Commonly Confused Words test
 

From the same site that gave us the 'What kind of society do you prefer test' comes the 'Commonly Confused Words test.' I see a bunch of threads on making the rounds on TFP regarding grammar and diction, but this one quantifies it into a score.

Commonly Confused Words test.

I scored 'English Genius,' which means I'm now eligible to have people nitpick my grammar. ;)

I also got 'English Genius'. But oddly, on my breakdown, I did my best against other people on the Advanced and Expert in comparison to the earlier levels I guess when using big words, I'm expert, but i don't does quite so goodly at the eazier stufs.

so far everybody here is a genius :)

92% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 80% Expert


You scored higher than 22% on Beginner
You scored higher than 36% on Intermediate
You scored higher than 65% on Advanced
You scored higher than 43% on Expert

Hmm... I only missed one. It was the paid/payed one. I'm always unsure about it, but I never looked it up until tonight. I've seen "payed" in too many places, and I always suspected it wasn't right. That was a fun way to stay sharp!

I think the 'higher than' breakdown is relative to your demographic data that you input on the last page.

And I was wondering if this thread might turn out to all be geniuses because the posting group is self-selecting. :hmm:

I got a perfect score. I'm not a genius, i'm a writer. It could be both, but i'd never say so.

Nice! I missed hanged/hung. Not much use for 'hanged' in day-to-day life I suppose.

I was worried I'd think too much and screw it up, but I pulled the 100% in all categories too. The rules of English are comforting to me. It's not a chore for me to follow them, I guess. I do think it's funny that more people in my demographic screw up the section marked "Intermediate" than the "Beginner" section.

This test is just wrong...

English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 96% Advanced, and 96% Expert!

My grammar/spelling/punctuation are atrocious... there is no way i scored what I scored on this...

Yep, another 40/40.

Thier to eazy. Them oght to raze the bare.

English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 80% Expert!
You scored higher than 66% on Beginner

You scored higher than 42% on Intermediate

You scored higher than 75% on Advanced

You scored higher than 52% on Expert

Hmmm. 80% expert? I thought I did better than that.

Their is know place four bad grammer in this society.

Nonsense, Ben! There's always a place for bad grammer. So long as old gramps is around and still interested in that sort of thing.

Coffee edit.

English Genius
You scored 85% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 80% Expert!

Kinda scares me that I did better on Intermediate and Advanced than I did on Beginner. :hmm:

English has been a weak area for me since I was educated in WV by people who had horrible grammar. I'm basically self-taught. I looked at the key and I'm not sure why my score was low because I only saw a few that I missed in the expert section only. Oh well, either it's too early or the program was messed up. Whatever, I know that I'm a good writer. I had to be since all my Master's assignment were written and I graduated with a 4.0. BTW, can you tell I don't take criticism well and get very defensive. :lol:

Advanced
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 73% Expert!

You scored higher than 66% on Beginner
You scored higher than 42% on Intermediate
You scored higher than 43% on Advanced
You scored higher than 35% on Expert

I'm obviously better at english than math, because I got 100% on everything, but, for example, only scored higher than 83% of the people on expert. I don't see how that's possible ;)

You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 86% Expert!

You scored higher than 54% on Beginner
You scored higher than 38% on Intermediate
You scored higher than 64% on Advanced
You scored higher than 62% on Expert

From what I can tell, from the answer key, I missed one. The one with "a while", "awhile" and "for awhile".

40/40. w00t! I am a huge nitpicker when it comes to things like this. People's improper use of "it's" vs. "its" makes my teeth hurt. Not like it matters much in a world where text messaging is becoming the norm, but it's good to know that my vast store of useless knowledge is still intact.

Seems everyone is getting perfect here.

Hmm. Either we're all geniuses, or the test is just too darn easy :)

Way too easy!
English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 100% Expert!
You did so extremely well, even I can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don't. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you're not afraid to use it properly! Way to go!
Thank you so much for taking my test. I hope you enjoyed it!


My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 55% on Beginner

You scored higher than 39% on Intermediate

You scored higher than 35% on Advanced

You scored higher than 96% on Expert

Woot a genius, 86/100/9X/86... I suck at Grammer!

English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 86% Expert!

Yeah, I guess we're all brilliant! You know why... people who can't tell the difference don't care enough to take the test. :p

English Genius, here. I took it a while ago and got two or three wrong, and that's because I was putting all the possible answers, not all the best answers. As in the "speeding is *blank*" question, I answered both risky and risque, because both answers are grammatically correct. I suppose I should have known better than that.

I don't, however, believe the test is too easy. The title is "The Commonly Confused Words Test." Most of those words are confusing for the average person. Does it surprise you that in a community where literacy is a prerequisite for participation that we score well? I think it's a sign that the TFP rules, not that the test is too easy.

