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Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
 
Can you do it?

I'm sure this has been on here somewhere before, but it's a fun quiz. You have 10 minutes to name all 50 American states. As soon as you click on the link, the timer starts counting down. You type in the name of the state and it will automatically record it. You must spell all the states correctly.

I finished with 2:39 to spare, and most of that was spent trying to think of a couple states I won't tell you about. No cheating [Wink] Have fun, and let us know how much time you had to spare!
 
Posted by MidnightBlue (Member # 6146) on :
 
I was going right until the end. I technically missed six, but one was just because I couldn't figure out how to spell it.
 
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
 
This is a lot more fun as a car game. Typing states into a text box makes it tough to remember which areas you've coverd and which you haven't.

Anyway, I finished with 5:50 remaining.
 
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
 
I finished with 7:09 remaining. The hardest to remember were Pennsylvania and, dead last, Louisiana.

I think it's because I went through the states by region and by classifications. I guess in my head both Pennsylvania and Louisiana are in classes by themselves.
 
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
 
<sigh> I had 45 of them in with 5:30 left on the clock. Over the next two minutes, I pulled 3 more out. And for the next 3 and a half minutes, I watched the clock count down, and never managed to get Arizona and Connecticut.

That was cool.
 
Posted by Christine (Member # 8594) on :
 
Dang it...I got a phone call halfway through and it broke my pattern. (I started in the southwest and worked my way north and east.) I was most of the way through New England when the phone rang and I had 30 seconds left to try to reread all the states to figure out which ones I hadn't entered. Sigh...I still got 49 of them.

Can I have a do over? [Smile]
 
Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
 
8:07 remaining -- just limited by typing speed.
 
Posted by Katarain (Member # 6659) on :
 
I missed 5. oh well.
 
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
 
7:21 remaining. But only because I type with two fingers. [Blushing]

Doesn't anyone else remember the song?
 
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
 
I keep getting about 7:30. Oddly, different states are hangups each time. One time I coudl NOT remember Hawaii, and this last time it took me forever to get Oregon. This is very strange.
 
Posted by steven (Member # 8099) on :
 
1:46. my last 5 were kentucky, colorado, hawaii, alaska, and kansas.
 
Posted by Euripides (Member # 9315) on :
 
I'm so ashamed. I could only name 32; I missed many of the inland states I don't read about in the news.

I can do Australia though.
Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia. [Smile]
 
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
 
5:41 but only because I couldn't figure out how to spell Mass.
 
Posted by steven (Member # 8099) on :
 
I believe it's "massachizzle".
 
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
 
Don't feel bad. I could only have named probably three or four Australian territories, and maybe half Canada's (Yukon, Northwest Territory, Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland, Manitoba, Alberta, Yukon, PEI, Sasketchewan, Nova Scotia, new Brunswick, I don't know the rest).

And I don't know any for the other nations of the world, I used to know some of the French departements, and a could Mexican provinces, but I've since forgotten. So don't feel bad Sean, there's really no reason you SHOULD know them.
 
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
 
I forgot Texas.
 
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
I had 49 with eight minutes left, and then took another six minutes to remember Pennsylvania. Useless state.
 
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
 
I did the same thing! It's because Pennsylvania doesn't belong anywhere. It isn't New England, it isn't the Midwest, it isn't Mid-Atlantic, it isn't the Great Lakes, it doesn't have a distinct culture that gets movies made about it or gets into the paper, it doesn't have a name that sounds like other states', it is the only state starting with a "p". No good place to classify it, so you have to remember it on its own, and there's no reason to do that.
 
Posted by Dr Strangelove (Member # 8331) on :
 
It was horrible. I could visualize where the states were and even their shape, but couldn't for the life of me remember them (Wyoming, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Connecticut). Maryland I just plain forgot [Razz] .
 
