All Counties of the United States by Proximity

Another amazing quiz using this amazing template! I was puzzled that none of the Nevada or Arizona answers illuminated any neighbors, but then I read your instructions about your using centre-to-centre distances.

Given that it is a US quiz, maybe we could use 100 miles instead of 100 km 0:).

Look what happens if you just type in Washington. just watch.

Great quiz!

Challenging quiz. Please give more time.

Five stars for the effort!

And today is the day I learnt you can rate quizzes; after at least 7 years on this website.

Tippecanoe hahahah! im sure there are more funny names but didnt read them all. As someone that is proud/happy to get even more than 5 STATES, getting 2013 is not bad. I mainly typed a few states, colors, 3 presidents, some english towns and names.

Funnily enoguh, almost the enitre right side of the map has turned green and hardly anything on the left side. I like proximity quizes, but these are a bit too much to revise!!

2nd time 2227 :) somebody should do "least amount of counties needed" like they do on other map quizes haha (and with the least amount of letters needed hahaha ) GOOD LUCK!

Tippecanoe was William Henry Harrison's nickname.

I forgot the 'OC'! (Don't call it that.)

Wow this must have been so much work, well done!

Amazing, great, simply great. I must admit I was cheating by using an open revealed all the time since I am not from USA and I still managed 2999 on the 1st try. I hope that one day I can manage 2000 by myself. Thanks for the great quiz!

2000 was really low. I've now managed to break the 3000 point threshold, by seeing what counties are green. Time to set a 3100 threshold! Amazing Quiz!

3016 as of today, a little push is all i need. The west is really killing me with all those large area counties.

Great idea to use proximity to make the quiz more accessible. Presidents and Native American tribes will get you pretty far. Fun to see the Percent of People with Each Score on the stats.

5 stars and a nomination from me ..great quiz

Being a Finn the only ones I knew for sure were King (Seattle area, too much 50 shades), Orange (OC and whatnot) and Madison (Bridges of Madison County). Got 3 points too without always even being sure what was accepted as an answer.

The US county naming system seems to follow a very predictable, non-creative pattern, with the exception of the completely-obscure-namesakes bottom 10%.

Although I imagine there are quite a few people who know Schuylkill from the fact that announcers commentating Philadelphia sports games are constantly mentioning it—what with it and the Liberty Bell being Philadelphia's biggest landmarks.

Good lord! How many do you have to get to get 5 points lol. I got 2832 and only got 4 points.

Got 5 points for 2979. I think the rule is beat 80% of takers, so it'll fluctuate a little, but you're probably close!

95% actually

I got like 77%. I never expected this starting the quiz. I was just guessing random colors, cities, states and presidential first and last names.

Really enjoyable quiz. My strategy was to name the presidents, Native American tribes, saints, generals, main cities, and states in addition to the ones I actually knew. It got me 86% on my first try.

#100%. Think for about ten seconds, and no it wasn't just maps and lists.

I came here by clicking random, saw the map and thought, man you must be crazy to take this quiz on (as a non american) then I saw I allready took it.. ow haha! Then I saw how much I had scored and was extremely confused 2772! Huh I dont know nearly 3000 counties, maybe 3, there must be an error. But apparently creative guessing goes a long way!

Tempted to take it today now and better my score. But on tablet and every other word gets mistyped, so longer quizzes are not the best idea, everything takes twice aslong.

when i read that it would be laggy i didnt think it meant cant-type laggy LOL

Great quiz!

Geez... that must have taken forever to make.

I love this quiz, but the way quizmaster describes it is inaccurate. All the county's neighbors are not filled in. It is not a counties by borders quiz, but a "counties' centers that are within a certain distance of other counties' centers." this has some advantages and disadvantages to it.

Interesting quiz. I got over 2,600 mostly just guessing before time ran out. I ran through counties that I know, big cities, cliche county names, English city names, US presidents, historical figures, geographical features, common and famous first/last names, Catholic saints, native tribes, state names, names of royalty, and a few other things.

Observation from employing this strategy: those in charge of naming counties around the mountain time zone states (New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Montana, Colorado) and Alaska seem to have been much more original than those naming counties elsewhere. From the midwest to the East coast and all up and down the west coast I've got almost the entire map filled in green. Though, part of this is also, undoubtedly, that this area that remained red has much larger counties, more spaced out, so fewer fill in when you guess one.

a good chunk of North Dakota, about 2/3 of Maine, the northern half of Minnesota, and the southwest of Texas are also not filled in. Got almost everything else.

amazing quiz, but i also randomly guessed places in the UK and names of famous people

I typed White Pine (Nevada county) and did not get credit for it. However I did get credit for two others, White and Pine.

452

I live in Florida, typed in all the Florida counties I knew, and a handful of other counties I knew, the end result was the west half of the country is mostly red, the east part is mostly green. Also how is Duval county, FL at 72% and Duval county TX is only at 17%? None of the counties around us in Florida are common county names.

I got all 3142

Type 'Washington'

My ninth grade civics teacher had a large, pulldown map of Missouri with all the counties outlined. When we finished a lesson early, he would call two of us up to the map, name a county, and the first to find it stayed to face the next challenger. By the end of the year most of us knew all 115 counties in our state (including St. Louis City.) Decades later I still remember them and it comes in handy occasionally - like today.

Guessing only presidents by first and last name guarantees you 2435 correct including all of Vermont, Iowa, Virginia, West Virginia and Rhode Island as well as Pennsylvania and Tennessee save 1 county each

84% on first attempt. Got all in my home state and I got one of the least guessed answers from Alaska. Missed some obvious ones like where Chicago is and Miami.

Is there an easy way to make proximity quizzes where you don't have to manually calculate the distances from each place to every other place?

I cant imagine a person being like "Oh no! I only got 2899 this time! I should try again until get them all."

I first got ~2,900 and am now at 3,125 and am like... maybe I should try again?

This was fun. 90%.

it took me a while to realize that the Arizona ones were named after Native American tribes

You literally just need to know the name of one county, then you can guess counties that are bordering it. That would get you at least 95% of the answers if you were fast enough.

How many counties are needed if I wanna get 5 points?