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Re: Wikipedia Speedruns

#11

Post by howderek »

ezoe wrote: post #7

This is the random task I can't solve it. To go to the "Australian Plant Name Index" seems to be an impossible task. https://wikispeedruns.com/play/quick_play?prompt_start=Cleve...

Cleveland,List of sovereign states,Australia,Flora of Australia,Eucalyptus,Eucalyptus camaldulensis,Australian Plant Census,Australian Plant Name Index

It is harder than it needs to be because the Taxon Identifiers at the bottom of the page of plant species is missing from the wikispeedruns rendering of the page. That box seems to pretty consistently link to APNI.

Re: Wikipedia Speedruns

#12

Post by nicky0 »

ezoe wrote: post #7

This is the random task I can't solve it. To go to the "Australian Plant Name Index" seems to be an impossible task. https://wikispeedruns.com/play/quick_play?prompt_start=Cleve...

For me ..... Cleveland,United States,Flag of the United States,National flag,Royal Standard of the United Kingdom,Commonwealth realm,Australia,Biodiversity action plan,Biodiversity,Global Biodiversity Information Facility,Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG),Global Biodiversity Information Facility,Biodiversity informatics,International Plant Names Index,Australian Plant Name Index

Interesting game! Not being able to go backwards makes it much harder.

Re: Wikipedia Speedruns

#13

Post by AdamH12113 »

ezoe wrote: post #7

This is the random task I can't solve it. To go to the "Australian Plant Name Index" seems to be an impossible task. https://wikispeedruns.com/play/quick_play?prompt_start=Cleve...

It took me a very long time, but I eventually found it by going through (abbreviated) botany -> taxonomic database -> Encyclopedia of Life -> Atlas of Living Australia -> CSIRO -> Australian National Botanic Gardens -> Australian Plant Name Index.

Re: Wikipedia Speedruns

#14

Post by ianhawes »

"John F. Kennedy" to "Chemical formula"

Time: 54.809 Seconds

Number of links visited: 7

The path you took: [ "John F. Kennedy", "Harvard University", "List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation", "Nobel Prize", "Nobel Prize in Chemistry", "Chemistry", "Chemical equation", "Chemical formula" ]

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Post by kgeist »

ianhawes wrote: post #14

"John F. Kennedy" to "Chemical formula" Time: 54.809 Seconds Number of links visited: 7 The path you took: [ "John F. Kennedy", "Harvard University", "List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation", "Nobel Prize", "Nobel Prize in Chemistry", "Chemistry", "Chemical equation", "Chemical formula" ]

I clicked "I'm feeling lucky" and the very first link in the very first page led me to the ending article, took me 5 seconds. Lucky indeed.

Re: Wikipedia Speedruns

#16

Post by mypastself »

Fun! I got lucky:

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"Federal Information Processing Standards" to "Cuba"

Time: 38.630 Seconds

Number of links visited: 2

The path you took: [ "Federal Information Processing Standards", "List of FIPS country codes", "Cuba" ]

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Immediately searched by the string “countr” on the first page.

Re: Wikipedia Speedruns

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Post by zouhair »

mypastself wrote: post #16

Fun! I got lucky: — "Federal Information Processing Standards" to "Cuba" Time: 38.630 Seconds Number of links visited: 2 The path you took: [ "Federal Information Processing Standards", "List of FIPS country codes", "Cuba" ] — Immediately searched by the string “countr” on the first page.

So you cheated. You are not allowed to use the browser find tool.

Re: Wikipedia Speedruns

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Post by RainaRelanah »

mypastself wrote: post #16

Fun! I got lucky: — "Federal Information Processing Standards" to "Cuba" Time: 38.630 Seconds Number of links visited: 2 The path you took: [ "Federal Information Processing Standards", "List of FIPS country codes", "Cuba" ] — Immediately searched by the string “countr” on the first page.

> You can't use the browser find tool.

From the rules.

Re: Wikipedia Speedruns

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Post by anuvrat1 »

This is fun!!

"Advanced Audio Coding" to "Butterfly"

Time: 82.087 Seconds

Number of links visited: 7

The path you took: [ "Advanced Audio Coding", "Bell Labs", "C (programming language)", "Compiler", "Debugging", "Software bug", "Moth", "Butterfly" ]

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