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Short Term Memory Test - Countries

Take a good look at these countries and try to memorize them. Then, click "start quiz" and try to type them back in.
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Last updated: April 14, 2021
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First submittedApril 14, 2021
Times taken45,555
Average score60.0%
Rating4.83
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Country
Kosovo
Uganda
Luxembourg
Malta
Dominican Republic
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Zimbabwe
Bolivia
Ecuador
Niger
St. Kitts and Nevis
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Antigua and Barbuda
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Cape Verde
Poland
Chad
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55 Comments
EytanMelech
+2
Level 66
Apr 14, 2021
Way too much time is given. I had enough time to guess a few answers after I typed in the ones I remember, and gave up with more than 2 mins left.
Vicky
+5
Level 55
Apr 14, 2021
Lowered the time to 1:30.
Stewart
+19
Level 68
Apr 14, 2021
I disagree, based on average score at 3 minutes it seems you were just special. Right now the average after 3 minutes is just over half, reducing the time would make that even lower. This is about memory not speed typing.
Quizmaster
+32
Level ∞
Apr 15, 2021
Yeah, time is irrelevant. You have a literally unlimited amount of time to look at the answers before typing.
HinesBrothers
+10
Level 78
Apr 16, 2021
Agreed. If you don't get it in 90 seconds, it's pretty likely another one and a half minutes won't help.
kasnevone
+7
Level 55
Feb 18, 2024
agreed. I just wanted to reply to famous people.
Triptych
+1
Level 65
Feb 28, 2026
Let's keep it L33+
Dimby
+23
Level 83
Apr 15, 2021
Moldy Prince Phillip is riding an austrich, wearing a burka, holding a cube, and gabbin' with a Mongolian bos who's georging on a tray a' chile. The frog says, "kan ya ribat and roam any a continent?"

15/15

jennraven
+5
Level 67
May 26, 2021
Let's see, you got Moldova, Philippines, Austria, Burkina Faso, Cuba, Gabon, Mongolia, Bosnia, Georgia, Eritrea, Chile, Kenya, Romania, and apparently two others I can't figure out...

I got USA, Guyana, Peru, Finland, Mongolia, Laos, Brunei, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Cape Verde, Mauritius, Botswana. Not in that order, but I grouped them by continent in my head.

stylus
+1
Level 79
May 26, 2021
i think the last two are france (the frog) and maybe bhutan (ribat and)?
RambQuiz
+7
Level 73
May 26, 2021
ribat could be morocco (rabat)
Dimby
+3
Level 83
May 26, 2021
Roaming any continent is a reference to the country that causes the most controversy on Jetpunk continent-based quizzes. Ribat is a reference to Kiribati. You got most of them. :)
SometimesHim
+1
Level 66
Apr 15, 2026
Russia or Cyprus? I'm guessing Cyprus
BigFloppa
+1
Level 62
Jan 28, 2022
kenya and romania?
CapitalsIsMyGoal
+2
Level 53
Apr 5, 2024
Gonna try this

North Colombian Papa is in New Guinea, in the Southern part of Africa, with the bell and ice. It already was Liberty, but he was a mad man in a gas car. The swiss in the land cracked an egg in the yet to be a united kingdom. More itiusians came! One named Georgia wanted more occo’s wanted to wait for the Ku.

Ryanlee
+1
Level 77
Apr 16, 2021
Thank you PrintScreen
xtremesecretary
+7
Level 84
Apr 23, 2021
Not really a way to test your short term memory, but 5 more points for your total quiz score???
driehoek25
+1
Level 70
May 26, 2021
Thanks for the tip.
tyleranwar
+5
Level 81
Apr 16, 2021
i basically picture the countries of the world map from the quiz on this site and fill them in in my head, a lot more fun than grouping or making a proper mnemonic
Alvildus
+2
Level 51
Apr 16, 2021
I see famous people from the different countries in my head. And the rest I just try to remember by letter.
jmellor13
+3
Level 68
May 26, 2021
A friend who memorizes card decks told me that the preferred method in that field is to visualize a room that you know very well (probably in your home) and mentally scan the room from the entry point. You should find a way to pair each card (or country) with the place that it falls in the order..."Nigeria is on the coat hook. Sweden is on the side table..." and so on. I personally have not had much success with this method, but he swears by it.
erikj
+1
Level 67
May 26, 2021
Joshua Foer writes about that in his book 'Moonwalking with Einstein' :)
MarieDS
+4
Level 60
May 26, 2021
In my mind when I memorized the list, I visualized the home I grew up in, room by room entering through the garage. In each room, I put a country, pairing it in some way with the room. For example, in the entry hallway I put Rwanda: "Hotel Rwanda" because of a long hallway in hotels. In the computer room Brunei was the hands on its flag as someone using the computer to type. When I went to recall the list, I walked through the house in my mind and picked up the countries room by room as I went. Excellent quiz! Thanks!
Ender
+4
Level 30
May 26, 2021
You have a pretty good imagination.
Ender
+2
Level 30
May 26, 2021
6/15. I’m proud of that score.
onni16
+1
Level 75
May 26, 2021
Easy, got 15/15!
MarsyTuffy
+2
Level 28
May 26, 2021
THIS IS AMAZING, I GOT 15!
berlinbride
+1
Level 71
May 26, 2021
15/15 in 1:03 minutes. Remembered them alphabetically (e.g., 2 beginning with I, 3 beginning with M).
AlexThirkell
+2
Level 74
May 26, 2021
Finally got them all by visualising the journeys between the countries on the world map, taking the 3 columns separately. I imagined that I was in a humanitarian relief plane delivering supplies all over the world.
Nachtschicht
+1
Level 59
May 26, 2021
Nice quiz. 1:30 is OK, maybe 2 minutes for slow typers.

