This quiz isn't about speed typing. You need time for people to actually think I'm between answers, hence why the time is double the Countries of the World Quiz, as this requires more thought.
yes, because it is awful to finish with 20 minutes on the timer. do you get flogged for each minute you have left on the timer or something? In that case I advise you to type slower, Im sure it is a lot less painfull if you finish with less time on the timer left..
Great quiz. You can get stuck for a while guessing some of the really small islands especially if you don't have some larger countries already filled in to give you some reference points. Managed to finish with 2 seconds left, desperately hoping I could spell Kyrgyzstan correctly.
Survey: on this quiz, is it cheating to hit "Tab" to move on to the next country if you don't know one, eventually cycling back to it once the map is more full?
You could say it is available to pause the timer and look answers up, but I think everyone would agree that would be cheating too. Just because something is possible/available doesnt mean it is "fair game" . (You could even go as far as saying during an exam, if the examinator leaves for the toilet and he has the answers on his desk, well they are available arent they? People can only cheat if it is possible, it being possible doesnt mean it is not cheating).
In my opinion it is, since it is against the purpose of this quiz which is to answer in order. Different from yellow box quizzes where the purpose of the quiz is not to do it in order (just to prevent accidental correct guesses for the other questions). For those quizzes it is not cheating.
the idea is to answer the country you are given. Not just a country of your own choice. (That would be an entirely different quiz)
There's a huge black border in the map which is very broad at the two sides and the top but kind of flat at the bottom. I use it in my Android and I don't think it's anything planned.
Wow, that was challenging! I did it 100% with 11:06 left. Great quiz. Qatar really stopped me in my tracks! I was trying Israel, Lebanon, Palestine... !! And the small island nations! Those are the only ones I can't point to on a map. To all my fellow Americans-- if I can get 100%, so can you! :-)
Yep, Americans need to learn geography better. Luckily, America has me too :) 10:32 left but I have to say the Caribbean and Pacific island nations were especially tough
Awesome quiz, and boy do I need to work on my island locations. For Oceania and the Caribbean I had to keep running through the list and of course, the right answer was always the last one. Go figure.
Love this quiz! Was barely able to complete it in time...didn't know I could tab forward, either. Might have had less sweat as it started counting down to near a minute.
Hey there, loved this quiz! Wanted a version with capitals instead of countries, so I copyed your quiz, and changed the answers to capitals instead. Since all I did was change the answers, I wouldn't be comfortable with posting it myself, and I was hoping you would take it over.
Whooops, really sorry I missed this comment Vikken! Not sure how I did... Anyway it's fine by me as long as you credit in the description / caveat! Look forward to it :)
I got it all with "only" 8:27 left on the first try. I'm happy I managed to finish without "tabbing" back and forth (I only found out about this option after reading the comments). Starting with one of the Pacific island nations was a real challenge though.
Thought it was a bit cheaty of me to just type random oceania/carribean countries until I got the right one, but at the same time I don't really think there's a realistic better way to do it. No one's gonna memorize which islands are in which areas.
I think that you should give us less time. I finished this in less time than the time given for the Countries of the World quiz. Finished with 16:31 to spare.
I am so glad I got that on the first try (just barely squeaked in under 29 min!), because there's no way I'd want to do it twice. I have hardly any idea which country is which in Oceania or the Caribbean (except for the big ones like Haiti), so I did a ton of guessing. The Balkans nearly killed me too.
Nine, 22:32 left. The Caribbean was definitely difficult, but Antigua and Barbuda and St. Kitts top, Dominica and St. Lucia middle, Trinidad, Grenada, and St. Vincent south and Barbados south-east helped me shave off some time.
When I see an island nation in Oceania, I just start going through the names, one after another until I hit on the right one - basically by accident - I think it's time I finally learnt where they all actually are.
But, I love this quiz and it's one I can imagine doing again and again.
It feels so good to do it without skipping anything, in the order given :D (12:54 remaining, apparently not my fastest, but I don't remember what I did last time)
It's (mostly) the same projection as the JetPunk World Map, which is equirectangular (with some linear scaling in the vertical direction). However, this map was slightly modified to allow the smaller countries to be a bit larger without the map looking awful. For those with a keen eye, this slight deviation may be noticeable :)
This is the 'easy' version right, Stewie? I shudder to think of what the 'hard' version will be like. Be-that-as-it-may, my heart will go on. Also, you are quite impressive here on this site. Your fan club is legion. I am one of them now. Stewie Fan #362,0650. I lead a life of crime. 😁
Probably my favourite ever quiz! 11:06 left and found Africa and the Caribbean ones tricky so just quickly typed as many as possible but managed them all. Excellent idea, thank you.
Almost ran out of time, but got the last one with 53 seconds to go. Had a tough time the the Oceania small countries. Good quiz for people who already know all of the countries.
This is officially my new favourite quiz! It features all countries, as the countries of the world does, but adds the right amount of spice and unpredictability that makes it better. Great quiz really.
Nearly got it in less than ten minutes but messed up Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Turkmenistan at the very end though. Still happy and had 19 minutes and 49 seconds remaining
Oh my god!!!! This is most challenging. Got blasted by the tiny counties in Oceania and the Caribbean. kept forgetting where i was in the world. i think this is going to take a while to master. Excellent quiz!!
Holy cow, what a quiz!! Took it all the way down to 38 seconds because I kept typing Grenadines instead of Grenada on the last island, haha, but finally discovered my error in time. Way too stressful for my poor heart.
nearly all correct, 1 missing because i think the quiz doesnt accept "trinidad" for "trinidad and tobago"? usually id be like oh ok the quiz needs the full name, but you can successfully give "bosnia" for "bosnia and herzegovina" so idk
Just did the quiz now, Andorra wasn't showing an arrow for me either. Might be a browser thing (I use Firefox), but the arrows for all the other small countries did work.
