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Memorizing trivia words is just something that has never interested me. Instead I keep a thesaurus and dictionary handy at all times :)
I think I did really poorly. My score was around 21,000.
You need a test where the definition is part of the test. Otherwise anyone can just check boxes.
What difference does it make? The site doesn't say what it means in everyday life. I'm guessing if you exclude high achieving SAT vocab nerds, it finds the difference between people who care about the meaning of each word and people who will guess through context because they have no patience for a dictionary. Or people who don't read fancy texts, like the Scarlett Letter for example, after failing to read that I stopped reading books.
Maybe working on that English Minor is panning out...
Not sure I buy the results though. I would think that the rate of increase would start to decrease quite significantly after high school/college but it appears to stay pretty much linear throughout the data.
Obvious point : The only people interested in finding out their scores will be the kind of people who think their vocab is something worth competing on. There's no way this is a fair sample across all English-speakers.
Going by magazines, common forwards and so on it seems the average man loves a good self-quiz.
http://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/edlnv/reddit_i_...