It's a General Knowledge quiz not a typing competition, if you want a challenge only type with one little finger, or blindfolded etc. Or better still make your own quiz with 20 questions in 20 seconds.
What difference does it make if people guess the answers. Jetpunk is a fun site that helps people learn and have fun. There are no 'Gold Medals' to be won, nobody cares if you can finish the quiz in 3.2 seconds..... grow up and enjoy the quizzes.
It matters because people want to enjoy taking the quizzes. If there is an excessive time limit then after you get the answers you know you are sitting there just picking your nose for 4 minutes trying to come up with another answer. That's not fun. The time limit ought to be enough to get all the answers but not excessive. It also makes the results less meaningful. Nobody cares if you don't like my comment. Nobody cares if you dislike me personally. Grow up and enjoy the quizzes and let other people enjoy the quizzes and leave constructive criticism at the same time.
I never claimed to be speaking for you, jadze. And Sif: there's also a take untimed button. The time limit should be there to give you a reasonable amount of time to get all the answers if you know all the answers. Otherwise there's no point in having a time limit at all.
I think we forget that whilst most of us Jetpunk regular users can name 196 countries as fast as we can type them, at least 150 capital cities without thinking hard, 15 USSR & 7 Yugoslavian countries as quick as we like, and we can recognise most countries by their shapes or borders... I'll hold my hand up and say I couldn't do most of that before I used Jetpunk years ago. So whilst I typed them in in 20 seconds (and I'm a 6 day old kitten with a blindfold on), a lot of people can't, and thats fine because they're testing themselves and learning. The time limits never bother me, not everyone is as fast at typing or remembering as us all.
^ this is irrelevant. If you don't like taking the quizzes timed, turn off the time limit. If the time limit is there but set to be enormously excessive, for the average jetpunk user not the slowest of the slow, this will decrease the fun for the average user. And it defeats the purpose of having a time limit.
and, while 30 seconds IS plenty of time for this quiz, 2 minutes would be fine, and 4 minutes, though excessive, isn't as bad as if it were 5 minutes or 10 minutes or 20 minutes. Commenting on the length of a quiz doesn't mean you need to grow up. It's not a criticism of YOU if you can't do the quiz. It's a relevant observation. Otherwise they would simply remove the timer.
It might be plenty of time for native English speakers, but for someone outside 30 seconds doesn't really leave a chance even for a mistype - it took me 36 seconds, with continuous typing and only two mistypes - and not "full mistypes", as in "put in a wrong country" or "put in an incorrect spelling in its' entirety", but rather "typed excessive letter, instantly deleted" mistypes (Kyrgyzstan is, to be honest, a challenge to spell, and my fingers aren't that familiar with QWERTY keyboards). So a minute or 1:30 would be more reasonable - Jetpunk caters for non-native English speakers too, after all, and quizes in other languages might be a bit... Scarce, shall we say.
^ so get better or turn the timer off. As mentioned repeatedly I'm speaking to the average JetPunk user, not the slowest non-English speakers out there.
If it’s just enough time for the average typer to finish, then it’s not just the slowest of the slow being left out, but a huge portion of total users (and especially mobile).
It took me 49 seconds to type all the answers, without making any wrong guesses. English is my first language, and I can name all 196 countries recognised by jetpunk, and most of their capitals. I won't get into an argument with anyone over how long should be allowed for this quiz, but maybe someone could ask their friend's lovely, highly intelligent neurosurgeon wife for her opinion on the matter, and I will defer to her better judgment.
It is probably because the USSR is normally thought of as Russia (even though obviously it isn't) and people are trying to guess the countries that "Russia" owned.
It is Kurdistan in dutch. Allmost seem like a totally different name in english. The first few times had to think for a while. I think thr very first time didnt even realize it was the same country...
Most names are as good as the same. Except belarus for wit-rusland (white-russia) ow yea and duitsland for germany.
Kyrgyzstan and Kurdistan are definitely not the same place. The Dutch spelling of Kyrgyzstan is Kirgistan or Kirgizië. Kurdistan can also be spelled Koerdistan or Kordestan in Dutch. Kyrgyzstan was part of the USSR. Kurdistan isn't a country, it refers to the homeland of the Kurdish people, which is in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
I think that Russia is such an obvious answer that people sort of subconsciously eliminate it. I mean, people frequently referred to the USSR as just "Russia" anyway, so it can feel like the question is "What countries used to be part of Russia," and you wouldn't necessarily think you'd have to put "Russia" down for that.
I wouldn't consider Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in this list. At least they aren't in the geography song my kids learned about the countries of the former USSR
Technically, yes. Many countries, in fact most, considered it an illegal takeover and several, including the US, maintained that the Baltic States were independent nations.
The USSR issued passports, Russified the Baltic countries, and were governed by the Communist Party and all three were Republics of the USSR, on par with other republics (except for Russia). They were considered essentially Soviet. Recognized or not, legal or not, they were part of the Soviet Union in practice.
I think because people just think Russia = USSR, so its like the other countries broke off and they forget to put Russia as an answer. I almost missed it as well and then the light bulb went on.
I think you answered your own question when you said Russia was practically the Soviet Union. A lot of people are probably thinking of countries *other than* Russia since they see Russia and the USSR as synonymous.
The bread lines. The complete lack of decent entertainment options. Not getting to choose what city you lived in. The bleak apartment blocks. Those were the days!
Finland was part of the Russian Empire but became independent after the Russian Revolution and the USSR never got Finland back, though they tried during the Winter War.
We couldve counted tannu tuva because they were apart of the ussr but in ww2 they were only reconized by mongolia and the ussr sooo maybe but maybe not.
You can see the pattern here: 3 Baltic countries, 5 central Asian '-stan' countries, 3 Caucasus region countries, 4 eastern European countries so a total of 15 countries. Pretty easy to memorize.
I find it funny how lax the typeins for Tajikistan are. "Tajoctopusstan" "Tajuwuowoperiodahhperioduhhstan" and "Tajpneumoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisstan" all work.
(NOTE: RWANDA IS A COUNTRY IN AFRICA AND WAS NEVER A PART OF THE SOVIET UNION. I LIKE TO BE SARCASTIC SOMETIMES).
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/234684/former-ussr-state-capitals
Most names are as good as the same. Except belarus for wit-rusland (white-russia) ow yea and duitsland for germany.
surprising
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_continuity_of_the_Baltic_states
The USSR was established in 1922
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