well, yeah. The point is to see how fastly and accurately you can type them out. Really, all you need is to get 40 to get closer to the one-minute badge which is totally doable
Think you know the countries like the back of your hand? Try seeing if you can list them in reverse alphabetical order with my new quiz, Countries of the World Z-A: https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/284204/countries-of-the-world-z-a
Well done QM! I just barely squeaked by with 43, but this is a super fun quiz, and I have this weird way of remembering South American countries that I learned back in grade school, so that probably sped me up a tad!
DollarBill2208 has asked "How do you know if someone is cheating, unless they admit it?". Usually you can't - if you want to inflate your score and grab extra quiz points, just write down the answers after you take a test, take the quiz again and copy the answers in. It's a bit like picking up your tee shot, dropping it in the cup and signing your card for a hole-in-one. But this quiz is probably unique on Jetpunk - it's the only quiz where you can post a 100% score and automatically out yourself as a cheat. By the way, I honor the amazing 66 you've gotten on this quiz with real typing.
The quizzes about 4,5 et 6 letter country names surely help, in addition to the few acronyms (UK, USA, CAR, UAE ; DRC is not interesting, it's better to get two answers by typing Congo). I only managed to get 49 by typing the shortest names, I know I can do a little better, but surely not more than 60. So, there seems to be a 100% and it's annoying because it's surely fake and it prevents anyone to get 5 points ;).
@USAsoccer9876 Under the "scoring" section, there is a "more stats" button, which shows how many people got how man right. As of 11/04/17 (mm/dd/yy), the high score is 68.
Aesthus and Dogman, the high score shown in the stats is not completely accurate. 0.1% of people have to get that score in order for it to show up. And rawe, nicely done! I just got 81 myself after trying about 10 times. I think I can get it up to at least 85 after a couple days of practice.
@dogman (and aesthus) yes someone has been exposed... of typing and pointing fingers without thinking... There are two reason why a score does not show up sometimes, a) cause it hasnt been processed yet, and b) the one that is the case this time so many people have take the test that a single person respresent a too small percentage to show up. a minimum of 0.1% have to get a certain score for it to show up.
But I disagree it being easy ;) A good system will help loads though, I havent tried it yet. But with going random I get 32, but I had typos in nearly half of them haha.
I didn't take it since December 2014, so still at 61, which beats 99,8% of takers... easy to go over 60? I don't think so, you have to be a fast typist. Fortunately, it's now possible to get 5 points if you beat 95% of takers, so I won't have to try to do better ;).
This is more of a typing test than a geography quiz. I can improve my geography knowledge, but I'll always be a slug-slow typist. So this would just be a lesson in futility for me.
Barely beat the average with a score of 36, just typing what came into my head. No idea why I wasted time spelling Uzbekistan and Nicaragua. I like this kind of quiz to wake me up for the day.
At least you were trying Uzbekistan. I lost some precious few seconds trying to type Kyrgyzstan. This quiz needs some planning rather than just typing in random countries.
Ah Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan... literally some of the hardest country names to type. Really that includes most of the -stans except for like, Pakistan.
Need to plan this one out better, just random jumping around and found myself entering "Dominican Republic". Why? Got 38 first try, but gotta be smarter about shorter/faster names. :-)
Only got 27. Started typing and my mind just went blank. Surprisingly, I filled in Tajikstan and Kazakhstan almost immediately, can't figure out why I did that.
I think that's also because the copy-paste rules for Krygyzstan are kind of weird. In my opinion, we should just take Krygyzstan off of all the quizzes it's in. I asked my parents how to spell Krygyzstan and neither of them got past the 3rd letter :D
It looks like you can get all 5 points by getting a score of over 45 as of right now. It's not hard if you know what abbreviations to use, and what countries have the shortest names.
Got to 51 countries on best go - use countries with shortened names (UK, USA, UAE, CAR, FYROM, PNG, PRC, ROC). Congo gives two answers.
Then I move to four and five letter countries. Looking at the stats, a lot of people try the likes of Brazil and Australia - the length of those countries names will not help to get a high score.
Ironic that the country with the longest name, Democratic Republic of the Congo, is one of the first choices you should go for on a one-minute quiz! (DRC)
The name change to North Macedonia became official on 12 February 2019, following a referendum (Sept 2018) and parliamentary ratification (Jan 2019) in Macedonia, as well as a Jan 2019 vote in the Greek parliament (with whom it had had a lengthy row about its name) that also accepted the new name.
ok... I must not be awake... I thought ow yea lets redo this quiz, it was fun. I saw the letters piling up in the box, and thought huh? something went wrong, must done the first one double... Then tried again, "no"didnt give me norway and it was the 2nd country tried, I thought wth? typed it in full an it accepted, huh?!?! Ok... then i realised this was the sprint quiz where you type the names in full... not just the first 2 letters..
Now is the time for all good countries to come to the aid of their men. Now is the time for all good countries to come to the aid of their men. Now is the time for all good countriess.......oh crap.
Bwahahahahahahahaha! Why are the stats for DR of the Congo different to the stats for R of the Congo? If people were to just type in the word "Congo" - you would get both! Are people seriously typing that whole thing??? This kills me! XD
Is it just me or does anybody else find these speed typing quizzes ridiculous .what do they prove, somebody can type really fast so what ?.I have the 196 badge so I know the countries . by the way I got 24 on this but I don't ever plan to become a secretary so I don't see whats the use of speed typing .just done this out of boredom .
It's not just you! But it's interesting that when you were bored, with thousands of quizzes on Jetpunk you could choose from, you latched onto this one.
I'm curious to know what strategies are used on this quiz. Assuming most who are doing the 1 minute sprint have already aced, or are at least well familiar, with all 196 countries -- do Jetpunkers generally type the countries in alphabetical order from memory, try to type the shortest countries first, use the map, something else?
I know the 'best' way to do this quiz is by typing the shortest names, and that's how I always try to start (USA, UK, UAE, Congo for two, CAR, Cuba, etc) but then as time goes by I start panicking and just typing whatever countries I can think of...so I get Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan and New Zealand and a bunch of other long ones...anyone else end up this way?
I'm trying to get the one Minute Badge but never seem to be able to complete this one? This quiz is very challenging I have 2/4 badges and i need this one and the Capitals of the World In one minute Quiz done.
Most Keystrokes,
Count to 200,
Counting in Roman Numerals and
Counting in Words.
I score a 19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJLttdmMmlw
p.s. that was a lie
yawn
jk no one finished this quiz
:)
I have practiced my countries of the world time for some months already (PB is 11:50) so this wasn't so tough xD
Then I move to four and five letter countries. Looking at the stats, a lot of people try the likes of Brazil and Australia - the length of those countries names will not help to get a high score.
I'm reasonably good at typing and know all the countries in the world but there's no way I could do this..
Is there some sort of highscore ranking for this?
CAR
PRC
Congo
DR
FSM
NZ
DPRK
FYROM
PNG
KSA
ROK
ROC
UAE
UK
USA
Benin
Chad
Chile
Cuba
Egypt
Fiji
Gabon
Ghana
Haiti
India
Iran
Iraq
Italy
Japan
Kenya
Laos
Libya
Mali
Malta
Burma
Nauru
Nepal
Niger
Oman
Palau
Peru
Qatar
Samoa
Spain
Sudan
Syria
Togo
Tonga
Yemen
?????????????
ngl a pretty relatable joke :}
Wish me Luck!
I don't know why I always think of Kazakhstan on this one, but I have to type it otherwise I can't move on...
my brain: Kyrgyzstan
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also i think the WR is 95