thread broke the US Counties WR

Submitted by AntiMatter8192 on April 24, 2025
Greetings, comrades! I'm posting on behalf of comrade thread, who was unfortunately banned from the Message Board.

Approximately 2 weeks ago, thread and I were discussing an MB post (https://www.jetpunk.com/message-board/t/us-counties-world-record) about breaking the world record on the US Counties quiz. With some persuasion, I encouraged him to beat this record. After 2 weeks of hard county memorisation, he managed to achieve a time of 33:06 on this quiz, beating the old record by almost 10 minutes!

Here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gbSxgq_rTA) is the video proof of this. I desire that WPM...

Maybe if you guys are interested, I can interview him. He might write a blog about it too. Since he is banned from here, he cannot comment, so maybe I can relay his messages here.

He might work on improving his score. I'm sure he can achieve a sub-30 minute in another week. ldk, his choice I guess. This is already a pretty cool achievement.

Anyway, see you guys. I'll post again if I have something interesting to say. Pretty unlikely, but we'll see.

10 Comments
+9
Level 73
Apr 24, 2025
Wow, impressive!
+4
Level 67
Apr 24, 2025
Nice job
+4
Level 63
Apr 24, 2025
aré váh!
+5
Level 78
Apr 24, 2025
Wild. And he spent a minute on that last Virginia county
+4
Level 61
Apr 25, 2025
Incredible
+5
Level 55
Apr 25, 2025
That must have been absolutely miserable, considering that he knew there were too many to legitimately memorize, that he decided to go alphabetically.

Also, there's no world record feature, right? How do you know it's WR?

+7
Level 78
Apr 25, 2025
He sounded like he enjoyed this lol

Well, I just went off the other post. They claimed that their record was the record, and listed a bunch of known times. thread handily beat them, so I suspect he's the WR holder now. I guess if anyone has proof of a time beating thread, they can post it, but for now, it's him I guess.

+5
Level 55
Apr 25, 2025
Yeah, maybe a world record feature for quizzes should be added. Would be cool, except for the cheaters.
+3
Level 39
Apr 27, 2025
Hey AntiMatter, I was previously the world record holder. Keep me updated on this, the time is amazing! I would love to know his exact process on how he achieved this.
+2
Level 78
Apr 28, 2025
Hello brubby, congrats for your good time! I could probably never do this.

thread told me he memorised these counties by associating them with each other, but I'm not sure about the specifics. He did memorise a few lists too.

I'll probably put a comment here or make a new post if something happens.