Well theres 100 letters that you have to type total. If you’ve memorized not only the abbreviations themselves but the order in which they go in this quiz, then its purely typing. To type 100 letters in 30 seconds means typing at about 3.3 / second, which is reasonable if youre a fast typer. Its possible, but tbh youre probably right that its not real cuz who would put in the effort to memorize the order?
It's funny how the average for each state decreases as you move through the list. The first few have high averages in the 90's and the last 10 have averages under 20%. Just like the 12 months in 15 second quiz. You should try it.
Well it's certainly the fastest, otherwise you have to use time moving the highlighted box around. If you answer in order, the movement is done for you.
As a non-US citizen this took me six tries because I just couldn't let it go. Now I've finished with 8 seconds to spare I am going to forget these abbreviations probably in the next hour.
first 2 times I thought my computer was jumping to other quizzes (which it does a lot) because I was just on the 2d row when this ended. Someone here is using fast typing skills to convince themselves they are brighter than most others. I had many secretaries who barely made it through high school who would be brilliant by your standards. But sadly, they just type very fast. When I was in school, they pulled you from typing classes if you were college prep (or smart enough to be). They made you take a foreign language, not typing. Typing was for those not going to college, who were getting full time jobs straight out of high school. It's fine if scoring takes speed into account, but to remove the opportunity to complete these quizzes from the majority of takers is manipulation. Give time for average people to finish and have a chart interpreting scores taking speed into account. But this way, it's just a vanity quiz for speed typists. Very misleading! Too many quizzes are like this.
Which is kind of silly, because at that point it jus becomes ridiculously easy to win. Every state abbreviation could be gotten just be typing the first letter and going through the rest of the letters (HA, HW, HI for Hawaii).
completely agree with the last bit - this is a quiz that focusses too much on speed. 1 minute is not enough. I know all of them and i can finish it. Either give it more time or put 'speed test' in the heading
My physics teacher used to say that the time limit was part of the assessment. You either know the information in time or you don't. I'm sure you're a fine person, but complaining too much about something that's a draw for many other JP users is ridiculous. So if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
The time limit is a little bit tight... and I also find the various speed-typing quizzes to be annoying... but in the case of this quiz it's an adequate time limit and not just a fast-typing version of another quiz that already exists on the site, so seems fine to me. Having a tight time limit is preferable to having an excessive time limit. You can always take the quiz untimed if you want to.
I only got as far as New Mexico (NM), i.e. 32/50, yet that said I beat 86% of test takers? Definitely an indicator this isn't enough time to complete the quiz!
It's hard to remember at speed that Arizona isn't AR (it's the next one), and as a typist the most challenging area is the News because they are all on the same hand, instead of alternating hands which is faster.
The timing is set just right! You can't think during this one, people. You either gotta be a mail sorter or a ham radio operator or something. These abbreviations have to be synonymous with the state name in your head. :)
I'm from one of those "m" states, and it helped me get 100% with 12 seconds left on attempt one. I was admittedly scrambling in the "n" section, though.
I just realized that for 14 of the U.S. states, their two letter abbreviation was just the states' first and last letter put together. And 25 states when you count states with two words, like South Carolina, when the first letter of each word forms the abbreviation.
Unfortunately this is a good quiz spoilt by the irrational thinking that a fast typist must be somehow superior in brain power than a slower manipulator of the keyboard. As the individual's time is always given, surely anyone keeping some sort of typing record can keep their own times without rushing to finish the quiz and then boasting about useless times to complete the quiz. I have learnt a great deal about the US just from jetpunk quizzes, if all the quizzes were as poorly timed as this I would have left jetpunk long ago.
Much easier the second time through, which makes me think a little more time might be better for most of us to be able to think just a bit the first time.
19/50! I couldn't figure them out fast enough to finish. I didn't know any of the abbreviations before I took it so I had to go through each letter of the state and it took forever. I have to try this quiz again!
Please ignore all requests for more time. They should know there is an option for taking this untimed, even a separate quiz that gives more time. Good on ya.
If they call this one the speed version there is no issue. Doing the quizzes untimed is no fun, takes a lot of fun out of it. It is good that quizzes are timed but there should be a balance, enough time to think, not enough to randomly try every word in existence that might fit. Speed quizzes are fine to, but fun in a totally different way.
just because some like it fast that doesnt mean they should take away the fun for others, that is rather selfish.
following your argument (take untimed), Even when there is more time you are not FORCED to type slow, you can still try to go as fast as you can. Nothing changes for the worse
29 seconds left. Holy cow, I thought I wasn't going to make it because I started to type DC after DE just out of habit, then realized it wasn't a state; later on I forgot WV was West Virginia so that ate up another couple seconds.
@quizmaster Could you perhaps call this one the speed version and make another one with an average amount of time.
Speedtests are fine and fun. But not everyone might know these by heart and some people might just want to test their knowledge. And expected this to be a normal quiz.
Maybe an idea for a section. All speed quizzes together? Some hate em some love. Everyone happy, the ones that like em have easy acces and the others can avoid them.
(I am in the middle sometimes I like em sometimes not, but I do like to know before hand if it is gonna be one or not. Speedquizzes are not something I tend to take when I am not feeling well and need to stay calm. But fun when you feel well, energetic and competive. It is almost more a physical challenge than a mental one. Which both can be great. But each on their own occasion.
I always hit the "untimed" button. My purpose in taking these quizzes is to test my knowledge and maybe learn something I didn't know before, not to compete with other test takers.
Yeah, I don't get people worried about a score. It won't get you a job or a grade in school. Trying to anonymously impress anonymous people you'll never know or meet is just sad.
I have never taken a quiz related to the two-letter U.S. state abbreviations, and am very surprised to have got all of them in this quiz for the first time!
These are supposed to be knowledge and trivia quizzes, not stinkin' typing/keyboard skill speed tests. Didn't come to this website to become a hacker. Come on!
If you don't like the time limit, you know there's an option to turn the timer off, right? You won't earn points but then you won't have to worry about trying to become a hacker (though if that is what you're going for, this site may not be the best place for that.)
This is a knowledge quiz, testing your knowledge of the two letter state abbreviations. The time limit is there because it's just two letters, and the quiz maker is expecting you can type two letter abbreviations fast.
this is site wide, but I can't stand the timer flashing once there's 10 seconds left. It is so distracting and keeps me from being able to think clearly.
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THIS THREAD MADE ME SMILE !!! *(actually miming the words cause it is way to loud in here to be heard anyway...)
had to regularly submit papers and theses!!!
It's hard to remember at speed that Arizona isn't AR (it's the next one), and as a typist the most challenging area is the News because they are all on the same hand, instead of alternating hands which is faster.
just because some like it fast that doesnt mean they should take away the fun for others, that is rather selfish.
following your argument (take untimed), Even when there is more time you are not FORCED to type slow, you can still try to go as fast as you can. Nothing changes for the worse
8 seconds left.
Why?
Speedtests are fine and fun. But not everyone might know these by heart and some people might just want to test their knowledge. And expected this to be a normal quiz.
Maybe an idea for a section. All speed quizzes together? Some hate em some love. Everyone happy, the ones that like em have easy acces and the others can avoid them.
(I am in the middle sometimes I like em sometimes not, but I do like to know before hand if it is gonna be one or not. Speedquizzes are not something I tend to take when I am not feeling well and need to stay calm. But fun when you feel well, energetic and competive. It is almost more a physical challenge than a mental one. Which both can be great. But each on their own occasion.
The name is Bond...James Bond.
it takes practice to try to memorize all of those haha :D
phew
lol
I went very fast and only got the first 3 coulomns