This is our country
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[Via Cousin Jim.]
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Comments (24)
Tips:
It's not case-sensitive.
If you get the state name right, you don't have to hit "enter."
Posted by Jack Bog | January 19, 2008 8:49 PM
Ha! That's cool. I'm going to show it to my 8-year-old tomorrow morning. (He's sleeping while I have all this wild Saturday night fun.)
2m 30s.
Posted by Peteko | January 19, 2008 9:42 PM
3m 27s
I got hung up on Massachusetts.
Posted by Chris Snethen | January 19, 2008 11:11 PM
4:14.
The game clearly favors those who have typing skills!
Posted by Dave | January 20, 2008 6:30 AM
For some reason the game wouldn't accept New Joisey.
Posted by ejs | January 20, 2008 7:02 AM
Good contest.
Shame that it punishes typos, 'cuz we all know my typing is littered with typos.
Louisiana is really easy to mess up with typos.
Posted by Nonny Mouse | January 20, 2008 8:34 AM
1:30! Beat that, y'all.
I'd like to thank Ms. Fitzpatrick, the music teacher at my elementary school, who taught us the classic song "Fifty Nifty United States." Over 30 years later, I can still sing/name all 50 states in alphabetical order, so for me this was really a typing test. I didn't even look at the map.
Posted by teacherrefpoet | January 20, 2008 9:47 AM
This game is broken! What the hell is Delaware...? I got all 49 and it said there was one left. ;-)
Posted by chris | January 20, 2008 11:28 AM
1:30!
Damn, I was excited about my 2m 7s.
Nice work, teacherrefpoet.
Posted by jake | January 20, 2008 12:38 PM
I hope you don't think less of me, but I needed 4:59. I got stuck on Arkansas. Those damn Clintons forced me to erase one of our states from my memory. Or did Huckabee do it? Either way, I hate Arkansas governors.
Posted by Pdx632 | January 20, 2008 1:30 PM
I couldn't remember Delaware either.
Posted by Cynthia | January 20, 2008 2:18 PM
Total typing test. Louisiana stalled me for about 2 minutes, that and I couldnt remember Connecticut or how to spell it. So, I guess I named 48 in about 2.50, last two took me another 2-3 minutes lol.
Posted by JS | January 20, 2008 2:35 PM
Spelling is not a problem; it's remembering the existence of places like Nebraska and Oklahoma (apologies to anyone with roots/connections there).
Posted by Doris | January 20, 2008 2:41 PM
I was 4:19, the last minute-and-a-half squandered on -- you guessed it -- Delaware.
Perhaps a Sister Cities program with Delaware is in order.
Posted by Roger | January 20, 2008 3:31 PM
Isn't life like that?? This is both a typing test AND a knowledge test. What good is having knowledge, if you haven't also acquired the skills enough to communicate effectively? The spelling slowed me down. I had to try Connecticut three times and Louisiana twice. What a springboard for a good discussion with my kids about good grammar, spelling and even diction. Who says that there are no absolutes -- today there are more than ever!
Posted by Concordbridge | January 20, 2008 4:25 PM
For a real challenge, clck on the state capitols game on the same site. The spellings of capitols in Florida, West Virginia and a few others is truly humblin.
Posted by Nonny Mouse | January 20, 2008 8:25 PM
1:57. :-P
Posted by Adam | January 21, 2008 12:42 AM
I tried the capitals one and was doing fine until I hit Maine. I had to cheat and use Google to tell me it was Augusta.
Posted by Adam | January 21, 2008 12:52 AM
IT would be nice if this was like one of those trick psychology studies (where they tell the subjects that one thing is being studied, but really its something totally different) and really the point of the quiz was to rank the states in order of naming. Most commonly-last named state gets spun out of the union. So long Connecticut!
Posted by Luke | January 21, 2008 7:51 AM
Luke -
Connecticut is easy. Its "The Commonwealth of Rhode Island and Povidence Plantations" thats he oug one for non northeasterners.
Posted by Nonny Mouse | January 21, 2008 8:45 AM
with 6:41 remaining,
I guess that makes it 3:20
Posted by Hula | January 21, 2008 9:42 AM
I got hung up on New Jersey for two minutes. How could I forget about the Sopranos?!
Posted by Jeff | January 21, 2008 6:01 PM
3m 36s. It's a real stickler for correct spelling.
Posted by Joe12Pack | January 21, 2008 8:52 PM
what a nerdy thing, my kinda thing, surprises me so many folks go for it. Hey, forget the one or two that get away, 48 of 50 is 96 percent. Props, chaps and lassies; strokes, folks. I stared at it a full minute before I decided to go ahead and be tickled -- 6:59 remaining when it waved a flag in my face. Two fingerslip misspellings, no mental lapses. I been in 46 of them. In-laws inhabit Connecticut -- piece o' cake after a few hundred Christmas cards. Dinnered once, I did, with duPonts in Delaware -- yes, THAT duPont, (a pair of favorite anecdotes: The family slacker was a pharmacist, (after generations of doctors), arriving in the Colonies, scored the US Gov't DoD Contract #1 -- mixing black powder for GeoWashington's boys ... Contract in force continuously, ever since. At dinner we ate lasagna, etc., and I dripped a splat of tomatoey goo between my legs on the needlepoint-covered chair seat ... just as Mrs. duP raconteured "... after all, these chairs were in the Coolidge administration" ... oot-fray oops-lay.)
I emailed the link to some child hideouts I heard about.
Posted by Tenskwatawa | January 21, 2008 11:29 PM