This one was fun. With the Caribbean and Pacific Island countries I had to guess, but I managed to get everything with 12 minutes to spare. Very good quiz.
The stats seem odd. I wouldn't have expected 2/3 of people to get 100%. And I thought more people would drop out before 196.
Maybe it has to do with resets. I don't know how many hits a daily quiz gets, but I suspect it's not enough to collect 259,000 attempts, even with multiple days featured.
I think most people who visit jp daily know 196 countries. I'd just expect more distribution between #5-196 correct.
And the bottom countries are all in the Caribbean. I would've guessed Oceania is less-familiar.
There are 88k takes since last reset, however only the first take of each user counts as the stats. This is the first time it has been on the front page since the reset.
This would mean that most people finding it are JetPunk regulars, and so know 196/196.
Regarding the lowest-guessed, the Caribbean is harder for those who know all countries, because you have to guess the correct one, and most don't know the order / placement of countries in the Caribbean.
Is the map distorted, or different than the one typically used? It felt like things weren't shaped quite right, or weren't where I expected them to be. And the zoom is always frustrating for me. I understand only so much can be done.
Yes, the map is purposely inflated a little (in particular remove some of the atlantic ocean) to try and increase the possible visibility of the smallest countries.
The zoom feature is disorienting to me, and often doesn't zoom where I want it to. I lose perspective/context. (The map isn't loaded for me atm, but for example, I'll click CAR, but get a zoomed-section centered on Niger, and CAR is way over to one side). But that seems to be a limitation of the site.
Yeah so that's because when we zoom, we stay within the bounds of the map. For example clicking near the corner requires clicking right in the corner otherwise it doesn't go to the right position.
I should probably look to see if there's something I can do about that, because others have complained on this point too on other quizzes across JetPunk.
I hate this quiz, I don't just automatically know where a blue circle is somewhere over the Pacific, esp with no context clues. Also the shapes of the countries are too small.
I'm quite a geography nerd and even I had to guess some of these, as it's impossible to know which exact island it is without at least some of the mainland nations there. The islands should have been circle later on in the quiz.
196/196 in 22:14, the quiz throws about 80% of the small nations, islands and micronations at the start. It was hard to tell which ones had me pulling my hair out.
Took 15 minutes. This was incredibly hard as the scale seemed to put me off. But I enjoyed it. Central Asia was a sticking point as I cannot recognise those shapes. But a fun quiz, thanks a lot.
dominica has the beautiful hot spring, wonderful beaches and nice people. but i hate to see it as one of the first countries i have to guess without context or sufficient zoom
Done!!!! It is soooooooo painful to just list all of the islands in Oceania and North America!!!!! "It is like: what is it? Ok, let's see: Tuvalu, Tonga Nauru, Vanuatu, Samo, Fiji... Here you go - it is Fiji!"
It would have been a huge help to get an "already guessed" warning! This would hav been especially true with the small island nations of the Caribbean and Pacific - they were too hard to keep track of on the map.
the idea is to answer the country you are given. Not just a country of your own choice. (That would be an entirely different quiz)
I got it all with "only" 8:27 left on the first try. I'm happy I managed to finish without "tabbing" back and forth (I only found out about this option after reading the comments). Starting with one of the Pacific island nations was a real challenge though.
P.S '51.8% of test takers also got 196'
only on jetpunk ;)
My first was Mexico- my last was Eswatini!
I am so glad I got that on the first try (just barely squeaked in under 29 min!), because there's no way I'd want to do it twice. I have hardly any idea which country is which in Oceania or the Caribbean (except for the big ones like Haiti), so I did a ton of guessing. The Balkans nearly killed me too.
Especially when the country I'm trying to guess is actually Tajikistan.
Okay, this one might be on me...
But, I love this quiz and it's one I can imagine doing again and again.
- Some are made up of many islands and some are just one or only a few islands;
- There's a group that's south-east of PNG and a group that's south-east of the Philippines.
hard at the start but gets easier with time
Not my best :)
Plzz shout out...
The hardest part was guessing the countries/islands in either the caribean sea, and in the pacific.
Quite easy, though I do love maps and flags (plus Harry Potter/Star Wars).
Great quiz, any more like it?
First, complete the quiz in 4.75 seconds.
Second, collect your 5/5 marks.
Third, post wry comment about how you must do better next time and
Four, move on to another quiz.
You do realise you don't have to sit there twiddling your thumbs for the remaining 29 minutes and 55.25 seconds don't you?
Thank you Stewart, great fun as always.
I've done this quiz before and never had this problem- maybe a new glitch?
Maybe it has to do with resets. I don't know how many hits a daily quiz gets, but I suspect it's not enough to collect 259,000 attempts, even with multiple days featured.
I think most people who visit jp daily know 196 countries. I'd just expect more distribution between #5-196 correct.
And the bottom countries are all in the Caribbean. I would've guessed Oceania is less-familiar.
This would mean that most people finding it are JetPunk regulars, and so know 196/196.
Regarding the lowest-guessed, the Caribbean is harder for those who know all countries, because you have to guess the correct one, and most don't know the order / placement of countries in the Caribbean.
Fun quiz regardless, ty for the series.
What's the issue with the zoom?
I should probably look to see if there's something I can do about that, because others have complained on this point too on other quizzes across JetPunk.
Thank you for the feedback though!