Things To Keep Me Distracted
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I've needed to keep myself distracted over the past two days (don't ask why, please), so I've been playing geography games. First, "Traveller IQ Challenge", where I've increased my world geography IQ to 129 - superb.
Then, Ironic Sans: 50 States in 10 Minutes. I can do them in best time of 3 minutes and 5 seconds. I even learned how to spell Massachusetts.
Then, 192 UN Member States in 10 Minutes. Best I've done is 145, and I see some obvious ones I miss each time. I can't seem to remember Antigua and Barbuda, but Bosnia and Herzegovina now rolls of the fingers.
Handy when you don't want to think about things or you've having a procrasinatory day.
On Edit:
New best time for US States - 2 minutes, 20 seconds (22.09.08)
New Geography Challenge IQ - 132 (22.09.08)
New best number of countries in 10 minutes - 175/192. Getting closer by the day... (22.09.08)
And, I did it. Today, or rather tonight, I got all 192 countries in 9 minutes and 50 seconds, with Burundi and Bahrain just scraping through (I'd forgotten them and was trying to figure out which ones I was missing for a good minute).
Please comment there
I've needed to keep myself distracted over the past two days (don't ask why, please), so I've been playing geography games. First, "Traveller IQ Challenge", where I've increased my world geography IQ to 129 - superb.
Then, Ironic Sans: 50 States in 10 Minutes. I can do them in best time of 3 minutes and 5 seconds. I even learned how to spell Massachusetts.
Then, 192 UN Member States in 10 Minutes. Best I've done is 145, and I see some obvious ones I miss each time. I can't seem to remember Antigua and Barbuda, but Bosnia and Herzegovina now rolls of the fingers.
Handy when you don't want to think about things or you've having a procrasinatory day.
On Edit:
New best time for US States - 2 minutes, 20 seconds (22.09.08)
New Geography Challenge IQ - 132 (22.09.08)
New best number of countries in 10 minutes - 175/192. Getting closer by the day... (22.09.08)
And, I did it. Today, or rather tonight, I got all 192 countries in 9 minutes and 50 seconds, with Burundi and Bahrain just scraping through (I'd forgotten them and was trying to figure out which ones I was missing for a good minute).