Memery!

[papercuppie]

90

Unlike the colors meme, I ran out of time with this one rather than running out of thinky.

Comments

[veritropism]

ARGH. I got exactly half that many. Can I pretend it's because it's early?

I got slowed down a bit because I tried England and Wales (trying to take them at their word for COUNTRIES rather than commonwealths, United Kingdom my a$$) and because I misspelled Kazakhstan three different ways... but even if I hadn't wasted time on those I probably wouldn't have made 60.

[papercuppie]

I tried England as well, but I wasn't surprised that it didn't accept it. I also tried several different ways of spelling French Guyana before giving up, and had an annoyingly hard time spelling "Qatar". I'd learned my lesson by the time I got to the Asian former Soviet republics, though, and did not even try "Kyrgystan", even though I can indicate its general whereabouts on a map. Yay, Geography 101 came in handy for something other than inexplicably earning me a physical sciences credit at University!

And I'm irritated, looking over the list afterward, that I didn't bother with Ireland.

[veritropism]

I did at least get Ireland.

England
Okay, maybe they want Great Britian instead
Let's try Wales
Argh, fine, United Kingdom.

I got through most of the easy-to-spell parts of Europe, Asia, and the Americas and then let myself get bogged down in the Balkans, as so many have done there, rather than jumping to Africa.

[papercuppie]

I've totally given up on knowing what Balkan states are actually countries at any given time. The ones I got were either because I'd done a school report, or I knew someone from them.

[akilika]

I got sixty, and definitely somehow wound up with more time than thinky. Whoops . . .

I kind of wish I could see the ORDER you got these, though. Kind of curious to see if you, like me, started out with "United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru . . ."

(Except I don't see Panama, so I guess not.)

:):)

[papercuppie]

Hehehe-- no, I did them in geographical clusters, starting with Western Europe (because the names are short), and allowing myself to jump whenever one just popped into my head. I almost skipped the United States because it's annoyingly long to type, and then when I did do that one, I went ahead and did the United Arab Emirates, too, because if I was going to waste time, I might as well really waste it.

I think the general order was Western Europe, Western Africa (because Benin and Togo are also mercifully short), North America, Middle East, bouncing back and forth between South America and Far-East Asia for a bit, Indian subcontinent, former Soviet republics, Oceania, then weird ones like Vatican City and Papua New Guinea.

[papercuppie]

And I did South Africa with the weird ones, not because it's weird, but because it completely surrounds two other countries whose names I can't remember. And then I did eastern Africa, because I like and can spell Djibouti.

[malkin]

I pulled down 62. I did geographical clusters to a degree, but this was one of those situations where my ADHD brain organized things in really scatterbrained-ways, and I occasionally wandered off on wild tangents, or spent too long struggling to figure out how to spell something (e.g. "Philippines" -- no "the," 1 L, 2 Ps), or try to remember what the modern or official name for a nation was (e.g. Czhechoslavakia vs. Czhech Republic). Some of the ones I'm proud of: Papua New Guinea, Tobago, Dominican Republic, Belize, United Arab Emirates, Macedonia, Niger, Ghana, Cyprus, and Chad. I SHOULD have gotten about three quarters of the former Soviet states, but I couldn't spell half the -stans, and the others just didn't pop into my head when I needed them, except for Georgia.

For some reason, it didn't recognize "Tuvalu," when I typed it, even though it's on the list, and I thought I spelled it right.