I've got 14 of 15 in the first try.

I grouped the countries like this:

1 was my home country

2 were continental micro-nations

3 were island-nations

2 where south american

3 of the remaining were european

3 of them were african countries

1 was Thailand as the only undisputed asian country

1 was Cyprus... there's so much discussion about Cyprus that it was impossible to forget :P

Memorizing the countries of each group is a lot easier than all of them, but I still missed one of the african countries, Morocco, because I remembered the beginning letters of those grouped countries and got Mozambique for M, thus forgetting about Morocco...

Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 63
Sep 24, 2021
What makes Thailand the only one that’s undisputed?
AlmostAGenius
+1
Level 89
Nov 3, 2023
Because it's not Cyprus.
mrchikkin
+2
Level 47
May 26, 2021
I forgot everything after I misspelled Sierra Leone
aloepottt
+1
Level 54
May 26, 2021
5/15 fun quiz but very hard.
WolfyIQ
+1
Level 24
May 26, 2021
Easy

15/15 first try

joshuaspaceguy
+1
Level 26
May 26, 2021
I don't know how but I am a slow typer and got 100%
erikj
+2
Level 67
May 26, 2021
I took a trip through the world, hopping from one location to the other. That got me Eurasia. Then two African and two American countries.
barmanitan
+1
Level 84
May 26, 2021
Continents the way to go imo.
Pontifex
+1
Level 47
May 26, 2021
Not that people necessarily care to see another comment on a method for perfecting this but what I do is group the countries by continent and then close my eyes and visualize a world map in my head. When I say the name of each country I will physically move my hand to point to/make the shape of that country. Using this method I got 15/15 each time I used it.
Iheartmozzarella
+1
Level 36
Aug 26, 2021
15/15 1:13 left My Answers Were

Czech Republic

Lesotho

Guatemala

Slovakia

Russia

Eswatini

Mexico

Iran

Malawi

Suriname

Azerbaijan

Bahrain

Gabon

Somalia

Barbados

Kenneth3748
+1
Level 52
Mar 24, 2022
geez I did amazing
mirleeo
+1
Level 46
Jul 3, 2022
Great quiz! I have a terrible memory, but like playing these kind of quizzes. I usually score low, but I like this because it really gets me thinking!
MD396
+1
Level 58
Feb 9, 2023
the united states and iran were fighting, so the durable fire marshall banged the door down with syrup because he was hungry. the rest i used my echoic memory. this actually worked btw
Quizzomatic1234
+1
Level 15
Oct 22, 2023
I was Austria, and I was also in a Russia. All of a Sudan, Mozambique and Myanmar just Maldives in a pool. My friend Dominica discovered that Syria's real name is Philippines. Canada you believe that? The mail person, Lithuania, said that North and South Korea combined into Korea. Now I am Cambodia, ready to see more!

15/15, rate from 1 to 10, took me an hour.

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Megrez
+1
Level 52
Nov 27, 2023
This is much more easier to remember than the random words quiz.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Apr 21, 2024
Actually got them with 1 second to go. But it is tough! I made acronyms (4 letter words for the first two rows) and I remembered them but not all the countries, so for some I was just left with the starting letter. The last row I sort of memorized/repeated as a whole. But man so many countries were suddenly gone from my head haha (the last row, which I repeated just before starting, and the first one of row 1 and 2 were there, I had to dig a bit for the others)

Edit: I had "kist(z)" "yuteb" and the last row didn't really looked like a word, but remembering 5 right before you start is much faster probably and will take up less memory for the others. lets say immediate memory versus short term. The last row was "D.R.Congo+ glus" I guess I could have done glus. But didn't

FreeStater
+1
Level 81
Jul 12, 2024
Fun quiz. My strategy was to make a mental map of the first ten countries (preferably in some kind of order), and then rely on short-term memory for the last column.
zebidu92
+1
Level 44
Oct 31, 2024
i had no strategy and got 15/15 first try
Nintenrock
+1
Level 56
Dec 21, 2024
Fun quiz. I memorized them by grouping countries by their geographical proximity:

- United States and Panama

- Tuvalu and East Timor

- Albania and Ukraine

- Iran, Lebanon and Yemen

- Chad, South Sudan and Somalia

- Angola and Mozambique

- Benin

GlassMonkeyOLD
+2
Level 69
Apr 12, 2025
If you don't get them all then you've got short term memory loss.
bunbud
+1
Level 61
Jun 26, 2025
Bruh 14/15 first try hep
bunbud
+1
Level 61
Jun 26, 2025
The strat is to think of how many are in a continent then when ur missing one just think of the continent
SoLucky
+1
Level 34
Nov 11, 2025
Interesting Fact 194-

Spaghetti is plural. A single strand of spaghetti is a spaghetto.

Kygryzstan
+1
Level 37
Mar 12, 2026
used my own tactic to get 100, don't ask.
Howdoiknowgeo
+1
Level 53
Apr 27, 2026
I’m like terrible at short term memory
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