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Subject: Place the State

Written By: Suicidal Blonde on 01/22/07 at 1:18 pm

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html


See how many states you can place.

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: CeramicsFanatic on 01/22/07 at 1:51 pm

I got 88% correct, with an Average Error of 20 miles... 8)

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: La Roche on 01/22/07 at 2:03 pm

82% 44 miles. It's kinda annoying cus even if you're off by a milimeter, you get it wrong.  :( But still, it's kinda neat.

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Paul on 01/22/07 at 2:12 pm

86%...error 58 miles...

(You don't wanna know where I put Kansas!  :D)

All them fiddly ones along the eastern side threw me somewhat...

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Suicidal Blonde on 01/22/07 at 2:21 pm

I got 70% all of those  EAST Coasters threw me off track. >:( :D

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: whistledog on 01/22/07 at 2:28 pm

66% 264 Miles

For someone who's never been farther than New York State, I still did pretty sucky ;D

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Philip Eno on 01/22/07 at 2:31 pm

How is this for a Brit?

88% Average Error 43 Miles. Done in 526 Seconds.

44 perfect out of 50 turns

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/22/07 at 2:41 pm

94%  Average error 16 miles. Done in 461 seconds.


It started with Colorado-and that threw me off. If it started with a coastal state (which ever coast), I probably would have done better.



Cat

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: CeramicsFanatic on 01/22/07 at 2:51 pm


All them fiddly ones along the eastern side threw me somewhat...


Those are the ones that got me as well!  :D

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Paul on 01/22/07 at 2:54 pm

On the same site, there's a European version...

(God help you if you get Leichtenstein first...no-one knows where that is!  :D)

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: CeramicsFanatic on 01/22/07 at 2:55 pm


On the same site, there's a European version...

(God help you if you get Leichtenstein first...no-one knows where that is!  :D)


Oh, I'd have a helluva time with the European version!  :-[

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: La Roche on 01/22/07 at 3:07 pm

On the european one. 38 of 45, 91 mile rate of error. That's 84%. Not bad.

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Philip Eno on 01/22/07 at 3:09 pm


On the same site, there's a European version...

(God help you if you get Leichtenstein first...no-one knows where that is!  :D)
Must have a go at this!

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: La Roche on 01/22/07 at 3:14 pm

Asia is easy. 84% 112 miles.

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Jessica on 01/22/07 at 3:18 pm

84%, Average error of 16 miles, 289 seconds.

Took the European one. 64%, 377 miles, 589 seconds. I actually got Liechtenstein right. ;D

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Philip Eno on 01/22/07 at 3:20 pm

On the european one. 40 of 45, 50 mile rate of error. That's 89%.

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: whistledog on 01/22/07 at 3:22 pm

Dang, I just tried the European one.  Vatican City?  It's just so small

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Suicidal Blonde on 01/22/07 at 3:23 pm


On the same site, there's a European version...

(God help you if you get Leichtenstein first...no-one knows where that is!  :D)


I got 28/45 on the Europe one. Level 2?  Where was Level 1?

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: La Roche on 01/22/07 at 3:24 pm


Dang, I just tried the European one.  Vatican City?  It's just so small


I dunno how I get that one, but I did.

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/22/07 at 3:39 pm

On level 3 (don't know how to get to level 1 & 2) I scored 84% 132 miles average error (but one time when I was dragging something I dropped it-and it counted against my score. Those stupid islands/city-states.




Cat

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Sister Morphine on 01/22/07 at 5:57 pm

I've taken that quiz on another board I post on, and I got 49 out of 50.  I was a little off on the placement of Utah.

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: GoodRedShirt on 01/22/07 at 6:27 pm

78%.

It was all those rectangle states and tiny states up near Canada further to the east that threw me off.

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Rice_Cube on 01/22/07 at 6:27 pm

There we go...

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Brian06 on 01/22/07 at 6:30 pm

I got 90%.

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: whistledog on 01/22/07 at 6:33 pm


There we go...


After how many attempts though ;D

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: ultraviolet52 on 01/22/07 at 6:35 pm

U.S. States (Level 3)

82%
Avg Error Miles 23 Miles,
Done in 788 seconds (this is because I am at work and I had to do a fax inbetween)

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Rice_Cube on 01/22/07 at 6:39 pm

Europe = 82%, 81 mile error, 321 seconds.

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: KKay on 01/22/07 at 6:41 pm

I got 82%.
48 mile error. not bad!!!

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Rice_Cube on 01/22/07 at 6:42 pm


After how many attempts though ;D


Dunno...first time!

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Brian06 on 01/22/07 at 6:44 pm

I did it again and got 94 % this time, 9 mile error, and 759 sec. lol.

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Dominic L. on 01/22/07 at 6:45 pm

Damn! 68 percent.

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: ultraviolet52 on 01/22/07 at 6:46 pm

European (level 3):

68%
382 mile error
515 seconds

Time to brush up on my Euro countries again.  ;D

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Rice_Cube on 01/22/07 at 6:51 pm

Do they have one for Africa?  That one ought to be fun seeing as the political maps change every five minutes :D

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Brian06 on 01/22/07 at 6:54 pm

European one: 67%, 279 miles average error, 388 sec. time.

