[Travel] Countries of the World Quiz

JJ McClure said:

You scored 145/196 = 74%
This beats or equals 74.5% of test takers
The average score is 105
Your high score is 145

Unsurprisingly I failed to get São Tomé and Príncipe...wherever the heck that is.

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I’ll let you know in the new year - going there for Christmas. Remember this when you see the “does anyone know where to watch the game in Sao Tome?” thread.

(It’s more or less on the equator a couple of hundred miles off West Africa)

I find some of these results somewhat surprising, and having said that if someone says they got the result they did, I believe them.

Now I like to think I am pretty good at what in my day was called geography and pretty good at spelling and a middling speed typist.

To get the full 196 countries in 15 minutes would be relentless typing at 4.6 seconds per country, non-stop for the full time.

I reckon I knew about 80% so approx 150 comfortably but even if I could have typed them all in 15 minutes that would still be a relentless 6 seconds per country with no thinking time. I could not do that.

So should I report how many I knew (to make myself not look stupid,) or how many I actually managed to type within the time limit ?