Because 17% of the ones taking the test got 100% on Expert too?

I only scored Advanced.
92% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 86% Advanced, and 73% Expert

Can I still play with you geniuses?

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Not too shabby. I missed #33 I was leaning towards D, but ended up picking C. I had myself convinced that 'awhile' isn't a word. :p

English as a Second languager here:

Inter-Advanced
You scored 71% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 86% Advanced, and 73% Expert!
You have a good understanding of intermediate and advanced commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of the intermediate and advanced level questions correct. The puzzling part of your test result is the fact that you only answered 75% or less correct in the beginner section. Fascinating.

Not bad for a frenchman, who is always learning, especially considering that this convoluted language of English is the hardest to learn. Or so they say. :thumbsup:

-bear

You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 80% Expert!

Eh...not terrible.

Advanced
You scored 85% Beginner, 85% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 73% Expert!
You have an extremely good understanding of beginner, intermediate, and advanced level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of each of these three levels' questions correct. This is an exceptional score. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don't use them properly. You got an extremely respectable score.

You scored higher than 6% on Beginner
You scored higher than 3% on Intermediate
You scored higher than 28% on Advanced
You scored higher than 20% on Expert

100% Beginner, 92% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 86% Expert.

I think I'm losing my edge (oh noez).

I ain't no dummy. I'm an Egnlish Genius. :D
English Genius
You scored 92% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 86% Expert!
You did so extremely well, even I can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don't. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you're not afraid to use it properly! Way to go!
Thank you so much for taking my test. I hope you enjoyed it!

For the complete Answer Key, visit my blog: http://shortredhead78.blogspot.com/.





My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 21% on Beginner

You scored higher than 39% on Intermediate

You scored higher than 60% on Advanced

You scored higher than 65% on Expert

You scored 92% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 86% Advanced, and 60% Expert!
You have an extremely good understanding of beginner, intermediate, and advanced level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of each of these three levels' questions correct. This is an exceptional score. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don't use them properly. You got an extremely respectable score.


You scored higher than 28% on Beginner

You scored higher than 42% on Intermediate

You scored higher than 16% on Advanced

You scored higher than 7% on Expert

Its interesting reading the bits you got wrong; my problem seems to be my punctuation and things like that rather than confusing words. I learned something new today: how to use a colon correctly. Wish they still taught grammer, spelling and punctuation at school, best we ever got was in French Writing when the teacher had to go over basic English to make up for us not learning it in English!

It would be nice if there was a cheat sheet or something similar that contained commonly misused rules.

, which - refers to the whole group
, that - refers to a subgroup
eg: The windows were all open. The windows, that were open, were shut at 4pm.

didn't know that that was a subgroup till 2 weeks ago... I feel ashamed.

I thought I would do much much worse. Probably should have.

Advanced
You scored 78% Beginner, 85% Intermediate, 80% Advanced, and 46% Expert!


people take online grammar on a forum like this way to seriously! (waits to get banned for spelling a word incorrectly!!) Most times I am reading and typing a reply while doing 50 million other things at the same time, mistakes like the war in iraq are bound to happen. Plus when I was in grade 3 I remember a teacher calling home to tell my mother I had failed a spelling test and that I may have Dyslexia. My mother handled the situation by transferring me out of that teachers class instead of getting me tested (which i found out i am Dyslexic years later) I am grammatically challenged and love it.

this thread reminds me of the "awkwardly high" SAT scores everyone seemed to be posting ;) I didn't do as well as everyone else it seems. I know for a fact I can write "better than average." I guess my vocabulary isn't as top notch as all the super-geniuses here at the TFP :)

English Genius:

You scored 100% Beginner, 92% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 100% Expert!

These kinds of jokes hurt my delicate little brain. :hmm:

Wow, so many of us geniuses... I think the TFP deluge is skewing the results. :)

hehe, reminds me of the thread about credit card debit and how nearly every poster, either had no credit card debit or paid it off immediately. Almost the opposite of what real life is like.....

English Genius
You scored 92% Beginner, 92% Intermediate, 86% Advanced, and 100% Expert!
You did so extremely well, even I can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don't. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you're not afraid to use it properly! Way to go!

Well, there you go!
Obviously, not as uncommon as they would have me think it is... ;)

English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 92% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 86% Expert!

I used to think me were smart.

You scored higher than 66% on Beginner
You scored higher than 15% on Intermediate
You scored higher than 43% on Advanced
You scored higher than 69% on Expert

However, I am concerned that I scored 100% on Beginner, but higher than 66% of people in my gender, age range, etc. Who are the 44% overachievers that scored more than 100%?! I'll kick yo' heiney.