Feature request: fewer clicks. It should be one click per question
another feature request: add a skip or "don't know" option. if i truly don't know a word then a lucky guess would inflate my score.
How many of the 170k English words do you know?
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Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?
#382Earlier quoted context omitted.
66k for me, but I didn't get that word, instead I got ones like Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, Flibbertigibbet, and Brobdingnagian... which the latter two interestingly do show up in my keyboard's word completion suggestions.
I've encountered flibbertigibbet and Brobdingnagian. Never encountered hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia before, at least I don't remember encountering it. Flibbertigibbet appears in some of the Little House on the Prairie (Laura and Mary) books, if I remember right. And I've also read Gulliver's Travels which is where Brobdingnagian comes from. Brobdingnag was a land of giants. Pretty sure I've seen the word used…
I knew Flibbertigibbet from the sound of music:
MARGARETTA: How do you find a word that means Maria?
BERTHE: A flibberti gibbet!
SOPHIA: A willo' the wisp!
MARGARETTA: A clown!
Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?
#383Interesting that this showed up here now. I did it a week ago after hearing about it on The Rest Is Science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t-5lQ2mzuw
This is where I got the link from.
Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?
#384Find the pair of antonyms, and the answer will be one of those.
Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?
#385In addition to everything everyone else has said: their math is off by half (or 100%, depending on how you count), due to a structural error. (context: native English speaker, big reader, huge nerd, perfect SAT score) I got all 100 correct on the first try without looking anything up! Confusingly, that only resulted in a "SCIENTIFIC ESTIMATE" that I know 85,000/~170,000 words? Their "How is this calculated" page that…
A lot are also just guessable because 3 out of the 4 definitions are obvious nonsense. I'd rather have a "I don't know this word" button than just pick the one that's obviously correct out of the 4, if the goal is to get a real estimate.
Yeah I scored well enough and only missed 3, but that’s just because it was very easy to “guess well”.
There were many words I didn’t know though.
Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?
#386This is great. I look forward to going through it after some of the suggested tweaks are applied! 100 seems daunting though.
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#387Super high scores for the community!
I got 83/100 suggesting 60,000.
My SAT reading was 760/800.
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#388It should be possible to respond "I don't know". When you really-really don't know, it's unfair to get a 1/4 chance at right anyway, or even better if you use routine multiple-choice tactics. I got credit for a few that I would have happily just missed.
Yeah it would just be easier and faster to have a Yes/No selection for each word and you just say whether you know the definition or not. That way you can blaze through all 100. Having keyboard shortcuts for each selection would help.
Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?
#389Earlier quoted context omitted.
> what high schooler doesn't learn about kinetic energy? 95% of Americans.
Sick burn bro. I can assure you that just about every American that has made it through middle school has been taught about kinetic energy. Let alone high school.
Oh interesting, is it actually covered as part of the standard compulsory public school curriculum? Genuinely surprised, because here in Canada (Ontario) it's covered as an elective in 11th grade physics, which roughly 15/120 people in my graduating class opted to take.
Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?
#390In addition to everything everyone else has said: their math is off by half (or 100%, depending on how you count), due to a structural error. (context: native English speaker, big reader, huge nerd, perfect SAT score) I got all 100 correct on the first try without looking anything up! Confusingly, that only resulted in a "SCIENTIFIC ESTIMATE" that I know 85,000/~170,000 words? Their "How is this calculated" page that…
A lot are also just guessable because 3 out of the 4 definitions are obvious nonsense. I'd rather have a "I don't know this word" button than just pick the one that's obviously correct out of the 4, if the goal is to get a real estimate.
Funny enough, usually the correct answer is the option with the most number of letters/words. I found myself just picking the longest answer and by a wide margin it was the correct answer.