Posted by Euripides (Member # 9315) on :
 
Thanks Adam, though I think we can agree that knowledge of the US states would be more useful in my circumstances than a photographic memory of the French departements. [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
 
All of them with 7:55 left, also limited by typing speed. Once I figured out I didn't have to capitalize or hit "Enter," I moved a lot quicker. [Smile]
 
Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
 
Missed 3. Worked my way around the edges and then worked towards the middle... and so the ones I missed were in-between states (Kentucky and Oklahoma) and, um, Kansas. How did I forget Kansas?? [Frown]
 
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
 
I tried doing it from what I guess would be an historial point of view. I put the 13 colonies, then added states as they joined the union until I hit the Mississippi where my memory got a bit fuzzy. Once I got that far, I tossed on Alaska and Hawaii. The rest of them are all basically squares, lined up in rows, so I followed them down line by line geographically across the west.

I spent six minutes trying to think of Missouri and Wyoming though. Little punks.
 
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
 
I would also like to brag that I got them in alphabetical order. [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Fyfe (Member # 937) on :
 
8:37 remaining. Alphabetical order. Oh yeah, I know the song.
 
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
 
I got...uh...39 before time ran out.

I missed most of the insignificant midwest states, because no one in Hawaii notices they exist. [Wink]
 
Posted by Avin (Member # 7751) on :
 
I got 48 states in 3 minutes. Then I took 3 minutes to remember Missouri. Then I watched the counter counting down to 0 to find out the one state I was missing was Iowa.
 
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
 
I got 45 in 3, figured out 4 more in another 2 minutes, then got hung on the last one... It's still counting down.
 
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
 
I got 47 states in 5-6 minutes, and couldn't remember Nevada, Iowa, and Tennessee. (My apologies to Hatrackers who hail from these states [Smile] )

-Bok
 
Posted by MidnightBlue (Member # 6146) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Fyfe:
8:37 remaining. Alphabetical order. Oh yeah, I know the song.

My song involves capitals too. Also, I only remember it partway through M. I finally got them all on attempt three.
 
Posted by A Rat Named Dog (Member # 699) on :
 
Hahahahaha! That was awful [Smile]

I spent two minutes, forty seconds (2:40) thinking of 49 states ...

... then spent the next six minutes, thirty seconds (6:30) thinking of Maryland [Smile]

When there are fifty items on the list, and you're imagining them geographically, it's hard to even know where to look for the ONE you missed. Eventually, I started counting up the thirteen colonies (since those are the smallest and squirrelliest ones) to see if I missed one, and that's what led me to Maryland.

But it's hard to see, wedged in there between Virginia and Pennstylvania [Smile]
 
Posted by stihl1 (Member # 1562) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by The Pixiest:
5:41 but only because I couldn't figure out how to spell Mass.

Me too. Then I forgot about Alabama.

There was a timed test like that floating around a while back where you had to locate and name all 50 states as fast as possible. I really dug that game.
 
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
 
I wonder how many people here were educated by Animaniacs...

Let's do a nations of the world test next!
 
Posted by stihl1 (Member # 1562) on :
 
Here it is:

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html
 
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
 
Yoouuuuuuuunited States Canada Mexico Panama Haiti Jamaica Peru...
 
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 
5:59 left. I also couldn't spell Massachusetts. Or a few other states. Thank goodness for ieSpell or I wouldn't have made it through. [Wink]

I still go through it geographically with the song we learned in third grade:

"To prove our dedication to the country we love best,
We'll recite the states by region from the East out to the West:
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut; New England is their name..."
 
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
 
I got all but 7 with 5 minutes to go, trickled out another 3 over the next 4 minutes, got one more with 15 seconds to go and then just broke down and cried.

Curse you Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Tennessee!
 
Posted by steven (Member # 8099) on :
 
Any Mormons forget Utah?
 
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by stihl1:
Here it is:

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html

40/50 perfect, 227 seconds, ave. error 23 miles.

The only one I got drastically wrong was Deleware, which I put like 150 miles north of its actual home. The other nine were almost spot on.
 
Posted by stihl1 (Member # 1562) on :
 
When I was a kid we had this big wooden puzzle map of the united states. Every state was a puzzle piece, and once you dumped them off the map you had to put them all back in place correctly without any guides or stencils. I used to play with that all the time. I think it's how I am so good with state geography today.
 
