When did you start JetPunking?

Submitted by Dimby on September 21, 2024
I used the countries of the world quiz as a teacher since I liked how it looked. I realized I should probably know more geography since I taught it, so I used Jetpunk to memorize the map, as most of us did! Edit: (used it as a teaching tool the first time in 2017!)!

I have been using the site frequently ever since, but became a daily active user around 2020 or so.

15 Comments
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Level ∞
Sep 21, 2024
It is weird that not knowing the world map marks a person as some kind of idiot. You see it all the time. "I bet they couldn't even find XXX on a map".

But no one actually teaches the world map in most American schools. They definitely didn't at my school. So how are people supposed to know where Ukraine is?

Fortunately, JetPunk solves this :)

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Level 84
Sep 21, 2024
My geography teacher showed the world map quiz to me in first year, I think 2015. I was astounded by how little I knew, and have kept coming back for more!
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Level 83
Sep 21, 2024
Hmm. I can’t edit the post because it’s “more than 7 days old.” But I remember the year when I started doing the Countries of the World Quiz: 2017.
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Level ∞
Sep 21, 2024
Edit feature should be fixed now.
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Level 83
Sep 21, 2024
Thanks!
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Level 68
Sep 21, 2024
I first started using JetPunk in 2015, and used the COTW exclusively until about late 2016, when I started using the Capital quiz. From there I started taking quizzes regularly. I became a quizmaker in 2020 and only really became interested in blogging during 2021
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Level 73
Sep 22, 2024
I started using JetPunk around November 2011, shortly after the beginning of my Bachelor's. I think I found it through a website called pointlesssites. :D I remember that in the first days I was just going further and further back through the pages with the daily quizzes. Later I found the random button, the recently updated quizzes (or did they just come later?) etc. Since then, there have been some ebbs and flows of activity, but I've never stopped completely.

I credit JetPunk for a lot of my general (and not-so-general) knowledge. Often, when people ask how do I know [insert random bit of obscure trivia], the answer is simply JetPunk. I especially like to compare my quiz scores from 2-4-7 years ago with today and see how back then I didn't know things which have now became part of my knowledge as if they've always been there.

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Level 75
Sep 23, 2024
Here is my little story:

I start JetPunking on July 2020, between two Covid-19 lockdowns here in France.

The first quiz I ever took was US States quiz on the English section after googling something like "us state quiz with map". Then I took cotw and realized I was so bad at geography and decided to fix it on my free time. Since then I started taking quizzes on a daily basis and create many quizzes too. And that was the beginning of a real addiction to JetPunk!

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Level 83
Sep 23, 2024
Wow, just four years? It feels like your fantastic SVG quizzes have been around longer than that.
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Level 75
Sep 23, 2024
My first ever SVG (that was not fantastic at all) was precisely created on August 30, 2020.

So I can thank JetPunk for all the knowledge it provided to me, mostly geographical, but also in SVG drawing, English language and html/css coding.

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Level 22
Sep 24, 2024
I created my account in August 2023 and I created my first quiz in the same week. I have been creating a lot of quizzes since March 2024.

I'm part of the new generation of JetPunk ! ^^

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Level 73
Sep 24, 2024
I first got to know and played JetPunk in 2023 after asking Bing AI (now Copilot) opinions on U.S. state flags. One source it looked at was Quizmaster's blog post that ranked the U.S. state flags. That was how my account started.
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Level 81
Sep 25, 2024
I found JetPunk in January of 2016 after becoming disillusioned with "the other site" , (S******e) their layout with many adverts and smaller text size didn't do any favours.

Anyway after searching Google for "sites like S*****e" I found JP.

The rest as they say is history.

JetPunk has grown in many ways since I started on here, and is still far superior to any other quiz site I have found.

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Level 97
Sep 26, 2024
I discovered JetPunk in January of this year during a week of, rather boring, night shifts. I created this very basic quiz to get to know the ins and outs but have mainly concentrated on working my way through the quizzes.
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Level 17
Sep 30, 2024
I take quizzes here on and off once I started trying to find a way to improve my geography knowledge for quizbowl. I think I found this site Jan 2024-ish