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Dominic L. on 01/22/07 at 6:55 pm

Casey (4:55:11 PM): Pah. I got a 97. I missed Kansas by 17 MILES. >_<_ SGSDG

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: GoodRedShirt on 01/22/07 at 7:19 pm

82% for the European one. The ones I didn't get were mainly little ones like Vatican City, Liechtenstein, Cyprus etc.

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: loki 13 on 01/22/07 at 8:23 pm

On the U.S. site.

45 out of fifty turns perfect, 90%, avererage error- 11 miles, 412 seconds

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: whistledog on 01/22/07 at 8:40 pm

There's one for Canada.  I got 100%, but I didn't do it faster than I should have been able to :D

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: YWN on 01/22/07 at 9:00 pm

78 percent, 47 miles average error, 251 seconds

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: jackas on 01/22/07 at 9:02 pm

92%  Average error 12 miles  552 seconds

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: AL-B Mk. III on 01/22/07 at 9:08 pm

96%

Avg Error: 4 miles

Time: 326 seconds

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: AL-B Mk. III on 01/22/07 at 9:17 pm

Eurpoean version

37/45 (82%) Avg Error 152 miles Time 358 sec

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: YWN on 01/22/07 at 9:25 pm

I got a 24 out of 45 with the European version with an average error of 454 miles.

Western Europe, The British Isles, Scandinavia, and of course, European Russia were no-brainers, but those smaller European countries were tricky.

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Rice_Cube on 01/22/07 at 9:42 pm

Tried the Asia one...got 29/32, 91%, 63 miles off, 227 seconds.

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Rice_Cube on 01/22/07 at 9:54 pm

Africa was stupid hard.  They must have had another war while I was in the bathroom because I swear the political lines changed again :P

43/53, 81%, 189 mile error, 434 seconds.

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Sister Morphine on 01/22/07 at 9:58 pm

Where are these other quizzes you guys are taking? 

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Sister Morphine on 01/22/07 at 10:07 pm

I just took the US test again, and scored a 96% with an average error of 10 miles in 197 seconds.

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Rice_Cube on 01/22/07 at 10:08 pm

Chop off everything but the domain name off the URL and you'll find the other tests.

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Dagwood on 01/22/07 at 10:28 pm

88% with an error average of 50 miles on the States one.  New England gets me every time.

67% and error of 346 miles on Europe.

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Sister Morphine on 01/22/07 at 10:32 pm

On the European quiz, I scored 42/45 with an average error of 10 miles....on the first try. 

Asia, I scored a 24 out of 32 with an average error of 218 miles.  All those damn -stan countries got me confused.

Africa, I scored a 43 out of 53 with an average error of 133 miles.

South America, I scored a 19 out of 20 with an average error of 71 miles.

Canada, I scored a 12 out of 13 with an average error of 13 miles.

Middle East, I scored a 15 out of 17 with an average error of 25 miles.

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: GoodRedShirt on 01/22/07 at 11:01 pm


There's one for Canada.  I got 100%, but I didn't do it faster than I should have been able to :D
I got all of them apart from Saskatchewan (or how ever it's spelt)

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: quirky_cat_girl on 01/22/07 at 11:20 pm

I scored 84%

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Badfinger-fan on 01/23/07 at 3:36 am

86% 30 mile  260 sec USA

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: karen on 01/23/07 at 7:36 am

On the European one I got 36/45 (80%).  I had problems with the smaller places like Vatican City and I also accidently let go of the mouse button too early for one other country so that counted against me

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: La Roche on 01/23/07 at 7:38 am

Uh oh, don't let the Government know.. but..

Middle East - 17/17 100% 0 miles of error 41 seconds.  :-[

It's Ok.. I know I'm gonna have to go live in Canada.

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Henk on 01/23/07 at 11:37 am


http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html


See how many states you can place.


Oh no. I'm so not gonna do this. http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/14/nono.gif I don't know Missouri from Utah. Honestly.

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: 80s_cheerleader on 01/23/07 at 11:44 am

I did the US one twice:  first time, 88% with an average of 69 miles (it started with stupid states like Kansas, West Virginia, Utah) then took it again and got 98% with an average of 12 miles (because of my stupid mouse) in 267 seconds (but, it started with California, Florida & Maine).

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Henk on 01/23/07 at 12:21 pm


Oh no. I'm so not gonna do this. http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/14/nono.gif I don't know Missouri from Utah. Honestly.


Since you're all dying to know:

I scored 43/50 (86%) on Level 2, with an avg.error of 67 miles, in 286 seconds.


I tried the capitals too (level 2), which went considerably worse (no surprises!): 12/50 (24%) in 363 seconds. But hey - would you know the capitals of our provinces?


For comparison: I scored 43/45 on the European quiz (level 3), only becuase the first country I got was Serbia. Avg. error: 21 miles, time: 287 seconds.

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/23/07 at 12:23 pm


On the European one I got 36/45 (80%).  I had problems with the smaller places like Vatican City and I also accidently let go of the mouse button too early for one other country so that counted against me



That happened to me, too. It was a country in eastern Europe and I dropped it around Belguim.




Cat

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: Philip Eno on 01/23/07 at 1:23 pm

Africa was harder but scored 45/53, average error 115 miles

Subject: Re: Place the State

Written By: CeramicsFanatic on 01/23/07 at 1:44 pm


Tried the Asia one...got 29/32, 91%, 63 miles off, 227 seconds.


I did that one also...and got 25/32 right!  :)

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