Posted by kmbboots (Member # 8576) on :
 
I got forty-eight and then spent the last 6:03 failing to remember Arkansas and Nevada.

43 perfect; average error 33 miles. A lot of smallish errors when there weren't any states around them.
 
Posted by JennaDean (Member # 8816) on :
 
I got 47 in 5 minutes, then slowly remembered two more, and watched it count down the last two minutes to let me know I forgot Mississippi. How could I forget Mississippi? It's, like, a neighbor!!!

Now I want to try the map one.
 
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by erosomniac:
Yoouuuuuuuunited States Canada Mexico Panama Haiti Jamaica Peru...

Republic Dominican, Cuba, Caribbean . . .

That's as far as I can get, I think.
 
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
 
United States, Panama, Mexico Canada, Haiti Jamaica Peru, Republic Dominican, Cuba, Carribbean, Greenland El salvador too

Puerto Rico, Columbia, Venezuela, Hondura Guyana and still. something something Ecudador, Chile, Brazil.

Costa Rica, Belize, Nicuragua, Barbabados, Bermuda, Bahamas...San Juan, Paraguay, Uruguay and french guyana barbados and guam.

Norway and sweden and iceland and finland and germany now in one piece. Switzerland, austria czechoslovakia, italy turkey and greece...

That's where my memory starts to get a little more fuzzy. I remember snippets of the rest, but not the whole thing.

For those who really want to know though: Yakko's Nations of the World .
 
Posted by JennaDean (Member # 8816) on :
 
Okay ... I don't know the fuzzy bits, but I know the end ...

Fiji, Australia, Sudan!
 
Posted by Fyfe (Member # 937) on :
 
I did 43 out of 50 states right, average error of 36 miles, in 208 seconds on that drag-and-drop map thing. The only one I had woefully wrong was West Virginia, which I thought was much much farther west than indeed it is.
 
Posted by happysmiley (Member # 9703) on :
 
that was easy. In 2nd grade we had to sing a song with all in the states in alphebetical order and it's been stuck in my head ever since.
 
Posted by Adam_S (Member # 9695) on :
 
7:38 left, if it weren't for typos and thinking carefully how to spell some of them I'd have been faster

86% 26 miles, 428 seconds on the place the states thing.

This is the song I learned in fourth grade. It's how I remember all the states for Scattergories. Sung to Turkey in the Straw, I believe.

THE FIFTY STATES THAT RHYME

While in school I studied, US geography.
The teacher asked "Will you stand up, and list the states for me?"
My knees began a knockin'. My words fell out all wrong;
then suddenly, I stood right up and I sang this little song.

alabama, alaska, arizona, arkansas
california, colorado, conectticutt and more
delaware, florida, georgia, hawaii, idaho
illinois, indiana, iowa, still thirty-five to go

Kansas and Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine
Maryland, Massachusetts, and good old Michigan
Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri and Montana
Nebraska's twenty-seven, number twenty-eight's Nevada

oooh, oooh

Next New Hampshire and New Jersey, and way down New Mexico
Next New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio

Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennslyvania, now let's see
Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee

Texas and there's Utah, Vermont I'm almost through
Virginia then there's Washington, and West Virginia too
Is Wisconsin the last one, or is it forty-nine?
No, Wyoming is the last one in the fifty states that rhyme

When I sat down, all out of breath, the teacher said, "That's great!"
"You certainly were the best in listing all the states."
"But if you want to get an A for that silly little rhyme,
stand back up and sing that song, but do it double time."
 
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Lyrhawn:
quote:
Originally posted by stihl1:
Here it is:

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html

40/50 perfect, 227 seconds, ave. error 23 miles.

The only one I got drastically wrong was Deleware, which I put like 150 miles north of its actual home. The other nine were almost spot on.

45/50, 195 seconds, ave. error 12 miles. To be fair, though, I got a good random lineup with a lot of early big states. It's easy to be exact if you have some neighboring states to line up with.
 
