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 Have fun, and let us know how much time you had to spare!
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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.
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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.
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<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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Posts: 1762 | Registered: Apr 2006
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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.
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I had 49 with eight minutes left, and then took another six minutes to remember Pennsylvania. Useless state.
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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.
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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 .
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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. Posts: 1762 | Registered: Apr 2006
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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. Posts: 3932 | Registered: Sep 1999
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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?? Posts: 2911 | Registered: Aug 2001
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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 Posts: 1907 | Registered: Feb 2000
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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.
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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.
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..."
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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