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Wikipedia Speedruns
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#22Fun! 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.
D’oh! Missed that.
I’m sure the number of links would have been the same, but it would take much longer…
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#23Fun! 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.
Nah, he just ran the any%.
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#24This was interesting, this was the last one I did. Reminds me of the "Degrees of separation" rule on Wikipedia that any article is within 5 or 6 clicks of something about WW2.
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You found it!
Here's how you did:
"Diesel engine" to "Ethnic group"
Time: 19.686 Seconds
Number of links visited: 4
The path you took: [ "Diesel engine", "Rudolf Diesel", "Second French Empire", "French people", "Ethnic group" ]
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
> You can't use the browser find tool. From the rules.
D’oh! Missed that. I’m sure the number of links would have been the same, but it would take much longer…
Without using the browser find tool I suddenly realize it's nothing like how I usually use Wikipedia. I have to scan a lot differently to find what I'm looking for. I'm not sure if that's a positive or negative thing, since arguably using the find tool biases what we read toward what we want to see rather than something objectively true.
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#26The tutorial is infuriating. It tells you to do a thing, but then doesn't let you do it unless you click next, which isn't apparent.
If you tell a person to do a thing, you have to let them do it. If you want people to click the "next" button instead, you tell them to do that.
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#27This was interesting, this was the last one I did. Reminds me of the "Degrees of separation" rule on Wikipedia that any article is within 5 or 6 clicks of something about WW2. ----- You found it! Here's how you did: "Diesel engine" to "Ethnic group" Time: 19.686 Seconds Number of links visited: 4 The path you took: [ "Diesel engine", "Rudolf Diesel", "Second French Empire", "French people", "Ethnic group" ]
Also reminds me of how if you click the second link of a Wikipedia article (and the second link of every subsequent page) you'll always end up on Philosophy
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#28oh boy! I remember playing this game several years ago.
Here's how my run went:
"800 (number)" to "Video game" Time: 155.120 Seconds
Number of links visited: 9
The path you took: [ "800 (number)", "Factorial prime", "Integer", "C (programming language)", "Operating system", "Computer program", "Programmer", "Flight simulator", "Space flight simulation game", "Video game" ]
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#29This 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.
The bottom box is against the rules, as well as "See Also" and sidebars. Links from the article text only. Wikispeedrun just renders it without the rulebreaking sections.
There's also some common house rules. No ctrl+f and no back button are fun.
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#30Looking at the result for others, mines doesn't look so good.
"Australian Recording Industry Association" to "National Register of Historic Places listings in South Carolina" Time: 285.376 Seconds
Number of links visited: 16
The path you took: [ "Australian Recording Industry Association", "Australia", "Oceania", "Region", "List of regions of the United States", "Grand Strand", "South Carolina", "Fort Sumter", "Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park", "National Historic Site (United States)", "National Register of Historic Places", "List of U.S. National Historic Landmarks by state", "List of National Historic Landmarks in South Carolina", "St. James Episcopal Church (Santee, South Carolina)", "National Register of Historic Places", "United States National Register of Historic Places listings", "National Register of Historic Places listings in South Carolina" ]