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09-30-2004, 09:37 AM
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Is In Love
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Test your Geography!
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/stat...te15s_500.html
I got 46 out of 50 right. Only one did I get obviously wrong, others were off by 50 miles or so. My average error was 13 miles for a score of 92% in 335 seconds. Only because a co-worker had something for me to do. Bastard wrecking my score  Only got 48 wrong that time! Stupid Kansas. Stupid Nevada... Oh I'll beat this game!
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09-30-2004, 10:38 AM
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Is In Love
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Luck plays a big part too.... It helps to get those border states first
 And that's not bad at all... for a Canadian 
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09-30-2004, 10:41 AM
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Thor
Location: 33:08:12N 117:10:23W
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Might've helped that my Dad is a Geographer - in the blood?
49/50 98% Average error: 6 miles 246 Seconds It really helps if the states are presented in an order to help guide the next one. ie: Connecticut before Rhode Island. My only error was on the first state - Colorado. It's hard to place it without any near-by states to help zero it in.
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09-30-2004, 10:45 AM
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Is In Love
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It's really hard when you get a middle state first... Like Kansas. It's impossible to get that right with nothing near it!
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09-30-2004, 11:01 AM
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Submit to me, you know you want to
Location: Lilburn, Ga
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This really isnt as easy as it looks...specially when you're starting out with a blank map and you have to place CT as your first state
I got Score 82% Ave Error 39 miles Time 304 seconds (I got intereupted twice)
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09-30-2004, 11:08 AM
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Is In Love
Location: I'm workin' on it
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The mid-west states get me (when I have nothing to border them to). I can get pretty much everything on the east coast pretty easily.
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09-30-2004, 11:46 AM
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Location: this ain't kansas, toto
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45 out of 50, but.... i accidentally dropped a couple before i had them in place.
 so it should've been 47 out of 50 technically. some of those middle western states snagged me though. quickly found out that <i>close</i> ain't good enough.
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09-30-2004, 08:15 PM
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Inspired by the mind's eye.
Location: Between the darkness and the light.
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96% 48/50
Avg error 4 miles 268 sec It gave me Colorado early so I had to guess where to plop it down on the map. And I also missed Deleware. But c'mon, is Deleware really a state?
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10-01-2004, 01:12 AM
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Shackle Me Not
Location: Newcastle - England.
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I got 86% (43/50) Avg Error 104miles. I knew all the 'wimpy, puny states' were in the North-East somewhere. The rest just fell into place. |
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10-01-2004, 03:43 AM
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Shackle Me Not
Location: Newcastle - England.
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Great find Averett. I'm now hooked on geography quizzes.
There's a few European and rest of the world quizzes on the same site. Europe, advanced beginner level. (I got 100% in 150 seconds) Europe, Intermediate level. (I got 64% in 360 seconds) Last edited by jwoody; 10-01-2004 at 04:09 AM.. Reason: becauseican |
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10-01-2004, 04:57 AM
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Is In Love
Location: I'm workin' on it
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Damn... That European one kicked my ass. 34/44 152 miles margin of error and 77% accuracy.
There were some countries I didn't even know Here's the whole website: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/ They have an advanced US version, where only one state is visible at a time. Hard!
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10-04-2004, 08:51 AM
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Drifting
Administrator
Location: Windy City
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Got a 92% with avg 10 mile error on the US one, 340 seconds. I did better than I thought I would on the east coast states - it doesn't help that I've never been that far northeast. I was lucky to get Hawaii, Oregon, Texas, and Wisconsin in the first states.
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10-04-2004, 08:50 PM
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Minion of the scaléd ones
Location: Northeast Jesusland
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49 of 50, < 1 mile error. I forgot that Nebraska has that little strip of boder with Missouri to the southeast, so I was off by 50 miles there. False confidence from getting Ohio, Montana and Utah as the first three.
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