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by stihl1:
Here it is:

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html

Score: 82% Avg Error: 38 miles, Time: 324 seconds
 
Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
 
I don't think I would've ever gotten New Hampshire. My last one with like a minute left and there was no way I was going to remember that one. What a weird state.
 
Posted by kmbboots (Member # 8576) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by El JT de Spang:
45/50, 195 seconds, ave. error 12 miles. To be fair, though, I got a good random lineup with a lot of early big states. It's easy to be exact if you have some neighboring states to line up with.

yeah. I got Wyoming first!
 
Posted by Stray (Member # 4056) on :
 
3:26 remaining, and only got it by singing the Animaniacs States and Capitals song in my head.
 
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
 
I am beaming with joy over the fact that I am not the only person here to have aced all 50 states with the help of the Animaniacs.
 
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
 
I forgot Louisiana. The rest of them I did in 4 minutes.
 
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
 
What's an Animaniacs?
 
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
 
47/50 perfect, 94%, average 5 miles off, 281 seconds.

It helped that I got Louisiana first, and I got lucky placing West Virginia perfectly.

The state songs I knew predate Animaniacs, but my knowledge of the Nations of the World is definitely from there. [Smile]
 
Posted by katdog42 (Member # 4773) on :
 
6:16 to spare, mostly because I kept misspelling Massachusetts.
 
Posted by Launchywiggin (Member # 9116) on :
 
49 states with 8 minutes left. Stuck on Oklahoma till 1:19
 
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
 
Woo! 48/50, 96%, average 3 miles off, 194 seconds. I rule.
 
Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
 
I also forgot Louisiana. I didn't get a lot of the mid-western states until pretty late, though. I didn't get Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee and Rhode Island until about 3 or 4 minutes left.
 
Posted by Reshpeckobiggle (Member # 8947) on :
 
Couldn't spell connecticut. Where the hell does that c in the middle come from?

Couldn't remember Hawaii, Mississippi, and Nebraska.


????
 
Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
 
Finished with 3:29 left.

Nebraska, Iowa, Hawaii. Gah.

--j_k
 
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
 
Four minutes to get all but Conetticuit, (which I remembered but took forever to spell) and New Mexico which I totally forgot and sat trying to remember.
 
Posted by Dav (Member # 8217) on :
 
I did not think of: Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Wisconsin

I'm not too familiar with the interior states, so that might be why I missed Nebraska and Oklahoma. And I probably missed Wisconsin because my brain lumps it in with Michigan, with them being (sort of) mirror images around Lake Michigan.

But I have no idea why I missed Texas. It's certainly big enough.
 
Posted by Tara (Member # 10030) on :
 
Gaaahh!! I couldn't spell Illinois!! (Now I can, I think?) Other than that, I missed Missouri and Nebraska. Man, it was hard to spell Connecticutt. (That's probably wrong).
 
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
 
Connecticut. One final "t". [Smile]

And yes, you've got Illinois down.
 
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
 
Only state I had a problem spelling was Massachusetts.
 
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
 
I did Massachussetts at first, and got really confused when it didn't take it.
 
Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by stihl1:
Here it is:

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html

98%, 192 secs, 3 mi error. I got incredibly lucky with big states early on.

--j_k
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Lisa:
What's an Animaniacs?

[Eek!] Was that a serious question?
 
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
 
I think I got the perfect order of states. I got a 100% with 0 mile margin of error.
 
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by rivka:
quote:
Originally posted by Lisa:
What's an Animaniacs?

[Eek!] Was that a serious question?
I assume it was a TV show? I'll go further and guess that it must have been on during the late 80s or early 90s? Just because that was when I was living in Israel with no TV. I missed a whole bunch of cultural landmarks during that. Chia Pets, Quantum Leap, most of ST:TNG, Married with Children, etc.
 
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
 
Lisa: Animaniacs was a cartoon in the 90's produced by Steven Spielberg much in the same vein as Tiny Toons. They basically lampooned pop culture while remaining cute/funny for smaller children. Gratuitous amounts of violence were current with both shows as off shoots of loony toons.

