How Fast Can We Go (JetPunk)

This is a short blog showing how fast it might be possible to go on JP quizzes.

The current fastest typer is a 212 words per minute but for now, we will go with the record of 216.

Ok, so the COTW quiz has 253 words and 1,693 characters.

This (all names as they are written in the answer sheet), at 216 words per minute, is 4 minutes and 50 seconds. Surely we can do better!

After applying all the shortcuts I know (we will look into the type-ins later), that is 216 words and 1,425 characters. Bringing us to 4:30. But surely thats not all! Infact.... the COTW quiz record is two minutes and 5 seconds.

Now I am starting to think I went wrong somewhere. Even after removing spaces, I'm still at 1402 characters. In fact, looking at this run, I calculated this guy is typing at 750 words per minute. Something is severely wrong here (15 seconds burst record is 500). After further checking, my word count isn't wrong. I don't think my calculations are.

AHA! I used the words per minute calculations on the characters. Embarrassed at that, lets redo those (at 5 characters per word):

94 seconds at full names without thinking time.

79 seconds at Neo's shortened names without thinking time.

A minute and 19 seconds! And I haven't even gotten to the trick up my sleeve or even looked at all the type ins!

Ok, now using all the type ins, using misspellings, using acronyms, and all (with a few percent margin of error: 213 words and 1357 characters.

75 seconds. We still have not beaten the minute barrier. But amazing nonetheless!

The final list I used:

Afganistan
Albania
Algeria
Andora
Angola
Antigua
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Barain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Butan
Bolivia
Bosnia
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
burma
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Car
Chad
Chile
prc
Colombia
Comoros
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czechia




Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dr
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Fsm
Fiji
Finland
France
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea

Guinea Bissau

Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro

Moroco

Mozambique

Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
nz
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
dprk
fyrom
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Panama
png
Paraguay
Peru
Philipines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
congo
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
st Kitts
st Lucia
st Vincent
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé
ksa
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
rok
South Sudan
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
roc
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
uae
uk
usa
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe

A stenograph is a specialized keyboard. It types using syllables, not letters, and you click multiple keys at the same time.

The record for stenography is 375 words per minute. However, I'm pretty sure we can only type full words, so our list will need to change.

At our original  253 words words, we are already at 40 seconds! I do think the learning curve for this thing is steep though, and you likely can't type at the record. At the required 225 for a court reporter (they use these), we are still at 67 seconds! Someone get a court reporter JetPunk!

After getting rid of excess words, like "and Tobago", removing one of the Congos, and putting the Central African Republic as Car (since the abbreviation would be typeable), we get 229 words.

36 seconds at record pace stenography without thinking time

61 seconds at court reporting speed without thinking time.

(also apparently its called stenotype for typing, stenography for shorthand.)

If you undertake the two year stenography learning curve, it could be possible for you, yes you, to break the JetPunk record with room to spare!

How fast could the largest quiz on JetPunk be done?

I have to point out I took this man nearly three hours to do the quiz (untimed). The quiz has a time limit of 90 minutes and I think it's the largest quiz on the site. Actually there are some larger I think, but this is near the tip.

After what is most definitely in accurate counting and removing two dozen duplicates (like Northern), I think I have a good count.

5065 words and 31726 characters required from 3795 answers.

Keep in mind, the subdivisions are likely much more complex than a 5 letter word.

To complete this quiz in time, you must type an answer every 1.4 seconds. Perhaps within the end of the century someone will get a stenograph and memory and finish this quiz in time. There are about 1000 answers with 1% by the way!

Happy quizzing!

- Neodymium