We used to play this in high school but it was always how many clicks to get to Nazi. We were a clever bunch.
Wikipedia Speedruns
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Re: Wikipedia Speedruns
#62Many years ago as a junior developer, some of the very first non-trivial Python code I wrote was an effort to do this programmatically. It was fun! I remember working on it over time, trying to make it faster and more clever. I learned a ton about graph traversal, parsing HTML outside a browser context, data structures for caching/memoization, and Python itself.
Re: Wikipedia Speedruns
#63If you want to see if your run could have been optimized, Six Degrees of Wikipedia is a neat tool for that. https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/
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#64This is fun, we used to do something like this in high school called Five Clicks to Jesus, which is exactly what it sounds like.
I find this particular version a bit tedious because you aren't allowed to Find on a page. What good is having a timer if I can't go fast? Why punish me twice for reaching a dead end page by making me read the entire thing to discover that I need to go back?
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#65Pretty cool! Some of these are very fun to think about, where to look to find the most likely connection and trying to come up with intermediate concepts that would likely link two thinks. Like linking "Analytics" to "Surrey" my first thought was "bank" since it's close to both Analytics and the UK.
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#66For someone who didn't exactly excel in chemistry, this was rough:
"Automotive industry" to "Pi bond" Time: 145.773 Seconds
Number of links visited: 13
The path you took: [ "Automotive industry", "Industry (economics)", "Product (business)", "Raw material", "Foundry", "Hydrogen gas porosity", "Hydrogen", "Diatomic molecule", "Molecule", "Chemical bond", "Bond length", "Molecular geometry", "Covalent bond", "Pi bond" ] 145.77300000000002
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#67Easiest one so far: "Cricket" to "Economics", 5 links in 30 seconds via London.
Hardest: "Iceland" to "FIPS", 160 seconds because I spent way too much time looking for anything IT-related on Iceland's page, then decided to try the USAF link and got in through "command and control".
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#68There was a good article from six degrees of wikipedia (https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/blog/search-results-an...) which would show the ideal path and be cheating, but fun to compare optimal vs what was found.
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#69My first attempt already was rather easy, I even forgot to jump to my target on first article by using table of contents and instead manually scrolled down.
"Americans" to "Pop music" Time: 54.945 Seconds
Number of links visited: 3
The path you took: [ "Americans", "Culture of the United States", "Michael Jackson", "Pop music" ]
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#70There was a good article from six degrees of wikipedia ( https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/blog/search-results-an... ) which would show the ideal path and be cheating, but fun to compare optimal vs what was found.
Also, there's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...