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Re: Wikipedia Speedruns

#81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wikipedia, unsurprisingly, has a page on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...

Which, ironically, doesn't work for that page. You end up in a loop rather than getting to philosophy.

It worked for me? Either something changed in the past five minutes or one of us messed up. I did the first link as the article mentions, not the second. That could also be the issue.

Re: Wikipedia Speedruns

#82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which, ironically, doesn't work for that page. You end up in a loop rather than getting to philosophy.

It worked for me? Either something changed in the past five minutes or one of us messed up. I did the first link as the article mentions, not the second. That could also be the issue.

This is what I end up with: https://imgur.com/a/iz1166B

At "Branches of science" it links back to "Formal science".

Keep in mind, you need to click on "first non-parenthesized, non-italicized link" in the article text itself.

Re: Wikipedia Speedruns

#84
Got lucky with this pair:

"Professor" to "Education in France" Time: 66.789 Seconds

Number of links visited: 3

The path you took: [ "Professor", "Tertiary education", "Secondary education in France", "Education in France" ]

Re: Wikipedia Speedruns

#85

This 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?

We had the same game but we were trying to find Hitler... I don't know what that says about my school

Re: Wikipedia Speedruns

#86
post #38

"Chromosome" to "BBC One" Time: 78.910 Seconds 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.

I got a slightly shorter path through William Astbury

Chromosome,DNA,William Astbury,London,United Kingdom,BBC,BBC One

Re: Wikipedia Speedruns

#87
post #38

"Chromosome" to "BBC One" Time: 78.910 Seconds 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.

Oouf. This game is fun for trivia

"Voiceless bilabial plosive" to "Rotten Tomatoes"

Time: 98.637 Seconds Voiceless bilabial plosive,English language,African-American Vernacular English,Tupac Shakur,Nothing but Trouble (1991 film),Rotten Tomatoes

Re: Wikipedia Speedruns

#88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It worked for me? Either something changed in the past five minutes or one of us messed up. I did the first link as the article mentions, not the second. That could also be the issue.

This is what I end up with: https://imgur.com/a/iz1166B At "Branches of science" it links back to "Formal science". Keep in mind, you need to click on "first non-parenthesized, non-italicized link" in the article text itself.

My mistake. On my second time at "formal science," "science" was an already clicked hyperlink, and the dark blue is really close to black on my phone causing me to miss it.

Re: Wikipedia Speedruns

#90

So apparently it tracks pressing "CTRL+F", but it you select "find in page" from the menu in your browser that's fine. I guess there's no way for a website to track that anyway.

I kind of like that as an accidental element of the game. It takes real time to click the menu twice to pull up the box and then still type the phrase, etc. Reasonable chance you can find it faster by scrolling and scanning. Gotta choose.
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