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June 13, 2004

Speak You English?

Filed under:   by Xrlq @ 10:13 pm

This vocabulary quiz (h/t: Patterico) can be pretty humbling. I got a 154 on a 200 scale, which is pretty sad when you consider that anyone can score 100 by guessing randomly. Patterico and Angry did better.

5 Responses to “Speak You English?”

  1. Stu Savory Says:
    June 14th, 2004 at 3:15 am

    162, which isn’t much better :-(

    So do we have to read a dictionary all the way through?

  2. Spoons Says:
    June 14th, 2004 at 5:39 am

    162, but what I find most disconcerting, confounding, discomfiting, perplexing, is that it tells me that I failed to answer one item, and I can’t find it.

  3. Patterico Says:
    June 14th, 2004 at 6:16 am

    Thanks for lumping me in with Angry, but I’m afraid my 173 doesn’t come close to matching his perfect score.

  4. The Lonewacko Blog Says:
    June 14th, 2004 at 11:44 am

    168 in about 18 minutes. When are we all going to take the math test?

  5. Horologium Says:
    June 14th, 2004 at 11:00 pm

    Vocabulary test
    This was quite a test. I guessed outright on 30 of them (and got 16 of them wrong), but I managed a respectable 165 (out of a possible 200). According to the author of the website, this puts me in…

 

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