but I don't know which ones go to what country some of the time. This corrects that so I actually can match capital to country.

Level 72

Dec 17, 2023

I love and enjoy this very much however one thing bugs me:

There are 196 countries in the world

There are 195 questions

Which capital is missing??

Level 45

Jan 16, 2024

Level 45

Jan 16, 2024

Oh! And please reply to this post above. Even thought if you make it or not.

Level 57

Mar 22, 2024

I enjoy this a lot and it has helped but 7 DAYS? why!?

Level 56

Mar 24, 2024

This is a very nice feature, and I hope it will be expanded to other quizzes, like US States and capitals, and maybe the elements of the periodic table (maybe even getting them in the right order?).