31–40 of 103 posts
"Tamil language" to "Republican Party (United States)" Time: 95.330 Seconds
Number of links visited: 9
The path you took: [ "Tamil language", "Indian subcontinent", "United Nations geoscheme for Asia", "United Nations", "Member states of the United Nations", "United States", "List of states and territories of the United States", "Alabama", "Alabama Republican Party", "Republican Party (United States)" ]
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"Grammatical tense" to "Scientific method" Time: 150.046 Seconds
Number of links visited: 9
The path you took: [ "Grammatical tense", "Arabic", "List of languages by total number of speakers", "Language shift", "Anti-German sentiment", "World War I", "Nazism", "Pseudoscience", "Science", "Scientific method" ]
Number of links visited: 5 [ "Gastropoda", "Taxonomy (biology)", "Ancient Greek", "Language family", "Language isolate", "Basque language" ]
Haha, loving it. "Gastropoda" to "Basque language" Time: 111.094 Seconds Number of links visited: 5 [ "Gastropoda", "Taxonomy (biology)", "Ancient Greek", "Language family", "Language isolate", "Basque language" ]
"Ditransitive verb" to "Paul the Apostle"
Time: 133.395 Seconds
Number of links visited: 10
The path you took: [ "Ditransitive verb", "Grammar", "Linguistics", "Science", "Fall of the Western Roman Empire", "Edict of Milan", "Edict of Thessalonica", "Arianism", "Jesus", "Pauline epistles", "Paul the Apostle" ]
This 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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"Domain name" to "Creative Commons license" Time: 90.194 Seconds
Number of links visited: 8
The path you took: [ "Domain name", "Website", "Adobe Flash Player", "Browser game", "Free-to-play", "Freemium", "Open source", "Creative Commons", "Creative Commons license" ]
https://wikispeedruns.com/quick_run/finish?run_id=72581&play...
Number of links visited: 10
The path you took: [ "Chromosome", "DNA", "Life", "Animal", "Systema Naturae", "Carl Linnaeus", "Chelsea Physic Garden", "Chelsea, London", "United Kingdom", "BBC", "BBC One" ]
This is pretty sick.
:-) "Ditransitive verb" to "Paul the Apostle" Time: 133.395 Seconds Number of links visited: 10 The path you took: [ "Ditransitive verb", "Grammar", "Linguistics", "Science", "Fall of the Western Roman Empire", "Edict of Milan", "Edict of Thessalonica", "Arianism", "Jesus", "Pauline epistles", "Paul the Apostle" ]
"National Collegiate Athletic Association" to "Myanmar"
Time: 63.695 Seconds
Number of links visited: 6
The path you took: [ "National Collegiate Athletic Association", "Student athlete", "Amateur", "Olympic Games", "International Olympic Committee", "Thailand", "Myanmar" ]
Number of links visited: 10
The path you took: [ "Synonym", "Morpheme", "Linguistics", "Language", "Language family", "Indo-European languages", "Germanic languages", "German language", "Swiss Standard German", "Switzerland", "Cantons of Switzerland" ]