I didn't particularly like the shows man characters Yakko, Wakko, and Dot. But the Pinky and the Brain segments were a staple of mine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animaniacs
 
Posted by cheiros do ender (Member # 8849) on :
 
Stephen Colbert can do it in 24 seconds.
 
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
 
Thanks, BlackBlade. Yep, I missed that entirely.
 
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
 
Hey, don't feel bad, Lisa, I didn't know what Animaniacs was either, and I was in the U.S. the whole time.

Did anyone else miss Indiana? I was just not going to think of it no matter how long I sat there. Despite the fact that I was pretty sure it had to be somewhere in the Midwest, and I even thought I might be missing another "I" state!
 
Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :
 
quote:
Stephen Colbert can do it in 24 seconds.
Stephen Colbert can do anything in 24 seconds.
 
Posted by Fusiachi (Member # 7376) on :
 
We were taught a song in elementary school, The Fifty, Nifty United States, which on principle we sung at maximum tempo. Certainly helped with this challenge.
 
Posted by Steev (Member # 6805) on :
 
Definitely leaning them in alphabetical order is a plus. I can recall all 50 orally in less than 30 seconds. However having to type them and going back to fix and guess at spelling took me more than 5 minutes and even after I thought all was spelled correctly I still misspelled 14 states.
 
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
 
6:48

I've found that I group them alphabetically in my head, not by geography, and I group them mostly by 3s and 4s.

4 As: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas
3 Cs: California, Colorado, Connecticut
4 1s: Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii
4 Is: Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa
2 Ks: Kansas, Kentucky
--plus another 1: Louisiana
4 Ma-s (I count Montana because of the ending): Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana
4 Mi-s: Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri
4 News: New Hampshire, New Jersy, New Mexico, New York
4 other Ns: Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota
3 Os: Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon
3 1s: Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, plus solitary Utah
2 Souths: South Dakota, South Carolina
2 Ts: Tennessee, Texas
2 Vs: Vermont, Virginia
4 Ws: Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

If I miss one, it's usually in the Ms or the Ws, and I know I can block those out by 4s, so it isn't too hard to backtrack.
 
Posted by Flaming Toad on a Stick (Member # 9302) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Lyrhawn:
Don't feel bad. I could only have named probably three or four Australian territories, and maybe half Canada's (Yukon, Northwest Territory, Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland, Manitoba, Alberta, Yukon, PEI, Sasketchewan, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, I don't know the rest).

The full list, on the odd chance that anyone is interested:
Territories:Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut.
Provinces: British Colombia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland (and Labrador).
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Animaniacs was so ingrained in American culture of the time that most of my friends who did not have TVs knew many of the songs (especially the geography and history ones).

But yeah, living in another country does tend to insulate one from such things. [Wink]
 
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
 
quote:
Animaniacs was so ingrained in American culture of the time that most of my friends who did not have TVs knew many of the songs (especially the geography and history ones).
I never heard of them either. Was this an 80s thing, I rarely watched TV during the 80s
 
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by kmbboots:
quote:
Originally posted by El JT de Spang:
45/50, 195 seconds, ave. error 12 miles. To be fair, though, I got a good random lineup with a lot of early big states. It's easy to be exact if you have some neighboring states to line up with.

yeah. I got Wyoming first!
Yes, There is a lot of luck with this game/test. If you get alot of states that border the oceans, great lakes, Mexico and Canada first its pretty easy. If you get states like Colorado and Tennessee that go in the empty middle of the country first its alot harder to get them in exactly the right place.
 
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
 
Why won;t the link work anymore?
 
Posted by Nathan2006 (Member # 9387) on :
 
My last were Wisconsin, New Jersey, and Delaware.
 
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by MrSquicky:
quote:
Stephen Colbert can do it in 24 seconds.
Stephen Colbert can do anything in 24 seconds.
That could be taken a lot of ways...
 
Posted by The Reader (Member # 3636) on :
 
I did it with 5:47 remaining, but I type with two fingers. I almost forgot about Delaware, Maryland, and Rhode Island.
 
Posted by JennaDean (Member # 8816) on :
 
Woohoo! After practicing for 2 days, I can now do it in 2 minutes and 3 seconds. [Smile]
 
Posted by Dan_Frank (Member # 8488) on :
 
I learned the Animaniacs song in school, but I couldn't remember it.

I got 49 of them fairly quickly (not compared to some of you!), but then I sat there wondering what I'd missed. I finally gave up and looked at a map. I STILL couldn't find it. My girlfriend's dad asked why I was looking at the map, I told him, and he said "You probably missed Rhode Island. Everybody misses Rhode Island."

Sure enough, that was it.

Why is Rhode Island even a state?
 
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
 
I got all fifty with 9:15 seconds remaining, and I don't even know the song, either!

I'm a bit of a ringer, though. I go through everyone one of those states hundreds of times over five days a week.
 
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
 
But how did you type them all in 45 seconds? [Eek!]

I mean, that's crazy.

I got 45 of them with 6 minutes to go. Took me a minute to remember Hawaii and Alaska. Took me another minute to remember Mississippi and Kansas. Finally, I plugged in Massachusetts (which somehow got overlooked when I went through New England... don't ask me how). So, had a little less than 4 minutes left when I finished.

Edit: I also just finished the map placement game with an 8 mile average miss rate. I got Illinois first, and I was about a half inch off or so, which was my only real miss.

[ March 03, 2007, 08:38 PM: Message edited by: FlyingCow ]
 
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
 
Gah! Typo on my part, FC-eight minutes and fifteen seconds. I type quickly, but not that quickly. If it were a mind-reading keyboard, however, I could probably get it done in about 20 seconds just thinking of the two-letter abbreviations.
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Rakeesh:
I go through everyone one of those states hundreds of times over five days a week.

[Confused]
 
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
 
Private supersonic train.
 
Posted by Euripides (Member # 9315) on :
 
Ah.
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
I was thinking Lear jet.
 
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
 
Well, it was private, now everyone will be asking for a ride. Thanks a lot!

One of the things I use my formerly private supersonic train for is transportation to one of my jobs, working for UPS, where I divide the day's outgoing packages onto different tracks before I handle the next-day air shipments, hazardous materials documentation, blah blah blah.

Maybe if my building weren't from the 1960s, it would be automated, and I could just do the other part of my job which is sometimes interesting, navigating labyrinthine federal transportation regulations for things like *ahem* biological samples.
 
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
 
Rakeesh! How will they know not to interbreed!

*fisheye

A fella got into trouble for that a ways back.
 
Posted by Nato (Member # 1448) on :
 
07:47 it took me a few tries to spell Massachusetts right.

I never learned that song either. What is it to the tune of?

That state placement one really seems to depend on the order. I only had to place colorado and arkansas without having a nearby state to guide from, and I got a lot of edge states early on, so I got a 48/50, 7mi. avg miss in 188 seconds.
 
Posted by Leonide (Member # 4157) on :
 
First 49 in under two minutes, then the rest of the time WRACKING MY BRAIN to remember freakin' Wyoming.

WYOMING!!

useless state. *grumble grumble*
 
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
 
All this proves is that I can't spell.


I already knew that. [Wink]
 
Posted by TheBlueShadow (Member # 9718) on :
 
I never remember Indiana and Missouri.
Here's a link to the Animaniacs' State and Capitals video.
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Excellent. [Big Grin]
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Also pretty cool.
So's this. (from another angle)

I think I like this one best.
 
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
 
I missed Delaware, Indiana, and Vermont.

Funny that I missed the state where my best friend lives! [Smile] I got his home state, though. [Wink]
 
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
 
Second time through I got them all, but with only about 30 seconds to spare! [Razz]
 
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
 
Animaniacs was sOoOoOoOo educational!
 
Posted by Magson (Member # 2300) on :
 
I'm surprised no one's done www.geosense.net yet.

50/50 with 4:08 left. Wasn't so much I couldn't remember them as I lost track of "where I'd been."

I don't know any "memorize the state" songs either, Animaniacs or otherwise.

And on the drag and drop -- 46/50 perfect. Average error 5 miles.

Fun stuff!
 


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